Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Ah, it wasn't the most clinical performance but the game was over after 10 minutes. When you have lads taking shots from 40 yards, you can tell they're just looking to stay fit for Sunday. And O'Donnell had no right to make those saves, Brennan missed badly when he was through, Kilduff was awful as usual and should have scored, some very questionable offside calls, etc.
whats Brennan been like this year CD ? Obviously we have the best Brennan, but how has your inferior, uglier version been doing ?
He was one of our best players for the first few months when we were scrapping out 1-0 wins, but then he had a couple of injuries and his form's been patchy since. Fenlon's mainly been using him as a substitute for one of the wide men late on to inject a bit of pace and directness into the game because he can be a bit of sieve defensively.
Yeah, take your point on the nature of the game alright; it just would have frustrated me to see the team so superior yet with relatively little to show for it at the end of 90 minutes.
O'Donnell's been making those saves since he joined in fairness. It's what we pay him to do!
Well "relatively little" is three points. You don't get any more points for winning 6-0. Teams just play differently at 2-0 up than they do at 0-0, especially if they have a more important game coming up. They'd already seen Cregg go off injured and didn't want to risk anything themselves. We are, also, just plain useless at scoring goals.
That's the thing. Last night was basically target practice. It would have been encouraging for ye to have had a go at becoming better scoring goals.
Obviously can't argue that Rovers didn't need to play last night, and that we were lucky to get the nil (even if we did hit the post twice)
We did have a bit of a go, to be fair. We must have had about 20 shots. It was just one of those days where everybody thought they could score (even Boccer was hitting them from 25 yards) except for our actual striker. Agreed it might have benefit the team more if they'd put the individual stuff to a side and tried to cut UCD to shreds, but that may not have worked either.
Took some photos at the Pats - Bohs game if anyone'd like a look. Richmond is a grand little place.
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Last edited by Acornvilla; 02/10/2014 at 10:43 PM.
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