Quoteand Dundalk won the title from third last day 20 years ago yesterday so backs this up - obviously!
The team that's been third at this stage of the season has won the last 2 titles.Originally Posted by Ezeikial
So it's between Bohs and Rovers this year
and Dundalk won the title from third last day 20 years ago yesterday so backs this up - obviously!
Very disapointing last night - deserved a draw, at least. Created enough chances to score four or five, in patches played some of our best stuff of the season. But that's what happens when you don't have goalscorers.
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Galway 3-0 up in Bray. Enda Curran (who?) with a hat-trick.
Rovers 1-0 down in Limerick to a Shane Duggan goal. We want Croly out.
Bray 0 Galway 5 now
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its amazing what a full 11 remaining on a pitch, with no major injuries or suspensions can do !
Another Draw in Jackman. Once again I will continue as I did last week. This league is gone to cat. Shamrock Rovers spent most the second half hoofing balls into the box and that's about the best they offered really. We worked extremely hard all game and pure fight got us something from the game. Delighted to get something out of it. Couldn't believe the result in Bray.
Jackman Park fear factor kicking in? As Dodge called it previous, Shamrock Rovers 1 touch football not as fancy as it sounds!
Possibly but no matter how bad we have been we have actually knocked the ball around a good bit. Maybe even over doing it so good football can be played there. Have seen teams come to Jackman and play us off the park with good football.
Really enjoyable trip down, stayed overnight, long long drive back but it was worth it. That's a great set up Cork have, easily the best ground in the league IMO, and what a sight to see fans queuing up at 615 to get tickets. It was probably to get into the shed end, but I did read some were turned away from 715, pity as they could easily have fitted more in by reducing the gap between where the home and away fans where behind the other goal.
We met some great Cork fans in the Evergreen bar before and after, have to say very friendly and welcoming even after a defeat, most were quite complementary too on our performance. I thought the game would be decided in the key MF battles and thought we won that fairly easy, but from Cork point of view we all thought if Healy and Miller had played more football in the middle and if they had not used the long ball so much they might have got something, but still think we definitely deserved the win.
This was a big big test for us with easily the two hardest games both away in consecutive Fridays away to Rovers and Cork and to get 4 points is a superb return. Towell may have got the plaudits but Shields deserves great credit for his defensive role in MF, without doubt one of the most improved LOI players in the past few years, McMillan wasn't far behind him too.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
A result against Cork in a few weeks and it will have been points taken off 3 of the title favourites. Russell looks more like he can improve Limerick than Heary can do so at Sligo. The Sligo board must be thinking long and hard about what to do. The Bray lads must have been told this morning that Matthews is on his way back for definite; They must be the bookies favourite team!
Totally agree! Sheilds physicality and ability to win and retain possession is excellent. He went on one mazy run where he didnt have pass but held on to the ball with a couple of Cork lads bouncing off him. I would have seen him preseason as the player to sit out games in in favour to O'Donnell, Towell, and Finn but he is undropable at the moment and Finn is most likely to miss out on a start if SK gives O'Donnell the nod. McMillan is certainly growing to the role he's been given. More of his headed flick ons are working but the ball just doesnt stick as it did with Hoban. I think that part of his game will get better, his work ethic is top class, and he is better than Hoban when he gets facing on to goal. We need to keep him fit!!
Back from Bray, Galway played some nice stuff and should have won by more. Home side poor however, outplayed in midfield. Few more goals from Curran, not sure if first was left-foot, so maybe not perfect hat-trick. Like a good few of the Galway lads a player who can improve further.
Saw Limerick on Monday and they lost the game mostly due to bad mistakes by the keeper, so not a total surprise that they got a draw against Fenlon's.
PF's tried and trusted formula of drawing the hard games and winning the easy ones should normally have his teams at the top or a few points off.
Not going to work this year with Dundalk playing like they did on Friday.
Ryan Connolly scored a fine goal v Bray. Great start by Dundalk, but early days still. The lower half of the league may not be as predictable as the Dublin media reports, which is understandable I suppose. Who is Pete Mahon involved with this year, Drogheda?
Yeah, Johnny Mac's assistant.
Tragic what is going on.
I'm glad I'm not in the country to have to sit through what is by all accounts a shambles.
First division after all that has been achieved would obliterate the huge work of the last 5 years.
Painful to witness even from afar to be honest.
Just on your point about Chris Shields, I thought he was comfortably MOTM tbh.
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I'm gonna disagree with the Dundalk fans. I don't think there is any tactic or formation we could utilise to get us to their level. We're so close and yet so far away from where they are and its frustrating.
I think our best bet of getting rsults against them would be to go back to what we did last year. Right now were half trying to play football and half trying ot go long, but when we aim at players like Shep and Flynny its never going to work.
Shields is possibly the best player in the League of Ireland.
Aside from the progress of individual players, what struck me as the outstanding aspect about Dundalk's performance was their general confidence and positivity, permeating throughout every aspect of the team and their game. Cork were met by a team who just knew they were better in every department and knew they could win. None of this 'it's a difficult game, against a very good team, on their home patch, with great home support'. The attitude from the very beginning was - 'we are going to win this game'.
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