Hahahaha, Bradley's face as he walked off the pitch to the shed singing 'We want you to stay'. Him and his team need to learn to hold their tongues. Their ridiculously over the top celebrations of the first goal only handed more incentive to our players. Great atmosphere, great win.
Rovers can't defend set pieces - scored form 3 tonight and had 2 more cleared off the line from free headers. Can't understand how Rovers are keeping with this guy. I get the feeling a decent manager could turn them around quickly - they have good players but they need to get defense right first.
A cracking atmosphere tonight.
Was very impressed with Rovers left back. He won everything against Shep and read the game brilliantly. They closed us down well down the wings, and kept Seani quiet enough, but the set pieces killed them. 3 goals between our two centre halves.
Harps started well, deservedly went in front then conceed a stupid soft goal and Limerick take over for 10 minutes.
Harps added 2 great goals after and were comfortable at half time.
Obviously an attempted park the bus job by us 2nd half invited alot of pressure from Limerick and they deservedly got one back. Very nervous ending especially after a harsh sending off for Morrissey.
Brilliant week for Harps. Badly needed.
Shamrock Rovers came for a smash and grab and had no plan B - other than to kick and pull at City players all game. Gary Shaw could have had about 4 yellow cards instead of the one he received before being subbed off for his own good.
Agree with what was said above - there are some decent players in that team but no organisation or game plan.
Think you are being kind tbh we deserved nothing.Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Worst Pats side i've seen in a lonnnnnnnng time.Made Dundalk look like superstars at times! Bucks has his work cut out there make no mistake about that.
We got the job done easily and only for O'Malley in the Pats nets we could have rattled in another 5 or 6 without really trying.Duffy's free kick to give us the lead was a belter and Dave McMillans daisy cutter for the second wasn't a bad effort either.Some cheer from our supporters when that went in(relief more than anything)
Pats will have to spend the bucks in the transfer window if they're to remain in the division and no pun intended.
Pats now bottom of the heap. As long as we tick over in 2nd - EL places all the action is bottom of the table.
Thought Limerick were very poor tonight. Harps were well worth the win though for the first half performance.
Unfortunate to concede from Limericks first, just deceived everyone and sneaked in from a long range free kick.
Two absolute crackers from Harps for 2-1 and 3-1 though, Caolan McAleer played a huge part with a sublime volley assist for the second and an even better finish for the third which is goal of the month material.
Same as Monday night though, took the pedal off the gas for the second half and allowed Limerick back into it but did enough to hang on for the win.
Delighted with the win to be honest. Didn't expect us to score six goals in two games following 7 games with one goal.
I'd be concerned if I was a Pats fan. We reallly should have been 2 or 3 up at half time. We cut through Pats easy enough at times but lacked a cutting edge like most games this season. I thought our defence did well enough, good having Gannon back and Vemmelund looked much more at home at centre half.
Pats didn't really cause us many problems though their one positive was Markey in the playmaker role. He's a quality player and anything Pats did well was through him.
Pats had a couple of good spells in the game and played some nice football at times. I thought they lacked a cutting edge up front. They were relying on Dundalk defenders making a mistake to get through on goal.
Dundalk's decision making was poor. They really should have converted more opportunities into goals.
Nice game, but I had to sit in front of a gobsh1te Dundalk fan who spent the game abusing McEleney. Some people should be banned from going to games on the grounds of profound stupidity.
For the 1st 10 mins after the break they had a bit of pep in them but Dundalk's defence held well and that put paid to that.They obviously had the words of LB still ringing in their ears following h/t at that stage.
Whatever he said didn't hold to long - unfortunately for them .... and him
Obsessed with Rovers you are!
We haven't been able to defend set pieces all year. It was an issue in the Bohs game second day of the season and has been ever since. Even on the opening day it was and we didn't get punished. We've dropped a ton of points purely by conceding set piece goals.
Still, decent match and thought we were comfortable until the goal, and even after the red card I thought if anything we became more aggressive in attack, just as we did when Burke was sent off in Dundalk. Cork were clinical which is what I'd expect with every time I've seen them this season. We're not clinical and we have a soft centre and it really hurt us again tonight.
Was it that Live at Oriel fella?
We are having the most incredible season. I don't know if we are the best LOI team ever but you'd be hard pressed to find a more dominant side. We're trying to work out when we would win the league if we win all our games and Dundalk/Bray won the rest and I think we would win it sometime in early September (Rovers in Tallaght or Dundalk at home) assuming we play all league games scheduled by then (Europe will change that of course). We need 37 more points. Win next week and that drops to 31. With the form Dundalk Bray Derry Rovers and Bray are showing its not unrealistic to think we could bdo it in August. Oh and Limerick exist as a thing Rovers fans.
While I'm here. Stephen Bradley is amazing and I hope he and his 45 points from his first 33 games stick around a loooooooong time
You'll win the league earlier than probably any team since Nutsy's Bohs team a decade or so ago, and probably quicker.
Bradley has his flaws but he wasn't the reason we lost tonight so not sure why Cork fans are focusing on him. Dave McAllister, who has been excellent, lost us the game by getting sent off with half the game left. Bradley, tactically, did it right.
You are probably right but Bradley does himself no favours when he spends so much time talking about us. He appears to have rubbed off on your team. Your goal was a beauty and your team made sure to make the most of it and celebrate every moment of it as they are entitled to but all that was gonna do was annoy our fans and probably our team. I have no idea if we would have win without the celebration but it can't have helped.
As for Bohs that was a great side but surely the gap to everyone else was smaller
Oh and that challenge from McAllister was disgusting but I learned some additional detail to the laws of the game as a result so not all bad
Pity about the sending off was a good game up to that point . Clarke still our best player. Cork were good and good to see shep doing well. Europe and the cups still to play for for the rest of the league.
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