QuoteAt about 1:20 the interviewer asks Stephen Bradley "do you think Dundalk were over physical tonight?"Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Are even the Rovers media people taking the pi$$ out of the unfortunate manager?
"The scoreline is not a true reflection of the game"
https://soundcloud.com/shamrock-rove...interview-1618
At about 1:20 the interviewer asks Stephen Bradley "do you think Dundalk were over physical tonight?"
Are even the Rovers media people taking the pi$$ out of the unfortunate manager?
Populist statements that Ward makes on Twitter about us are there for a reason!!(RT's and likes)
Ward is a bit of a****** in my eyes.Some Dundalk fans like to hear everything positive said about the club - he knows that,he knows his audience.
Lots of ITK Dundalk fans pass no remarks of him.
We know full well that overcoming Cork will be a huge challenge.
As far as budgets go? Stop guessing.Because Nobody knows.
Why are Cork fans and Cork people in general so desperate for acknowledgement and acceptance from others?? Cork are a good, effective side, champions, cup holders, the club of pure virtue in League of Ireland. Who cares what anyone else thinks!? Rovers/Pats/Bohs fans singing 'We hate Dundalk' was music to the ears when it made a return in recent seasons. European performances tend to grab the interest more in general in this country than domestic titles. Put together a good European run and you will likely get the accolades you crave.
Must have been another cup final. I saw the challenge by Lopes - straight red and the boy is lucky.
I know we've not been consistent at all this season, but Galway are no addition. Their keeper is simply horrific, and I had to laugh at him giving away another indirect free kick after that ****show against Cabinteely.
https://www.facebook.com/ltfc.ie/vid...7428971681970/
Great ping here to open the scoring tonight from local lad Aodh Dervin. Great little player.
Sporting F*ck All!
Curious to know why Aaron Barry, marque signing, and Karl Sheppard are not getting picked, i think I read the former made too many mistakes early season, but still a decent player? However it’s the latter, Sheppard I’m more surprised with given the almost mass celebratory actions when he decided to sign back.
#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).
Harps won ,Athlone are terrible not much else to add,Monday will be a different game......
I'd have Shep in the team, especially in games where we need width he changed the game tonight. JC likes Barry McNamee but also likes Sadlier and Buckley and is trying to figure out how to get them all into the team. As things stand hes been playing McNamee wide right where he is not at his best. Thats before you think about Stephen Beattie who came in and played number 10 tonight.
Aaron Barry didn't have a great start to the season and lost his place to the two young centre halves McLoughlin and McCarthy and is probably fourth choice right now with Benno coming back into the side in recent weeks
I think if people talked about how much they hated us we'd be fine. But we get fobbed off as just another side and that is infuriating!
When we did put together a decent Euro run those *****s from Louth (your lot!) went and over shadowed us ever so slightly!
Brian Kerr was so busy hating Shamrock Rovers that he refers to Bohs discipline issuesHow Lopes wasn't sent off for that assault on McGrath is just beyond beyond!Ref Connolly obv knew this match was on TV and he wasn't going to ruin it for the 'punters' sitting on their arses at homeFcuking shocking reffing!!
https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/1002630414756823041
Dundalk showed up for the 2nd half and in some style.
The Carr & Finn injuries for Rovers defo threw Dundalk some relief but Lopes should have been gone by the time of the injuries anyway.
I think most people in the stadium felt once Hoban scored that the result was only going one way. We really needed to get a second on the board to force Dundalk to open up but we really lacked a cutting edge without Burke or Carr.
Surprised by the banners. We've played far worse than that loads of times and there's been only applause from the stands. Stinks of "we made this banner so we're ****ed if we don't get to use it."
Dundalk are the best team in the league by a decent stretch I think, but we all know that doesn't guarantee anything. I can't imagine they'll have it as easy as they did in that ten-minute spell when they scored three though.
For what its worth and was said above, Cork have never been fobbed off in Dundalk. There is a respect as much as rivalry even if through gritted teeth. It isnt the media approval that you're looking for but from your closest rival its something. The reason Dundalk are seemingly annointed club in some eyes over Cork does have something to do with playing style. Few would have believed that an Irish club could compete in Europe playing it out from the back on the deck - not even the best Irish international footballers do it. That belief got us to EL groups and favour has snowballed. Even when in London for the game in Turners Cross we went in to a bar in London city centre to watch the game and the TV that the game was on said 'Showing Dundalk'!!
Don’t want to be rude but Galway have been brutal in the three games I’ve seen them. Tonight was the worst, they were appalling. A back three consisting of a disgracefully overweight Williams and Walsh who couldn’t get a game for a ****e town team last season. None of Galway’s back 3 were comfortable on the ball and invited so much pressure on themselves. Only for the red and a disgraceful set of officials town would’ve won by 4 or 5 tonight. Keegan is in bother
Well I don't really think it's just that. We hammered Cork 3-0 in Tallaght and Dundalk put five past us. Dundalk won 4-1 at the Brandywell and Cork struggled to a 0-0. Dundalk slaughtered Pats and Cork have just edged past them. Waterford beat Dundalk but, guess what, they beat Cork too. Even Limerick have done well in all their games against Cork and Dundalk beat them 8-0. Obviously everyone outside the top two is a level below, but we're all looking at our games and saying Dundalk are clearly the better side. If it wasn't for Cork's clear commitment to never committing fouls, it might be closer, but you have to commend Dundalk on their cynicism.
Last edited by Charlie Darwin; 02/06/2018 at 4:12 AM.
While those are valid points about those games, the game are a bit cherry picked and there's a recency bias there. There's a reason we'll be top of the league if we win Monday with the same games played.
I'd agree dundalk will likely finish with a much higher goal difference, I doubt it will come into play but it could. I also have no issue with people thinking dundalk are the better of the two teams, rovers in particular given the relative performances.
What I think is ridiculous is the claims that Dundalk will win the league by 8-10 points. Come Monday, we could be a point clear with 21 games played. There are only 15 games less. Assuming dundalk keep winning as they have been, it assumes we'll for some reason drop our performances significantly. I don't think that is justified, regardless of how good dundalk are.
We're actually just starting to hit our stride, and performances are improving, rather than the opposite.
Now, who knows what will happen with Europe, and the league games around it. We have a habit of not doing great in those. But I think there's no chance in hell a Caulfield team drops off to the level as to lose 11 extra points relative to Dundalk in 15 games.
On the point of why does it bother us, I don't think there's a team in the lead that wouldn't be annoyed if they were a point of top at this stage and continuosly told they were going to lose the league comfortably, despite a 100% home record!
Last edited by micls; 02/06/2018 at 6:41 AM.
And next Friday, away to UCD.
If ye can take 6 points away to first and third in a week, ye'll go 4 points clear and will have to be favourites. A draw against Shels and it's starting to look more and more like a two-horse race for the title with others' lack of consistency an issue really.
Dundalk coughed up a lot of chances last night , that would be a concern from thier point of view.
I love it when people write us off. Please keep doing it.
There was a swagger about is for the last 20 mins last night that I haven't seen since the bygone days of Seani Maguire. This could be best title race of the lot.
Different keeper. Tadgh Ryan was injured last night.
Obviously the head to head games are key and we have been second best mostly to Cork recently. Cork are clear favourites!!
Nice try
I don't think there's much doubt Dundalk are favourites, and I'd agree that for us winning it this year would be a bigger achievement than last, especially considering we've never retained the league, but you're right, the head to heads will be key. As will the response to games around Europe.
Big first game back after the break in Oriel.
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