You're being too generous, we hoofed the thing all night long and that's why Crowe was so ineffective. I've watched it again today, Crawley is absolutley shocking for it. On more than one occasion, in fact it'd be in double digits, not only was Crawley in space but he also had options in the mid field in space and calling for the ball. Rather than give it to them, he opts to punt the thing and basically hand the ball to Devine and Cork City. City then roll it out to their defence who link up with the mid field and an attack is on. It's absolutley useless, and we only created one single chance the entire night because of that which Alan Moore fluffed. When we did get competent defenders on the ball, such as Hawkins and Heary, they played the ball through the mid field and that was the only time we looked dangerous. We wont achieve anything by constantly handing possession back to the opposition when we've time on the ball and in Europe espically we'll be crucified for it.
Cork seem to know that, and we're the better team and by some distance because of that. If shels don't improve, Cork will win the league, simple as that. I fully expect Shels to improve alot though, we've far too much quality not too, but it wont happen if we keep playing the way we do. Weak links like Crawley need to be shipped out and under performing players in mid field like Ollie and Moore need to be benched.
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