City 0-1 Drogheda Utd

[Rebal Boy]

City were terrible up frount tonight. They couldn't click at all. If they keep this form up they will finish in the bottom half of the table. If a team really wants to win the league you've got to win 99% of your home games and win as many as possible away from home, but tonight City are like a team in the bottom half. Who agrees?

[Fair_play_boy]

A complete loada pooh. No pattern. Made a fair Drogs side look good, when NO WAY they should have taken even 1 point away home tonight.
Ref lost control of the game, which was a real pity.
Georgie was begging for that yellow.
Benno got a nasty head butt, which is why the red card came out.
Connor is a real rat.
The OK:
Kearney
Flynnie
Dan Murray (to give him his due)
Danny Murphy
Benno
Doyler
Hoggie
Colin (risked limb to get in some outstanding interceptions)

The bad
Georgie
Woodsie
Behan

Fenn and Greg did not get much to do, but for the few balls Greg got, he looked out of form.

[harry crumb]

I usually think you're rating are accurate but not tonight.

George was City's best player tonight. He got on the ball and was the only person on the pitch with a bit of composure and he would have deserved that goal at the end if it was allowed.

I thought Danny Murphy was very poor. He kept losing possession and his passing was poor.

[ollie]

dissapointing result.coudn't go to the game but as a matter of interest,how many were there?

[Schunter Netz]

Danny Murphy was rubbish, except for a few life threatening tackles. His distribution is awful, everything lobbed into what he considers 'space'. The sight of Fenn, O'Flynn and Gamble having a kick around at half time while City play aimless football is incredibly frustrating. I'm a fan of Billy Woods but watching him play badly AND limping in pain for ten minutes before being substituted...everyone in the ground would have had him off as soon as you could get a tracksuit off a sub...then we got Greg playing right wing??!! Richardson's brain is not in top gear yet.

Three terrible home games. Its going to get harder and harder to win one now, but at leat Behan's fabulous run is finished and he can go sit on the bench for a while. Or play GAA. O'Flynn and Fenn to play up front, with Doyle reluctantly on the right wing. We need goals.

[thecorner]

Richardson's brain is not in top gear yet.

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the disappointing thing is maybe it is

[patsh]

the disappointing thing is maybe it is

Will you have the "Rico out" banner at Dalymount?...

[thecorner]

Will you have the "Rico out" banner at Dalymount?...

patsh acting the muppet again...thats wht i like about this board...its consistent

[Éanna]

Very very poor. We had just started playing some half decent ball when the penalty was given. Nothing much positive to say about it at all. Rico HAS to drop woods and get Gamble back in the team asap, as well as telling the players to keep the ball on the deck.

[oú est j.cotter]

The sight of Fenn, O'Flynn and Gamble having a kick around at half time while City play aimless football is incredibly frustrating.

sums it all up really.

[dcnags]

At least now rico can't stick with a winning team.......

Have to start flynny and gamble against rovers if we want anything good to come of the game. Thats not a bad reflection of colin t before people point out he played decent lastnight but more of a 'get billy off the team for a while' change.Danny and liam will have to watch the rovers right mid closely, he looks decent from what little bit i've seen of him.

Greg looked off pace, right wing isn't his position though. At least rico is starting to make subs earlier when you could see things weren't going our way. Compared to waiting for bray to score to make them in our last home game. I think if he was going to make a sub, possibly it should have been gamble, who has played and has played well whereas greg hadn't got a game yet.Also, behan looks tired and didn't work as hard as he has in the last few games imo.

[ccfcgirl]

dissapointing result.coudn't go to the game but as a matter of interest,how many were there?

id say about 3500.All saints annes end was empty.

[Fair_play_boy]

For those who missed this game, feelings are down after the result, and because of the way we lost a winable game. That is why the threads commenting on the game are largely negative.
But it was not all bad. We did not have any luck, except for two incidents: the ref could have awarded another penalty against us in the first half, but he cancelled this out when he let go a dodgy tackle up in the other box a few minutes later; and late in the first half, the ref blew for a Drogs free kick about 30 yards out, just as a Drogs player broke into the box unmarked.
Dan Connor played really well, and had a good bit of luck, on three separate occasions. First, after 10 minutes he scooped a ball out from between the posts when he looked well beaten. Second, his body got in the way of a 35 yard free kick by Denis Behan, but it looked like a fluke because he made no attempt to catch it. Third, three shots from close range on the Drogs goal were all deflected out by defenders, before being blasted over the bar.
Not to mention Georgie's disallowed score late in the second half which looked fine to me.
It is true that a lot of people in the DF stand were booing at the final whistle, but it seemed to me that they were not booing at our team, but at the officials, who failed to penalise Connor for time wasting, and for not playing a lot more extra time. By my reckonong, the match should have been about 4 minutes longer.
For many periods in the game, it was exciting end to end football, even though both teams looked a bit sloppy at times with passes going all over the place, and both teams losing possession too easily. It was a physical game, but not especially dirty until later on when the ref seemed to lose his authority.

[adamd164]

'get billy off the team for a while'

Friday afternoon I was praying he'd miss the game through injury

[Troy.McClure]

For many periods in the game, it was exciting end to end football.

Ok I missed the first half, and I agree with the rest of what you said but Drogs didnt get past the half way line until they got their peno! To say that we was robbed is the understatement of the year!

I thought that Danny Murphy was poorish (was he the one who should have been covering for the peno?) and someone needs to tell him to shut up and stop talking his way in to yellow cards! (Are you looking $hels fans )

One more thing, I know where you're coming from anti-dub, hopefully Billy will be out for a few games, which we win, so he doesnt get back into a winning team

[razor]

You know that sick feeling way down in the pit of your stomach?
I walked home from the game to try and analyse things in my head and to wonder if I had really just winessed that.
Though we were bad, it was the worst display this season by an away side, they barely got into our half and a hopeful ball over the top won them a fortunate penalty which was the only way they were going to score.
We created chances but there are cetain aspects of our game that need improving.
The amount of aimless ball Danny Murphy gave away was shocking and I think this was the main reason Kearney wasn't in the game that much.
If I counted a George corner overshooting the box and missing everyone once, I counted it 5 or 6 times. Retaining possession and set pieces are basics of the game. I thought Gamble should have been introduced as once CT took the knock he wasn't the same. George infuriates me every week, first with his distribution, corners and frees very poor and then his temperament, got booked again for mouthing.
Back five were rarely tested, I mean Devine seemed to play the game with a knock and the rest bar Murphy did ok. Woods was muck again and Kearney was not in the game.
Can be put down in general to being one of those nights but lessons must be learned.
Unlike Rico I thought the ref was excellent, no qualms about the spotter either

[Fair_play_boy]

George was City's best player tonight. He got on the ball and was the only person on the pitch with a bit of composure and he would have deserved that goal at the end if it was allowed.

Point taken, but his set pieces were woeful.

[GavinZac]

Point taken, but his set pieces are always woeful.

fixed, for accuracy

[Fair_play_boy]

fixed, for accuracy

even if a bit harsh.