Matches weekend 14th to 15th May

**sullanefc** · 15/05/2021, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado

With a bit of luck we'd have won but c'est la vie and we were total and absolute rubbish in the first half so draw prob right result.

The press are fairly coming for Dundalk,i see former Dundalk cheerleader, Dan having a go again this morning.

EDIT = https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-40428674.html

He's put that on premium for some reason!

One situation referenced in the article is the Keegan/Giovagnoli situation. Alan Mathews didn't have the same spotlight/criticism as Shane Keegan. And I get the line of "well Dundalk" made a song and dance about Keegan. I still don't think journalists should be favouring Pats over Dundalk. Maybe it's just Dan McDonnell, who I have to say is grating on LOI Central but sin scéal eile.

But anyway, a question, why was Giovagnoli restricted to the stand, yet Stephen O'Donnell can sit on the bench? If Giovagnoli was allowed on the bench, surely it would have been a bit smoother.

**placid casual** · 15/05/2021, 4:36 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

Ah here, hold back on the sympathy for now. We're only 1.5 seasons from being a peno shootout for a clean sweep, 6 months from a last EL group game and FAI Cup. Were muck at the moment, mid table, not a decade in division 1 and the antics now are not quite an owner threatening to demolish buildings over a lease, refusing to sell but saying that the club will be let run in to examinership. Its all relative and this is a bump even with a pricy squad, not hours from the antics being terminal!

Id prefer nasty, rip away, sympathy is patronising

As you wish.
Your club is dropping like cement block on the ocean.
You won't qualify for Europe, won't mae any progress in Europe this year, and as a result of spending far far more money than your earning your owners peak6 will pull the plug within the next 18 months, and as they wont get their asking price for a suitable buyer will walk away and leave your club in ruins
Your club is more likely to be extinct in 5 yrs than it is to be champions again.

**SeanDrog** · 15/05/2021, 4:39 PM

Originally Posted by joey B

Maybe it's a bad time but Dundalk could do worse than nabbing Tim Clancy, doing a fine job at Drogheda....

Gggrrrrrrrr

**Dalymountrower** · 15/05/2021, 4:40 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

As you wish.
Your club is dropping like cement block on the ocean.
You won't qualify for Europe, won't mae any progress in Europe this year, and as a result of spending far far more money than your earning your owners peak6 will pull the plug within the next 18 months, and as they wont get their asking price for a suitable buyer will walk away and leave your club in ruins
Your club is more likely to be extinct in 5 yrs than it is to be champions again.

A bit more soft soap from PC, 18 months!!

**ToberonaTornado** · 15/05/2021, 4:43 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

As you wish.
Your club is dropping like cement block on the ocean.
You won't qualify for Europe, won't mae any progress in Europe this year, and as a result of spending far far more money than your earning your owners peak6 will pull the plug within the next 18 months, and as they wont get their asking price for a suitable buyer will walk away and leave your club in ruins
Your club is more likely to be extinct in 5 yrs than it is to be champions again.

Todays assessment of Dundalk FC's finances and wellbeing was brought to you by the Davy16 and KPMG in association with NPHET.

**Calcio Jack** · 15/05/2021, 6:58 PM

Ok result for Rovers considering lengthening injury list with Kavanagh, O’Brien, McCann , Greene, Watts and Farugia missing and Gannon showing again he’s not a wing back

**ToberonaTornado** · 15/05/2021, 7:15 PM

Originally Posted by Calcio Jack

Ok result for Rovers considering lengthening injury list with Kavanagh, O’Brien, McCann , Greene, Watts and Farugia missing and Gannon showing again he’s not a wing back

Fairly dodgy that goal by Gaffney would you reckon?

https://twitter.com/areyou_foreaal/s...41306245771267

**pineapple stu** · 15/05/2021, 7:18 PM

Ha! That's ridiculous.

League title wide open anyways. Hand firmly grasped off the trophy, and those prattlers from early on can be ignored

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 15/05/2021, 7:18 PM

God bless them but the refs really are atrocious

**lofty9** · 15/05/2021, 7:19 PM

Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado

Fairly dodgy that goal by Gaffney would you reckon?

https://twitter.com/areyou_foreaal/s...41306245771267

which part? 2 balls on the pitch or the 20 yard steal on the throw in?

**placid casual** · 15/05/2021, 7:35 PM

The ref was appalling the entire match for both teams. A fat shambles of a referee.
Rovers fell through that game and managed a draw based on memory, almost.
Why do Derry persist with that parkhouse guy-he looks so uninterested.
Fitzgerald looks a real threat whenever I see him play.
Onto oriel Park for dundalks Cup final next week. 😋

**mcgonigle** · 15/05/2021, 8:35 PM

That really is atrocious officiating, just when you think they can't get any worse you see something like that. Rovers will walk the league, they don't need any help from officials. Who was the ref?

**WeAreRovers** · 15/05/2021, 9:02 PM

Referee not obliged to stop the game for a 2nd ball on the pitch, rule changed around 10 years ago to stop ballboys throwing balls on the pitch.

Derry switched off and it’s not the first time a team has done that against Rovers this season.

“When the ball goes dead, we come alive” S Bradley.

**ToberonaTornado** · 15/05/2021, 9:04 PM

Originally Posted by mcgonigle

That really is atrocious officiating, just when you think they can't get any worse you see something like that. Rovers will walk the league, they don't need any help from officials. Who was the ref?

Stephen Bradley

(think it was Gram kelly)

**osarusan** · 15/05/2021, 9:14 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

Referee not obliged to stop the game for a 2nd ball on the pitch, rule changed around 10 years ago to stop ballboys throwing balls on the pitch.

The main issue is that wherever it was taken from (out of camera shot even) was nowhere near where the ball went out of play. Terrible reffing.

**pineapple stu** · 15/05/2021, 9:22 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

Referee not obliged to stop the game for a 2nd ball on the pitch, rule changed around 10 years ago to stop ballboys throwing balls on the pitch

While this is true, that goal still shouldn't have stood because of where it was taken from. Derry can have every right to be annoyed at the goal standing, and Rovers taking the throw from 20 yards further from where it should have been taken is, I think, above and beyond "play the whistle"

**Nesta99** · 15/05/2021, 9:29 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

As you wish.
Your club is dropping like cement block on the ocean.
You won't qualify for Europe, won't mae any progress in Europe this year, and as a result of spending far far more money than your earning your owners peak6 will pull the plug within the next 18 months, and as they wont get their asking price for a suitable buyer will walk away and leave your club in ruins
Your club is more likely to be extinct in 5 yrs than it is to be champions again.

This will make for entertaining reading back some day or you will have to change yer name to Mystic Meg PC.

Originally Posted by placid casual

Onto oriel Park for dundalks Cup final next week. 

Ouch!! Well its a guaranteed 7th year of cup finals in row i suppose then (not including LC, LSC, Malone Trophy, cross border stuff, Presidents Cup or any of that malarkey...).

**sbgawa** · 15/05/2021, 9:31 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

While this is true, that goal still shouldn't have stood because of where it was taken from. Derry can have every right to be annoyed at the goal standing, and Rovers taking the throw from 20 yards further from where it should have been taken is, I think, above and beyond "play the whistle"

You are at least 50% wrong Stu , it was more like 30 yards

**mcgonigle** · 15/05/2021, 9:36 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

Referee not obliged to stop the game for a 2nd ball on the pitch, rule changed around 10 years ago to stop ballboys throwing balls on the pitch.

Derry switched off and it’s not the first time a team has done that against Rovers this season.

“When the ball goes dead, we come alive” S Bradley.

Who mentioned the second ball?