QuoteDont worry, tradition will save you!Originally Posted by SkStu
Gaffney played a bliner there as blocker for the goal. Shows the value of experience. Greene also played young Mayo. He will learn. Irrespective of result now, we can be more positive about the season I think. The ups and downs of football, O'Kane the width of a post from being 0-2 and 1-1 moments later. Shows how close the game is considering the newly assembled team against the old and tested settled side.
Dont worry, tradition will save you!
It’s bad Nesta. Ten minutes plus stoppage time to save our season.
Sean Boyd ,subbed on ,scores and sent off all within 15 minutes!!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Totally agree
Rovers looking more likely winners now.
7,610 I think was attendance announced. I must have overestimated the north stand crowd!
Lilander is atrocious.
2-2 well worked equalizer has to be said. Clarke header from Dylan Connolly cross.
Looks to have been a change with S+C with Rovers. Players have bulked down and look more mobile. Gaffney is ageless anyway but Hoare looks slimmer and a lot more agile and mobile as a result, even looks to have a bit more pace. If Towell was on be interesting to see if he also has lad off the weights a bit and focused more on pure fitness than bulking up, something I think took from the best part of his game.
First 5 mins all Sligo next 20 all Bohs and a goal. Then Bohs went home and let Sligo in for 2 goals. Second half was all about Sligo stifling Bohs, but Bohs scored. Best player Clarke, worst player lilander when he came on. Fkcu me it's going to be a long hard slog. The fact Cornwall went off injured with no direct replacement shows the importance of doing business early. But we are Bohs
Pitch in Galway was atrocious and didn't lend itself to anything approaching a decent game to be played. Big patches of the pitch were missing altogether and it was generally unplayable. Conor Keeley could have played on his own and Galway wouldn't have scored, he was dominant and probably the worst defender in the league they could come up against in terms of being able to handle their style of play.
Happy to take the 1-0 and get out of there. Plenty more opportunities to actually look good this season.
Were Rovers fans on a silent protest?
Barely any fans left when the players went over after the game.
Pitch was absolutely shocking at the RSC aswell made it impossible to try play a good game of football. Shels very poor in the 1st half improved a bit as it went on but a fair result in the end despite the brilliance and absolute headcase worst out of Boyd
I think Waterford will be ok this season I predicted 7th for them didn't see anything to increase or lower that. Shels more of a question mark I predicted another 4th, pitch was awful which didn't help us but the one area of the squad I was worried about before the season was the middle of the park the only area we didn't make signings and we suffered there tonight
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
Shocking. His control and passing were like something you’d see in a Sunday League.
We really have to hope Clarke stays for the season. If he is gone in the summer god help us. I know it was the first game and the standard line is that things will get better but honestly we could get worse.
An awful lot of deep defending in Bray for the second half in particular, and then when it looked like we'd weathered things, Bray scored with five to go. Nervy ending, but still - a first away win in 15 months, and with ten men. Looked quite decent in the first half. Enough that I'm actually looking forward to the season for a change!
Rovers anything but a settled side as missing the following Byrne, Lopes, Burke, Kenny, Towell,McEneff , all of whom would have started or being on the bench …. Add that to losing Farrugia and Clarke to injury , so no way you could call out team this evening anything near our first eleven…. You got us on the right night and made the best of it, good luck to you
A John Caulfield side would prefer to play on a ploughed field weekly. They coud make ED Park a horrible place to go this season but Caulfield's tendancy to be super conservative away from home tactics have bitten his sides before and the need to be winning at home regularly to stay safe but once figured out at home then an old pattern could ensue. Long isnt an advocate of anti-football so the RSC should improve. t is LoI though and the very different quality of surfaces that need to be coped with weekly should be well expected until May at least. Drogheda seemed to have been competative in Derry, last season that was a game that Derry could have dropped points so maybe Hoban could very wel be the player that can get those wins ove the line. Bohs and Slgo playing out a draw isnt a surprise and seemingly Bohs were awful. The two tradition clubs for the drop....
Clarke very good but we should have just man marked him as he was really all Bohs had. Great goal by Hartmann but that’s 2 points dropped that we really can’t afford to be doing. McGinty was very rusty. Agree on Lilander being abysmal. Simon Power was excellent but no doubt he’ll be injured in a bit.
Nice to get off to a win at Bray, who I had seen pre season, and actually took some of the 9-4 tonight that we would beat them. Think Bray are poor, toothless up front and mistake prone at the back. Don't think Ryan will make the mid season transfer window. For a manager who was a defender, his teams don't defend well.
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