rovers vs athlone

[Rovers1]

rovers were poor last night,any team could have won it,both teams had good chances,mct and flannery were asleep in first half. big mistake putting rossiter on the wing,waste of space!!!

[Redtop]

big mistake putting rossiter on the wing,waste of space!!!

big mistake signing him in the first place!!!

[Redtop]

It's a good job Athlone are building a new ground and I wish them the best of luck with it because a good fart would knock St Mels/Golden Island Park at the minute!

i know well did ye look at the pictures on the match report the state of the dugouts

[showgies]

Rovers were poor in Athlone. Play like that vs Kilkenny and we will be in trouble. I can’t remember any of our wingers(!) getting to the by-line or behind the full backs. All the balls up to Flannery and McT came from deep, and the Athlone defenders dealt with that threat comfortably.

Another thing I noticed is our ploy in using 2 players to take a corner. This I assume is as an attempt to drag 2 defenders out of the box. However, on some occasions on Friday evening, Athlone only put one defender out to defend the corner and on no occasion did McCann or Faz cop-on and realise that a short corner would have left them 2 v 1 with a great chance to put a different sort of cross into the box.

[Red4Eva]

pretty dire gam alrite. neither team deserved to win. i've been to st.mel's bout 6 times in last 5 years&every game has been awful apart from the 2-2 in 01/02. i was surprised that sc didn't swap faz&raf or raf&rossi at some stage but i think he was reasonably happy with a point&clean sheet from listening to him on ocean on saturday morning.

[Heinze]

Flannery had his Cheek Bone broken in this game and has some nerve damage and will be out for about 6 weeks, not good at this stage of the season. Hopefully he can make a quick recovery.

[Red4Eva]

Flannery had his Cheek Bone broken in this game and has some nerve damage and will be out for about 6 weeks, not good at this stage of the season. Hopefully he can make a quick recovery.

****t. seen flannery in centra in roscommon on friday nite he didn't look too bad but obviously not. browne better start paying back quick. i'd say he'll do alrite after a cupla games&we'll prob be pretty glad we signed him

[Heinze]

Well it looks pretty nasty now, takes a while for the discolouring to come up! He's off to Dublin today for an Operation on it afaik.