QuoteDreadful performance by Harps in Kerry this evening,playoffs look a massive ask now….
Shels 0-0 ing their way to a title, weird stuff.
Dreadful performance by Harps in Kerry this evening,playoffs look a massive ask now….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Still nobody wants to win it.
Weird to be in touching distance of a double and still lowkey hate this team. Can't cross. Can't create. Can't defend. Apart from that, great.
Just let Pats and Drogheda play-off for the league.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
We just love the way we’re being ignored. What a team and club. Good luck to the ladies tomorrow evening
Did someone say something ?Originally Posted by gufct
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Nah, fair play to Galway in fairness. Great result tonight. Mad season all round. Delighted with Pats performance too, obviously.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Pats in total command this evening aside from a few half chances - weird thing is (not that we will ) if we win our last 4 games we’ve a decent chance of winning the league …. Back in the real world sad to see this dynasty fall without as much as whimper ….. good news is we always come back and will be interesting to see how Bradley goes about rebuilding .
Expect Pats to replace Shels as a contender next season alongside us and Derry
Ah here, it's so frustrating. We've six points from the last seven games.
Galway are a point behind us. Sligo are three behind us. Which team is getting the best value for money there?
Meanwhile, Shels creep a little bit further to the league.
That second half was brutal from us. Appalling defending for the goals, and nothing going forward. Poor Hoban had to drop back to midfield to try and get a sniff of a touch.
I've attempted to console myself with the fact that I thought we'd draw, and Shels and Rovers would win. So we're in a better position than I thought we'd be.
But that's a nonsense really. We've no balls. I don't know if any other team does, but the league was there for us if we wanted.
Fair play to Pats they got their tactics spot on,and badly exposed Rovers woeful defending by hitting them on the break continually and with purpose.
Bradley clearly prioritised the European game on Thursday by leaving Kenny and Byrne on the bench for this game and combined with POTY contender Honohan going off injured and that sad excuse for a keeper in goal Rovers meandering "process" ran out of luck.
Pat's fans must be wondering what might have been this season if they'd made a change in the dugout earlier . If they beat shels on Monday they have a great chance of getting into Europe next season.
As for Rovers the changes in personnel for next season become more stark.
derry are a joke in my opinion,they have great players but a $hite mentality and shels have mediocre players but a desire to do their best at least. Nobody wants to win the league so maybe Galway will do it after all. Id love for that to happen just to see Ollie Horgan as part of a league winning team !
They’d win the league and he’d straight away be talking about how hard it will be to stay up next season
Decent game in Tolka. Could have gone either way. Denham lucky not to give away a penalty for a push but he was superb in general.
Playoffs are gone but a good 3-1 win for Treaty, a scoreline that probably flattered the visitors.
Plenty of young lads getting minutes
It was almost a relief to finally all but have it confirmed as relegated tonight, for a club that hasn't won a game since 14 July, I wouldn't have been putting too much money on a play off win !
We were by a measure the worst in the PD this season, and can have no complaints really.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
If Higgins wins the cup but fails in the league will he be let go?
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Brilliant win in Tallaght, to a man every Pats player had a great game. Amazing really how Kenny has turned this team around from July onwards once he got some time to actually work on the training ground with them after a hectic first month in charge fixtures wise. If there were an extra 4 or 5 games I genuinely think Pats would’ve had a shot at winning it this year but they’ve ran out of runway for that sort of talk unfortunately. Rovers didn’t seem particularly bothered once it went 2-0, I couldn’t believe the lack of effort from their players to even close down Anang standing on the ball waiting to be pressed. Between that and constant misplacing of passes under no pressure they were dirt tonight
Paaatrick's Agletic
I can't think why not, he has not delivered in the league if he fails to win it this year, and as things stand its not looking great.
On the other side, if they don't win the cup, I'd say he'll gone fairly quicky. That would also have a big impact on the chasing pack if Derry don't win the cup, as all of those playing for 4th place will be in vain, as it will mean that Bohs, or Drogs/Wex will be taking the 4th and final euro spot, and 4th spot will get nothing.
Galway in a great position for example to nick 3rd. They are guaranteed 3 points next friday anyway !
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
Derry certainly not guaranteed top 3 the way they’re going
I think Rovers win their last 4 games they get to 61 points, can we see either ot the other 2 beating that number?
Any of the top six can still finish anywhere in the top six so far as I can see. Wouldn't rule out Pat's winning it yet - only side that can keep some form it seems.
The final table if all sides get the same number of points in their last 4/5 games as they got in their last 4/5 games -
Shels 60
Pat's 57
Rovers 56
Galway 56
Derry 55
Sligo 54
Waterford 46
Bohs 43
Drogheda 39
Dundalk 24
Didn't think much of the half-hour of Shels v Sligo I caught on VM2. Lots of effort and tackles and passion, but skill was largely absent and long balls abounded. Shels' crossing let them down time and again. Sligo seemed to settle for the draw from maybe 20 minutes out. Not a great advertisement for the league leaders v Euro challengers tbh.
That said, the main takeaway from this season is how much Bradley and Higgins have been shown up by Kenny and Duff.
That is mental. He's not even in an offside position when he heads the ball, let alone when the ball is played.
You have to assume the lino missed the guy standing three yards behind the rest of his defence - though how he continued to miss him as he challenged the Bray attacker I don't know.
Also a farcical winner for Galway last night - Waterford defender cleared the ball into the Galway attacker, and it rebounded into the net. Here from 5:45.
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