Games weekend Feb 28th to Monday March 3rd

**2 Year Contract** · 03/03/2025, 9:59 PM

Originally Posted by D24Saint

I�ve received some feedback from friends watching on the telly and from twitter on the red. From the view in the main stand it looked a clear red , one of the journalists behind me put up that from the same view it looked a definite red but on second viewing online he had doubts. As for the penos is a similar situation they both looked stonewallers on first glance but I got a glance of the first one in the pub and not as sure on the second viewing. As for the game in general, Derry started the much stronger side and actually played some nice stuff but goals change games. It cant be stated how important Forrester is to us he was immense. Then there is Keena who is just like a man possessed in front of goal. A special mention has to go to McClelland did an excellent job.

Just watched the 3 decisions back, Melia's foots clipped as he was about to pull the trigger for the first penalty, correct decision despite it taking the ref a good few seconds to give it (probably got word from the lino), second peno was also the correct call, O'Reilly left a lazy dangling leg out, stupid stuff from him. The red card he got man and ball but I�d definitely feel aggrieved if it was given against Pats. As always with those decisions, it�s swings and roundabouts over the course of a season, happy to be on the right end of one tonight after Esua's handball on the line at 1-1 in Galway not being given a couple of games ago

**EAFC_rdfl** · 03/03/2025, 9:59 PM

Originally Posted by abcd

I can confirm it most definitely was not windy in the slightest.

My 10 year old was even able to make that observation! Very little wrong with the pitch either

**ger121** · 03/03/2025, 9:59 PM

Well..that was ****e yet again. Toothless up front, weak at the back. Time to go Rennie.

**Thewhitepele** · 03/03/2025, 10:04 PM

Been mentioned loads but I love the Virgin coverage. I came home from the Sligo Rovers Match and got all the goals from the other games as well as our own. While the picture quality isn't as good it is well worth the trade off.

**Nesta99** · 03/03/2025, 10:08 PM

Rovers are a conundrum! So well organised in all departments on and off the pitch, can be average in Europe then be a kick of a ball from a last 16 place. Domestically its groundhog day, slow starts, a lack of urgency in play, and nearly always seem to be short bodies. Previous years S+C and medical team ye had to wonder about either signing crocks or not preventing crocks. This off season its seems more a lack of transfer activity and it was known a freshening up was needed and overrelying on kids would be risky. Rovers fans talk about a succession plan in place, its hard to move such a successful manager on but it does feel like Bradley has peaked and not keeping the squad fully motivated except the exceptional Europea games. He would probably be interested in moving on himself bar personal circumstances. Anyway no doubt there will be late charge and a title race but yet again some unspectacular consistency will win the league - Shels and Galway! Brian Gartland has an eye for transfer targets, should be No 1 recruit!!

**2 Year Contract** · 03/03/2025, 10:09 PM

Haven�t seen any of the cork decisions but this is a genuinely funny interview from Clancy. You can�t insult a ref and then call it a disgrace when he throws the same insult back at you

https://x.com/vmsportie/status/1896684221801935290?s=46

**D24Saint** · 03/03/2025, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract

Haven�t seen any of the cork decisions but this is a genuinely funny interview from Clancy. You can�t insult a ref and then call it a disgrace when he throws the same insult back at you

https://x.com/vmsportie/status/1896684221801935290?s=46

Dish it out then you should take it imo.

**Olander** · 03/03/2025, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by total hoofball

Frustrating one from Shels on what was unsurprisingly a difficult watch against a tough physical Galway team in heavy enough wind on an awful Eamon Deacy Park surface. We were playing patient football up until scoring early in the 2nd half with a nice diving header from Caffrey but immediately at the resumption we completely shat the bed for the next 5 minutes endlessly giving Galway possession and corners before scoring an own goal from a corner which the linesman initially ruled out before Rob Hennessy overruled the linesman to give the goal. I didn't see anything wrong with Galway goal but I would still like to know what the linesman thought he saw it seemed that it was explained to Duff after the final whistle

Like with Rovers on Friday I felt we had enough to take 3 points but we are still unbeaten got some rotation done tonight and Lewis Temple looks like he has the chops for this level so it's a positive start to the season

Strange assessment of the game. Shels are not the easiest side on the eyes themselves. It wasn't particularly windy in Terryland at all tonight, so I'm not sure what you're going on about there. Tolka Park is arguably the worst pitch in the country at the moment, I'm not sure Terryland is that poor to be honest, but I think it's fair to say that no pitch is in particularly great condition at the moment after the months of rain.

A draw was probably fair overall, we sat back a bit too much tonight and should have had more of a cut at Shelbourne. Not the worst result for either.

**SRFC** · 03/03/2025, 10:47 PM

Rovers really poor tonight. Sligo full value for their win. I thought Hakiki was excellent. Worrying signs, without Graham Burke we look clueless going forward. Our midfield could barely play a forward pass before he came on. While he can't play 90 mins anymore, if we could rotate him and Jack Byrne to get 90 between them I think it would help. Still very light in central defence, although O'Sullivan has been impressive when deputising.

I don't think we'll get away with a prolonged poor start this year. Overall quality in the league has stepped up a good bit and clawing back 10 point leads will be difficult. Can't believe I'm saying it already but 2 huge games coming up in Pats at home and Drogs away. Would take 4 points right now

**Cosmo** · 03/03/2025, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract

I've only seen them in the first game of the season against Pats but that sums them up perfectly. They�ll be very hard to beat or even draw against this year in games they take the lead in

It doesn't sum us up at all. We're actually quite good in possession with some good footballers!

**SRFC** · 03/03/2025, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by Cosmo

It doesn't sum us up at all. We're actually quite good in possession with some good footballers!

Agreed, Darragh Markey in particular is a fabulous footballer

**2 Year Contract** · 03/03/2025, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Cosmo

It doesn't sum us up at all. We're actually quite good in possession with some good footballers!

As I said I was only basing it on the game against Pats and it summed up that performance well

**joey B** · 03/03/2025, 11:14 PM

Some stat �..

**Another Bohemia** · 04/03/2025, 7:12 AM

Not even sure where to start with Bohs so I'll start with Drogheda. They had us figured out. Once they scored they knew if they were organized we wouldn't create anything and if we did we'd fluff our lines anyway.

I thought Whelan and Parsons played well. Obviously with Whelan's injury history he won't start 90 every week but I think he showed a lot and created probably Bohs best chances. Parsons is crossing the ball in well but there are no bohs players in the box so it's very easily defended. Mountney and Kavanagh both poor for the goal. At this rate I think Kavanagh needs to be dropped once Cornwall is back he was to blame for the goal in Derry by carrying the ball forward and losing it in a silly position and he lost Oluwa and then got turned by him far too easily. Both games lost by 1 goal and he's to blame for both. Not good enough. I don't think the midfield is working at all. With Devoy and Morahan sitting so far back Tierney is having to drop back so as not to leave massive gaps in midfield which then means our strikers dropping back following or is isolated up top by themselves. Neither is good. Rooney on the right wing needs to stop. The only person in recorded history who is more left footed than Rooney is Christy Brown. He offers very little from open play in his preferred position so it's hardly surprising that he offers less on the right. Also the merry go round at free kicks needs to stop. Rooney is our best set piece taker, if your playing him let him take them. There needs to be consistency in the deliveries from set pieces and players need to get used to taking them on the pitch so they are not expected to pop their first attempt on top corner. Plenty of reasons Reynolds should go and I wouldn't be upset if I got an email from the club this afternoon that he's gone but there better be an actual plan in place replace him. No going in blind saying it can't get any worse. It absolutely can.

**desaintsno.12** · 04/03/2025, 9:30 AM

Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton

Not a red for me in the Pats game. Pretty much killed it for us. Some question marks over the first peno too although very hard to tell watching the screen.

Weird that the ref (presumably?) deferred to his lino for the pen and changed his mind from yellow to red for the sending off.

Aside from that, we played some tidy stuff without creating very much and the penos came from two defensive meltdowns (particularly the first) so it's not like we shouldn't look at ourselves, but if you go to Inchicore and don't get anything going your way you're always going to struggle.

Editing to mention that Johnny Mc is the worst comms in LOITV, good lord he is diabolical.

The red is a red. If you freeze frame it, you can see as he dives in he's off the ground (both feet/legs)...run it a small bit more and you will see he finishes the tackle with studs up , just above ball height and half way up Masons shin. Absolutely wreckless tackle.

**Glen Of Aherlow** · 04/03/2025, 9:39 AM

Originally Posted by joey B

Some stat �..

If they make the full year will there be a jersey release to commemorate the occasion ?

**2 Year Contract** · 04/03/2025, 9:40 AM

Just read an article about the stick Reynolds and Bohs were getting from fans at half time and full time yesterday. Doesn�t paint a great picture of the people running the club that fans want the manager out 4 games into the season, 2 seasons in a row!

**RealJohn91** · 04/03/2025, 9:52 AM

Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract

Just read an article about the stick Reynolds and Bohs were getting from fans at half time and full time yesterday. Doesn�t paint a great picture of the people running the club that fans want the manager out 4 games into the season, 2 seasons in a row!

It was never going to work with Reynolds. The majority of the fans didn't like him to be begin with so he was always on a hiding to nothing. I still think there's a very good squad of players but we badly need someone else to get the best out of them now. It'll probably be O'Donnell though which wouldn't inspire me either.