QuoteThere is a bit of a gap starting to emergeOriginally Posted by redarmyfaction
It doesn't help that they are mostly played out of their best position.
There is a bit of a gap starting to emerge
There's no reason Bohs would go back to Long. What happened to his Waterford team was just an accelerated version of what happened to his Bohs team. Lost players in the winter, didn't adequately replace them, team became very week at the back and depended on scoring a lot of goals. No thank you.
Don’t know how you can say that with such certainty. I think there’s very little between the two teams, and the title race will be very tight. I would agree that we are favourites to be 1 and 2, but it’s a close call which way around it will be, in my view.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
I dont think anyone can call much at this stage, that a team will be in the mix or not is about it. This season could well be the one where Referee FC wins the league (for someone) in a really high profile blunder in the run in, not yer run of the mill mediocre irritants. I think it will be that close.
Yeah at the moment it looks most bleak for Waterford at the bottom, followed by Cork. Sligo are like Drogs last year, there are wins in them and are able to beat those around them. You couldnt rule out another club getting sucked in to that battle but Bohs and Derry eg look like as close to a mid table quiet season you'll get in this 10 team league currently.
Well deserved point for Treaty,Dundalk dominated possession ,didnt create enough with it.One win in 7 for the home team but a good point here.
Unfortunately that's only too true. We see errors every week that affect the shape of the table. Even though I rate Neil Doyle the best in the league (admittedly the bar is low) in our opening game v Drogs he called a goal offside that replays showed was well onside. That decision has us a point off top now instead of two points ahead. And last night we could have been done again (but fortunately we scored in the same passage of play) when he didn't give a clear and obvious penalty when a Rovers defender threw himself at a shot and blocked it with his elbow.
Certainly a game of 2 halves last night in Dalymount. Cork were on top in the first half but I can only recall 1 instance in which Cork should have scored and that was Tierney clearing off the line. Without Maguire and Keating Cork look quite poor in attack although both wingers are very entertaining to watch there is a bit of a lack of end product there. In the second half, after the substitutions Bohs were a much better organised team. I think James McManus is key in our organisation. He seems to be the one player who is able to read where the second ball will drop and make a play on it. Without that we frequently get hit on the counter. James Clarke needs to start more games as well, I think Tierney and Devoy have been a bit hit and miss this season. The team seems to be set up around getting them the ball but all too often they are hesitating and taking an extra touch when it's not necessary or trying a flick that won't come off 9 times out of 10. Rotating them with Clarke should be a given now as even with limited game time he's had some impressive cameos.
One note on the on the ref, he seemed to have a strange fondness of Cork. You always expect bad decisions in the league but it seemed like any call that was 50/50 went corks way. For Decoys yellow card it was a 50/50 challenge where Devoy won the ball and the cork player appeared to catch him. When the whistle went the cork player popped up to protest giving away the free only to realise he had won the free! Stuff like that is always a giveaway to me that the ref has made a mistake. Stranger still was the scene after he gave Murray a yellow card for repeated fouling! It looked like he tried to pull Murray in for a hug as it to say "Sorry about that mate" just really weird behaviour to say the least. Not the worst reffing performance we'll see during the season but certainly the strangest in my book.
I agree with you on the referee, at one point from a Cork corner Whelan broke out of the Bohs box and between them 2 Cork players has 3 goes at him to stop the counter attack and the ref just waved play on. I also agree with you on the Devoy yellow, he clearly won the ball and was hit when the Cork player followed through. There was no malice in the challenge but it should have been a Boss free and no yellow card to any player.
Yeah, exactly. Not the worst refereeing performance I have seen or will see but just bizarre decisions
Rovers very good at times in Inchicore and a draw keeps us both level pegging near the top. Really looking forward to the match on Monday but the time and day is bound to mean there will be some empty seats. The sight of the green and white always gets the gypsies going so its going to be tough but this time i am strangely a little more confident.
Wouldn’t have thought that 2pm on a Bank Holiday afternoon was such a bad time ?
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
I’m happy enough with a 5pm KO on Monday with travel taken into account. For a Derby on a BH it isn’t the worst time I suppose. It would take over an hour on public transport from Tallaght so leave at noon and it would allow enough time.
In some ways it's good in others it's not ideal. Getting out to Tallaght for example is pretty easy but if you're using public transport, like a significant number of the Bohs fans will be, it's a bus into town and then luas out so it will take a decent chunk of time especially with the Sunday bus schedule. That decreases the amount of time people can spend drinking (obviously a very deliberate move to minimise trouble) and a lot of fans wouldn't be fond of that. Then just being on a bank holiday may mean people have other family commitments that means they have to miss it or even be meeting with some extended family they didn't see on Easter Sunday for lunch which clashes with the game. For me it's ideal, I'll be driving over anyway, so I'm not drinking, and I'll get home in time to have dinner with the family where I'll either be jubilant or completely silent. I might even see one of the other games played.
Weather was brutal, certainly. It rained solid from the moment we left Derry, the whole way until we got back yesterday afternoon.
The pitch did take a right battering, but was actually surprised at how well it held up given the circumstances.
Referee, Declan Toland, certainly was firing the cards out, in what wasn't a dirty game. 10 yellows, two reds. And we had a goal disallowed for a very dubious offside. Couldn't see from our angle really, but chatting to Galway fans after, who thought it may have been on.
Woeful defending to allow Hickey in for Galway's first. Any one of three defenders could have got a touch to it. Can't be giving up goals like that.
Great start to the second half with Benson's lovely strike, and then Byrne's red. I could be annoyed at conceding with the last kick of the game, but it was a badly needed win, so left delighted.
Laughable desire shown in Bohs defending for those 2 goals
Paaatrick's Agletic
Devoy I thought in particular was terrible for the first goal. I thought he could easily have nipped in and got the ball, but wanted to try and black Honohan off. Super run and finish from Noonan for the second.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Leigh Kavanagh is not a Premier Division player.
I really thought he had something about him in his first few appearances but he's shocking.
I'll take a draw! Rovers have been dreadful for a large chunk of the second half. Just leaving a couple of players stranded up top and failing to move up the pitch at all.
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