Games weekend 8th 9th August

[2 Year Contract]

He should have went down in the box the defender was shoving into his back.
But having stayed up, yeah had to score, still nice to see him back.
We really really need two big strong centre backs who kick **** out of the opposition, every one of ours is either too soft too slow or useless.
Draw probably fair though , but both managers will be upset at the awful defending.

Given he didn’t go down, that means the contact wasn’t enough to make him go down.

It was a swan dive, embarrassing.
Never enough contact to make him fall over.
DJT for Bohs v shels took two shoves in the back on his way through and stayed on his feet, that was a dive manufactured to get the defender at least a yellow and a free kick.
Ref is a gob****e for buying it, never even a free.

So let me get this straight, you wanted your teams striker to manufacture a foul yesterday, but when Melia does it today it’s ‘embarrasing’. That is some absolutely iconic double standards from you Dermo

[brendy_éire]

As dreary a game at the Brandywell that you'll see, a game certainly lacking fireworks. Getting harder to watch football on that surface.

Dreary is putting it far too mildly. One of the worst games of football I've seen in a while. And that's saying something considering some of the dross we've watched over recent years.
That match has made me wonder about Lynch.

Cork, for their part, aren't very good, but they did work hard and deserved the point.

We need a serious buck up of our ideas. Play anything like that next week against Drogs and we'll be a few goals down at half time.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

I’ll have to rewatch the first goal. All I saw was a defensive mix up and Mulraney followed it in. We scored some nice goals in the second half. Delighted with the three points.

I think he booked Mulroney after the goal for taking out his shin pad and showing it to the rovers fans. Baffling stuff from McGrath again.

[D24Saint]

I think he booked Mulroney after the goal for taking out his shin pad and showing it to the rovers fans. Baffling stuff from McGrath again.

I seen Mulraney asking for the fourth officials opinion on the booking. It seemed a bizarre card to get if that is the case. I just assumed that might have over done the celebrations in front of the Sligo Rovers fans.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Pretty sure it was that cause if you look at the clip he just runs off initially and celebrates with a couple of Pats players. Saw him doing that then but no one cared and was assuming it was for that.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

I’ll have to rewatch the first goal. All I saw was a defensive mix up and Mulraney followed it in. We scored some nice goals in the second half. Delighted with the three points.

https://x.com/ciaranquinn18/status/1...838085052?s=46

[2 Year Contract]

I think he booked Mulroney after the goal for taking out his shin pad and showing it to the rovers fans. Baffling stuff from McGrath again.

I thought the at was a strange one as well at the time. His kids sit in that area of the stand just beside the away end so I was thinking maybe he’s got a picture of them on his shinguard so took the shinguard out in front of them when celebrating the goal.

After googling it though that surprisingly is a yellow card in the laws of the game.

Removing shinguards, even during a celebration, can be seen as delaying the restart of play or entering the field of play without permission, both of which are yellow card offenses

[Onapointoforder]

Sometimes one despairs...tbf no complaints on what was a comfortable night for Longford last evening, well deserved victory and a super second goal but to travel to watch the absolute tripe dished out by Treaty under this spoofer of a manager leaves the disappointment levels at an all time high.Its 9 wins in 27 games and the usual platitudes of progress and over achievement given out to appease .Enough is enough time to go Tommy ,a long time there ,nothing to show for it and all your talk.

Think you are right… should be safely in playoff position… keep passing up opportunities… very irritating

[placid casual]

No shots on target? Rovers have been flat a lot lately.

We're freewheeling to the title tbh.
Game on Thursday is much bigger.

[BonnieShels]

I’ve no idea why but it’s always chippy when we play Kerry ,doesn’t happen against any other team the way it does against Kerry ….

It's just the Kerry way. The oul keepers of the flame as it were.

[BonnieShels]

Draw probably fair. We were too passive in the second half. Mind you DJT will be having nightmares about that chance.

Delighted with the draw in the end, especially with Juan Martín popping up again!
But Jesus, if we don't have that Temple brainfart, who knows how it may have played out. All in all, it served to underline a lot of the obvious deficiencies that we have with a couple of our stalwarts in defence. It also, wrote large the fact that Harry Wood and Keir McInroy are practically irreplaceable for us.

[Jack B]

The red never looked like one in the moment and even less so watching it back. As I was about to say "looked lucky to get a free there" the ref had the card out.

If Sligo can take any solace from today's events it should be that they would have lost anyway, given this is the part of the season when we win every league game for the remainder of it.

[CorribsideSteve]

Nice to see we've figured out how to get a clean sheet. Our first point on the board since the Autumn of 1588.

[sessylU]

That match has made me wonder about Lynch.

No no no, the problem wasn't tactics or team selection or anything like that. It was that the players ran out of ... bravery?

I thought the longer the game went on, I thought we started to really lack bravery in what we were doing and we became quite negative. We need to overcome that. We need to stay brave.

https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/f...y-draw-5264952

[sbgawa]

Nice to see we've figured out how to get a clean sheet. Our first point on the board since the Autumn of 1588.

not hard to keep a clean sheet when your opponants dont have a single shot in the game

[Dermobohs]

Given he didn’t go down, that means the contact wasn’t enough to make him go down.



So let me get this straight, you wanted your teams striker to manufacture a foul yesterday, but when Melia does it today it’s ‘embarrasing’. That is some absolutely iconic double standards from you Dermo

There was actual contact on DJT, Melia produced a beaut of a dying swan leap.

[Dermobohs]

Rovers really coasting it now, nobody really putting any meaningful points on the board.
Unless pats go on another 9 game win streak , even then it’d take a hell of a collapse to lose it from here.
Euro place battle the last bit of drama it would seem.

[sbgawa]

Our next two home matches are at home to Shels and Drogs.
Two of the euro chasers.
The same two weekends PAts are playing Derry and Drogs so a lot of things could change in next two weeks, Bohs have Sligo and Cork maybe an easier mini run.

We were dire against Galway but i suppose crdit to Galway for keeping us honest we didnt look interested and got a point which was thanks to McGinty

[2 Year Contract]

There was actual contact on DJT, Melia produced a beaut of a dying swan leap.

There absolutely was contact on Melia but that’s neither here nor there when it comes to your double standards. Again, the contact on DJT wasn’t enough to make him go down, so you wanted him to cheat by dropping to the ground to make the ref think the contact was enough to take him down, so that he’d award your team a penalty and the Shels defender a red card. Irony in the extreme Dermo.

[2 Year Contract]

At least Patrick McClean can take solace in the fact that he's taken the record for quickest overturned suspension!

https://www.leagueofireland.ie/news/...rovers-appeal/