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[Dodge]

maybe pats are used to the higher tempo of being at the top of the table, so therfore thought of it as a poor game,

Might've been a bit harsh on the game in fairness. We were certainly poorer than usual. And I judge most things on that.

I'll give Cobh massive credit for continuing to try and play football. Hoofing it would've been the lazy easy answer but the players took the responsibility of passing it. Thats the sign of good coaching IMO

[Rambler1]

1 nil, rams got off slow, conceded early, was a fairly even game both teams played good football, pats looked the full time side there passing was better than our passing, which wasnt bad by any means, we played well and kept them under pressure for a good lenght of time, we got about 4 corners in a 10 minute spell, kenny coleman took each corner, and took them well floating all of them into the middle of the box and nearly swerved one into the net, which was cleared off the line, as were two other chances, i think it was reilly nearly lobbed there keeper for 20 yards and he just tipped it over as it dipped, mccarthy was beaten at his near post (again), other than that he had a very good game, made two line clearances, wasnt afraid to leave the box to clear danger when a pats player broke free, i think he just has to work on that conceding at the near post problem he seems to be havin lately, john kearney came on and looked very good, id say he was makin a point after being dropped which i like to see, barrett done well could maybe have done a bit better was replaced by kearney, cant really fault the defence for the goal, gutsie was holding the player up on the right side of the pitch he got a cross off to a player on the left and he then beat mccarthy at his near post, that one moment seperated the 2 teams, bar that the game would have been a draw, both teams looked like they would score, but the 2 keepers kept it at 1 nil,


all in all im not to dissapointed as i think we aquited ourself well, played some very good football, and i would think on another day we could have taken something from the game,

also i would like to say that the pats officals were very welcoming, E15 in, a free program, and 3 free bottles of lucozade, and we were also behind the goals with the wind blowing in our faces, and one of the stewarts allowed us into the main stand out of the cold, cheers lads

Good report,have to add that overall we had a lot more goalmouth incidents and for most of the match it was hard to tell who was fulltime pros or playing at home. Inded Pats fans started to vote on their teams performance with their feet with a fair few leaving with 5-10 minutes to go.The general consensus was that Linfield took a lot out of them but saying that we have stopped a lot of teams in their tracks to date and add Pats to that list as well,Looking forward to UCD as I know they do what we do to teams but hopefully we will win out on the night in fortress St Colmans. Well done lads against Pats...battling performance and ye will def get the results down the line if ye continue to play like that.