Weekend games 1st to 5th April

**sbgawa** · 29/03/2022, 9:14 AM

Friday 1st April

Premier Division

St Pats v Drogheda 19:45
Dundalk v UCD 19:45
Bohs v Derry 19:45
Sligo v Shels 19:45
Finn Harps v Shamrock Rovers 20:00

Monday 4th

UCD v Derry 19:45
Harps v Drogheda 20:00

Tuesday 5th

Sligo v Bohs 19:45

First Division

Friday 1st April All 19:45

Athlone v Bray
Galway v Cobh
Waterford v Longford
Wexford v Cork

Monday 4th
Treaty v Athlone 19:45

**sbgawa** · 29/03/2022, 9:23 AM

Two tough matches for UCD who could find themselves isolated despite playing some good football and probably not getting a bit of luck in some of their matches.
With the games in hand being used its a chance for Derry and Sligo to really put a bit of ground between themselves and Rovers particularly if we dont take 3 points up in Finn Park.
Bohs play the top two , Sligo and Derry so its a no lose weekend for me

After my confident assertion that last weekend would separate the top 3 naturally Longford and Treaty dually beat Waterford and Galway to make my prediction look a bit dopey , i still think Cork, Waterford and Galway have to much about them but Longford have a chance to really put themselves into the mix if they can get a result in Waterford, a win would put them level with Waterford with 2 games in hand.
I dont think even the Longford supporters would have seen that.

With so much covid around its hard to imagine that we wont see some players absent, the FAI protocols around playing matches should mean we dont have cancelations but might be a bit of pot luck around teams

**Finlay Harp** · 29/03/2022, 1:28 PM

Harps could do with 3-4 points out of our 2 games. If the teams around us slip up it gives us a bit of breathing space. ‘If’ being the formidable word!

**Nesta99** · 30/03/2022, 10:18 AM

Dundalk badly need a win too. Bounce back from the loss to Drogheda and too many draws. If 3 points are not taken it really will be a long season. Though as sbgawa says there are a few games that are must win, Im coming round to agreeing that the 10 team format is working with no dead rubber games. It isnt a banker going to Harps for any side but Rovers need to stop the gap growing as Derry and Sligo, on paper, should be getting 4-6 points this round.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 01/04/2022, 7:48 PM

Shels full value for their lead

**D24Saint** · 01/04/2022, 8:54 PM

A shocking game in Richmond. A draw a fair result but what wasn’t fair was being subjected to that after the working week. I’m still not entirely sure what Clancy is trying to achieve with his tactics. It was the worst home performance in a long time.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 01/04/2022, 8:56 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Shels full value for their lead

And the win

**Calcio Jack** · 01/04/2022, 9:04 PM

Seems Derry has stolen our clothes ; think that is at least 6 points gained from goals scored after 90th minute…. Very impressive after only 7 matches.

Still overall a decent night for us with Sligo and Pats dropping points

**Buller** · 01/04/2022, 9:16 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

And the win

Very impressive away win from Shels POV. Really expected them to be certain relegation contenders with the squad before the season started, Duff working magic with the youngsters.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 01/04/2022, 9:45 PM

We were beyond useless. The pitch is shocking and Shels just worked harder. Supposedly 5 or 6 weeks the pitch will be better but hard to see how it can get anytime to recover when we have 5 games at home in April along with whatever games the womens team have.

**PartySaint** · 01/04/2022, 10:30 PM

Pats are useless. Clancy is a dud, no plan whatsoever.

**joey B** · 01/04/2022, 10:45 PM

Conceded right on half time but we didn’t really do enough to deserve anything from the game,hit the woodwork twice but struggled to create much….

**D24Saint** · 02/04/2022, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by PartySaint

Pats are useless. Clancy is a dud, no plan whatsoever.

That’s yet to be revealed but tonight had hints of Harry Kenny about it tbh. It was an awful display by our team tonight.

**trevy** · 02/04/2022, 6:00 AM

Last gasp equaliser with Britton heading in corner saved a point for Waterford. First half performance very poor and Longford 1 0 up at the break. 2nd half was better but Waterford denied by the post and a super save by Longford keeper. He should have been sent off before that for bringing down Waterford striker Kavanagh just outside box as he went around him but ref incredibly only gave him yellow.
Fans not happy with Ian Morris and his tactics and we are falling further behind Cork and Galway.

**Jd2793** · 02/04/2022, 6:48 AM

haunted to win in wexford, we did our best to give them a chance right until the end of the game. huge win for cork , waterford dropping more points means theres a bit of a gap forming already.

**Jd2793** · 02/04/2022, 6:51 AM

Originally Posted by PartySaint

Pats are useless. Clancy is a dud, no plan whatsoever.

what would you change? ive watched a few pats games now. he needs to park his loyality to mark doyle. not at the level for pats. needs one of the young lads playing behind e.doyle too , mccormack or someone because doyle is living off scraps and i cant see how king is the answer there.

**PartySaint** · 02/04/2022, 7:37 AM

Originally Posted by Jd2793

what would you change? ive watched a few pats games now. he needs to park his loyality to mark doyle. not at the level for pats. needs one of the young lads playing behind e.doyle too , mccormack or someone because doyle is living off scraps and i cant see how king is the answer there.

Exactly what you’ve said there, he seems more interested in making sure his mates get game time rather than trying to fix our problems. The 2 Doyle’s need to be dropped, Billy King needs to be put back out wide to his natural position and an actual midfielder needs to be played in there

Ben McCormack and Adam Murphy came on last night and changed the game for us so hopefully he realised that and will play one of them next week but we seem to be getting worse week on week rather than improving. There’s no cohesion to our attacking play, the plan seems to be just hope that Forrester or Burns can pull out a bit of magic. As someone mentioned above it’s Harry Kenny mark 2.