I don't think we're playing any better now than we were at the start of last season. If we were playing in the Premier I think we'd be in the bottom two. In the Galway game we spent the entire first half ar$ing around doing nothing after the goal. Now Galway are $hit so they didn't do anything to take advantage of this but could you see us playing as ineffectively as that against Longford, Cork, Bohs or Derry, never mind the top of the table teams, and not conceding at least two goals? I can't!
So far, we've played one team who weren't utterly useless and we lost to them. We've been scoring goals but surely no one would fail to score goals against the circus act that was the Athlone defence. Galway were no better, I assume Monaghan were $hit as they usually are and Bray couldn't string two passes together all night. The way those games went, it would have been a disgrace not to win all of them.
There's obviously an element of us being dragged down to the level of the opposition but we're not playing that well. We have a stronger team than last season I think but we're not showing it. We'd need to do a good bit better to compete in the Premier, scoring 4 goals against Athlone and Galway doesn't mean anything. We scored 7 against Bluebell in the play-off season but were still $hite in the league. Bottom line, goals against $hit teams doesn't equate to goals against good teams.
You said that last year for god's sake!Surely we'd be challenging for the European places?
Not really, they all are!Is it just coincidence that the smilie is bald?
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