Dublin V Derry tonight

Ace2007

what is the official start time? i've seen 2 different times advertised,

Trampas

7.30pm going by gaa.ie

Ace2007

yea but 7:45 by aertel....
15 mins is a long time in the cold...

Trampas

I know. I'll be there also.

Setanta are showing the game and it says 7.30

2-1 for 7.30

Mullet

Hill16.ie says the throw in is at 7.30pm

GAAman

A dire second half which was succeeded only by an even more dire first half, both teams were poor in the first half but god what happened after the half? Dublin came out lookin like a junior team and derry, or should i say eoin bradley came out at an unreal pace.

A few consolatory scores at the end cant cover up this performance, Whelan looked wrecked from around 15 minutes onward and although put some good passes across he spent most of the match walkin around with his hands on his hips tryin to catch his breath. Same with Shane ryan, although he came on some 20 minutes before the end i can remember him handlin the ball twice, Alan brogan might as well not have been there he came on what some 3 minutes before half time and what did he do? Bernard on the other hand was crucial tonight.

Cluxton pulled off some great saves but also put danger on the line coming off it, i didnt see who cleared the paddy bradley almost goal while cluxton was some 10-15 yards off the line on the ground at the time.

I am gonna stop now as my blood is boiling

Work is needed on this team to be any threat in the summer :mad:

Marse

GAAman wrote: »

A dire second half which was succeeded only by an even more dire first half, both teams were poor in the first half but god what happened after the half? Dublin came out lookin like a junior team and derry, or should i say eoin bradley came out at an unreal pace.

A few consolatory scores at the end cant cover up this performance, Whelan looked wrecked from around 15 minutes onward and although put some good passes across he spent most of the match walkin around with his hands on his hips tryin to catch his breath. Same with Shane ryan, although he came on some 20 minutes before the end i can remember him handlin the ball twice, Alan brogan might as well not have been there he came on what some 3 minutes before half time and what did he do? Bernard on the other hand was crucial tonight.

Cluxton pulled off some great saves but also put danger on the line coming off it, i didnt see who cleared the paddy bradley almost goal while cluxton was some 10-15 yards off the line on the ground at the time.

I am gonna stop now as my blood is boiling

Work is needed on this team to be any threat in the summer :mad:

Agree with all you said, but work. We need open heart surgery before the summer.

dcr22B

Just in the door now and I'm truly horrified by what I witnessed tonight.

The game just passed us by and to be honest, the amount of space being given to the Derry players between the two 45s was sheer criminal!

We're definitely staring NFL2 in the face unless we beat Mayo and WestM**th but the Kingdom will make absolute mincemeat of us in a fortnight.

Pillar was standing up beside us with Billings and I'd say he was thinking to himself, "I'm like Bertie, I got out just in time".

Simple skills such as passing etc were sadly lacking tonight as someone mentionned before, please tell me they're not focussing on fitness.

Why can we not take the league seriously? Or are we simply just not good enough? I'm seriously starting to think it's the latter.

ShamoBuc

Dubs have always believed they are better than they actually are. The results in the league and the championship in the past ten years would point that out, especially when they are playing northern teams.

Mullet

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Dubs have always believed they are better than they actually are. The results in the league and the championship in the past ten years would point that out, especially when they are playing northern teams.

No!! We know we are an average team its the media that builds them up with big headlines. The same Journos write one thing thing in the national papers and then slag them off in their own provincial papers.

GAAman

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Dubs have always believed they are better than they actually are. The results in the league and the championship in the past ten years would point that out, especially when they are playing northern teams.

You are wrong. It is a typical anti Dub attitude, the only time we are "puffed up" if you like is by the newspapers which i hate as it can only serve to work against us and adds fuel to the oppositions fire.

The only reason i thought we would beat derry was because we did donegal and i would normally rate donegal far higher then derry. I also believed from experience that derry rely on paddy bradley to win matches and to a lesser extent eoin, well i was proven wrong last night when SEVEN other derry players scored with some really nice scores

But it must be wondered, would those seven players have scored if paddy was still on the pitch, but thats another question for another day

Trampas

was standing behind the goal last night so hard to see far end of the pitch but this is what I thought of the performance.

1. Very poor marking at times.

2. Players not looking for the ball.

3. Giving a way sloopy frees (Some were harsh)

The people beside me and season pros it seem to me were like it is going to be a short summer.

K-9

GAAman wrote: »

. I also believed from experience that derry rely on paddy bradley to win matches and to a lesser extent eoin, well i was proven wrong last night when SEVEN other derry players scored with some really nice scores

But it must be wondered, would those seven players have scored if paddy was still on the pitch, but thats another question for another day

Therein lies Derrys problem.