*** Match Thread*** Tuesday 18th Nov Vs Full Irish 8pm Colmcilles

helimachoptor

A good performance with a lot of positives last week. This will be a much tougher test despite what the table says.

Need to make sure we are up for the physicality that this game is sure to bring.

Cathal - In
Ciaran -
Damo - In
Darren -
Derek -
Derek McL - In
Ed -
Jules - out
Keith - In
SteK - In
SteMcd - Out
Dave -
Calvin - In
Kieran - In
Al - In
Dave O'toole -
Kenny -
Jack -

mrDerek

SteMcD1

still out injured

helimachoptor

Cathal - In
Ciaran - Out
Damo - In
Darren - In
Derek -
Derek McL - In
Ed - In
Jules - out
Keith - In
SteK - In
SteMcd - Out
Dave -
Calvin - In
Kieran - In
Al - In
Dave O'toole -
Kenny - In
Jack - Out

helimachoptor

Well fcuk that.

All credit to the Irish, they scored a cracking break away goal which was perfectly placed.

Their second goal was ridiculous, foul and shot off, you do not pull the play back when the shot has been taken.

Their keeper kept the ball out a lot and was a real asset.

Fair play to you Derek, you put in a great shift up there.

Keep the comments about the ref clean lads, it's more than frustrating I know.

Mousewar

Unreal.
I'm not sure we coulda done anything that much better. We did the right thing - we gave Derek plenty of service but he just got taken out of it repeatedly. I don't wanna say anything about Irish as they can be happy with their 3 points and good luck to them but at a certain point it was clear they could do what they wanted to Derek and get away with it.

sReq | uTeK

We can moan all we want at the ref, he was shocking but let's be realistic here lads. We went in at the break 1 down to TEN men.

They played 4 in defense who never broker their shape and not one of them ventured past the hallway line with another 4 close to them in the middle we had all the ball but on a pitch that size with so little space it's hard to do duck all, we did have some chances.

They were physical but we know this from the friendly, it's their game. They had two chances and took them.

I spoke to the ref after the game and explained the advantage and offside rule and acknowledged he got them wrong and would improve next time. To be fair it's not many refs that have the balls to admit their faults so fair play to him for that.

I thought we played significantly better against 11 as they came out and played a bit and it opened up more space. I don't think we deserves to lose that game but duck it that's life.

Well played to all some really good performances.

Damo as usual bombing up
Calvin working his bullocks off tirelessly
Derek winning plenty of frees and should have had a pen

Keep chugging away it will come right.

by the way Is it just me or is it actually SHOCKINGLY dark up there ?

mrDerek

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

We can moan all we want at the ref, he was shocking but let's be realistic here lads. We went in at the break 1 down to TEN men.

They played 4 in defense who never broker their shape and not one of them ventured past the hallway line with another 4 close to them in the middle we had all the ball but on a pitch that size with so little space it's hard to do duck all, we did have some chances.

They were physical but we know this from the friendly, it's their game. They had two chances and took them.

I spoke to the ref after the game and explained the advantage and offside rule and acknowledged he got them wrong and would improve next time. To be fair it's not many refs that have the balls to admit their faults so fair play to him for that.

I thought we played significantly better against 11 as they came out and played a bit and it opened up more space. I don't think we deserves to lose that game but duck it that's life.

Well played to all some really good performances.

Damo as usual bombing up
Calvin working his bullocks off tirelessly
Derek winning plenty of frees and should have had a pen

Keep chugging away it will come right.

by the way Is it just me or is it actually SHOCKINGLY dark up there ?

ye i find that myself, for example in the first half i took the ball down onto my knee and tried to play you down the line id normally use my peripheral vision to see where to play it but in this instance i couldnt see ya because we were under the light a bit so just over cooked the pass ;/

they were a very dirty team like i dno how they thought some of those challenges were me diving when they were wildly swinging at me, also ill never know how that challenge in the first half outside on the side of the box was a corner and not a free id skint him and was through in why would i go down???

the cross from damo earlier id have gotten to that had the whistle not blown for offside even though i begun the run outside the box keaner can attest to that.

was an unfortunate mistake by kenny but im sure heel learn from it and do things dif from now on.

either way thats 3 very bad defeats weve taken, dargle dell and tfi are teams we should be beating.

homerjay2005

as poor and all as the ref was (and he was shocking to be fair) ultimately for the amount of possession we had, we didnt just play well enough to deserve 3 points.

they had 3 great chances, 2 scored 1 saved,
we had 3 great chances, one scored, one saved, one put over

so in that respect our return on possession was quite poor. something just isnt right though we had 5 new lads on the team who are only after joining us and 4 of them were in the final 3rd. its not an excuse, it just will take time for lads to settle in.


their winning goal is something ive never seen before, a lad got through on goal, nobody around him, put it wide and then a free kick given on edge of the box, for a foul that had taken place about 5 seconds before that.

it pretty much was the only way the ref wouldnt have given the free kick was if he scored and it was bizzare. its the worst use of the advantage rule that ive ever seen, something he then failed to do several times later when our lads were fouled and he didnt bring back the foul. they should have had at least 2 yellows, we could/should have had 2 penalties and i reckon there was another 8 or 9 decisions that went against us.

thats a 2-1 loss and a 1-0 loss in space of 3 games - youd expect us to be winning those games 4-2 or 3-1.

dfx-

helimachoptor wrote: »

Keep the comments about the ref clean lads, it's more than frustrating I know.

I will try to stay clean and independent, so... that game was irrevocably affected by the referee. Boards didn't play well at the start with the man advantage, but the player who scored the first goal should not have been on the pitch. I was standing no more than a metre from the 'hop ball' incident - you're not allowed to kick out like that. It wasn't even a question of a freekick, it was a question of yellow or red card.

The offside he gave late on was impossible to tell from his angle, but he called it. The freekick he gave for advantage was pushing it at best. The elbow in the back in the first half was impossible for him to see, but he gave it. The handball claim in the second half was impossible to see, but he gave it.

All of those he decided one or another, the one he didn't (the hop ball) or backed away from deciding - the one that was clearest to see - had the largest effect on the match.