Football This Weekend - on your doorstep

Drogs were awful tonight. Hopefully we can't play as bad now for the rest of the season. I wish I'd saved myself the cost of the car parking & stayed in to watch it on TV - but then you feel like you're wasting your season ticket.

2-1 Longford and it isn't even half time.

Must be a cracker of a game there.

KdjaCL wrote: »

lol pessimism ftw!

5-1 longford.


kdjac

A hat trick in 11 minutes:eek:

DesF wrote: »

Wow, 5-1 is always nice.

Eleven minute hat-trick?

Brilliant!

even better that it's from a former redsman and our hero from the first day last season Darren McKenna! :eek: fair play to the lad but he's still crap

Franchise may be down to 9 men but looking at their starting XI they have at least 6 Premier Division quality players so there will have to be an inquest into this disaster but i'm not complaining anyhow

Shels/Dundalk: on one hand i'm gutted we couldn't beat them when we should have but on the other i saw enough from both sides during the first half when it was 11 men apiece to confirm Shels look a better side than Dundalk despite 2 or 3 players who i would classify as 'not good enough'. the sending off changed the game, up until that Shels were comfortably the stronger side without playing particularly well either. 2nd half from Shels was one dimensional and lethargic. it looked our players had no confidence to have a go at them, sloppy passing, predictable linkup play and poor decision making cost us but i have no doubt with more games to gel that will be overcome. Dean Delaney really did make a world class save from Ian Ryan (i think), could be vital at the end of the season. a clean sheet is always welcome.

i may include Waterford in the title race now because i do think both Shels and Dundalk are going to have trouble finding the back of the net regularly this season.

LeixlipRed wrote: »

SF have some quality players (Rogers, Byrne, Deans, Collins, Williams,Hynes) for this level and I can't see them finishing below Longford at the end of the season but bit of a disastrous start tbh.

i agree, i really do think its a freak result but thats not to take anything away from Longford's magnificent start to the season. could be blessing in disguise for Fingal as it may develop them a siege mentality this season. they do have some genuine quality and once they weed out the sh!t from the quality they will be pain in the arse for Shels, Dundalk and Waterford this season, no doubts about that.