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Great win for us tonight. Finally took our chances in a game. Thought Shels were fairly poor given the players they have. Losing Lunney probably didn't help that. They resorted to lumping it a lot second half. Our centre halves were comfortable with that by the end. Gap is 7 points now. If only we hadn't fcuked up last week v Cork.

I didn't see that on the stream but I heard about a player and management of Waterford complaining to the ref after Desmond went down. What a crap thing to do, it was clear that Desmond was badly injured.

According to Daniel Mcdonnell on Twitter Desmond was conscious going to hospital, serious facial injury. Hope it's not too bad.

They were wondering why a free out was given when your own two players clattered into each other.

Ya it seemed less full than last week v Cork, maybe 700. But you guys took up more space in your area of the stand than was there last week so it was hard to tell really. The tickets were definitely all sold out so it could have been that some people bought them but didn't attend too.

3 wins on the bounce now for us and just 5 pts off 4th after that brutal run, still not playing great but improved... I'd love some consistency, every year we have that long brutal period

The less said about Sligo Rovers the better. Quickly turning into a disaster of a season. We're definitely not making Europe, we went out of the Conference League to an average Icelandic side and were dumped out of the cup by Cork. Pathetic return after the start we had.

Tbh, since Alan Kelly went to the MLS... I don't think you can say we have a good ref in the league... Not that I'd put all at the same level either, some are just brutal

Thats criminal refereeing. First one was a borderline red, a lunge from behind and out of control.

Agree that the tackle on Fats was bad, a definite card for sure. But as said, never surprised with the refereeing decisions in this league. Awful standard.

Really apparent yesterday how Dundalk have not replaced Shields in midfield. Never seen them so weak in the middle of the pitch. We bossed it too easily.

Rte showing 2nd leg of rovers game

I have a feeling Shields saw a sinking ship and decided to get out while it hadn't totally sunk. Not sure how he got on with Vinny Perth but maybe he might have stayed had he known Vinny was coming back. I still think Vinny will bring back the good times, he just needs to bring in a few players and get the others playing well again. They showed there is still a very good group of players still at the club in the 2 legs against Vitesse Arnhem.

Hopefully they go, I hate to see football clubs run by people who aren't even fans of the game. come what may, I would love to see the Americans sell up, and they can take their crap reject American players with them. Irish clubs should be owned by Irish people who love football.

I actually thought Mike Tracy came off well enough but that was when Dundalk were winning everything around them. I agree with you on Bill, he has came out with some awful statements and his plans were crazy, keeper taking corners etc.

I still think any club is better off with an Irish owner. what do Americans really care about an Irish club?, when the chips are down, they will cash in and flee back to America.

Nice bit of revisionism there.... this was discussed to death at the time, 2 balls on the pitch is not a reason to stop the game if the ref deems the second ball as not interfering with play, the rule was changed a while back to address this specific thing. As for 40 yards, the lesser shown second camera angle showed it was significantly less than that so there's really no need to exaggerate, I've seen far far worse from refs in this league (even around allowing throw ins multiple yards from where the ball went out), if that's your gripe you've clearly not been going to many LOI games, & to be fair I know you have, (i.e. so you have definitely seen far worse come from our matchday officials) so just accept that we all get screwed over by bad decisions, because we all clearly do.

Full time was interesting around the tunnel that game alright! :D

We're at the point anything is worth a try. The goals have dried up and none of the forwards look like scoring. Hopefully Wright can get a few goals and help us pick up points again. Would snap your hand off now for 4th on goal difference and Europe next year. Its really gone that off the rails after a good start.

Its anyone's guess how them 2 lads will turn out. I wouldn't get my hopes up to be honest, Colovic was at Atletico Madrid when he was a youth player and he was useless. The Scottish keeper was at Leicester city, but Dundalk had a player who was at swansea and he never even got a game in Dundalk in 2 years, Sligo had a keeper who used to train with Petr Cech and Thibaut Courtois at Chelsea, he was very poor for Sligo and now plays for Chesnut in division 7 in England.

I would still throw the Scottish keeper in straight away, I know he had laser eye surgery lately and cant see properly and is still recovering from the leg break, but he would still be a better option than Abibi.