Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

Ah now Oat23, I'm fairly sure Jarvis scored 4 and ye got walloped.

I’d say Forrester was the best player on the pitch, definitely the best Pats player tonight. Melia has a good future ahead of him, but he’s playing in the big boys league and the ref had him wrapped in cotton wool tonight.

A draw would have been a deserved result for either side, but fair play to Pats, dived to look for a penalty for the second, should have been booked, but Galway should have played the whistle and not stopped. Had opportunities to stop both Pats goals and didn’t.

Such is football, and fine margins etc…. An enjoyable(ish) trip to Inchicore!
Onto next week!

Hard one to take against Sligo because we had more than enough chances to win the game, but credit to them, Sligo stood tall and took their chances.

We're brilliant at getting body position frees. Melia won plenty of justifiable frees but the one where Francely ran beside him and he just fell on the ground was woeful from the ref. Leavy 100% dived to try and get a pen and then assisted the goal from that, galling.

I'd agree not much happened first 30 but anything that was from us, ye we're just giving the ball away constantly. Think we had 4 corners and a cuppa half chances when ye coughed up possession.

Melia is talented but not sure the future Irish international stuff from the commentator is necessary yet.

Absolutely, we robbed Drogheda a cupla weeks ago and we got it back tonight. Doesn't feel as bad as I'm sure they felt that night though. We played well, created chances and were very comfortable for long periods, we can take a lot from tonight.

Are lads not allowed have a laugh back even when their team lose? Surely if it's good enough to waffle on and give the guff it has to be a two way street? Definitely wouldn't get too precious about it like.

Blue moon rising, up to 4th with 2 games in hand on 3 above. Big game in the Brandywell next, hard to believe where we are now after Derry outplayed us at the RSC not so long ago. C'mon Blues!

If we win the league I would happily get a Will Jarvis soliloquy tattooed on my face

Sure does!

Eh if people have genuinely been waiting 9 games for us to lose a game to get their shots in, then I think people might be slightly more wound up by those posts than they should be.

Shelbourne, top of the league.......

Just one of those games. Sligo goalie played a blinder, could of put 6 past them. Lost count of the one on ones we had.

Still, comfortably top of the table, still going to win the league!

Jusr because you say it doesn't make it right.

It's interesting that you become so paranoid just because you lose a game.

Would you prefer not to be top if the league and no-one speaks about you?

Become a Drogheda supporter like me so.

Everyone likes us. Because they beat us.

Have people not been taking the piss out of his posts non stop?

for future reference what’s the time limit when we can discuss shells.

Apparently one of the lads on our bench won't be able to travel to Waterford next week as he's doing his junior cert. Is that a first? Probably be missing a few others doing the leaving as well but that's more common.

Madrid's win last night has a knock-on effect of bumping Ferencváros from round 1 to round 2 of the CL Qualifiers.

Lessens the likelihood of Rovers having to suffer a hammering off them for a 3rd year in a row.

SK having a tough start at Pats.

Terrible so far tonight, but just got a goal back.

That Derry Waterford score mad too, no form book this year

Where to start with that rubbish from us. I'll start with some praise for Guilin free kick, an absolutely brilliant strike, his 2nd and their 3rd might have got a deflection but it was a good strike anyway. But their 2nd goal....Rogers can't let the ball through him like that. He's been fairly good but that was a shocker.

The rest of the team tho, we had forty five minutes to get an equaliser and we had two chances that I'd classify as an actual chance. Dundalk came closer to scoring a fourth really. Full backs were woeful and we need a new right back in July even through there's three in the squad, need a left back also because we've only one of them and he's injured. Forrester and Lennon are just so easier to play through. Lennon was really poor for their 2nd and 3rd goal, his positioning is dreadful and too often opposition have space between the midfield and our defence because he's out of position. Forrester is slowing down play too much and quite simply is played around when we don't have. Leavy runs and runs but quality from him is fairly rare, he wasn't the worst of us today but he's been poor since the 2nd or 3rd match. Mulraney was rubbish today, hit some awful setpieces and Brandon Kavanagh is awful from open play. It's says a lot when a 16 year old admittedly a very talented one is our best player although Melia wasn't good today and I think two full matches in a weekend is too much atm for him. Cian Kavanagh isn't good but if we were just going to lump balls into the box like we ended up doing I'd nearly rather he was kept on.

Kenny should know now the scale of the task in front of him. We can't afford to lose in Drogheda as we'd be deep in relegation if we do.

Mallon showed a lot of potential when he arrived at the Brandywell. He was very direct and did well, but I think he started to slip out of the starting lineup or got injured or something. And faded.

Has potential, that's for sure. Not sure how he was doing in the IL, never really seen any from him up there.

Can’t be giving teams a 3 goal start. We’re just conceding too many poor goals, though you can’t legislate for someth8ng like Rogers howler for the second. At the other end of the pitch meanwhile we aren’t creat8ng enough chances. A bad, bad combination.