St. Patrick's Athletic v Derry City Match Thread

[Keyser Soze]

Game ruined by an incompetent ref again.
Winchester won ball and gets a straight red.

Melia acting like he has a broken leg, should be ashamed of himself.

[davybhoy]

Derry poor again and don't look like scoring. No better than last year and creating absolutely nothing. As others have said Connolly looks poor and has been in the main since McJannett left.

TL needs to get this team going before we go too far behind and people start going against him.. Need to beat Galway on Friday and get a decent performance.

[JM0128]

even with 11 we never look like beating Pats - Connolly so slow and lucky to be only on a yellow - all he does is foul
brutal to watch this.

[paul60]

We’re on top the card league.

It must be the refs fault.

This is a real baptism for the newbies to the LOI.

When’s the Cup starting.

Rovers are not performing either.

It’s a bloody tough league.

Anybody have bother with LOITV. Had an intermittened affair with it. Missed the penalty and sending off. Think
I’ll go back to my favourite - Drive 105 for an honest bias commentary and a homely voice.

[Paddydcfc2010]

3 penalties conceded, 1 red and 15 yellows across our first 4 games while our opponents have had 3 yellows combined. Suspicious refereeing going on and tiernan lynch needs to call it out. Disgraceful

[barry]

We can't blame the recruited geriatric brigade tonight as only 2 started.

Few observations

- Attacking full bavks is leaving us so exposed at the back, particularly with Connollys pace.

- I can't see to much patterns of play except inverted fbs
- Gavin Whyte is miles off it .

- our wingers are playing very wide so that isolates Hoban etc. with deep lying Mf's and we can't keep the ball.

- TL needs to find his best 11 fast and start with the basics of being hard to play against.

- Refs are brutal but we also need to look at our discipline internally, it's costing us.

- Maher is no where near his standards and may be close to being benched.

1 win
3 losses averaging conceeding 2 goals per game
1 goal from open play

Worrying at an early stage

[TenaciousDee]

The first penalty it was the linesman who called the incident to the referee's attention. Not sure if the TV picked it up but the ref waved it off before the ball was cleared. We saw Maher on the floor and initially thought he blew to get him treatment.

[forza]

Karl was very unlucky. Our best signing and will be missed against the Tribesmen

[barry]

The first penalty it was the linesman who called the incident to the referee's attention. Not sure if the TV picked it up but the ref waved it off before the ball was cleared. We saw Maher on the floor and initially thought he blew to get him treatment.

Noticed that Dee, ref is actually running up the pitch away from the incident. Also for the red card he goes for a yellow (top pocket), notes Pats protest and then reaches for a red.

[TenaciousDee]

Interview with Kevin Holt

https://youtube.com/shorts/9TsvGMph-_8? ... FQpE7zMGw1

[PauliAlonso]

The referees aren't out to get us. Seriously, that moan is getting so old, I'd nearly yearn for the days that we're hounding the manager out. The ref wasn't reaching for a yellow then decided the Pats players were right and went for the red. He was flummoxed (which he shouldn't be). Has to reach for the top pocket anyway to mark down the booking and just didn't know where to go first.

I think POD got this season massively wrong. Fans are impatient after the last three years and he threw money at the squad this year to win the league (the Holt signing still doesn't sit well with me). The pressure on the club now is huge, which is unfair on a new manager with half a new squad. And when the manager still doesn't even know his strongest starting XI, the pressure gets even greater. Much talk in the EPL recently about managers sticking to styles. I like his adaptability but I think I'd prefer Tiernan to have started with the football that brought his success at Larne. That we had good wingers in the team is probably why he's going with a back four. But we have players for his 352 and until he finds a settled team, I'd like to see us try it.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Our squad should know, most of them are old enough to have built it. We'll come good.

[rodgers]

Pats were more than happy to sit back in first half. Derry created very little.

He initially waved away the penalty before the linesman called it. It was a soft decision. I do think he was influenced by the reaction to the Melia tackle into giving a red over a yellow. None of that matters too much though because with 11 men in the first half I don't think Derry looked like creating at all. Far too many misplaced passes again even from players that already know each other and the league.

Manager needs to do a lot of work but the money spent creates additional pressure. The amount of additional salary committed over the next two years would probably have paid for a pitch.

[TenaciousDee]

An Independent Appeal Committee of the FAI has rejected Derry City FC’s appeal for wrongful dismissal following Carl Winchester red card in Derry City FC’s SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division fixture versus St. Patrick’s Athletic FC on 28 February 2025.

In accordance with the FAI Disciplinary Regulations, Carl Winchester will serve a two-match suspension.

[Keyser Soze]

A poor decision backed up by another poor decision.

Most of the media outlets I have seen have said it was a harsh red card.

[dcfc_jp_1989]

An Independent Appeal Committee of the FAI has rejected Derry City FC’s appeal for wrongful dismissal following Carl Winchester red card in Derry City FC’s SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division fixture versus St. Patrick’s Athletic FC on 28 February 2025.

In accordance with the FAI Disciplinary Regulations, Carl Winchester will serve a two-match suspension.

Its not surprising considering that the FAI rejected a Drogheda appeal against Tim Clancy a few years ago when he was alleged by Rob Harvey (who was 4th official) to have used unsavoury language towards him. Drogheda provided video evidence from the dugout of the exchange but the FAI rejected the evidence claiming that it couldn't be used because it wasn't official match footage

[TenaciousDee]

The only appeal that I can think of that has been successful was Darragh Leahy's red card v Athlone last year. Paying the fee to have the panel look at it seems like a waste of money.