Galway Utd vs Derry City Match Thread.

[rodgers]

Didn't think it was as pedestrian and one paced as other performances but ultimately very similar to most of this year.

Passed the ball around and around but no real threat. Best chances came from shots outside the box from Diallo and Patching. Should have tried that more against a packed defence. Thought the subs were too late.

Mullen should have scored and there was nothing wrong with their goal.

Coaches are probably making the weaker teams harder to beat but they are positively holding the better teams back.

I listened to a podcast during the week where a journalist talked about how it was the Derry players' mentality that would be the obstacle to the league. It's like journalists cannot countenance criticism of managers who are probably close to them.

[Keyser Soze]

There is only 1 persons mentality which is costing us the league this year.

[TenaciousDee]

It was similar a game to the one earlier in the year. We went 80 minutes before we went all out that night and tonight it was after we conceded. We knew the stakes and now Shels are back in pole position.

I don't understand the tactical switch of dropping Doherty for Shane McEleney. Was he injured in the week? With a resolute defence surely a more attacking threat and a player who likes to get the ball into the box would be a better option than a good left back who isn't as creative?

[brandyball]

Cue Higgins looking to consult his Big Book of excuses.

[TenaciousDee]

Cue Higgins looking to consult his Big Book of excuses.

Foul will be called in the build up to the goal.

[YorbaLinda]

The set up of the team was wrong from the start, Hoban coming too deep to get the ball when we had it at the back. Diallo and Patching too pedestrian and not playing the ball forward or running at their men to create openings. Patching did this in the 93rd minute and got a foul on the edge of the box, other than missing the chance he looked as if he could not be bothered. Once again after a good start to the 2nd half we disappeared until injury time. Same old same old.

[brandyball]

Delusional

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[Keyser Soze]

I refuse to listen to his post match interviews any more. Haven't in many months.

[jimd]

Same old story never start playing until we go behind too late to replace him now the board must take responsibility for him still being here,much too late

[marcoloco]

Sadly this is what I’ve come to expect with every away performance. So not surprised by the result. Genuinely can’t wait for the season to end and the clear out to begin.

[eugenio]

If your only thought is to set out not to lose then you are dependant on the opponents not scoring. If they do the games gone as in Sligo Gib to night .Blest by a couple of flukes we got away in Cork and Wford then we repaid by handing one over to Galway. Higgs seems to have no idea how to get the goals that are needed 2 goals would have won many points in fact we would be almost sure of the League bu now . But Hoban not scoring Mc Mullan will prob never score again Duffy either Parching Gid knows when he’ll score O Reilly just doesn’t . BTW would the word “rusty” ever be thought of in Mullins case He never gets a start yet expected to produce over 15 mins when Hoban 9 games now no results Then scored from a corner in Cork The first time in ages Connelly AGAIN got two clear headers from corners last evening yet as with Shane heads up and over EVERY time Great managers always worked on set pieces to get that bonus goal Do I need to point out Galway goal from the usual needless foul against a team renowned and publicly acclaimed can score from set pieces As for shooting ?is it practiced in training? or is it possession possession possession that is all that is done
But like every ground in the world “it’s a hard place to come to.” ‘ we gave it all”Still a lot to play for” we’ll go up the road and prepare for the next one” Hope the big home crowd will drive us on “ So if cliches could win us the league we would have been champions already

[Keyser Soze]

100% Eugene.

Fed up listening to that crap now.

The embarrassing euro defeat should have seen him gone.

[marcoloco]

100% Eugene.

Fed up listening to that crap now.

The embarrassing euro defeat should have seen him gone.

I would have replaced him long before that embarrassment but agree that should have been enough for even the most one eyed optimists.

[Marty]

100% Eugene.

Fed up listening to that crap now.

The embarrassing euro defeat should have seen him gone.

I would have replaced him long before that embarrassment but agree that should have been enough for even the most one eyed optimists.

How the board looked as us after game three and thought, here’s a lad who has a cracking preseason and will have a win rate of over 50% this year i’ll never know.

Even if we win the league this year, which would be an absolute minimum with Rovers form, it’s an embarrassing form.

[brandyball]

Rovers lost again! If only......

[marcoloco]

Rovers lost again! If only......

We have them in our next league game at home.

[brandyball]

Rovers lost again! If only......

We have them in our next league game at home.

Wouldn't be too confident.

[marcoloco]

Rovers lost again! If only......

We have them in our next league game at home.

Wouldn't be too confident.

Shels and Rovers next. I'd say a 2 wins would shut down any doubters (me) amongst us. Fair to say we've reached the business end of the season. All to play for and no room for error now.

[joe3576]

We have them in our next league game at home.

Wouldn't be too confident.

Shels and Rovers next. I'd say a 2 wins would shut down any doubters (me) amongst us. Fair to say we've reached the business end of the season. All to play for and no room for error now.

But Marco - this is what people have been saying for the last 3 years, and then we keep falling short, this endless faith and hope in Higgins is shocking and bewildering to me and a lot of other fans.

Everything else has fallen our way this year, Shels and Rovers keep dropping points after points and yet (like the last 3 seasons) we cannot capitalise, as we just do not have the mental strength, nor the correct management philosophy to just go aggressively for it. We trundle along week after week, and it is other people's results than are leaving us still hanging in. We absolutely do not deserve to win this league.

Last 5 games - Shels away, Dundalk home, Cork away, Waterford away, Galway away - every performance has been the same, an absolute borefest, no chances created, no urgency at all, no passion, nothing. Only a freak goal against Waterford and we would not have won any of them. Had we beaten Shels and Dundalk - the league would be half ours by now - but no, we talked up the 0-0 draw against Shels, as if it was the greatest rearguard action since Dunkirk, when in essence Shels were a joke and where there for the taking, even with our 10 men.

Higgins keeps kicking the can down the round, instead of just simply beating Shels and Dundalk and then we are away and cannot be caught. That was the two games to do it. Shels at home in the last game of the season, it will be over by then, so why waste the opportunity a few weeks ago ?

I hate this expression 'business end of the season'; the business end of the season should start at game one. If you lose the league by 2 points, it doesn't matter if they were dropped at the last game of the season or the first game of the season, you still came up 2 points short. So stupid points we dropped in injury time to Rovers and Drogheda back in ~March and April, will come back to bite us. Higgins saying 'We are entering the business stage of the season'; drives me nuts, every other club in the league will tell you, had we simply knuckled down in April - June, we could have had the thing won by July; but we didn't, we dropped points after points (Sligo at home, Dundalk away, Drogheda away, Sligo away, Bohs away, Galway home) - and Higgins was very dismissive of it, stating it is okay, it is still early doors, as long as we are in the hunt at the end that is all that matters. But the signs were there back then, with rubbish performances, which carried into Europe, and then are still carrying through. Beating a rubbish Waterford twice at home, beating Drogheda (who were missing 7 players) beating Pats in the Cup (when they were clearly only focused on Europe) - only deflected away from the rubbish we were getting, backed up by the fact that we have never had a decent run of 3-4 good performances in a row - so the warning signs have been there all season, but in Higgins we trust, and dare not question, has been the saying all along.

Rovers are now in serious danger of not getting Europe next season, which would be a catastrophe for them - so when they come to us in their next league game, they absolutely need to get something from this game - or they may not catch Sligo, Waterford and Galway. So again, we have invited this pressure onto ourselves, instead of us doing the job against the likes of Dundalk, Sligo and Galway.

We too, should we lose to Rovers could be in big bother for 3rd or even 4th - as Sligo, Waterford, Rovers and Galway are all hunting us down, and we have yet to beat Rovers or Sligo this season too.

If Shels beat Bohs this Friday night, they will go 6 points clear - and they absolutely will not lose this. They will come down to us in the cup buoyant and Duff could do his usual 0-0 masterclass and take us to penalties and if the worst happens, our season could be over inside the next two weeks. I sincerely hope it is not, but when you adapt an attitude of trying not to lose at all times, at some point you will need to actually win games of football - and I fear we aren't mentally strong either for either, and I have concern that having to beat both Shels and Rovers in quick succession, could be too much for us.

Unless, we get the locals back into the team, who understand what it means - this must include Fats, Boyce, Duffy, Coll and Shane - those 5 at least understand what it means to us fans, get them 5 on the pitch, ditch the freeloaders from across the water - and we may have half a chance.

[Keyser Soze]

I was with you 100% on that until you got to naming the players we need to get us over the line.

A couple have provided very very little in the last few years as well, yet continually get held up a matchwinners.

Now is their chance to write themselves into the Derry history books.