Shamrock Rovers Thread

Jack puts the ball on Gaffneys head six yards out. He can head it right, left or centre. He heads it centre, straight into the keepers hands. If you miss sitters like that you don't win football matches.

Sham157 wrote: Southstandman wrote: Very frustrating night - had most of the ball but like our last four games did fkuc all with the thing. We are a solid side and I expect us to improve soon enough. Had to laugh at the shells fans celebrating the draw and their goalie time wasting to achieve same - at home !! . Wish Jack and Graham would bleedi shoot now and then btw . Anyways ......... Whats your problem? Sure it's just, and I quote, “ Champions just giving the other contenders a bit of a nod....makes it more interesting”.  Shamrock Rovers

Sham157 wrote: Southstandman wrote: Very frustrating night - had most of the ball but like our last four games did fkuc all with the thing. We are a solid side and I expect us to improve soon enough. Had to laugh at the shells fans celebrating the draw and their goalie time wasting to achieve same - at home !! . Wish Jack and Graham would bleedi shoot now and then btw . Anyways ......... Whats your problem? Sure it's just, and I quote, “ Champions just giving the other contenders a bit of a nod....makes it more interesting”.  Shamrock Rovers

Bit of a humour bypass there my auld segosha....problems are sending off on first 2 games cost 4 points. Derry game, no centre halves but still did enough to at least draw  game, Cork game dreadful at the back yet still could have won, last night dominated game but created only a handful of chances. Shels played for a point and got it. Overall, the minor concerns I have  so far are the defence is not the same without Lopes, goalkeeper has been a bit jittery, the major concerns are over playing in midfield which allows opposition set up defensively when we eventually get into the attacking third, the build up play is designed to get overloads out wide and a lot of the attacks break down at this stage as the wing backs have been very poor on the ball and provide little end product. And crucially, Rovers are not really a high scoring team and so far the goals to chances ratio is low. And despite that and I'm not being deluded on another season we'd have 11 or 13 points by now. 

Performances havn't been bad except defensivley against cork. Win the next two games and we will be only 1 point worse off than we were after 7 games last year.

Edited by Los Aros - 11 Mar 2023 at 5:45pm

That's impressive 

horsebox wrote: I thought Keane's son was not at that level?

horsebox wrote: That's what I heard, but I've not seen him play nor have I met anyone who has seen him play but people keep telling me he's not that good! Is it a case that he really is not that good, or just blatant begrudgery because he's Da is Robbie Keane.

who’s the ref?