Games weekend 26th to 29th April

[Dermobohs]

Highlights confirm it was a clear peno with Hennessy 2 meters away. Also the Bohs peno was incredibly soft, he's looking for it, again Hennessy standing right beside it, somehow doesn't see that McDaid is falling before he gets to Benson and even then the contact is minimal to non existent.

Didn't matter in the end but it's decisions like that which can cost teams dearly. When you are at the bottom and win less the officials need to be better.

It’s Hennessy mate, the clown ruins every game he is involved in. I agree our peno was soft too but the Dundalk lad throwing out a leg gives the ref a chance to point at the spot, and when it’s Rob ……
The Dundalk performance was a good one though, withstood some good Bohs pressure in the second. The lad High is a very decent player.

[total hoofball]

Has anyone else noticed at final whistle of games any crafty people with a big black plastic bag frantically hunting and hoovering up discarded plastic bottles with Re-Turn logos? I saw some fella up to this at Tolka after the final whistle on Friday

[Cosmo]

A magician. My favourite player in the league to watch. Superb last night.

https://x.com/droghedaunited/status/...hc_IALu9TUBX1A

Markey is an absolute class act who'd walk into any team in the league if he wanted to go full time.

There's not many players like him. Don't think I've ever enjoyed watching a player in united park so much over the last 35 years. really enjoyable to watch him, pure magic at times

[2 Year Contract]

Markey is an absolute class act who'd walk into any team in the league if he wanted to go full time.

He's undoubtedly a good player but to state an attacking player that averages 1 goal a season could walk into any team in the league is OTT

[Nesta99]

If he created 20?

[2 Year Contract]

If he created 20?

Then obviously yes. But he doesn’t do that either

[Nesta99]

I dunoo, sometimes football is just about entertainment and some players are a joy to watch. They are oftern mavericks, not team players, may even be a bit of a liability especially in todays tactical era - pressing as a team unit eg. Pat McCourt one exmple, the good outweighed the lazy or fitness issues imo. Markey likewise is great t watch and tbh I think his role is greater than goals and assists, he retains possession, is a pain to mark so creates space elsewhere if he isnt waltzing out of a double up himself, draws fouls. In an odd way we have come full cycle (football in general) in terms of tactics, from big and physical to embracing skill and back to rigid structure albeit trying to move the ball quickly to break a high press, its like a post Messi era where he'd be dropped for drifting to find space rather than being part of unit press.

[2 Year Contract]

I’d agree that stats aren’t the be all and end all to an extent and that he does bring other positive aspects to his team but the numbers of goals and assists we’re talking about with Markey are absolutely tiny for a player in his position. Consistent end product is the only thing missing from his game and is probably the reason the likes of shamrock rovers or a decent level club across the water have never came in with an offer

[Jack B]

Are the Pats people in the Media trying to avoid criticism as usual?

Not sure what this is referring to? We just generally fly under the radar I think, whether we're playing well or not over the past few seasons all of Rovers, Duff's Shels, Bohs, Derry and Dundalk for differing reasons just get more attention than we do.

Anyone thinking we'd challenge this season was being more than generous anyway, granted even with that in mind it's still been awful thus far despite Daly's arguments to the contrary.

[Shearer]

Still no word on KO time at Finn Park on Friday, 4 days out.

[Martinho II]

Still no word on KO time at Finn Park on Friday, 4 days out.

I imagine it will be a 6pm KO like last time Shearer surely?

[Shearer]

I imagine it will be a 6pm KO like last time Shearer surely?

Your guess is as good as mine.

[Kiki Balboa]

Why are Finn Harps not playing on Saturdays?

Madness to play early on a Friday.

[pineapple stu]

There's another game on Monday, so maybe two games in three days is a bit unfair (on both teams)?

[nigel-harps1954]

Still no word on KO time at Finn Park on Friday, 4 days out.

It's hoped to be 7:45pm on Friday.

[total hoofball]

Defensive performances like that from Drogheda tonight will see them in the First Division next season

[vinnie]

Defensive performances like that from Drogheda tonight will see them in the First Division next season

Possibly, but I think the lad sent off was very hard done by, looked like a dive from where I was sitting, but overall they were poor, if you count the amazing saves the Drogs keeper made it could have been 8

[sbgawa]

I think he clipped Kenny heal but it could have been a stumble either. I don't think it was a dive he was clean through.

[nigel-harps1954]

I think he clipped Kenny heal but it could have been a stumble either. I don't think it was a dive he was clean through.

He made about as much contact with him as I did from my house in Donegal.

[ger121]

It does seem as though there was the slightest of contact and the player went down like he was hit by a sniper in the South Stand. All part of modern football…