Second Half

[blueboy]

Why did we fold & let them swarm all over us? I honestly don't know if PH told us to play that way cos it wasn't anything to do with their superior ability. They have a serious lack of it, very serious.

We couldn't keep the ball. Baffling.

[valleyboy]

Thought we defended brilliantly, didn't you see Bain getting sent off.

[CC33]

Why did we fold & let them swarm all over us? I honestly don't know if PH told us to play that way cos it wasn't anything to do with their superior ability. They have a serious lack of it, very serious.

We couldn't keep the ball. Baffling.

I was going mental at ground re this bud.

We kept on punting it up to them every time.

They say its harder to score against 10 men , we made it easy as possible for the DABS

PH def got it wrong tactically , should have taken a luxery player like Harkins or Stewart off and kept Low on who would if anything give us more energy , getting into tackles etc

PH got another big call wrong imo.

Im no saying players werent full of effort but everyone could see Harkins was fcked

[8utters]

But for a shove by a Dab that knocked O'Dea into Mitchell we would have held on for a famous victory.

Really hard to criticise any of the players / management for the second half yesterday.

[Sebastiano Nela]

It was backs to the wall stuff in the 2nd half. Only heroic defending from a makeshift defence kept them out for so long.

our ball retention when we had it was very poor though. Was frustrating as hell.

Edited 21 March 2016 by Sebastiano Nela

[WeighorstsWang]

It doesn't help we couldn't make any substitutions and two of our 'forward' players were out on their feet from about the 60th minute.

[BCram]

Think you'll find when you look back at the game that there were at least 2 excellent chances to bury them but our players let them slip. Not blaming them at all, just pointing out that if one of those chances had been taken PH would have been hailed for keeping the side going.

[Sebastiano Nela]

Think you'll find when you look back at the game that there were at least 2 excellent chances to bury them but our players let them slip. Not blaming them at all, just pointing out that if one of those chances had been taken PH would have been hailed for keeping the side going.

if only Ross had cut that ball back to Hemmings...

[chomp my root]

Why did we fold & let them swarm all over us? I honestly don't know if PH told us to play that way cos it wasn't anything to do with their superior ability. They have a serious lack of it, very serious.

We couldn't keep the ball. Baffling.

I'm not sure we 'folded', it seemed like a tactical decision to sit in and try and stop them scoring which we nearly did. We had a makeshift defence due to 2 CB's going off, a forward line that was blowing out it ar$e and reduced to 10 men with no subs left. We very nearly pulled it off too. 

[blueboy]

On reflection, we had no subs to bring on right enough. Used them all by 50th min.

Still, never want to see us play like that again. Still recovering.

[CW 90+3 02/05/16]

Second half was torture after a very enjoyable first half.

Just glad we held on in the end to be honest. A few minutes longer and i think they might have got a winner.

Always gutting to lose a last minute derby goal but they needed the 3 points and we held on without our keeper and 10 men for 40 minutes so quite happy with a point to be honest in the circumstances.

[Derry Drummer]

I was going mental at ground re this bud.

We kept on punting it up to them every time.

They say its harder to score against 10 men , we made it easy as possible for the DABS

PH def got it wrong tactically , should have taken a luxery player like Harkins or Stewart off and kept Low on who would if anything give us more energy , getting into tackles etc

PH got another big call wrong imo.

Im no saying players werent full of effort but everyone could see Harkins was fcked

I said this exact thing. Low would have given us a 4-4-1 meaning we were only loosing a striker. Instead we were playing a 4-2-3....

Baffling.