A scintillating attacking display by Spartak secured a good away victory at Brickfields. An on form strike force, prompted by some sharp midfield movement cut through the Mourne defence and could have yielded even more goals.
Spartak fielded only 8 of the 20 man squad which won Division 3 last year due to a combination of holidays, injuries etc. The three new lads, Robert Mahon, Graham Breen and Dave Thomson all gave a good account of themselves.
The referee, James Keating, had a very good match and there were no bookings or any serious fouls as he controlled the game tightly.
After 15 minutes a long throw by Grier was cleared to the waiting Cibirka , who flashed the ball home from 20 metres. A couple of minues later Breen was through and after his attempt came back off the keeper, laid off to McEnroe, who finished neatly.
The front two of Breen and McEnroe were causing Mourne endless trouble aided by the promptings of McGowan and Cibirka. The two goal lead looked comfortable and the rate at which chances were being created looked certain to lead to more goals.
At this point the concentration dropped completely. The ball sailed over Grier and Browne was unable to catch the local no 9, but Northey saved. Then Northey inexplicably failed to deal with a ball that was going harmlessly wide, and spilled it across the goal to a waiting Mourne player to easily reduce arrears. A further scare occurred when, following a clash of heads, the back four failed to get organised for the hop ball and the number 9 ran free to hit the post with a cross shot.
Just two minutes into the second half, Spartak lost the influential Breen to injury, but not before his last act was to beat the pain barrier and collect a pass from Grier and cross for Thomson to open his Spartak account from close range. Will O Connell came on to good effect in a reshaped 4-5-1. In the 48th minute a great surging run down the right by McEnroe and his cross was drilled in by Thomson.
Spartak seemed to be comfortable until a Morne free kick from 25 yards was allowed to drift in for a soft goal to re energise Mourne. 4-5-1 gave way to 4-4-2 with Cibirka moving up front and O’Driscoll replaced the tiring Thomson and, follwoing a move by McGowan and Cibirka, sent in a tempting low cross which the stretching McEnroe converted with a text book finish.
A good win , but 5 goals, most of them easily preventable, conceded in two games is not very satisfactory.
Northey 4 D O Connell 7 Mahon 7 Grier 7 D Browne 7 Love 7 McGowan 8 Cibirka 8 McEnroe 9 Breen 8 Thomson 8 sub W OConnell 7 O’Driscoll 7.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:00 am
should have been 5 nil.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:44 am
the one on one was when the game was at 0-0 paul and you didn’t mention the 2 near post point blank save in either half either tut tut and smurf “should of been 5nil” bla bla bla
August 31st, 2009 at 11:49 am
Jay did anybody ever tell you that saving shots is what goal keepers do.
do you ever hear Steve Greer saying, “did you see that header i made when it was nil all. if i hadnt of saved that it would have gone in”
Excuses excuses Lardo.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
hano ya tool i wasn’t on about that. read the report he said the one on one was after our first goal and i was just correcting it. You need to sort out your insecurities man. And if he is gonna point out the bad things he should point out the good as well. Oh and hano i figured out that what goal keepers do before you where out of nappies so you just concentrate on getting on the pitch and contribute to the team then you can criticise people. should you not be back in school today?????
August 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
check out the league we are on top
http://www.lsl.ie/viewResults-0910a.aspx
August 31st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
oh right jay you figured out what goalkeepers do when i was in Nappies? fair play.
Dont think goalkeepers drop the ball in front of strikers though, you must have missed that training session.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
oooooooooohhhh what a comeback hano next i’ll be slagging and you’ll go “your ma”. like i said you just concentrate on getting back on the pitch then criticise. I’m giving you an out man take it.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:55 pm
i’ll leave on this note. i dont need an out from you jay. im a big boy.
Paul Summed it up well.
“A good win , but 5 goals, most of them easily preventable, conceded in two games is not very satisfactory.”
August 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
will you two just get a room….
August 31st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
ah a big boy that must mean your out of those training pants well done. sure let me know how your first day back at school went 🙂 and as we all know all paul does is criticise me and the comment was not just aimed at me but the whole team. I’m sure there would be a few people who actually played in the game that would tell you that i played my part see if an outfield player makes a mistake and its no big deal but if a keeper does it is so you better hope you dont make any hano because i’m gonna tear into you when you do oh and sorry daddy mick
August 31st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
But jay, the reason why we tear into you is because, you stand about, do the exert the leat amount of energy in a game and if you make a mistake, then well you deserve to be lamabsted for it.
end.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
jesus man how little you know. it aint about energy exersion its about concentration,reaction being able to see danger ok i made a couple of mistakes in the last couple of games cant argue about that and i know your only as good as your last game. you see hano confidence is a major factor being a keeper and if you make a mistake you have to be able to brush it off learn from it and move on. your just lucky your opinion means very little to me because your talking as if your own game is flawless (which it aint). so clawl back into your little hole and go back and join the other hobbits they are probably waiting for you to come home from school.
August 31st, 2009 at 3:51 pm
This is verging on homo-erotic!
August 31st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
i wish this website wasnt invented.
this is my last post cos its pointless in making any argument cos you keep making it personal.
August 31st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
hey you started this hano. you made it personal first ok i’ll stop i’m sorry for hurting your feelings see everbody i apologised.on a serious note i know i have stuff to sort but ripping me aint the way to fix it.(and besides i think martin is getting turned on)
August 31st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Lads this is the gayest thing iv seen since i walked in on my dad and “Uncle” Barry. No daddy No!!!! Frank please block Jason and Niall from this, if any of the league got a look at this………….
August 31st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
please block me. this site has wasted my precious time.
August 31st, 2009 at 4:50 pm
dont start blaming me on this one if people are going to use this site to rip me out of it i am going to retaliate.
September 1st, 2009 at 9:33 am
On a lighter note.. For those who havnt seen this tackle yet.. Not for the faint hearted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OapMvlhZOQ&feature=player_embedded
September 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
on a lighter note….ouch!!
September 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Lads, as you know I have unrivalled access to the coaching manual (which doubles as a door stop in our attic and smells faintly of cat pee) and I can confirm that Chapter 7, Section A, Paragraph 9, Lines 7-11 deals with this very issues and states:
“A player who reads your web reports is a sadomasochist and that being the case, that player shall at some point during the season be told that he is crap.”
I can also highlight that line 12 provides an exemption to this rule stating “If the player’s name begins with “G” and ends with “intras”, this rule shall not apply.
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hano,
Your last post has been removed as per your previous request. Move on…
September 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
That Tackle wasnt that bad thought the lad was unlucky could be described as a strikers challange!!! ha ha would have been proud of that!