My blogging had been periodic before the mid season break and it seems that when I didn't blog, we won. However the moment I made comment on the games here, City would fall to defeat. The rational side of my brain told me to wise up, and the idea was to blog solidly for the second half of the season. However after the reverse in Dundalk on Friday I'm thinking of bowing to superstition and just letting the tumblweed blow through here on Friday night.
There's been a lot of negative reaction to the defeat in Dundalk and rightly so in my view. I've been at every away game in the League this season and it was certainly the worst I have seen this season. We played significantly better away to Cork and Rovers, when we were down to ten men!
It was very similiar to the game in the Brandywell, with Dundalk playing a physical pressing game. Derry didn't seem to have any answer and it seemed much more likely that the home side would get a second than Derry getting back into the game. Derry just never seemed to get to grips with the opposition or with the much talked about surface.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/kevinmcdaid/DundalkVDerry#5354981590092531650
In my view the game didn't tell us anything we didn't know, ie that a Martyn/Higgins midfield axis will not win us the League. That area was completed bossed by Turner and Collins and without the platform, we neverly reaclly looked like scoring. Indeed Gerard Doherty made a number of really good saves.
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