Derry City vs Drogheda Utd.

[attack!attack!attack]

Check Boyces betting account after that second yellow.Duffy the only one fit to wear the shirt.

Second highest budget in the league. Can't see Tiernan Higgins lasting long.

Totally agree. his signings have been shocking.

Benson & Boyce are finished, I don't care what anyone says - your eyes don't lie.

Gavin Whyte is on a fortune & hasn't turned a wheel.

Also, Jacob Davenport (yes, signed by Higgins) is still lounging around the place stealing a living. Another clearout needed after this season, and the cycle continues.

But it's grand, they will be all raging heading up the road to Belfast to run their football academies & go on the lash (because of Lynch's deliberate weekends off policy).

[footballcrazy]

Out of his depth me thinks. What really annoys me is that TL and most of his Management team and some of his players will head back up the road to Belfast and not really care what the fans think in Derry. Chatting on Radio Ulster Sports on a Saturday is more important

[Marty]

Check Boyces betting account after that second yellow.Duffy the only one fit to wear the shirt.

Second highest budget in the league. Can't see Tiernan Higgins lasting long.

It’s incredibly disrespectful to Higgins to compare him to Lynch.

Higgins might not have been great, but he achieved a hell of a lot more than will ever do for us.

The sooner this is over, the better.

Volunteer positions or not, questions need to be asked about the people making the football decisions at this club.

We knew a new manager was going to be needed last year 4/5 months before it was officially announced, and yet a proper recruitment process wasn’t run.

Also, wasn’t a transfer review report ran a few tweets ago by this current set up? Was one of the outcomes sign as many 32 year old plus players as you can?

It’s been a long long time since i looked forward to watching Derry, and judging by the amount of people dressed up as empty seats today, i’m not the only one.

[attack!attack!attack]

Check Boyces betting account after that second yellow.Duffy the only one fit to wear the shirt.

Second highest budget in the league. Can't see Tiernan Higgins lasting long.

It’s incredibly disrespectful to Higgins to compare him to Lynch.

Higgins might not have been great, but he achieved a hell of a lot more than will ever do for us.

The sooner this is over, the better.

Volunteer positions or not, questions need to be asked about the people making the football decisions at this club.

We knew a new manager was going to be needed last year 4/5 months before it was officially announced, and yet a proper recruitment process wasn’t run.

Also, wasn’t a transfer review report ran a few tweets ago by this current set up? Was one of the outcomes sign as many 32 year old plus players as you can?

It’s been a long long time since i looked forward to watching Derry, and judging by the amount of people dressed up as empty seats today, i’m not the only one.

The people making football decisions at the club: Philip O'Doherty & Sean Barrett. Their footballing acumen is unmatched (a joke). Businessmen should stick to what they know, the commercial side. Hire McGlynn or somebody to oversee the footballing operations.

People won't put up for this again this season, they voted with their feet tonight.

[Keyser Soze]

A tough time. Another poor performance, and I know many fans will disagree, but I was glad to hear boos at the end. The management team and the players need to know this isn't good enough.

All the excitement around the stadium, the new stand, a potential 10mill to finish the MF stand, for what? With this muck, we won't be able to fill the seats we currently have. The people of Derry are fickle, they won't pay 19 quid to watch that..

It's clear the managers idea of buying experienced players isn't working. They haven't got the fitness or legs for the league any more. I'm sure a few of them got their eyes opened once they starting playing here. "Sure I play in the SPL, I'll cruise it in the LOI".

Gonna be a long season. If this continues, watch the ground empty. It's worse than under Higgins, and that's saying something.

[bt47red]

It’s just so disappointing but given past performances we really need to up our game tonight and it didn’t happen.

The time for excuses and soundbites is over. We need results and performances fast.

I don’t necessarily think it’s the management’s fault. But then they have no loyalty to here

It’s clear the board needs footballing people onboard and things need to change off the pitch. We need footballing people not businessmen.

No ideas. Too predictable. Players just not up to it.

If teams take duffy out of the game we’re done.

[brandyball]

Gonna be a Long Hard Season. Indiscipline Shocking!

[attack!attack!attack]

Our approach to player recruitment has been brutal - and I blame the club for their lack of oversight & structures.

L Boyce: 33
K Holt: 32
R Benson: 32
S Ferguson: 33
C Winchester: 31

Would Rovers, Shels, or Pats touch any of these boys? I'll answer it: Not a chance.

We should be signing HUNGRY players, who want to prove a point. Drogheda and Shels are a perfect example. Not players who have been there and done it and are sailing into the sunset - it has got us nowhere, yet we continued said approach to recruitment in the off season yet again.

The likes of Ryan Graydon, Colm Whelan (ok, it didn't work out - but a good player) & Brandon Kavanagh are examples of the types of players we should be signing - not washed 30+ somethings across the board! (Need I even mention that we let B Kavanagh go).

Fed up is an understatement & I'm not the only one that is getting disillusioned with how the club is being run.

[Keyser Soze]

Modern football is no place for old men.

[TenaciousDee]

Lynch's interview

https://audioboom.com/posts/8703949-10- ... rnan-lynch

[rodgers]

Scrappy first half, couldn't really understand why he lined up like that but Drogheda were as expected. Felt a little like he wants to give everyone a game to keep them all happy.

Thought Derry did start to get a hold on game at start of second half through persistence more than anything else.

There was a great noise in ground when goal went in and I thought game was only going one way at that point.

Cannot believe how stupid that second yellow was. Discipline is awful.

An older 10 man Derry were never going to outrun or outfight a fitter 11 man Drogheda.

As the season goes on I can see some of the signings caring less and less. I think you should really sign young players on way up or players with a point to prove. The capitulation and lack of ideas was v disappointing.

It feels like Barrett hired the manager without giving anyone else a second's thought.

[brandyball]

Lynch's interview

https://audioboom.com/posts/8703949-10- ... rnan-lynch

Apparently we don't have Discipline issues!‍

[TenaciousDee]

Midfielder Carl Winchester spoke to Dermot Liddy after the full-time whistle to give his thoughts on a disappointing night at the Brandywell.

https://youtube.com/shorts/v5RlhEh4oaI?feature=share

[TenaciousDee]

Lynch's interview

https://audioboom.com/posts/8703949-10- ... rnan-lynch

Apparently we don't have Discipline issues!‍

Only listening to it now. Taken from the Kenny Shiels book of responses.

[DerryDerryDerry]

First yellow was a disgrace. Wasn't even a free kick never mind a yellow. Drogheda offered nothing up till then. Defence is brutal. Even the keepers been poor this year. But to set up the way he did. No width wat so ever. Clueless going forward

He left one on the guy, totally unnecessary and you don't get away with it in the modern game. 2 stupid bookings, he'd have been on for man of the match without the stupid fouls.

[derry]

We need a hungry side full of young players. Players that would go through walls for the cause.

Sadly any good local ones we've uncovered haven't had the chance. Higgins moved on a few Derry lads who had promising performances and this season Lynch has dismantled that totally. You could see from the first two games how slow our play was. Never going to work in LOI football.

Rather than pissing millions up against the wall on old has been players we should be developing the best academy and facilities in the North of this island and sweeping up all the best local talent.

Don't get me started on encouraging players to go out drinking. Sure that's fine when we will trophies at the end of the season but currently it's ridiculous. Shite in the buckets.

[Marty]

250,000 on a nice safe reliable left back.

[PauliAlonso]

When I used to go to games, I never left early; and now having to watch on LOITV, regardless of good or bad, I've never switched off early. But I knocked it off after the 2-1 last night. Nearly made the mistake of going online to vent my frustrations but held off, so that I could calm down first. Don't feel much better now though. Talk of TL being out of his depth is unfair. If he was a middling IL manager, one could make that accusation. But he's been very successful and I've no doubt he'll do better with us. It's those overpaid, overrated Belfast has-beens that need driven out of the club. Pulling in an absolute fortune in wages for delivering - at best - 6/10 performances, is a joke. What TL does need to change is the off-the-pitch standards. He talked a lot about professionalism when he came in, and Owenbeg is a fantastic step. But weekends off, players still living in Belfast - that's not enough. That Gavin Whyte is STILL not in shape is scandalous. And now Boyce last night. Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. "Winiesta" - yeah. Get rid. Pay them off, whatever it costs. We'll be better off in the long run.

[brandyball]

Who signed the overpaid overated Belfast has beens ?

[PauliAlonso]

Who signed the overpaid overated Belfast has beens ?

True. But I think we all expected better from them, and I don't think Tiernan would be any different. On paper, these should have been good signings. Hindsight is fantastic but something needs to be done now because it's going pear-shaped.

Also. It's time to get a DoF involved. If Tiernan's all about professionalism, then he'd back someone coming into the club who's job is to identify future transfer targets and ensure that we have a squad capable of playing the way the club wants to play. Obviously towards the end of last season, Higgins would have had a list of his own set of players that he wanted. Then when he left we had nobody, so we end up rushing and chasing after players. A full-time DoF can help the current manager and will also act as a bridge in seasons where we make a managerial change.