Marty

But look at the two finishes, like, you know, what are the chances, I suppose, two finishes like that and they're all going against you?

It's a bit like last week with Shelbourne, you know, should have closed down Henry Francis better for his goal, but the finish is like one in a hundred, maybe.

So the final margins are just gone against us and the performance was a bit better tonight.

Maybe a bit patchy in the fact that we were good in the first 10 minutes of each half.

Once we got the goals we kind of maybe took the foot off the gas a little bit.

As I was kind of saying at the start of the season, our defence is just not good enough.

You can see that once the transfer window closed.

If you look at who we had in defence last year, our four centre-backs would have been Kevin Holt, Sam Todd, Mark Conley and Hayden Khan.

I don't think any of the guys we have now would maybe get into the team this time last year.

Going back to even in 2023, Derry had the best defence in the league.

We conceded 0.66 goals a game over the season.

And I think tonight puts us on 1.33 or maybe 1.4 already.

So we've nearly added a whole goal a game in the preceding two or three seasons.

It's just a mess.

Our defence is not good enough.

The club has no strategy.

We're getting worse in certain areas every year.

Without Michael Duffy, where would we be?

I think they've just made a few bad calls.

I think, like, if you look at the players gone out, like, Sam Todd would be the first one.