Rovers lay down a marker | “It’s important the defeat to Dundalk hasn’t knocked the confidence of anybody” | Stephen Bradley & Stephen Kenny
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Off the ball. GAA. In today's game, as a player group, you need to be able to manage yourselves on the pitch, but managers need to be able to get messages in and alter how you're playing if it's not working. And I thought Cork and Dublin for the whole 17 minutes played the exact same way, seeing that it wasn't going right and that it wasn't working. Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. How did you assess your team's performance tonight?
I thought we were very good. I thought some of our play was excellent. We controlled the game for the majority of it. Just a little bit disappointed and frustrated that we haven't capitalised on some of the really good opportunities in the final tour. We had some really good moments. and we were a little bit sloppy in that regard, and that's a bit of a first time. We will get better, but other than that, we were very good.
The basics in football is all about work rate, I suppose, and it was noticeable every time a Pats player got the ball, there was two or three Rovers players on top of him. He did have most of the possession throughout the game, but to see that work rate off the ball must have been very pleasing.
Yeah, well, you're 100% right. If you don't work hard, it doesn't matter what type of possession you have. You have to work hard in football, and this group haven't done what they've done without that. That's number one for us.
What was the impact of Jack Byrne's early goal on the match?
At this club, you work hard, and they know that. First half on Friday, we were a little bit off, but tonight, we were right on it.
Just on the chances, or even, I suppose, like, The fact that you score once in the ninth minute and then with all that dominance, why do you think there was the lack of maybe a second or third goal in the game?
Just the wrong, we took the wrong decision at the wrong moment. And there was a few in the second half, we had 4v2, 3v2 in our favour and we take the wrong decision. And maybe it was a little bit of complacency. Maybe the pass to play was too easy. The right pass to play was too easy. Look, we know we get better in that regard. We're always up there as the top scorers in the country. But when you have a team like that, we should really go and be ruthless and punish them.
Just on a couple of shouts, were you happy enough that there was no kind of, I think there might have been a shout for a handball, that actually might have gone to St Patsy in the second half, but generally I thought, referee reffed it well, it was only a couple of yellow cards, it was fairly, I suppose, a hotly contested match as well, but good to see him maybe letting some of the physical challenges go.
Yeah, I thought you reffed it well, I thought the officials reffed it well. It's always nice when you have a fourth official, a linesman, and the ref will have time to be fair to speak to you. You disagree and we all have our opinions, but you accept that and you move on as long as you can have the conversations and thankfully tonight we had that with the officials. Next week is Bohemians. How pleasing is it to get back-to-back wins going into that game next week? We know that comes. I don't know if people make a lot of that. We're very, very calm. We had two weeks pre-season. I think people forget that after playing 56 games last year. To say to me, we'll be here after 11 games, I'll take your hand off.
Because we know as the season goes, we get fitter, we get sharper, we get better. So the ones were...
How did Shamrock Rovers manage their game against St Patrick's Athletic?
In terms of putting back-to-back wins, that was going to come. It's nice that it came now, but we know it's a difficult game. They beat us, obviously, this year, and we'll be looking to put that right on Friday. Just on Lee Grace and Dan Carey, what's their situation at the moment? Lee's wife just had a baby the other day, so Lee's at home. Baby and Emma are doing really well, which is great. Dan will be next week. Dan will be back training tomorrow. Dylan will probably be the week after that. Adam Brennan came back today. Other than that, Danny Mandrew is long term.
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