Hatswell gives a view from afar
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Wayne Hatswell the Dundalk assistant manager and left back was suspended for the Sligo Rovers clash and thus had to join the Sligo manager Paul Cook in playing a watching brief from the stands.
Although he found it very frustrating to be separated from the action he also found it extremely educational as the Swindon man told Extratime after the game.
“It was horrible, I kicked every ball tonight, it’s not ideal for me but I’ve learned a lot from it. You can see what we need to work on, you do see completely different things from up there. That’s one thing we probably haven’t had because with me playing and the gaffer down there in the technical area it’s hard to see all the things that are going off on the pitch. I’ve learned a lot, I’ll take that into consideration now for the weeks coming ahead, things happen for a reason and we’ve learned a lot from it.”
Nathan Murphy made his first league start in Hatswell left back position and the assistant manager denied our cheeky suggestion that he was behind his 69th minute substitution to stop Murphy cementing his place in the side.
“The lad done really well, he had a great game tonight but they had a different threat when Blinkhorn came on and Burns is struggling through on grit and determination and that’s getting him through games at the moment. We wanted to counter that aerial threat, when Ciaran (McGuigan) came on, he was fantastic, he steadied and headed everything, that’s what he loves doing.”
Dundalk struggled to put their 10 man opponents away and this didn’t surprise Hatswell.
“They’re a good side, the game plan goes out of the window when they go down to 10 men. They have to change it a little bit and in the first half we just perhaps played that one pass too many and we needed a new direction in the second half. We gave them a bit of a problem with the ball behind them and with different runs from Ross (Gaynor) and Faz (Kudozovic), too many runs were made in front of them (in the first period). As a defender I know that if the play is in front of you you’re comfortable, but when the players start trying to get in behind you it’s a different game. We said at half time that that’s what we needed to do, Ross has got that pace where he can get do that. When we got them going that way we did look like scoring then it was a great finish from Faz and that was it, it’s a goal. “
Peter Cherrie had another man of the match performance in the Dundalk goal but with tongue firmly in cheek Hatswell thought he made the most of his photo opportunities whilst also promoting the Dundalk shopping experience.
“They probably feel a bit aggrieved because Pete’s made a couple of good saves, the main one where he tipped it onto the post but all the other ones I think he’s got the camera out for. Anything to get a voucher (the man of the match award shopping voucher) around here, the shops are that good.”
So the Dundalk bandwagon rolls on to UCD next week where they will face a very different threat from the free flowing attacking style of the students. Hatswell will have to put his studies from tonight into action against them, eyes front and pay attention down the back!
“It was horrible, I kicked every ball tonight, it’s not ideal for me but I’ve learned a lot from it. You can see what we need to work on, you do see completely different things from up there. That’s one thing we probably haven’t had because with me playing and the gaffer down there in the technical area it’s hard to see all the things that are going off on the pitch. I’ve learned a lot, I’ll take that into consideration now for the weeks coming ahead, things happen for a reason and we’ve learned a lot from it.”
Nathan Murphy made his first league start in Hatswell left back position and the assistant manager denied our cheeky suggestion that he was behind his 69th minute substitution to stop Murphy cementing his place in the side.
“The lad done really well, he had a great game tonight but they had a different threat when Blinkhorn came on and Burns is struggling through on grit and determination and that’s getting him through games at the moment. We wanted to counter that aerial threat, when Ciaran (McGuigan) came on, he was fantastic, he steadied and headed everything, that’s what he loves doing.”
Dundalk struggled to put their 10 man opponents away and this didn’t surprise Hatswell.
“They’re a good side, the game plan goes out of the window when they go down to 10 men. They have to change it a little bit and in the first half we just perhaps played that one pass too many and we needed a new direction in the second half. We gave them a bit of a problem with the ball behind them and with different runs from Ross (Gaynor) and Faz (Kudozovic), too many runs were made in front of them (in the first period). As a defender I know that if the play is in front of you you’re comfortable, but when the players start trying to get in behind you it’s a different game. We said at half time that that’s what we needed to do, Ross has got that pace where he can get do that. When we got them going that way we did look like scoring then it was a great finish from Faz and that was it, it’s a goal. “
Peter Cherrie had another man of the match performance in the Dundalk goal but with tongue firmly in cheek Hatswell thought he made the most of his photo opportunities whilst also promoting the Dundalk shopping experience.
“They probably feel a bit aggrieved because Pete’s made a couple of good saves, the main one where he tipped it onto the post but all the other ones I think he’s got the camera out for. Anything to get a voucher (the man of the match award shopping voucher) around here, the shops are that good.”
So the Dundalk bandwagon rolls on to UCD next week where they will face a very different threat from the free flowing attacking style of the students. Hatswell will have to put his studies from tonight into action against them, eyes front and pay attention down the back!
