Lady Luck deserts Dundalk
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Dundalk may well wish to contract Channel 4’s Time Team to check out
the Indian burial ground that must have been somewhere around Oriel
Park in the old days. Alternately they could check the ground for
ladders over the main entrance and possibly a whole clowder of black
cats wandering around the pitch. You might get the gist of where I’m
headed with this, it’s safe to say that they just don’t seem to be
able to get a break at the minute.
After another narrow but undeserved defeat at the hands of defending champions Bohemians new midfielder Dean Bennett spoke exclusively to Extratime.
Dean started by lamenting the lack of fortune that his team are suffering at the moment “It’s disappointing, everything doesn’t seem to be going for us at the moment, we make one mistake and it seems to be going into the back of the net. We’ve just got to pick ourselves up and go again but if we play like that more times than not we’re going to win more games.”
Ian Foster the Lilywhites manager very much wears his heart on his sleeve, much to Eoin Hand’s apparent dislike, we asked Dean how his manager had reacted to this latest setback? “He’s not happy with players getting sent off and with sloppy goals but he was pleased with our work rate, that was better tonight. After we got knocked out of the cup (at Monaghan) we sat down and had a chat to decide where it was going wrong and we were a heck of a lot better tonight and I think it showed, before we got the man sent off (Stephen Maher in the 61st minute) I thought we were the better team.”
Stephen Maher’s dismissal tilted the game in Bohemians favour, did Dean believe it was a pivotal moment in the game “Definitely, listen they are good players (Bohs) and with the extra man they started passing it around, but it was tough out though.”
Dundalk had a second goal by Matthew Tipton chalked off for a debatable offside decision, Dean thought the decision was incorrect “I thought he was onside, I even spoke to him (Tipton) and he said that the ball was pulled back and he slid in, things just don’t go for us do they?”
The Lilywhites now face games against the bottom two teams of the league in Bray and Drogheda which gives them a chance of redemption and points “Definitely, we’ve got two massive games now, it would have been nice to go into the break with some points but we can take heart from that performance in a way because we know we can compete with the top teams. But we don’t want to get drawn into a relegation battle because that’s the way it’s going. We are in a rut and we need to get out of it.”
Dean has had a long career over the water and was at Kidderminster with his new manager back in the early days of this decade, we asked how he was finding the LOI “It’s good, it takes some getting used to on the astroturf (at Oriel) plus I’ve had 3 months off so that’s my fourth game and I’m getting up to real match fitness now so every game I’m feeling fitter and fitter.”
So Dundalk will have to take the crumbs of comfort of an improved performance if not result as they head into their mini break but if they need any words of wisdom to take hope from maybe they should note the moto of Dean Bennett’s home town Wolverhampton “Out of darkness cometh light”. All Lilywhite fans will say amen to that and hope that the dark clouds break against Bray.
After another narrow but undeserved defeat at the hands of defending champions Bohemians new midfielder Dean Bennett spoke exclusively to Extratime.
Dean started by lamenting the lack of fortune that his team are suffering at the moment “It’s disappointing, everything doesn’t seem to be going for us at the moment, we make one mistake and it seems to be going into the back of the net. We’ve just got to pick ourselves up and go again but if we play like that more times than not we’re going to win more games.”
Ian Foster the Lilywhites manager very much wears his heart on his sleeve, much to Eoin Hand’s apparent dislike, we asked Dean how his manager had reacted to this latest setback? “He’s not happy with players getting sent off and with sloppy goals but he was pleased with our work rate, that was better tonight. After we got knocked out of the cup (at Monaghan) we sat down and had a chat to decide where it was going wrong and we were a heck of a lot better tonight and I think it showed, before we got the man sent off (Stephen Maher in the 61st minute) I thought we were the better team.”
Stephen Maher’s dismissal tilted the game in Bohemians favour, did Dean believe it was a pivotal moment in the game “Definitely, listen they are good players (Bohs) and with the extra man they started passing it around, but it was tough out though.”
Dundalk had a second goal by Matthew Tipton chalked off for a debatable offside decision, Dean thought the decision was incorrect “I thought he was onside, I even spoke to him (Tipton) and he said that the ball was pulled back and he slid in, things just don’t go for us do they?”
The Lilywhites now face games against the bottom two teams of the league in Bray and Drogheda which gives them a chance of redemption and points “Definitely, we’ve got two massive games now, it would have been nice to go into the break with some points but we can take heart from that performance in a way because we know we can compete with the top teams. But we don’t want to get drawn into a relegation battle because that’s the way it’s going. We are in a rut and we need to get out of it.”
Dean has had a long career over the water and was at Kidderminster with his new manager back in the early days of this decade, we asked how he was finding the LOI “It’s good, it takes some getting used to on the astroturf (at Oriel) plus I’ve had 3 months off so that’s my fourth game and I’m getting up to real match fitness now so every game I’m feeling fitter and fitter.”
So Dundalk will have to take the crumbs of comfort of an improved performance if not result as they head into their mini break but if they need any words of wisdom to take hope from maybe they should note the moto of Dean Bennett’s home town Wolverhampton “Out of darkness cometh light”. All Lilywhite fans will say amen to that and hope that the dark clouds break against Bray.
