An eventful day Tuesday was, starting with flyers and ending in a 1-0 win. I headed into town at about half 12 to help hand out flyers advertising the free game in the City centre. After a half hours wait for the rain to clear I headed out with a stack of flyers towards the GPO where hopefully I’d get the flyers off my hands and back into the warmth of the club shop. Following a few rejections the stack was getting whittled down bit by bit and as the stack was getting smaller I was handing out more flyers per hand. A group of lads enquired as to what the fuss was all about. I told them and gave them about 10 flyers each, getting rid of 50 flyers in the process, big casino!! An hour after heading out I was back in Sullivan Quay, but there was a visible difference in the mean time. Paul had brought back a TV crew (Trust Paul to head out with flyers and come back with a TV crew) Filming the fly-on-the-wall documentary ‘Chasing Shadows’
, the group were in Cork after spending the day with Drogheda United fans. Paul and I politely accepted to do an interview and so from just being the guy with the flyers I turned into a TV megastar (Well, one can always fantasize!) and the finished product will arrive late May. Something to look forward to!
We wrapped up and I headed back home with no flyers, a new game and a release form for my work on camera. A quick spin on NHL on the xbox and it was time to go, I wasn’t expecting much entertainment. Drogheda were clearly going to park the bus and try to eek out a draw. Our best chance in the opening quarter came courtesy of a Dennehy deflection in the 6 yard box, but a mixture of athleticism and sheer luck ensured that League winning goalkeeper Steve Williams could knock it wide. Then, just before half time we went 1-0 up. Silagallis took a shot outside the box which Williams saved well, but after Rico’s word of encouragement a new Denis Behan was on hand to head home. Dan Connor had an excellent match and kept the lead in-tact just before the interval with a good save from Robbie Farrell.
The second half was an awful affair, Connor was alert and brave to stop John Paul-Kelly sprinting in on goal. Silagalis had a half chance from a bad backpass about 10 minutes later but after that the cut up rain s
oaked pitch made football nigh on impossible to get any sort of move going.
The win will be taken any way it comes though (For most of us anyway) and after 3 wins on the bounce, we’re showing signs of a team on form. Friday is the second of our three Friday’s away in a row (I wonder what genius came up with that?) when we make our first visit to Tallaght stadium. Unfortunately a lack of tickets has made going impossible, but the following Friday will be Dundalk away, from which my next blog post will come from.
Until then
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