Stephen O'Donnell

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... dress rooms, and we had the conversation with Ste- about, with Stephen O'Donnell, and that was the one-

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... thing he felt to get across the line, you need that bit of, to just to have that belief.

And then, you know, when we talk about, you know, and eventually some stage we're going to have to stop talking about the Stephen Kenny 2016 era.

But we were talking about this the other night, Ken, and we were, you know, listing off names like Stephen O'Donnell and Chris Shields and these kind of things.

And they had the ability to hold on to the ball majestically in the middle of the field.

Do we have the ability to do that? Do we have the...

Pats, in my book, looking like the favourites, but Bohemians also in pretty decent form with four consecutive wins.

And maybe it's a good time to face them.

And we'll just see how we get on when we clash with a lot of familiar faces, Arnold Reynolds and Stephen O'Donnell on the bench.

And so hopefully the Lily Whites will have sorted out their defensive woes at least partially by then.

I did

myself Shane I thought he linked up everything very well now look half the time you'd be cursing on why does he have to come back that deep to link it up but I think he made a tackle on the edge of the box at the start of the second half and he stood up one of the draw the wingers and I was kind of going the centre forward shouldn't be doing that but that's just the buying into whatever Alan Reynolds and Stephen O'Donnell are selling for me it's good when you see

goal the goal was scrappy obviously i thought it was two or three opportunities for you to get it clear and it was just like ping pong around in in in the box really so it was gonna be disappointed with that and you see when you've got a side look let's be honest it's more often than not you know when we're talking about the ireland or when we're talking about premier league or any level the the underdog the underdog quite often survives on on set pieces and kind of scrappy chances like that and that's what Drogheda have done well with those kind of goals all year, no more than a Galway or a Watford or somebody like that.

When you leave a team in a game, they can get something out of a situation like that.

And that was kind of what they did against Crusaders.

And then in terms of how their squad is built, they recruited a lot of very experienced players, players that know the league inside out and You mentioned Philip Lowry, obviously him and Stephen.

The two brothers in the middle of the park, they're two proper leaders in there.

Again, you've got players like Alfie Gaston, who I think has been one of the standout teenagers in the early weeks of the season.

You look at their squad and the spine of it is very much built on experience.

There's a lot of old heads in there, old hands who have been around this league for so long.

You even look at the likes of players that they brought in, Aaron Jarvis, Stephen O'Donnell.

Danny Lafferty, players that have really been there and done it in their careers.