STEPHEN KENNY reckons his players are sometimes too fast for their own good.
St Pat’s have now gone six games without a win following Friday’s scoreless draw with Bohemians.
They have scored just once in that time, Simon Power’s effort in the 3-1 defeat to Galway United.
But Power should have been on the scoresheet in the Dublin derby too but had a goal incorrectly chalked off for offside.
And Kenny sighed: “Obviously, Simon Power is clearly onside when he’s running in, and that’s happened to us about five or six times.
“I’ve evidence of five or six goals that have been clearly onside given as offside. The easy thing to do is just put up a flag.
“And I think it’s probably that we’ve got quick players like Jake Mulraney, Zach Elbouzedi and Simon.
“So we have explosive players, and they’re the main players that have been flagged when they’re running through. We’ve seen it quite a few times. But that’s the way it goes.
“It was a close game. It was end-to-end. I felt we had long periods of it played quite well.
“Again, we missed opportunities to score again. Bohemians finished strong. They’re a very good team and they finished strong.
“The wind picked up and they caused us problems in the last ten minutes.
“We’re disappointed. People probably feel it’s fair overall, but we’re disappointed.
“I think we didn’t create enough clear-cut chances in the first half, but obviously you Jason McClelland’s effort coming back off the crossbar,
“Bohs had a couple of chances at the end themselves, and we had to defend well to keep the clean sheet.
“The two games against Shelbourne and Derry that we lost here, we didn’t actually concede any chances in the game.
“The Shels goal is not even a chance, a deflected effort, and Derry’s goal was offside, clearly offside.
“Bohs showed more attacking intent and created more chances than in the games we lost.
“So we’re not conceding, but we’re not scoring and you have to score goals and we’re not doing that.”
Bohs counterpart Alan Reynolds was frustrated that his side could not produce another decisive late goal.
He said: “If the game goes on for another four or five minutes, I think we win that.”
RIDING THEIR LUCK
He conceded his side might have been lucky with the offside call. He said: “Yes, so I’ve heard. I haven’t seen it, but the lads have said that.
“But they even themselves out, I’m sure they’d be disappointed with that, but I’m also disappointed we don’t take our chances right at the end.
“They were trying to win and they were leaving gaps and we were the same.
“We wanted to win it and we’re not going to be different against anyone, that’s the way we want to be, we don’t set up to try to snatch a draw. We’d enough chances at the end to win it, I would have felt.”
Debutant Douglas James-Taylor had Bohs best chance in the first half, hitting a first-time effort over the bar.
And Rennie said: “It’s a good chance and I think he’ll be disappointed in that.
“He was at times feeding off scraps. It was difficult for him, the first game was a taste of a Dublin Derby. He knows he’s alive now. We brought him here to score goals
“He’s only in so it was tough, to throw him in.
“We have a different way of playing to Drogheda.
“No disrespect to anyone, we have a different way of playing and we’re asking him to press and that. So he’s going to have to take time to adapt to that and we feel he’ll get better over time.”
