Rush haven’t won a game all season and by the way the game started you could tell. They had no structure what so ever and the constant pressure from the two front men for finglas f.c. kept this game one sided. The game was a very hard one for finglas f.c. but obviously rush wanted it more. They were throwing themselves at this game with all they had. Finglas were more settled in the first half our back line were focused and playing in sync at the first sign of any forward play from rush. The ball was sharply cut down and controlled by the left back Dave and his right hand man Collie, Reilly and Lenny. Both Dave and Lenny were outstanding in the first half leaving the two center backs with the odd pass. Rush broke through twice and when collie and reilly were needed they delivered the goods, with some nice passing and controlled football out to the right and left wing backs. With Lenny and Dave’s consistant runs up the flanks they created some nice moves for Finglas. These tactical moves are one of many been created by our new coach Pat Dunphy. Training and tactics largely in league of Ireland games are now part of finglas f.c.weaponry. Looking at the midfield it is plain to see that Darren Murray meant business with his first challenge catching the rush no.5 asleep in position. Throughout the game Darren and Brian with their Brazilian skills won everything. Brian created chance after chance and in doing so made the rush keeper stretch for his goal bound header to pull off one of many excellence saves. Across the midfield Darren, Brian, Mick and Aidan worked very hard breaking up any run of play from rush. The Finglas front men Tom and Liam should have been on hat tricks by mid way into the first half however when Tommy’s chance came he scored from a great initial run from Aidan Jameson down the right wing who passed to Brian Keenan who in turn laid the ball off for Tommy to put it pass the Rush keeper ten minutes from half time. Darren and Liam both had shots blocked. The ref who cannot be named for legal reason obviously couldn’t read the no.5 from rush. After four of five very late tackles the ref eventually showed him the yellow card. Substitutions at half time were Paul colgan for Derek Reilly on the back line and tom Kelly for Liam keenan. Darren Murray was pushed up front with Tommy lowndes and Tommy Kelly teamed up with Brian Keenan in midfield. This proved to be a masterstroke by manager Louis Mulqueen as Darren Murray beat the rush keeper to the ball and headed over him for finglas' second goal three minutes into half time. Rush made a gallant effort throughout the second half but the back line along with Sean smart in goal were simply too strong. In fairness to rush they gave it thier all and were very physical but could not match the ball control that finglas displayed. My man of the match was midfielder/striker Darren Murray and coming a close second would be the right back Lenny Maher. The rush goalkeeper needed a lot more than his team could provide but is clearly their best player. Finglas can only get better with the up and coming games with there determination and team spirit that has begun to show through.