Conal Collier's views on proceedings in Dalymount on Good Friday:

The team showed plenty of bottle with another exciting performance, but the real controversy was in the stand at the crumbling former ‘home’ of Irish soccer where the Dalymount roar is now firmly consigned to the memory banks of the older supporters.
The local stewards will hopefully have learned that it is not always necessary to take up the ‘Sledgehammer’ to crack what was really only a ‘Peanut.’
Scarcely a minute before the interval, a banner was raised, I don’t know what the message was, but that’s all it was – it was written. Now when did the written word ever inflict any physical harm? (Sticks and stones and all that type of thing)
Someone must have read it to the stewards - they totally over-reacted and surged towards the back of the stand to wrestle the banner from the visiting supporters.
The fact that the Gardai intervened suggests that the matter was handled badly – and all these stewards are supposed to have completed FAI training courses on crowd control.
Now this wasn’t a flare, there was no real danger, in fact it looked like an old sheet.
The Dalymount stewards turned a non-threatening situation into a totally negative event – I saw one supporter assisted from the stand.
What were they trying to achieve – escalate the situation or calm it down? Had they not intervened what would have happened.
Bohemians manager Sean Connor (who would have been better advised not to have gestured towards the visiting supporters) would have been verbally taunted as he left the pitch at half-time? We’re back to words again.
Instead, the charged atmosphere guaranteed a totally negative reaction and culminated with a bottle-throwing incident at the end.
Two wrongs don’t make a right and the culprit should be completely ashamed of a dangerous and irresponsible action. It was unnecessary and portrays all Sligo Rovers supporters in the same light – which is not true.
The target – Darren Mansaram – also has to accept some responsibility as it was totally unnecessary to gesture to the Sligo Rovers supporters as he made his way off the pitch.
There is such a word as professionalism and Darren indicated by his actions that he doesn’t have it.
Likewise the Bohemians goalkeeper - he was deliberately wasting time as his side hung on in the final 10 minutes. He made very subtle gestures to the visiting supporters which also showed a complete lack of professionalism - or to use a simpler term – cop on.
There was a lot of ‘hanging on’ going on. The Bohs full-back who should have received a second yellow card had the assistant-referee (linesman) been tuned-in, but unfortunately he wasn’t and missed at least four deliberate fouls.
But the action was exciting. Yes we could have conceded four goals, Bohs hit the bar and the post and we cleared what looked like a certain goal off the line.
In our favour, we could have had at least as many. We were unlucky in one sense and not in another.
Excitement, great entertainment, plenty to look forward to, but we need someone who can put the ball in the net. Add in the fact that we had almost half a team on the sidelines through injury or suspension and it’s not all bleak.
However, one or two of our players were fortunate to escape yellow cards for stupid things – the usual kicking the ball away. And that’s not good enough either as yellow cards make points – and what do points make – SUSPENSIONS.
The lesson from Dalymount Park – Suggest to the bouncers (sorry stewards) that they are there for the purpose of the safety of everyone. They made it difficult to exit the stand at the end when they inadvertently blocked the exit steps from the stand as they attempted to go up and we tried to get down.
Also ban bottles from the spectating area.