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Colm Whelan of Bohemians in action against Daire Patton of Sligo Rovers. Picture: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\nAfter seven games without a win, Tiernan Lynch is looking for a change of fortune but the calls for a change of Derry City manager are becoming increasingly loud.<\/p>\n
Peter Hutton was this week the latest figurehead to proclaim Lynch is fighting for his job after his 50th game at the helm ended in a 2-2 draw at Dundalk.<\/p>\n
Injuries that restricted the availability of James McClean, and continue to sideline captain Michael Duffy and goalkeeper Brian Maher, have been a factor but seventh position isn\u2019t acceptable for the most expensively assembled squad in the league funded by billionaire owner Philip O\u2019Doherty.<\/p>\n
They visit a side situated just a place above them, Shelbourne, but the lack of enthusiasm around Derry about next Friday\u2019s historic first \u2018home\u2019 game at Celtic Park GAA ground against Shamrock Rovers is telling.<\/p>\n
Lynch, who succeeded Ruaidhr\u00ed Higgins at the start of last season and secured runners-up, batted away queries about his future during his midweek press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are your comments, not mine,\u201d he retorted about the board losing patience with the Belfast man.<\/p>\n
\n My job is to try and get Derry City ready for Shelbourne on Friday night and that’s what I intend to do.”\n <\/p>\n
He added: \u201cYou make your own luck but this is a group of players who have been kicked in the teeth week after week with a new injury, having to chop and change too often.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way this league is, two wins changes your season. Two defeats gives you everything to fight for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Shamrock Rovers welcome cross-city rivals Bohemians to Tallaght for their second meeting of the season.<\/p>\n
Bohs are the only team to beat the champions but Stephen Bradley\u2019s side claiming top spot after what\u2019s now predicted as a slow start is ominous for the challengers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have much interest in how Rovers are doing, only that we enjoy playing them and going to Tallaght,\u201d said Bohs boss Alan Reynolds, referencing four wins in the last five meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur striker Colm Whelan had to start every game because we\u2019ve missed others through injury but it\u2019s great to have Douglas James-Taylor back and available.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colm Whelan of Bohemians in action against Daire Patton of Sligo Rovers. Picture: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
Bradley said: \u201cIt\u2019s another Dublin derby and you look at the recent game against Shelbourne, we should be 4-1 up with the game over, then two minutes later they pull one back to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
\n Dublin derbies have that habit of the momentum changing so quickly in moments.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
\u00a0Rovers have defender Dan Cleary back from injury but Rory Gaffney, Dylan Watts and Lee Grace are out.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two of the division’s in-form teams, Dundalk and Galway United, clash at Oriel Park. Four wins and three draws in their last seven has elevated Ciar\u00e1n Kilduff\u2019s side into fourth.<\/p>\n
Galway\u2019s back-to-back wins over the Easter weekend got them back on track after a sticky start but their home game against Shelbourne last Friday fell victim to a downpour.<\/p>\n
\u201cGalway United will be a really tough test for us,\u201d says Kilduff, who is relieved to have former Ireland winger Daryl Horgan back from suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a team in really good form at the moment and scoring goals in a rich vein of form, \u201cWe\u2019re proud of our home form but nothing will be taken for granted. It\u2019s a key game for us and we know we have to do what we can to win it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur support has been amazing, and I hope the energy is good on and off the pitch. That makes a huge difference for the players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seven games without a win, Tiernan Lynch is looking for a change of fortune but the calls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,2539,43],"class_list":["post-401853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}