SEÁN BOYD is hoping Shelbourne can get some of the fluky goals he sees scored in other games.
Shels are still top of the Premier Division but have won just one of their last nine matches, having collected six victories on the trot prior to that.
And after seeing the goal the Reds’ opponents tomorrow night — Waterford — scored against his old club Shamrock Rovers, he would not mind a similar slice of fortune.
Shels were watching on prior to their own game against Derry City as the Blues profited from Leon Pohls’ failure to deal with a corner.
And striker Boyd said: “The lads would have conversations, sometimes you see some of the goals around the league and think, ‘Wouldn’t you love that to happen to us?’
“It feels like, at the minute, that we’ve to work really hard to score goals.
“But I think if we put in a really good performance and are clinical in front of goal, it might turn things around.”
Boss Damien Duff has not spared his players from criticism and Boyd says they know themselves when it is not good enough.
He added: “It’s probably up to lads like me up the top end of the pitch taking ownership, and really taking the game by the scruff of the neck and dragging other people with you.”
After his side’s 1-1 draw with Drogheda United, Duff said: “All I can think about, me driving home after the game, is first half, first half — we’ve had chances, we got back in the game and got a point.
“We’re still top of the league but I am sick of referencing top of the league — we don’t deserve to be top of the league. Each week we come in, we scraped a point and we’re still there because everyone else has dropped points.
“But people need to forget about that for now. You need to apply yourself properly to every game.
“We had a tidy little run coming into this game. You might look at it and go it’s unbeaten in five.
“But it’s one win and four draws, we are dropping points every week. My biggest takeaway from this is application, application. It hurts and it makes me really angry. I could tell after 30 seconds . . . you can even tell sometimes in the warm-up.
“If you are a highly motivated player, highly motivated person, you could see in the warm-up.
“Maybe it’s, ‘It’s Drogheda, we’re going to batter these’. We’re not good enough to disrespect teams. Fact. If it’s not a Dublin derby . . . and you’re slightly off . . . you’ll never get anywhere with that attitude.
“There’s many words you can use. Intent — was there intent in anything we did in the first half?
“To be not highly motivated, especially when you are top of the league, I find it incredible.
“If we can’t change it as coaches — and I don’t think it’s our job — do you change players? I don’t know.”