On a night in which Shamrock Rovers paid tribute to their late supporter Philip Greene, they eventually produced a performance the RTÉ commentator would have been gushing about.
After Craig Sives opened the scoring with a set-piece header, returning striker Gary Twigg finished off two passing moves of the highest quality.
Many, of course, would have predicted that given the differences in resources - and points - between Rovers and Drogheda. But it took a while for that to be the case last night.
Despite an initial onslaught, a worrying anxiety afflicted Rovers' play once they realised Drogheda weren't going to roll over. It started with a few errors and continued with a general lack of cohesion.
Essentially, they stopped doing all the things that make them a much better side than the Louth team.
Perhaps sensing this, Mark O'Brien almost caught their defence
out with a surging run. And Drogheda arguably ended the half the better team having forced a series of corners.
It was from a similar set piece that Rovers eventually opened the scoring though. Just a minute after half-time, a perfect Conor McCormack free-kick found Sives head to open the scoring.
From there, normal service was resumed. In every sense. Two divine passes - one from O'Neill, the second from Gary McCabe - fell to Twigg who opened the scoring on his first start since getting injured against Bray a month ago.
Rovers eventually closed the game out in style. And, by then, Greene would have been effusive in his praise.
