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Tom_Bombadil

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  1. Tranmere fan here. Good to be in competition with you again. The number of club forums who say "we'll do McNulty for pace" is becoming more and more of a repetitive  joke. In the league Tranmere have conceded three league goals this season. Nearly every side was going to do McNulty for pace. Not seen it happen yet. perhaps Saturday? Thats if he plays. See you all Saturday. Looking at something around the 7,000 mark.

  2. ... and also managing to lose 3-2 to the might of Cammel Laird in thier first friendly last night....

     

    I know it means nothing, but it amused me slightly...

     

     

    Just for info, they played Heswall the same night and won 2-0 with a team that contained Chris Shuker Alan Mahon Ian Moore and John Welsh plus the usual trialists and first team fringers. Moore scored both goals.

     

  3. So i've had a read of what some of u are saying about today and i have to say i just do not agree at all.

     

    Tranmere hardly had a bloody kick for the first 20 mins. If Hughes had his shooting boots on he could have had a hatrick himself by then! As it turns out we were made to pay for missed opportunities.

     

    I thought Westlake slotted in rather nicely and would probably be my choice for MOM. I do feel sorry for Maher but we all scream for a creative player or a ball winner on here, someone had to drop out.......

     

    Hughes ran his nads off again, shame his first effort hadn't gone in cos he would have probably bagged 6 today if it had!

     

    Taylor was doing ok till he took a knock. Tenaciously trying to win the ball off players - and succeeding. Smalley still runs at players and gives them headaches, growing physically and mentally this season. Stam only made one cock up, shame it earned him an early bath......

     

    Some negatives tho.... well, there has to be. I've stayed on the fence on the Eardley debate but his last 15 minutes today was nothing short of diabolical. He hoofs one up to the top of the RRE instead of putting it for a simple throw in. He is released down the right but decided he couldnt catch it - yet the dipper he was competing with kept going - just looked like he couldnt be arsed. He played a couple of useless balls down the line to absolutely nobody,and under no pressure at the time. And what he was doing just before their penalty i dont know. He let that big golute step right over him?! It must have been harder to avoid kicking the ball, and avoid fouling him, and look like a complete sh**ouse than it would have been just to roll the ball out for a corner when it came near him. Embarassing. There was a woman who slated him for the last 10 or 15 mins or so, and, even though I felt like ramming my socks down her throat, I had to agree with her. I dont wanna sound like a typical EarldyOuter but for gods sake, that last 15 was woefull.

     

    Problem is he wasnt the only one. All the heads went down, we were caught at sixes and sevens.... Final whistle couldnt come quick enough for most of them.

     

    AND too many players were trying the fancy :censored: when they couldnt get the basics right. I know we would all love to watch a teamfull of Ronaldos but this is league one. I think a few of our boys are trying to run before they can walk sometimes. I'm sure i saw Gregan try a Ronaldhino 'look the other way pass' that didnt work. We were even back heeling it to the opposition when we were two down for gods sake.

     

    Back to the positives tho. This is starting to sound like a whining post and that wasnt the intention!!!! Their first goal was a peach. If it was one of ours we would have talked about it for weeks. Before that? Did they have a shot? When you have the rub of the green, which the bin dippers have at the moment, they go in. When you're not, like us, they dont. Apart from the last 20-25 minutes we were the only team in it. Even before they got their second goal we were all over them like a rash.

     

    As far as bad patches go, we're in a real bad one. Dont be too disheartened, it might end next week!

     

    And before any of you say it, i'm FAR from being a rose tinted fan. There is usually a wailing and a gnashing of teeth coming from my corner of the world when we get beaten, I can just take a few positives from today.

     

    P.S. dont even get me started on the 'no pies at half time' fiasco. Bleedin useless. How hard can it be to stick a :censored:load in the oven at 3pm when u realise you only have 8 left? You got 45 minutes to cook them for petes sake! That REALLY wound me up........

     

    Off my soap box now. Time for bed said Zebedee......

     

    Keep the faith. No seriously. Keep it.

     

     

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