⚽ Match Thread vs. Morecambe 28.09.24 [EFL L2]

[hissingdwarf]

Just got back. Not a great day. First half we were out manned and out played.
2nd half, we weren’t much better tbh. Criticism aimed at a few wrong players imo, but our fans always have scape goats and rose tinted specs. Ref wasn’t brill, but not convinced about some of the abuse given to the Lino on our side. Female or not, not sure we did ourselves proud there. Hey ho.

Thought the obvious time wasting was a bit out of order. I know all teams do it, but it don’t half wind me up when their manager and assistant make is so fecking obvious and their keeper spend so much time “injured” on instruction.
Long drive back after that.

[BigFatPie]

Just got back. Not a great day. First half we were out manned and out played.
2nd half, we weren’t much better tbh. Criticism aimed at a few wrong players imo, but our fans always have scape goats and rose tinted specs. Ref wasn’t brill, but not convinced about some of the abuse given to the Lino on our side. Female or not, not sure we did ourselves proud there. Hey ho.

Thought the obvious time wasting was a bit out of order. I know all teams do it, but it don’t half wind me up when their manager and assistant make is so fecking obvious and their keeper spend so much time “injured” on instruction.
Long drive back after that.

Just got back as well and agree with all of that. The timewasting by the keeper was pathetic but under the current laws I’m not sure what refs can do. Didn’t hear any abuse of the lino from the terrace, thought she was pretty decent.

There’s no dressing it up, we were effing awful today and fully deserved to lose if that one at the end had gone in. Their goal was a joke, we lost the midfield battle, and upfront we were pretty much non existent until the last 20 ish minutes. Its evident that we’re very very reliant on 4 players to do our attacking for us, and if like today 2 of them are absent even from an easier looking away game, we are going to struggle to create a threat. Our goal came from the one time we got in behind them.

Far, far too many passengers.

[hissingdwarf]

Just got back as well and agree with all of that. The timewasting by the keeper was pathetic but under the current laws I’m not sure what refs can do. Didn’t hear any abuse of the lino from the terrace, thought she was pretty decent.

There’s no dressing it up, we were effing awful today and fully deserved to lose if that one at the end had gone in. Their goal was a joke, we lost the midfield battle, and upfront we were pretty much non existent until the last 20 ish minutes. Its evident that we’re very very reliant on 4 players to do our attacking for us, and if like today 2 of them are absent even from an easier looking away game, we are going to struggle to create a threat. Our goal came from the one time we got in behind them.

Far, far too many passengers.

We were sat about mid way up and heard her called some horrible stuff. And then the same bloody fan had the cheek to shout at their manager at the end “stop picking on her, she’s a lass, be polite.”

[OldBanksy]

Good morning all from Arizona. A balmy 43 C here today. COYP!

What's Tucson like? Snog, marry, avoid?

[OldBanksy]

Yeah that would have probably been ideal but at the same time difficult to get to. You can play 2 up but we don’t very often. I think the bigger issue probably is the question over Scott? Is he good enough? I don’t know the answer, but conceivably even one up front if we had Jatta and Didzy, no Scott, you could go out and tempt a lot a of strikers with the promise of decent game time.

Which strikers could you tempt? Name names.
Jatta might be a goalscorer. His goals per minutes top so far. Is he a 'footballer'?
Didsy certainly a footballer. Is he a 10 or a goalscorer over a season?
How many goals could Scott score with a run at CF?

[OldBanksy]

I wasn't there, but for me this is a disappointing result and two points dropped rather than one point gained. I accept we have been badly hit by injuries, but this was Morecambe. No wins, bottom of the table, can't keep a clean sheet. A decent result if we are happy to finish mid table, but a poor one if we are aiming higher.

Table can be misleading at this time of season. I watched Notts podcast. Their fan guest seemed confident.

[maddogslater]

Grant looks a very poor replacement for Nemane.
Thought we looked better after all the subs were made

[Woodypie]

Bad result. Could've been worse. Sort it out Stu.

[kill_the_drum]

Matt_magpie - come on.

Just for once, take black and white spectacles off and embrace reality.

Morecambe are bottom of the league. They haven’t had a clean sheet in 19 games. I would therefore argue in fact that quite a few teams have had an ‘easy ride’ with Morecambe recently - we’re just not one of them!

Today is a pretty disappointing result and exhibits some of the squad depth issues that some of us were so roundly criticised for raising a few weeks ago.

What are you talking about?
So you’re now being proved right because we haven’t got another Jodi Jones? That’s incredible insight, how did nobody else see it?!
We’re not going to have backup players in every position that sit on a bench but when called upon are among the best players in the league.
Thats called Man City!

[Notts78]

What are you talking about?
So you’re now being proved right because we haven’t got another Jodi Jones? That’s incredible insight, how did nobody else see it?!
We’re not going to have backup players in every position that sit on a bench but when called upon are among the best players in the league.
Thats called Man City!

I’d argue that Man City don’t have all bases covered either. They have lost Rodri and limped to a draw yesterday. If they lost Haaland, the goals would dry up. Yes they have incredible players in the squad, but some of the first choices are irreplaceable, like JJ for us.