Just back to the car

Sounds like the conditions made playing football almost impossible did well to keep a clean sheet.

Conditions absolutely terrible for football. Chucks your game plan out the window, and a point on the road on the opposite coast ranks as a really good outcome.

UTM

Quoted from chaos33

Conditions absolutely terrible for football. Chucks your game plan out the window, and a point on the road on the opposite coast ranks as a really good outcome.

UTM

This!

Was really hoping for 3 points today and a move up the table but over the two games this week, 4 points is a good return.  

Being hard to beat is a good habit to get into.  Start to convert a few draws to wins and we will make the play offs.  

In terrible weather, anything can happen.  The players have had two long journeys and they should be happy with 4 points.

After the optimism of Tuesday, I was expecting a typical Town defeat so a point is ok.

Onwards and upwards

Here's Morecambe's Manager view on the game

https://audioboom.com/posts/64.....-they-draw-0-0-today

I am watching a 0-0 bore draw at the moment,

Two highly paid prem teams can not master the wind and rain,

So what chance have L2 players ?

Well done to the 462 mariners that went.

Anyone being critical of the 'style' of play today needs to give their heads a wobble IMO,

A strong swirling wind in an open stadium and lashing rain simply made football impossible.

Neither side deserved to win as neither side really had any clear cut chances. Defences on top with their number 5 given their MOM and IMO ours was either Clarke or Collins which sums up the game.

Dembele simply wasn't in the game at any stage and when he did get the ball he seemed to lose it very quickly whilst Jones seemed on a mission to collect a 2nd yellow card. Vernon was dominated by and large and Summerfield did the work of two men in the middle.

DJ was lively when he came on

Bottom line is that we dug in and took a point, not as good as three but better than none, keeps the run going and hopefully get 3 at home next Saturday

Didn't think it was too bad today in possibly the worst wind and rain I've ever seen us play in. One town corner almost ended up back with the taker. Some excellent individual performances from Collins, Clarke and Summerfield who needs a midfield partner with the same legs. We looked tired towards the end and settled for a point when it would have been nice to see us test them a bit more. Why we don't leave someone up when defending a corner I don't know as everything inevitably comes back at us. Having said that Jones and Vernon in particular were excellent at defending in their own box. All in all nice to see us grind out a result through grit and determination. Chants of 'Slade play the ball on the floor again' were a bit harsh in today's conditions but the debate about our style of play isn't going to go away.

Quoted from Cloudy

Anyone being critical of the 'style' of play today needs to give their heads a wobble IMO,

A strong swirling wind in an open stadium and lashing rain simply made football impossible.

My criticism is this....trying to hit channel balls into a strong wind only did one thing, gave the ball cheaply back to the opposition...but they just kept doing it and inviting pressure back.... kicking a ball aerially 30 yds towards an isolated team mate in the vein hope he can firstly win it against 3 or 4 opponents, then hold onto it long enough for the rest of the team to push up and help was ridiculous in those conditions but it just kept getting repeated.
There were plenty of times a 10 yd pass to a team mate in space could have been used to both retain possession and to gradually gain territory. Its frustrating to watch.. while readily accepting it was difficult conditions today.

Quoted from moosey_club

My criticism is this....trying to hit channel balls into a strong wind only did one thing, gave the ball cheaply back to the opposition...but they just kept doing it and inviting pressure back.... kicking a ball aerially 30 yds towards an isolated team mate in the vein hope he can firstly win it against 3 or 4 opponents, then hold onto it long enough for the rest of the team to push up and help was ridiculous in those conditions but it just kept getting repeated.
There were plenty of times a 10 yd pass to a team mate in space could have been used to both retain possession and to gradually gain territory. Its frustrating to watch.. while readily accepting it was difficult conditions today.

I know it's easy to blame the weather but the wind seemed all over the place second half and there was clearly standing water which may have made players unwilling to take the risk of playing short quick passes.