Match Thread Morecambe

Subs  Eastwood, Waterfall, Eisa, Clifton, Wilson, Hunt, Conteh

Some big calls there!
Pyke over Wilson? 🤔
Good to see Clifton dropped at last.
Good luck lads. UTM. 😎

Kahn behind the front 2?

I’m lost for words . New manager asap please

Quoted from Badger57

Some big calls there!
Pyke over Wilson? 🤔
Good to see Clifton dropped at last.
Good luck lads. UTM. 😎

Presumably Pyke as a wide attacker? Could be interesting.

On paper I’d have said a couple of months ago that the bench looks as strong as you’ll find in this division, but with our form I have a different perspective now.

I’ve got my fingers and everything else crossed today.

Could be a diamond midfield?
Could be 4312 with Khan in the hole?
Or could be 433 with Khan on the left of Rose and Pyke to the right of the front three?

Quoted from It Bites

I’m lost for words . New manager asap please

If Pearson had picked the same side that Hurst would have, we’d lose. He has to try something different.

I would really like to see Green as the holding midfielder with Conteh ahead moving the ball quickly like we know he can. Conteh always shows to receive the ball and rarely loses it.

All about opinions I know but I think Conteh is the gem in this squad and has been wasted as a holding player.

Happy enough with the back 4 and goalkeeper. Happy for Green to get his chance screening them; he’ll at least put a shift in. Interested to see what happens with the front three. Really pleased Khan is back. I am guessing it’s on the left, but really hoping that doesn’t mean Pyke is on the right.

Setting off now. Come on Town

Quoted from Tommy

Could be a diamond midfield?
Could be 4312 with Khan in the hole?
Or could be 433 with Khan on the left of Rose and Pyke to the right of the front three?

or could be a revolutionary 1-2-1-2-1-2-1  

4231 with Rose out wide is my guess.

3 points would be great, would help the new manager from afar in avoiding relegation.

Pyke right wing back ? Where he played for the Shrews last season?

Any new faces at the ground?

Quoted from DB

Any new faces at the ground?

I've never seen the guy sat next to me before so he's new.

I'm sat near the press box, I can see Fabregas but no other new faces!!

6 changes from Slough.

I’m now thinking…..yeah try it. One or two surprising selections for me, but we don’t know how fit certain players are. Couple of notable absences from the squad entirely.
Not sure what the shape is. Looks a bit like a go at the ‘double pivot’, with Green and Gav.
Come on Town.

Quoted from Spidey

I'm sat near the press box, I can see Fabregas but no other new faces!!

Is Wayne Rooney sat next to Fabregas ?

Quoted from promotion plaice

Is Wayne Rooney sat next to Fabregas ?

Ah I wondered who that was sat next to him, didn't recognise him until he took his hat off. He's got a nice head of hair to be fair!

Ronnie Pickering in the upper findus

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Ronnie Pickering in the upper findus

Who ?

Looking at it I read it as 4-2-3-1 with Pyke on the right and Khan on the left with Andrews as CAM.

I'd like to see Conteh with Green as a double pivot as someone mentioned above.

Eisa and Clifton as options to come on when legs get tired later on is a promising thought.

Fingers well and truly crossed

That's a first for some time, changing ends so we attack the pontoon end first.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Who ?

Ronnie Pickering.  (the gift that keeps on giving.

Game over 1-0 Morecambe

Oh intercourse off Town! urine poor header from Town, missed tackles no one tracking from midfield, absolute excrement show that was.

FFS!

Get the new manager in ASAP

Good start  

What a load of rubbish

FFS.  Opening a beer and missed it, it was so quick

Well  that didn't take long.!!!!

Oh dear, Fabregas has just left the building!

FFS I'm withdrawing my application.

Oh dear.

Lovely cool finish there. Here we go again. 😔

Sack the fking lot

Good thing we got rid of Hurst eh!

Gates at BP have been locked from the outside

To be fair the reaction to the goal has been good..

Quoted from Spidey

To be fair the reaction to the goal has been good..

We have improved, but to be honest it couldn't have got worse. We were caved apart, our defence is weak as urine.

Quoted from golfer

Gates at BP have been locked from the outside

Glad I didn't buy a season ticket.

Glad I took the 14/1 for us to get relegated before the Donny game. Emotional hedge.

That was crap but Town look better going forward.  More energy, quick decision making.

What the intercourse is going on with the camera

Tranmere lead FGR (real relegation 6 pointer coming up next week as it stands!)

Manny scores for the Pooloies, and Danilo scores again! (FFS)

Nearly a 2nd for them, where is our defence

Christ alive we are AWFUL in defence, the worst team for many, many years.

Quoted from lukeo

What the intercourse is going on with the camera

What do you expect with a loan midfielder doing it.

Wonder what this lot do in training all week. Definitely can't be anything involving the basics of defending, organisationally the midfield and defence is all over the place.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Wonder what this lot do in training all week. Definitely can't be anything involving the basics of defending, organisationally the midfield and defence is all over the place.

New Dartboard!

We’re a bunch a headless chickens . This side has relegation written all over it unless a new manager can sort them out of the main stand roof waits another year

Holohan Misses a sitter

OMG, sitter missed.

Embarrassing from Holohan. No excuse for blasting that over. We can't keep failing to do the basics.

Holohan finishes that in previous season's.

It defies logic why the NO are taking so long.

PH knew the problems and would have resolved them in the window, as unlike the last two times he came in throwing the baby out with the bath water (players). That option has gone now but he was the man to put this right IMHO.

Onto pastures new but FFS get on with it. We don’t need to pretend the process be complicated with data, blah blah or have so many people in the loop(we are not inventing anything new FGS).

Fools!!!! the fans are not!!!!

Defo more fight in the players. We need a little hand from Lady Luck.

It’s going to bss we an expensive window for 1878 because this squad just aren’t good enough

We are losing but this is the most attacking threat we've offered all season. Much better going forward but awful defensively.

Nearly a goal for us, the attack is looking reasonably good, but our defence is woeful

Quoted from MaccasBoots

Good thing we got rid of Hurst eh!

Yep, he might have signed another load of crap players.

Take the first minute away and we've been by far the better side, can actually see patterns of play and combinations. Why on earth Tony Glennon has been sat at home most weeks is baffling, his set piece delivery should be enough to get him in alone

Unlucky there.
At least we look a lot better and more inventive going forward.

When I walked away from BP after the first game I really thought we'd significantly strengthened defensively. What on earth has happened to this squad?

COme on Town .  We can get back in this.  

Tbf our work rate in the last 10 / 15 has been the best I’ve seen this season . Shame we can’t finish atm

1 down but the best I've seen us for a good bit.
Come on Town

Glennons crossing is ridiculously good today

Looking at the application and effort I’m guessing the new man is watching this ?

Quoted from lukeo

Glennons crossing is ridiculously good today

looks like the Anthony Glennon we had on loan, really energetic up and down that left hand side.

Town's work down the left is excellent. It's coming, for sure. Just that final shot.  At least we are not turning back much.

Defense looks shocking, how many long balls are getting through?

Glennon has out some fantastic crosses in.

At least we’re showing a bit of fight today

Stephen Wearne puts Gateshead 2 up and Rumarn Burrell scores for Cove

Same problems when we go forwards still, no one ever there, only ever 2 maybe 3 in the box and they're all stood together never spread out to give options for the cross or pass, no one ever arriving late on the edge etc etc

0-1 down, but not been this much entertained in a long time.

I'm a bit worried !

Trailing 0-1 at home and i'm quite enjoying this for a change !!!!!!

Andrews and Glennon looking particularly good !

My only worry is that we look wide open on the counter.

UTM.

There 2 ways you can look at this, the lads are having a go and they aren’t far off or they’re having a go and aren’t good enough.

Quoted from Spidey

0-1 down, but not been this much entertained in a long time.

This

Don't have the killer touch.  Good diagonal balls and threaded passes. Better set pieces. Frustrating we are not back level.

Quoted from GibMariner

This

Being entertained won't take us up the League.

This ref is making some strange decisions.

We look soo much better than we have for ages. Ben and Shaun have taken the reigns off and told them to go for it. Alright, we've been wasteful in front of goal but with a little bit of lady luck and a modicum of composure we'll soonl be up and running like a proper team again.

How many more times is a dopey sod in the crowd going to throw the ball onto the pitch when we're trying to get the ball back into play quickly?

Quoted from 123614

Being entertained won't take us up the League.

No, but it would suggest we are playing better football, creating more chances (even if we're not taking them at the moment), and suggests we may be going in a better direction at least then we have been in the last 3 or 4 games

Just out of interest, when was the last time we scored at the Pontoon end? 🤔

I've not noticed it as much in other games, but we've got some dim fans throwing the ball into play when it's a multiball system.

Quoted from Badger57

We look soo much better than we have for ages. Ben and Shaun have taken the reigns off and told them to go for it. Alright, we've been wasteful in front of goal but with a little bit of lady luck and a modicum of composure we'll soonl be up and running like a proper team again.

Manager bounce but need some luck. Come on Town

Ball in face = head injury.  Joke.

A new manager is needed to sort out the defence. For all the nice play down our left Morecambe have still outscored us and created better chances.

A half that sums up our season.

Most probably get shot down for this but I think, apart from our weakness to defend, that was a huge improvement of what has been given to us in the last few months.

Town have been working on set pieces.  Also heading looks improved.

Quoted from tashee69

Most probably get shot down for this but I think, apart from our weakness to defend, that was a huge improvement of what has been given to us in the last few months.

No I agree, we've at least looked better going forward, which is an improvement on the last 4 or 5 games even if we aren't making use of our chances yet. We know our defence is weak at the moment, but there's at least one bright spark to this game so far

Quoted from tashee69

Most probably get shot down for this but I think, apart from our weakness to defend, that was a huge improvement of what has been given to us in the last few months.

I think most would agree with that but the first 2 minutes was pure car crash. We're acceptable in parts, but in the majority, extremely poor

That last 25 is the best we’ve played all season . We have a plan

Catastrophic error from Maher for the early goal, not just fluffing his easy header, but actually playing it directly to their forward and we weren't prepared for the midfield runners. Other than that (and one or two slightly shaky moments), we've done most of the attacking, but you've got to hit the target. A few headers where we could have done better and Holohan:s shot over the bar was probably the worst miss. We've played some reasonably good stuff and both of their full-backs look like they can be got at. Question is, can we take one (or more) of these chances, or are we going to gift them another?

Awful defending for the goal but seemed to have reorganized.  Much better getting forward.  Wilson is much more composed in front of goal so needs to come on.  At least the players look as if they care.

Fragile at back not bad going other way

yaaaa  

1-1 Rose