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A little bit crafty of us to line-up with 12 players but these are desperate times I suppose.

Edit: original Tweet from Town had 12 players in the line-up with Hendrie also starting. Now corrected.

What’s the shape 4-5-1?

Quoted from Nutsy

What’s us the shape 4-5-1?

Looks to me like a "shut up shop" starting 11 then try n nick a goal second half, just hope it doesn't bite us on the posterior..

Quoted from Nutsy

What’s the shape 4-5-1?

I'm reading it as 3-5-2, with Hewitt part of a back three.

Eastwood
Hewitt - Waterfall - Menayese
Morais - Rose - Matete - El Mizouni - Bunney
Adams - Payne

Can't see how else it would work.

I'd guess so with El Mizouni the furthest forward of the midfield 3?

(Getting into the pockets, as they appear to be called these days)

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Looks to me like a "shut up shop" starting 11 then try n nick a goal second half, just hope it doesn't bite us on the posterior..

Where IS the bloody shop, that’s what I want to know?

Quoted from Heisenberg

Where IS the bloody shop, that’s what I want to know?

Pesky Germans bomb it 1943

Could be 4 5 1

Had to google who Adam’s was.

Internet suggests he’s a midfielder

I just did the exact same thing! Been so long since these lads signed up now eh
Please Town do the biz tonight PLEASE

I know more about Crawley players as I do about ours!

Adams isn't a striker and Morais isn't a wing back so can't see it being 3-5-2. 4-5-1 with the wide men high can work well. Kept us up under Jolley.

Come on Town!

BBC (what do they know?) have guessed us line-up to be:

                                     44Eastwood
22Hewitt             6Waterfall             26Menayese           3Bunney
18Morais      4Rose      20Matete              38El Mizouni      45Adams
                                           40Payne


Seems plausible to me (what do I know?).




Edit: 4-1-4-1 with Rose shielding the back line, maybe?

thought we were supposed to be at home, that line up is a bit protective, but what do i know

Jeez could we do with a win.

Come on lads.

Quoted from psgmariner

Had to google who Adam’s was.

Internet suggests he’s a midfielder

And by far our best player at Newport

Are we not supposed to name a home grown player in the match squad.....no Pollock or Clifton.....we don't want a point deduction, we don't have any to start with!

Let’s kick start the season tonight ! Get behind Hurst and then boys ! I can see 3 pts tonight

3 Points all the way moving up

This time it's going to be different

Quoted from pontoonlew

And by far our best player at Newport

matter of opinion...felt he was a little light on end product myself but i will take into account trying to pick a cross out on that ploughed field would be difficult.

Quoted from GrimRob

This time it's going to be different

We're going to lose against 9 men   ??)

Come on Town.

Looks like a lack of strength/height in that team, but I'll be positive till Crawley score  :o

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Looks like a lack of strength/height in that team, but I'll be positive till Crawley score  :o

We'll have to score two

Bloody adverts I was listening to Hursty there.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Bloody adverts I was listening to Hursty there.

Put RH on and switch the vol off till match starts

Quoted from promotion plaice

Bloody adverts I was listening to Hursty there.

haha...same here.

Not normally on this iPad, but does anyone know why I've just got a black screen on ifollow?

C'mon you Mighty Mariners. :)

We've lost I'm sorry guys.
Not because of the team, pitch, tactics etc but because I've got us in a bet to win.
9/5!!! For me I think it's very good odds so I had to do it. I'm sorry! 😂

Utfm!!!! Looking forward to this. I've spent far too much on ifollow this season

Quoted from HarrogateMariner

Are we not supposed to name a home grown player in the match squad.....no Pollock or Clifton.....we don't want a point deduction, we don't have any to start with!

Yes what happened to the home grown rule I thought the number was to increase each year but not heard any thing about it for a while

Quoted from lukeo

We've lost I'm sorry guys.
Not because of the team, pitch, tactics etc but because I've got us in a bet to win.
9/5!!! For me I think it's very good odds so I had to do it. I'm sorry! 😂

Utfm!!!! Looking forward to this. I've spent far too much on ifollow this season

Good job you live down in the West Country 😎

Bloody windy for the game again. Seems to happen every match day.

Wtf is that defending waterfall

Poor defending again, we got lucky.

Well that should have gone in for them

Waterfall proving as useful as a chocolate teapot once again.

Fucking hell, he's a good player too, thought we were 1 down there.

I am now on the edge - if they score in the next 10 minutes we are gone.for sure.

We look shaky at the back for sure

Anybody else lost Comms on ifollow??

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

I am now on the edge - if they score in the next 10 minutes we are gone.for sure.

I find alcohol helps when watching Town   ;)

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

I am now on the edge - if they score in the next 10 minutes we are gone.for sure.

There's plenty of undrunk beer in the world.

It helps.

Needed a goal on the end of that move.

Christ. When Hewitt is the best defender out of those 4, you know you've got problems
They're going to score at least one  : ??)  ??)

Think that's 3 good chances and 2 half chances for creepy and only 15 mins gone

Town looking ok, if they manage to get to half time without being behind we could win this with the wind behind us 2nd half.

Currently on the Italian Gavi vino- it numbs the brain - the pain  is bearable once the bottle has gone.

They got the wind this half for their attack

Quoted from Humbercod

Town looking ok, if they manage to get to half time without being behind we could win this with the wind behind us 2nd half.

Knowing our luck the wind will change

Really poor that From Bunney. Our wingers not in the game yet. Wind of course not helping

1-0 come on town

get the intercourse in lads

YES hahahha

Get in Morais

Get in!!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!

GET IN!

Get in there come on town!!!!

Get in there!!!

C,Mon Town!!

A bit of luck! Yes yes yes yes!!!!!!!

Morais eith a 30 yard piledriver 8)4

Weve got a goal and they havnt! Whats this called again? I think it begins with w

The keeper will be disappointed with that

But I wasn't  :)

Lovely stuff, great strike..

Typical just missed the goal saying goodnight to my daughter!

Quoted from promotion plaice

Get in Morais

Strange. One of their old players scores for us. It’s usually the other way round.

When do we start taking it into the corner? ;)

Get in! Hopefully their keeper can chuck another couple in  8)

Fortunate perhaps, but it was only possible because we've shown some attacking intent and backed it up with some ideas. Absolute night and day between this and our performances going forward in recent games.

We do look a little vulnerable at the back at times and I'm still to be convinced by Menayese, but this is much better.

Quoted from bawarmy

Strange. One of their old players scores for us. It’s usually the other way round.

Oh now you’ve gone and f#cking done it!

Refs having a good game.

At the time of typing

"were not bottom, were not bottom,

WERE NOT BOTTOM ANYMORE"

Getthefuckin! Forgot how to spell that.

Why the intercourse do we go to Hull when nothing is happening there and there's a corner in our game?

Quoted from promotion plaice

Refs having a good game.

Should probably have signed him in January then

Quoted from bawarmy

Strange. One of their old players scores for us. It’s usually the other way round.

Yes but they have Two of ours!

Come on Oldham need you to win Barrow

To get that back of the Main Stand feeling, I've scrolled my screen up so I can't see the far side of the pitch.

Oh no where did we get bunny from  ;D ;D ;D
He'd look out of place playing left back for crows nest

Seriously though, I don't think we can play many more games with him let alone the rest of the season

Cool that we still give away loads of flipping moronic free kicks all around our area all the time. Morons

Ffs

It was coming 1-1

That didnt last long

What was the wall doing

Why didnt the wall jump!?

Stupid foul for the freekick but that was a good goal to concede

If Morais jumps there and takes one in the face then that doesn’t go in.

1-1   :-/

Get in level at HT and with the wind behind us who knows.

Bunney, Menayese and Waterfall are absolutely flipping shite

On the positive side, we're half hour in and not losing.

Good strike to be fair.

Quoted from Hagrid

Why didnt the wall jump!?

Probably told not to and hope the wind carried the ball up and over

We really aren't getting the luck of the bounce

Quoted from pontoonlew

Bunney, Menayese and Waterfall are absolutely flipping shite

Don't talk rubbish!

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Probably told not to and hope the wind carried the ball up and over

That would make sense if they were kicking into the wind.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

On the positive side, we're half hour in and not losing.

And we've scored. I'd have taken that after 33 mins, with a strong bench (by our standards) as well.

Surely there was a handball there? Just got to try m get thru to half time level

Wonder if i dare say it in fear of being called a drug addicted whatever from Kris 2

But the defence particuarly Bunney/Meneyasie look very poor

Quoted from 123614

Don't talk rubbish!

Not one of them have been capable of stringing a 5 yard pass together and we look vulnerable every time the ball comes towards them

Need to get in at 1-1

Luck for us volley hit bar

Crawley hit the bar.we look all over the place at the back at times.bunney having a mare.
Colchester losing again.they really are on the slide

This formation isn't working at all. Got to go 442 with Hanson on

We are absolutely rancid at the back. Amazed we didn't sign a replacement for Waterfall (although if he was replaced with someone at a similar standard to Menayese it wouldn't have made much difference)

We’ve signed 2 left backs who are complete crocks . Wtf ?!

Only a matter of time before we give a pen away

the wind looks to be a nightmare.

He has to be replaced at half time and given his p45. Never seen a player so out of his depth

Bit of gamesmanship there by Crawley. Player going down when we have the ball in their end.

Bunny's rubbish going forward and his defending is not much better

What happened to your positivity DB?  ;D

H-T not losing

Got to ht level, when we should be 2 or 3 down, so I will take that

Hurst needs to sort this, 2nd best for most of the half, thankful for the opening goal, as we would almost certainly be heading for another defeat....over to you Mr Hurst

Wind to our advantage in the second half

Quoted from pontoonlew

Not one of them have been capable of stringing a 5 yard pass together and we look vulnerable every time the ball comes towards them

Again, you're talking rubbish, or watching a different game to me.

Back 4 awful. Maybe exception of Hewitt. Lucky to not be losing at HT

The wind clearly caused us issues that half hopefully  we can use it to our advantage this half

Quoted from 123614

Again, you're talking rubbish, or watching a different game to me.

Admire your optimism but you’re delusional. We should be 3/4 down man

Bunney struggled with his passing against Newport also I remember, hopefully that comes with game time but that needs to come quickly as we don't have 6 or 7 games to get them match fit.

Menayese has not impressed me at all as yet, the defence still looks very dodgy.

Hopefully we can take advantage of having the wind going for us in the 2nd half.

Please explain who’s been so bad at the back. Surely that’s hursts strength

Positive we scored first
Negs, gave away another free kick for their goal, wall useless
No attack only 1 or2 up in their box
They attack in numbers

2nd half all to do but the wind should favour us. Crawley showed how to play with the wind so lets hope Town have learnt.

Difficult conditions I think in a couple of small patches wevee knocked it around well. I want us to come out second half with the wind on our side and improve and get more on the ball.  This is winnable! Utm

Ps id get someone alongside Payne aswell.

Quoted from Hagrid

Admire your optimism but you’re delusional. We should be 3/4 down man

Well we lack pace at the back mixed with the wind against us so that made us look really shakey that half

Don’t deserve to be level. Simple as that. The second half will tell us hi much of that crap we can blame on the wind.

We looked like a team at Newport despite having only just met, now we look like who’ve only just met met despite having weeks together to get to know each other.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Well we lack pace at the back mixed with the wind against us so that made us look really shakey that half

Thats true.

Quoted from 123614

Again, you're talking rubbish, or watching a different game to me.

None of our defenders are playing well, we’re fortunate not to be losing.

I'm pretty happy with that, we were playing some nice football till they scored hopefully we start doing that again in the 2nd half.

Waterfall is having a mare and Hellmans is yet to do anything to impress.

The wind looks like its playing a big part hopefully we can use it to get Payne in over the top

Shame we conceded, but at least we look like we could win it for a change.

Quoted from Hagrid

Admire your optimism but you’re delusional. We should be 3/4 down man

But we aren't are we?  I'm sure you are well aware of how difficult it is to play in very windy conditions, I think we have done well against the wind, and their goal was the result of a midfielder making a bad tackle for the free kick they scored from.

Quoted from Hagrid

Wonder if i dare say it in fear of being called a drug addicted whatever from Kris 2

But the defence particuarly Bunney/Meneyasie look very poor

You must be watching a different game to me if you’re singling Menayese out over waterfall. No coincidence that they’re aiming balls over waterfalls head.

2nd best the moment but at least we are level. Wind causing problems for us which we can hope it is the same for them 2nd half. It is still a hard watch and the table standings looks ominous for the Marriners

Quoted from Mariner93er

You must be watching a different game to me if you’re singling Menayese out over waterfall. No coincidence that they’re aiming balls over waterfalls head.

No i completely agree

Shoot on sight second half.

We can win this if we play the conditions right

will take 1-1 at half time playing against a wind like that and after serving up some easy chances for them.

Positives - looks like we have plenty of energy and desire and a decent goal from someone being brave/ confident enough to shoot on site.

Negatives - too susceptible to a simple over the top ball , when we defend we are chasing the ball like schoolboys, especially around our area, swarming to the ball but leaving men open , cant afford to do that all night or they will eventually pick the right pass.  Payne completely isolated. Close to leaving our legs out in the area too for the simple penalty concede.
Left side again our weak point going forward , Adams looked lost there.

Good wind behind us should help second half so if we can keep some of the energy and test that keeper with some shoot on site policy we may come out on top.

Need to improve massively in 2nd half

Matete non-existent

Bunny hasn’t been able to pass wind

Not good enough to win on that first half performance

Quoted from Hagrid

Admire your optimism but you’re delusional. We should be 3/4 down man

But were not. 4/6 weeks ago they'd have gone in.Times are changing. Town looked ragged but are still in it. Get a goal, don't know from where, and a win is still on the cards  

Quoted from Mariner93er

You must be watching a different game to me if you’re singling Menayese out over waterfall. No coincidence that they’re aiming balls over waterfalls head.

They've both been shite, as has Bunney. Amazing it's 1-1 really. Hopefully the wind helps us 2nd half.

Everyone saying about the wind, but it's their clever,tricky players up front who are causing havoc.as Abdul said a crawley penalty looks almost inevitable.
I'd just remind you've theyve only won 1 in 6 ,and yet they look a step above us

Quoted from moosey_club

will take 1-1 at half time playing against a wind like that and after serving up some easy chances for them.

Positives - looks like we have plenty of energy and desire and a decent goal from someone being brave/ confident enough to shoot on site.

Negatives - too susceptible to a simple over the top ball , when we defend we are chasing the ball like schoolboys, especially around our area, swarming to the ball but leaving men open , cant afford to do that all night or they will eventually pick the right pass.  Payne completely isolated. Close to leaving our legs out in the area too for the simple penalty concede.
Left side again our weak point going forward , Adams looked lost there.

Good wind behind us should help second half so if we can keep some of the energy and test that keeper with some shoot on site policy we may come out on top.

Decent goal? It was a goalkeeper howler but I’ll take a scruffy lucky goal all day long

wind very bad making it difficult for our back four first half , see if we can do same to them i'd put hanson or shop on 2nd half put cross after cross into box nxt goal wins

midfield gone missing barring rose tbh, mattete and el no where to be seen.  if they get a grip on the game it may help the defence.
swap the wingers and i think bunney could use morais help.

Strong bench for us, hopefully we will nick it.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Strong bench for us, hopefully we will nick it.

No problem definite win for us

OK its only 5 minutes but we clearly need a 2nd striker up top with Payne he's so issolated

Hewitt’s long throws are looking dangerous.

Jesus...Hanson would have field day with these crosses!!

Don't like this handball rule. Its nonsense

That handball happened in the box in the first half. Nothing given

Quoted from forza ivano

I think this Bunney needs putting out of its misery!!

Bunny rubbish free kick

Surely you'd put hendrie on at half time

Need two Upfront.

Why aren't we using the wind like they did

Get Hanson on.

Quoted from forza ivano

Not one of those signings that put the hares up on the back of your neck  ;)

Town have no idea here to clear the ball. Just hit into empty spaces

Poor Payne has got no chance

Finally a 2nd striker

Positive substitution
Sorry don't think mich of Bunny and Hewitt still a nothing player.

Bunny having a bad game. He's got mixie

Get Hendrie on for bunney

Is JT drunk?

Not enjoying this at all......

Wtf are you doing ref

Abject officiating, this referee is a clown if he couldn't see there was contact there. Adams was past the defender so why would he be going down deliberately in that position outside the area?

Quoted from 123614

Is JT drunk?

He's not having a great game, seems to be missing great chunks of play

Quoted from 123614

Is JT drunk?

Ball goes out for an obvious throw. JT . Yes an obvious free kick there. 😳

Finally a second striker he listened.. Let's try again

We need pace upfront and a goal please

Bunny going to lose us this game

Bunney is dogshit isn’t he?

I've given Bunney the benefit of the doubt for 70 minutes but he is having a real stinker

Defends like he drives

Menayese and Bunney are as bad as any Holloway signing

Waterfall really is a horror show

Bunney is crap. Useless against Newport even worse tonight. Hurst has not changed sits on his hands watching this crap. No plan b never has had

Bunney is awful. He doesn't warren,t a place.

It was outside the box JT, get some new glasses.

No engine room, No attack

Quoted from Chrisblor

Abject officiating, this referee is a clown if he couldn't see there was contact there. Adams was past the defender so why would he be going down deliberately in that position outside the area?

He not fit enough to keep up with play.

He’s trying the old PE teacher trick of not leaving the centre circle and guessing if he’s not sure.

If everyone was putting in a similar level of effort to Morais we might have a chance of winning this. Doesn't reflect well on the rest of the squad when a 35 year old has the highest work rate out of them all!

Think it's a good job we're not in the ground. The atmosphere would be poisonous.

Might as well have inspector cloueseu at left back
Why is Hewitt on the left side defending when bunny is strolling around in no man's land

No way we are staying up on this performance against the mighty Crawley.

2-1 come on town hold on now

2-1

Adams!!

As soon as crawley up a gear we look in trouble

Quoted from promotion plaice

No way we are staying up on this performance against the mighty Crawley.

Get in..commentators curse   ;D

GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

Get in

YESSSSSSSSSSS!

Quoted from Marinerdan

Hewitt’s long throws are looking dangerous.

Told ya

Gettt innn town

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Lovely finish, now let's not do anything stupid in the last 10 minutes

We're scoring for fun!!

No hurry now Town. Don't rush these free kicks.

Unbelievable!! Is this our lucky night? We have been awful to be honest.....

Win ugly you girl privates

Please hold on . Please hold on

Come on Oldham

3 out of 4 of my asks have happened. Thank you Hurst.

Just hold on
Come on
Somehow hold on

Hopefully Coke can get us across the line...

Big flipping hanson thats what he does!!!

Come on Town please!!

Gaining points on the 7 teams above us. None of which are winning

Absolutely not a penalty. Not even close.

Gracious me this is nerve wracking

VAR gives that as a penalty in my opinion

Barrow score

Take your time with this free kick

With all these changes how the hell has Bunney remained on the pitch. Total liability tonight.

Barrow score

A tondeur last five minutes me dicky ticker won’t take it

Last time we scored 2 goals was back in November 2020 when we beat Crawley 2-1.

Hewitt needs shooting for that, lazy very lazy!!

I think Colchester will soon be joining us in our relegation bloodbath

Bunney is absolutely tragically bad

Barrow Winning

Bunney off - nice one

Bunny now needs shooting as well 🤬

intercourse sake he’s awful

Ref didus a favour and got rid of Bunny

Barrow won

Bunney shouldn't wear a town shirt again, he is so slow and uncomfortable on the ball

Bunney told to hop it

How many times have we given the ball away softly from set pieces and simple passes?

Bunney sent off.what a relief

Phew

And relax....FT Town 2-1 Crawley   :)

A win is a win, onwards and upwards now

WIN

Thank intercourse for that.
Paul Hurst wants shooting for playing him, even worse for keeping him on the field. Pay him up for Christ's sake

Keeps our faint hope alive / delays the inevitable

Utm

Great stuff Town, well played all the lads.  UTM.

Horrible, scrappy, scruffy, lovely

Well that worked out alright in the end. Power of positive thinking.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Quoted from psgmariner

Barrow won

So did we!!!

All we can do is focus on ourselves, and beat Barrow away.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Bunney is absolutely tragically bad

To be fair to Bunney he became a dad for the first time yesterday so I suspect he’s all over the place mentally.

Great result for Town, hopefully we can get a run going now.

Look at their whingeing manager.

Quoted from Marinerdan

To be fair to Bunney he became a dad for the first time yesterday so I suspect he’s all over the place mentally.

Nah we’ve had worse this season .....

A win will do wonders for confidence. Games in hand still and Colchester in free fall . Oh and don’t forget about the NL descending into chaos .

We won!!!!!! Thank intercourse  did what we had to do!!!

Quoted from Marinerdan

To be fair to Bunney he became a dad for the first time yesterday so I suspect he’s all over the place mentally.

They’ve been at it like rabbits

Actually think that’s was our worst performance in a few games but we won, funny old game. Anyway, over the moon with that! Got the monkey off our back, now it’s time to kick on

jesus........awful second half , not much better first half.....but we got away with it.   Not pretty at all, massively disorganised at the back throughout.
A welcome 3 points but with Barrow winning it only maintains the status quo really. Just hope Southend drop points tomorrow.  

It’s in our hands. Win our games & we stay up. Great win.

5-15 in shots, 1-7 in corners but 2-1 goals!

Ugly win thank god. Far more questions than answers. But I was so frigging annoyed at Hurst for keeping on a player who was so bad it looked like he could single handedly cost us the win. Thank the lord he misses the next game.

Great win bit gutted barrow got the win late on, scored 2 times in a game in a while amd were if the bottom now with a game in hand over Southend, massive game us vs barrow.

Good 3 points, very lucky, but we perhaps deserved some luck

Quoted from Marinerdan

To be fair to Bunney he became a dad for the first time yesterday so I suspect he’s all over the place mentally.

If so why is in the side??
He was shocking

Quoted from HertsGTFC

So did we!!!

All we can do is focus on ourselves, and beat Barrow away.

That game is one month today. Could be absolutely pivotal.

2 shots on target. 2 goals. That's efficient.  ;)

Now off to Tescos to get some WD-40 as my bum is sounding rather squeaky after that last ~15 minutes

UTM!

That has got to be the worst performance in an age. And absolutely scruffy, ugly daylight mugging of a win


And I blooming love it.

Get in you Mariners

Love to all XX

WE HAVE FXCKING DONE IT YESSSSSSS

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2 positives. We scraped a win and bunney got sent off so Hurst can't pick him next game. What he sees in him is a mystery. Mayonnaise not much better

can't believe it  Thank you Town
;D

Football is a funny old game. After that I’m less convinced we’ll stay up than after the Newport game. We were awful but I’ll take the win......not at all convinced though after that showing...

Quoted from Eastendmariner

can't believe it  Thank you Town
;D

Only 21 points off the play offs

Quoted from oochiad

Football is a funny old game. After that I’m less convinced we’ll stay up than after the Newport game. We were awful but I’ll take the win......not at all convinced though after that showing...

Winning ugly is better than losing playing well at this end of the table.

26 points from 18 games somehow seems far less daunting than 29 from 19.

Well think that could just about scunny apart be our worst performance yet under ph but a massive 3 points pity barrow won , fancy us to go on a run now 👍

A new team of footballers, far from brilliant, but a win, i think the players will be relieved along with the management & us fans, there is now some light in the tunnel, i happen to think a weight has been lifted here & i believe we will improve on the back of this. UTM

Bloody marvellous. All about the result tonjght.

Let's kick on and get a run going now we've got the monkey off our back.

If we do, Barrow winning tonight will be completely irrelevant, as will Southend's result tomorrow night and the outcome of the league that should never be mentioned.

Never watched the game tonight, didn't listen to the commentary and didn't look at the result before reading this thread.

Reading the comments on how cr@p we were/are, imagine my surprise that when I get to half time, we are drawing and at full time we have won.

Judging by some of the comments, we have a worse defence than your average Sunday league team, a terrible midfield, and ineffective strikers.

How on earth did we win?  :-/

Given our team is still getting to know each other; the lack of confidence that come from a long winless run and the terrible weather tonight, I am absolutely ecstatic that we have picked up three points.

Just seen that Barrow won away, which takes the edge off a bit, but you can't control what others are doing.

All in all, a decent week for us results wise apart from the Barrow result tonight and I'm convinced that some other sides are going to drop down to the bottom end.

And 4 of the next 6 matches we have are at home so maybe........just maybe

It wasn't a good performance by any means, but it was 3 points and a start.

As the saying goes play well and deserve to win you lose. Play crap and win you get  3 points. In our position I'll take a crap game and niceties can start next season.

It's odd, I watched the game without particularly following this thread and I really didn't think the performance was that bad; in fact I thought it was a marked improvement on anything I'd seen in the late Holloway / early Hurst days.

We didn't create enough, but I thought we went forward with far more vigour and more ideas than we have for some time, and I at least felt like we had a midfield. Lack of goals aside, the midfield has been the area of greatest concern in recent weeks and I though the likes of Matete and El Mizouni, plus an improved Rose, looked a lot more robust and energetic than previous line-ups.

Was it perfect? No. Bunney in particular looked suspect, though I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt given that he became a dad only yesterday, and there is work to be done at both ends of the pitch. But let's not forget, that is the first time we have taken so much as a point off a top-half side since we beat Cheltenham on 12th October. In fact, if I'm not mistaken it's the only other time we've done that all season.

For me, it's massive progress and a sign that we have a fighting chance of getting out of this mess.

Can't really judge team performances in conditions like tonight.Lets judge them Saturday if conditions are better. Tonight was all about the win. Which we got in dreadful footballing conditions

Quoted from Poojah

It's odd, I watched the game without particularly following this thread and I really didn't think the performance was that bad; in fact I thought it was a marked improvement on anything I'd seen in the late Holloway / early Hurst days.

We didn't create enough, but I thought we went forward with far more vigour and more ideas than we have for some time, and I at least felt like we had a midfield. Lack of goals aside, the midfield has been the area of greatest concern in recent weeks and I though the likes of Matete and El Mizouni, plus an improved Rose, looked a lot more robust and energetic than previous line-ups.

Was it perfect? No. Bunney in particular looked suspect, though I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt given that he became a dad only yesterday, and there is work to be done at both ends of the pitch. But let's not forget, that is the first time we have taken so much as a point off a top-half side since we beat Cheltenham on 12th October. In fact, if I'm not mistaken it's the only other time we've done that all season.

For me, it's massive progress and a sign that we have a fighting chance of getting out of this mess.

I must have seen a different match. Defence highly suspect, couldn't cope with the high balls and speed of attackers. Hursty should put Bunny back in his cage. I'm happy for his new family but it's not an excuse for not doing your job, turn up at any work place and say I'm not putting a shift in because I'm a new parent and what do you think would happen?

Engine room needs improvement, couldn't find the attackers. Kept the ball reasonably well but failed to make use of it. They attacked with 5/6 in our box and we attacked with 2 or 3 if we were lucky. They used the wind to there advantage and we didn't, what's more they also showed how to attack facing the wind. I thought Eastwood did well especially stopping the lob shot. His distribution in the wind in the 2nd half let him down a bit but I felt more reassured with him than Macca.

Any performance is better than the end of the oloway era and 3 points from a crap game is always acceptable. We need to do more especially in the last 3rd, stats say 2 shots on target in 90 mins. Not enough and we'll definitely stay up.

first time (& probably last time)you will see me disagree with poojah and agree with db, but the latter tells it how it was

Yes I saw it sa DB did. I’m more worried about our performance and staying up from tonight as I was against Newport. Still we won and hopefully with out the awful conditions we’ll play much better because in reality we were lucky to get the result tonight. UTM!!

Quoted from oochiad

Yes I saw it sa DB did. I’m more worried about our performance and staying up from tonight as I was against Newport. Still we won and hopefully with out the awful conditions we’ll play much better because in reality we were lucky to get the result tonight. UTM!!

everyone keeps saying about the wind and pitch, but it was the same for both sides, and they didn't seem overly hampered by it - they certainly used the conditions better than we did plus they looked v dangerous whenever they got the ball up top.
ps whoever said mayonnaise was motm needs their head examined. apart from Hewitt (&Waterfall's heading) the defence was a disaster waiting to happen and got very lucky on a number occasions

pps haven't seen any praise for yet another goal saving challenge by the much maligned hewitt

Well we said we wanted to win ugly , that win was the a Quasimodo of 2-1s

Think we need Hendrie back in the back four.

Haven't read the whole thread, but did anyone mention Hewitt's ridiculous back jump double leg block in the box in the second half? It was like a low flying reverse Higuita.

Imagine what some of the comments would have been like if we had lost again!

The team hasn’t played a meaningful game for a fortnight and training must have been disrupted by the weather as well. The only pluses are that it gave time for some to get a bit fitter. The Eastwood signing looks the most significant when the defenders play like school kids. Their keeper made two McKeown type errors and our didn’t which shows why Macca needed a break.

Yes it was crap and I am no fan of Hurst but it is 3 points ........ and at this stage I will take crap play and 3 points any time.