Match thread

Bogle greedy, Pittman poor, in short, we just don't look good enough. Clay looks twice the player Robinson is though.

not a bad game  but showed that we lack that bit of quality. plenty of comitment but we are a long way short of even a play off stuff never mind champions

Quoted from Rick12

Liked our energy and zest and in truth thought we looked the better side.If we can keep that level of consistency up in every game we should do well this season.

The consistency was the reason we didn't win! Play like the last twenty minutes even just for a half and we'd have won. This is happening too much and when you're prone to letting in daft goals like we are, it doesn't bode well.

Got to say, overall, quite disappointing and frustrating. No shortage of effort but we just didn't do enough throughout the game to win. On that evidence. neither team look like they have enough to win the league. Disappointed in two more dropped points at home and the fact that we never really got control of the game, apart from the last 20 mins of the second half, and, even then, we didn't really create anything. I thought Clay and East played well. Disaapointed in Monkhouse, Arnold, Pittman and Bogle.

Tranmere are obviously decent but its a disappointment to see us fail to make anything of the home advantage and put them under any real pressure, or work their keeper. You just know that if that game had been at Prenton Park, we'd have lost that. Overall, and I'm being honest here, I don't think the situation bodes well for the rest of the season without some marked improvements. 11/12 games is a fair period to make an inital assessment of that.

There are some patterns emerging - lack of presence and pace in centre mid, Arnold and Monkhouse offering little, gaps between the forwards and midfielders, second best with the second ball, sloppy defending and evident defensive vulnerability, and a lack of pace or threat, especially wide left. I suppose we have little option other than to persevere, but it's really only blind faith that would make any fan think we were about to mount any sort of challenge on the top league positions. We do look like a 7th/8th placed team, which is very disappointing.

Caught the last 20 and was impressed by Tomlinson's workrate. It seemed abundantly clear that we have a lack of pace down the left and it just slowed us down.

Good game against good opposition

A good point

Quoted from mariner91

The consistency was the reason we didn't win! Play like the last twenty minutes even just for a half and we'd have won. This is happening too much and when you're prone to letting in daft goals like we are, it doesn't bode well.

Overall though I thought we looked better though.Yes we had patches when we could have done better but you could see the passion was there.Like you said though things could of been better but I was pleased with the performance.

Quoted from 120790

Good game against good opposition

A good point

A pint of what you're on please

watched on telly-could not believe how slow Monkhouse is. Is Hurst capable of motivating a tean because the way we started the 2nd half we looked totally bereft of commitment and desire. Goal again from an individual error, and just as Arnold does get his act together and make good runs he takes him off, when Bogle was struggling to get back into the game. just plain disappointed I suppose.

Tranmere were not good and we were average
Overall just not good enough