How did he get injured, that clogger smashing into him?
I noticed Scunny subbed him off at half time so they knew he was lucky to get yellow.
Long old time to keep him on considering that happened around 20 minutes. Must’ve been patched up at the break.
Goalkeepers too important a position to be carrying someone injured and can’t do all parts of their job. So if he wasn’t right at half time, surely he should have been subbed then.
D.C. will probably say that he wanted to take him off at half time but Rose insisted that he was OK to carry on.
I blame James Clarke for him not going off and the physio.
If he was struggling there should have been an instruction on the pitch to kick the ball out. That’s basic game management - for the lot of them actually.
Well then it’s up to the medical team and management to make the final call. If people could see him.limping off at half time then he wasn’t right, no matter what he says!
Tbf you could see Rose doing that, given the time he’s spent on the bench.
Yeah, sly challenge. He was never getting the ball and could easily have jumped over him.
I lay the blame for the defeats tonight and against Salford squarely at @Worsul4eva’s door. He has been uncharacteristically optimistic and predicted 3-1 wins in both games, Hopefully, an undiluted dose of pessimism is in order for the Carlisle game and our season might get back on track.
That said he probably takes a better penalty than Gordon’s tonight.
Does’nt show much confidence in Roberts !
I think it’s a scam to try to convince us that he’s not who he really is 
Another game where a missing a penalty to take the lead and the other team scoring shortly after has ultimately cost us, very frustrating and another missed opportunity to get closer to the play offs 
Sorry but I don’t agree. Last time we were in this division the likes of Hartlepool, Lincoln and Swindon…football quality wise were lightyears ahead of this season’s Newport and Forest Green, and Cheltenham. You could be genuinely outplayed by very good teams that season, and sometimes we were - 80 minutes away at Lincoln - torn a new one, the whole game away at Stockport, at home to Swindon, away at Hartlepool, at home v Darlington and Rochdale even though we somehow gleaned 4 points etc etc. I don’t see that happening this season, its just like PT allueded, a mish-mash of mediocrity with different teams taking turns on “the rub” or the worldy.
Salford are the money team in this league, in 2006 you had Darlington, Peterborough, and MKdons all flashing the cash. We were justifyably 14-1 to win the league, and found ways to win games that made a mockery of those odds even if it was often poor fayre, the key was a record number of clean sheets the starting point for most title wins (not that we’re experts in that department). Accrington who finished 5th bottom outscored us yet we ended the season with an incredible +32 goal difference, miles ahead of everyone else and therefore worth an extra point had we needed it - we conceded 34 goals in 46 games, the concession of a goal was almost an act of football criminality.
Can’t wait to hear what the 4th division Pep has to say about tonight.
It is subjective, of course. I remember watching some utter garbage, the difference being that we were very good in comparison to the majority of teams.
Agreed that there were some decent sides as you mention, but now, it is much more even and for me, a better standard of football overall, throughout the division.
Sorry…
Wow!
Printed out, framed & put up on the wall!
Mr Kettles fault. Should have called it off at lunchtime pitch inspection.
This, we simply don’t score enough to win games when we are guaranteed to give away a goal at the least.
We have kept 3 clean sheets all season, the last one coming against Crawley on 3rd November. Therefore we simply have to score more, but we have missed 4 penalties already this season.
As others have said, we aren’t dreadful, but we are not consistently great. Just mediocre, and therefore where we are now in the table is a fairly accurate position.
Noises from the club seems to be not to expect much, if any transfer activity in Jan, so what we have now is what we have got for the season. Clarke has got to start to get a more consistent tune from them or we will be facing a 3rd season in league 2 with what can only be a further reduced playing budget following the reduction in income from the pandemic.
Finishes West Mids 1 - Everyone Else 12
Exactly that.
Dosh was blessed with a back six of Ince, Fox, Gerrard, Dann, Weston and Dobson.
To spot the difference between the two sides you need look no further than a comparison between those six and the current incumbents. And the huge chasm is the middle bit of that I.e the goalkeeper and the two centre halves.
Nothing to do with desire or attitude. Everything to do with ability.
This league in this season has very little to do with who does the most good things. It is to do with who does least bad things. Our opponents are also littered with men who aren’t actually very good at their jobs too. Which is why Dan Scarr occasionally turns up completely unmarked, why we get so many penalties from clumsy challenges as well as the odd clanger.
Of all the games I’ve watched this season in this league there were three really strong performances. Us at Tranmere and then Cambridge and Salford against us. Forest Green also looked good but on that day little end product.
Other than that it has been pretty dire fayre. We sometimes prevail, sometimes don’t. Some could’ve, would’ve, should’ves, ifs, buts and maybes.
So can we be less bad than seven other sides? I’m not sure we can. But back to that back six of 2006/07 - the closest we have now would include Jules at centre back. Which is exactly what I’d do when he is fit again.
I was at the same speed as others tonight just because I have family members who work at virgin media doesn’t mean I get looked after anymore than their other customers 