Millwall Match Discussion Thread
By Deadly Submarine
January 16 2009
If you're unable to make the trip to Millwall on Saturday afternoon, why not discuss the game right here as Tranmere play their first game of 2009 following back-to-back postponements in recent weeks due to the cold spell of weather which obliterated the Football League schedule.
At Total Tranmere, we always like to take note of feedback from the users of the site and respond to it in the best way we can. One thing we have picked up on more recently is that after Tranmere games there seem to be a lot of different threads that get started about the same game. Tranmere are of course playing away at Millwall on Saturday afternoon in Coca-Cola League One so if you're not going to the game, why not join in the banter right here while the game is going on and even discuss the team news and build up to the game beforehand too? Maybe if you have a friend or family member texting you from the game you can post their views here for others to see as the game progresses. Or why not post the line-ups or anything else you can think of. You could also use this thread to discuss other interesting scores in League One as well. What you discuss below is up to you but hopefully it can all be focused on one thread to make it easier for everyone to use. 

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:01:23:13:15:30 by Deadly Submarine.
I'm going for 2-1 Millwall. The Tranmere team will be..
Coyne
Shotton
Chorley
Goodison
Taylor
Shuker
Jennings
Kay
Sonko
Moore
Savage
The only alternative to that might be Edds instead of Sonko and a 4-5-1 formation (with Moore on the wing) but I hope that isn't the case!
Tranmere Fans = 325
Thoughts?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:01:16:23:45:08 by Deadly Submarine.
Again a lack of use of the substitutes, despite the options on the bench, Gornell, Cresswell and Barnett, who could all come on and make a difference.
Millwall are a good team though I guess we shouldn't be too dissapointed.
Only going by the radio, will wait till someone attended the game comes and discusses the game in full.
Taylor was dreadful AGAIN. He hasn't played well in a long time and it's about time that Cressa was given a go. Seriously when was the last time Taylor had a good game? I'm not usually the one to call for a player to be dropped but I think dropping Andy might wake him up a bit.
Ryan was pretty good and t was nice to see him back in Tranmere colours. He looks to have been working on his throws, he reached the peno spot with the one at the end =D
As Troupy said Bas ran his socks off but WE NEED A GOALSCORER. As much as Bas Savage is a good player, he is not a goalscorer and it is in that department that we are lacking right now. Bas needs someone who can finish alongside him.
One thing that gets me with Ronnie though is his lack of switching it around when we are down. When we went 1-0 down we should have taken off Shuker and brought on Gornell and gone 4-3-3 if you ask me. We need to start taking risks to try and get things out of the games when we go behind.
I agree we were unlucky today. Was a decent game with plenty of banter between the fans, especially the Millwall fan in white. I even got chanted at...hence the nickname =P
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Basically we dominated the game for long spells and as Troupy says we could still have got back in it without the substitutions and at the time I didn't particularly think we needed to make them.
Looking back now though we had Barnett who could also have come on and Cresswell could have been given a go for Taylor. If I had made any changes I'd have taken off Sonko and moved Shuker out wide with Gornell upfront
The reason we lost though was failing to shoot (again) in the right positions and not taking chances. Ben Chorley's overhead kick would have been goal of the season and it was a great save by their Keeper!
Kay was Man of the Match by a long way with great performances also from Savage (Wooo!) and Chorley as well.
Shotton made a decent return and as Troupy said, he suddenly looks able to throw it long properly and caused them some real problems at times.
Taylor wasn't great again whilst Jennings and Moore also disappointed but despite that we could and should have won. A draw may have been fair but to lose was totally unjust!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2009:01:18:00:24:45 by Deadly Submarine.
