Tranmere Rovers v Walsall Match Discussion

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011:10:24:11:43:06 by Deadly Submarine.

im going for a 2 1 home win expect the same team with joss back on the bench

well I think something will click tomorrow ! going for 4 - 0

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im going for a 2 1 home win expect the same team with joss back on the bench

Joss back on the bench for who do you reckon Mart? I suspect Max unfortunately for the lad.

yeah i would say for max

mmm tough call ! keeper and zoom safe ! one striker ! so Max or Danny H !?!? so need more matches for the ressies ! some of the lads in linbo ! wounder if they could have a friendly behind closed doors ! pleased to read that in Training they are doing more 11 V 11 games ! can't beat playing Football to train and prepair you for a match ! and safe from crunching talkes in house

Going to be an interesting game this. Tranmere doing ever so well at home. Walsall unbeaten in 4 games now in all comps and after last week's surprise win v. Preston a bit of belief is back in the camp. My preddy is 1-1 which I would be happy with.

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Going to be an interesting game this. Tranmere doing ever so well at home. Walsall unbeaten in 4 games now in all comps and after last week's surprise win v. Preston a bit of belief is back in the camp. My preddy is 1-1 which I would be happy with.

well what ever the result tomoz been great to have you on here fella, hope you will keep in touch ! must be my bage ! but think deep down we are just as obsessed with the game as each other ! good luck for the rest of the season sadlad, hope you have a good day bar the result ha

I would expect the subs to be tiryaki joss zoom kay & coughlin

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sadlad
Going to be an interesting game this. Tranmere doing ever so well at home. Walsall unbeaten in 4 games now in all comps and after last week's surprise win v. Preston a bit of belief is back in the camp. My preddy is 1-1 which I would be happy with.

We're actually playing better away from home than at home.

c'mon Rovers !!

sounds like Lucus having another great game ! Zoom up with a header !

ooo not good need a change ! enoch don't seem to be a threat !

as it stands up to 8th !

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sadlad
Going to be an interesting game this. Tranmere doing ever so well at home. Walsall unbeaten in 4 games now in all comps and after last week's surprise win v. Preston a bit of belief is back in the camp. My preddy is 1-1 which I would be happy with.

safe trip home Lad !

Good win against a skillful side. Weir's goal was a beauty. We iacked a bit of creativity and Enoch looks lost. Welsh had a solid game and, hopefully, that's the first of many league goals for Muzzie. Come back soon Robbo.

Cheers for the comments, @gony. Thought Tranmere deserved the win as they had more shots and forced Jimmy Walker into three fine saves. Your first goal was classy but disappointed with our defending on your second. A bit of hope for us at 1-1 thanks to good work by Jamie Patterson who forced your keeper into a fine save and we scored from the resulting corner. If only Taundry's direct free kick would have gone in on 90mins! It appeared to strike the corner of the post and bar but that would have been rough justice on Rovers. Dunno where the ref found the five mins stoppage time from! Then played another couple on top of that. May sound like sour grapes but he found so many niggly fouls against us it was a joke! Very clean game and he could have let it flow a bit more.

Five mins stoppage time seemed OTT BUT if the rule is 30 secs per goal/sub then there were 8 subs and goals combined which is 4 mins and then a minute of general stoppages. Going by that it's technically right but agree, didn't feel like a half of football which warranted an extra five minutes.

Referee was best we've had all season but Kop end linesman was poor.

We have had far worse refs this season agree. A game of no bad tackles.

A great result. I did feel as if it might stay at 1-1 which would have bene a bit dissapointing, as I'd hoped for a win, but I was happy with the result and it came back to 2 points off the playoffs and 3 places gained.

However I have bit of a bad omen about Tuesay night games as many seem to go sour and Les and the team are due 3 back to back league wins, becasue he hasn't done it and the team have not done it since Ronnies final season when it happened twice.

Especially as Hartlepool lost 3 then got a 3-1 win.

I think with the Scunthorpe game there's potentially 4 back to back wins on the cards, but Tuesdays seem to be more of a sour outcome than a positive one. Certainly in the last 2 years anyway.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

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Mikey
Five mins stoppage time seemed OTT BUT if the rule is 30 secs per goal/sub then there were 8 subs and goals combined which is 4 mins and then a minute of general stoppages. Going by that it's technically right but agree, didn't feel like a half of football which warranted an extra five minutes.
Referee was best we've had all season but Kop end linesman was poor.

There were 6 subs but the ref was by far the best I've seen all season-excellent.The only questionable decision was the 5 minutes.

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sadlad
Cheers for the comments, @gony. Thought Tranmere deserved the win as they had more shots and forced Jimmy Walker into three fine saves. Your first goal was classy but disappointed with our defending on your second. A bit of hope for us at 1-1 thanks to good work by Jamie Patterson who forced your keeper into a fine save and we scored from the resulting corner. If only Taundry's direct free kick would have gone in on 90mins! It appeared to strike the corner of the post and bar but that would have been rough justice on Rovers. Dunno where the ref found the five mins stoppage time from! Then played another couple on top of that. May sound like sour grapes but he found so many niggly fouls against us it was a joke! Very clean game and he could have let it flow a bit more.

I agree with all your comments Sadlad apart from the ones about the ref who IMO was excellent.I thought you were a much better team than last season especially in the second half.

Interested about what their manager had to say - basically that they were the better team and at 1-1 it looked like only one team would win. Must have seen a different game from me. We weren't great but we easily outplayed them.

Good tonsee us getting so many shots on target. I thought Lucas was our best player again. He's a different player this season. He used to run in straight lines and always seemed to lose possession. Now he weaves in and out and the ball just sticks to his feet and he beats his man every time. He's also putting quality balls in the box. He also doesnt seem to get tired and can do his best work at the end if the match when the opposition gets tired. I'd say his form is the biggest single reason why we are on a good run at the moment.

Didn't see much of Baxter today despite what les said. Hope we get him for another month though.

Hoots Mon, you beat me to it about the ref. Always a good sign of a ref is if you hardly see him and we didn't for most of the match.

As for Rovers, well what another good performance that was an deserved of the 3 points. Thought Weir was superb today, ran the midfield with Welsh and took his goal brilliantly. Another couple of dissapointing performances from Enoch and McGurk, although McGurks cross for the goal was class. Once the 2 forward players return, you've got to look at dropping Enoch who again today was poor. Although personally I'd give Tiryaki a run in the team, won't do Enoch any harm to sit on the bench for a bit and see what muzzy has got.

Anyway, enough of the negatives, thought we were brilliant today. Defensively we were solid, Ash is growing week by week, the full backs again were class and Akins continues to impress.

Special mention for Walsall though, thought they played well when we gave them time to and their No 15 is absolute class.

I thought Weir and Welsh were our two best players and Showunmi our worst-I thought Akins was poor first half but better in the second.Agree about their no 15-it took a great save to stop him equalising when it was 1-0.

Pretty sure there was only five subs in the second half, Walsall's first one was after like half an hour wasn't it (so 1st half)

Good result but we are still lacking that killer touch plenty of ball`s into the box that go begging ,seem to sit back a lot in the second half so their goal was on the cards but a well timed sub in Mustafa who in the end poached the goal(hope it`s the first of many)think it`s time he was given a run. Enoch is putting in work but seems a little less effective than last year but still should be in the frame some were perhaps time on the bench or play along side Mustafa in some games(drop McGurk?).Only other minor item could Ash stop the habit when clearing the ball up the field(or trying to pass)ending up giving it to the opposition over all played well(myself when fit would have McChrystal in place of Ash).
Hope we can keep it tight for the next two away games and get at least 3points from one of the games(1 win better than two draws) onwards and upwards.

Ash can't be dropped while he is playing as well as he is.

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Mikey
Pretty sure there was only five subs in the second half, Walsall's first one was after like half an hour wasn't it (so 1st half)

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Correct Mikey. 29 minutes!

We went level and I was resigned to seeing what we've seen in the past which is we either fell apart or settled for the draw. Excellent substutution. Zoom supplied the ball in and Mustapha flicked it in. Mainly because he got himself in front of goal. Enoch is not going to score standing outside the box.

A pleasing win played well in parts without really hitting top form, they tried to pass the ball around and at times in the second half cause us problems.

I think we have to drop Enoch for a couple of games at least as he looks well off the pace and for me is too easily nocked off the ball and is not threatening at all.

I fancy our chances of beating Hartlepool on tuesday as their home form is bit dodgy.

Hartlepool did win 3-2 on Saturday though and Tuesdays are more often than not games where points get dropped for one reason or another. or the team doesn't perform.

These are all the results from Tuesday league games since the start of last season.


Sheffield Wednesday 4-0 defeat

Carlisle 2-0 defeat

Notts County 3-2 defeat

Brentford 2-1 defeat

Carlisle 2-1 defeat

Bristol Rovers 1-0 defeat

Hartlepool 1-0 defeat

Notts County 1-0 defeat

Exeter 1-1

Rochdale 1-1

Swindon 0-0

Bristol Rovers 1,0 win

Sheffield Wednesday 3,0 win

I'm hoping Tranmere can get a 3rd league win in a row and set up the chance for a 4th, but I'm not overly positive given the past results and a 1-0 will do frankly.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

I thought the most pleasing aspect of saturday was the character shown to go and the get the winner after the set back of their equaliser. Not sure that would have happened last season.

Not a great performance, it was a drab game a I thought. Still it is 3 points, and that is important when you consider how bad our record is away to Hartlepool and on Tuesdays in general.

One thing Mustafa has to improve on if he goes on to score more goals for the first team(25+ will do)is his dance celebrationif he carry`s on like he did on Saturday(as seen on Football League Show) we will have bring in Baz Savage(their seemed to be more co-ordination with Baz) as his stand in to do his celebration dance routine.

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Not a great performance, it was a drab game a I thought. Still it is 3 points, and that is important when you consider how bad our record is away to Hartlepool and on Tuesdays in general.

It was a better game and performance than the Oldham one the previous week.

That was Mustapha's Turkish dance.