Carlisle United v Tranmere Rovers Match Discusson
By Deadly Submarine
December 14 2013
If you can't make Tranmere's game away at Carlisle United on Saturday afternoon, why not join in the banter right here with other Rovers fans who are unable to attend...
Following football even at League One level is pretty expensive these days and no matter how much you love the Rovers, it will sometimes be difficult to make the games in person whether it be the lengthy away trips, or for exiles living elsewhere in the UK or abroad, the home games too.
As a result, for those fans who can't make some of the Rovers games this season, we at Total Tranmere will be providing this match discussion thread for you to discuss developments with the game.

Tranmere of course, travel to Carlisle United in Sky Bet League One on Saturday afternoon, so if you're not going to the game why not join in the banter right here while the game is going on? You could also use this thread to discuss other interesting scores throughout the league as well as discussing this game afterwards if you have been to watch the game live.
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 2013:12:20:13:11:08 by Deadly Submarine.
Every ball is a white ball............TRFC
For away games we really need to be playing 4-5-1 as were conceding far to many goals, a big game now on friday
,oh and no Wallace?
Sorry just checked again it was after 56 seconds not a minute


Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2013:12:14:15:29:46 by BELMONT.
If we were playing only one striker why did we not have a defensive midfielder or why was Kirby dropped.
I see their third goal has been described on their website as ''one of the best goals ever seen at Brunton Park''. From their point of view,I can see why but from our non tackling, backing off team,it was a dreadful shambles. The first goal was a great strike too[same player-Tom Lawrence a Man Utd loanee]but why did we back off so much before he hit it.
For the second goal,their big centre half was making himself very awkward blocking our keeper and defender on the line.OFW seemed more concerned with him[he pulled his shirt at least twice at different times] instead of watching where the ball was. And who was supposed to be marking Amoo?
Why did we only make one substitution when we were doing so 'well'? Maybe Moore thought we were on top!!! They had players warming up regularly and used all their subs. I don't know where ours were.
Could somebody tell Koumas that we were playing in the lighter not darker blue? His corners seemed to be aimed at the latter.
We had good chances in the first half but so did they. OFW made more saves than their keeper did in that period.
And,for those who moan at the loanees,McNulty and Ridehalgh applauded the away fans at the end far more than most of our own players[Lowe particularly and Koumas to a lesser extent excepted.]
Oh and I met a Cumbrian 'prince' at the station both going and coming back- Prince Buaben who was in their midfield. Was a damn sight better than any of ours.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013:12:14:21:26:36 by Hoots Mon.
I say that as somebody who almost always backs the officials more than most.
Tranmere needed to win to make a staement about the cup result and recent events; the statement being that the recent good form would not be jeopardised, because recent events would not divide the club and Ronnie saying 10 points from the next 4 games could be possible.
This kind of result sends out a few bad messages to a prospective buyer and if Tranmere end up getting 0-2 points from the next 3 games, it might put them back in the relegation zone and make them look like a team that were getting good form, will just begin to get terrible form and jeopardise their league one status.
If they can get 7-9 from the next 3 games and get the form back to playoff standards, which it was since that Bradford 1-0, prospective owners will be bouyed, as Tranmere could have had a 1.8 point a game average from the last 10 if they had won, which is top 2 form and they woulod have climbed 5 places as well as it stands.
Sort it out Ronnie and get the team playing like they did against Preston, Coventry and Colchester, because that's the real Tranemre Rovers, not this surrender monkey performance and 14th place is still possible with the next win.
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
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A poor result, simple as that, worse second half than the first and Wallace's unfortunate groin strain could have had na impact with him not able to play.
Tranmere needed to win to make a staement about the cup result and recent events; the statement being that the recent good form would not be jeopardised, because recent events would not divide the club and Ronnie saying 10 points from the next 4 games could be possible.
This kind of result sends out a few bad messages to a prospective buyer and if Tranmere end up getting 0-2 points from the next 3 games, it might put them back in the relegation zone and make them look like a team that were getting good form, will just begin to get terrible form and jeopardise their league one status.
If they can get 7-9 from the next 3 games and get the form back to playoff standards, which it was since that Bradford 1-0, prospective owners will be bouyed, as Tranmere could have had a 1.8 point a game average from the last 10 if they had won, which is top 2 form and they woulod have climbed 5 places as well as it stands.
Sort it out Ronnie and get the team playing like they did against Preston, Coventry and Colchester, because that's the real Tranemre Rovers, not this surrender monkey performance and 14th place is still possible with the next win.
You cherry pick 3 good performances. What about the many more bad ones?
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
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Such as?
Where do I start? From this season. Walsall,Notts County ,Crewe, Peterborough[x 2],Leyton Orient, Carlisle and quite a few other indifferent ones like Port Vale,Swindon,Rotherham to name but 3..
Most of the games from last season from the start of February onwards[Carlisle at home being the first]
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Walsall (Foster could have had some bearing)
Notts County (I agree, that was unnacceptable, because they were a richer club having terrible form that they shouldn't have been getting.)
Crewe (Foster played and Holmes was sent off, but Tranmere still scored with 10 men losing 2-1 and might have drawn or won with 2 fit CB's and 11 v 11 for 90+ minutes)
Peterborough (Foster for half the game and Jones sent off, but the second one was much less excusable with a scoring Lowe, a fit Koumas and also Wallace and Peterson and a stronger back 4, so I agree with your perception of the cup result, but not entirely the league result)
Leyton Orient (I agree to a point, but they were playing a top of the table side and lost Goodison to a red card half way through. I wonder if that had happened against a bigger side like Wolves and not a supposedly overperforming modest budget club, if people would have judged the result differently?)
Carlisle (Very poor indeed and I found the capitulation in the second half embarrassing and a disservice to the club and Carlisle for not giving them the sort of game Tranmere wre capable of with a team I feel half of which were comparable and the other half better than theirs)
Port Vale (A player got sent off unjustly and Tranmere were done by a classy free kick and lost 1-0, so I don't agree with that.)
Swindon (Got done 1-0 and that's only because Hateley gave a soft penalty away, so hardly a terrible result, considering Tranmere held on to keep it 1-0, against a normally bogey side for 1+ hours, who have in recent years scored 3+ goals against Tranmere in a few games.)
Rotherham (Drew to a team I think in the top 6 at the time, so I don't agree with that one, as that could have been a possible mauling, considering they are still in the top 8, so they were not overachieving for a few weeks.)
(As for last season, that was last season. The squad isn't the same, so I don't count anything that happened then, as personally it's not relevant to the points total or form this season.)
Also the only reason I chose to name 3 games is because I didn't think I needed to list others as examples, but Tranmere still beat Bradford and then up until the Carlisle debarcle, lost 2 of the previous 9 games, which were to the top 2 and still got 15 points from the other 7 games, so a far cry from the start of the season when they had 5 from 9.
Oh and I would include the Brentford result as a bit inadequate, because they started poorly, fought back then chucked it away and then appeared to have scraped a fortuitous point until the referee spoiled the result.
The defence let the attacking players down, although Dugdale scored to partly atone for any culpability he had in the first 3 concessions.
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
