Morecambe Away

[observer]

Then:

League Two table after close of play on 05 February 2021

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cambridge United	26	13	6	7	41	24	17	45
2	Forest Green Rovers	26	12	9	5	33	23	10	45
3	Carlisle United	23	13	3	7	34	22	12	42
4	Cheltenham Town	25	11	8	6	34	23	11	41
5	Tranmere Rovers	25	12	5	8	32	30	2	41
6	Morecambe	25	12	5	8	33	34	-1	41
7	Newport County	24	11	7	6	35	27	8	40
8	Exeter City	25	10	9	6	45	31	14	39
9	Salford City	25	10	8	7	32	21	11	38
10	Leyton Orient	26	11	4	11	34	29	5	37
11	Crawley Town	24	9	8	7	35	31	4	35
12	Walsall	25	8	11	6	32	33	-1	35
13	Oldham Athletic	26	10	4	12	41	46	-5	34
14	Mansfield Town	24	7	11	6	32	30	2	32
15	Port Vale	27	9	5	13	39	40	-1	32
16	Scunthorpe United	26	10	2	14	28	34	-6	32
17	Bradford City	24	8	7	9	25	27	-2	31
18	Colchester United	25	7	10	8	28	34	-6	31
19	Bolton Wanderers	25	8	7	10	30	37	-7	31
20	Harrogate Town	25	8	6	11	28	32	-4	30
21	Stevenage	25	5	10	10	19	27	-8	25
22	Barrow	24	5	8	11	31	34	-3	23
23	Grimsby Town	26	5	6	15	20	45	-25	21
24	Southend United	26	5	5	16	17	44	-27	20

 

NOW:

League Two table as it stands now (2020-21 season, still in progress)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cheltenham Town	43	23	9	11	56	36	20	78
2	Cambridge United	44	23	8	13	66	44	22	77
3	Bolton Wanderers	44	22	10	12	54	47	7	76
4	Morecambe	44	21	9	14	65	58	7	72
5	Tranmere Rovers	44	20	12	12	54	48	6	72
6	Forest Green Rovers	43	18	13	12	54	48	6	67
7	Newport County	43	18	12	13	51	41	10	66
8	Salford City	43	17	14	12	50	33	17	65
9	Exeter City	43	16	15	12	65	46	19	63
10	Carlisle United	43	17	10	16	56	48	8	61
11	Leyton Orient	44	17	10	17	51	49	2	61
12	Port Vale	44	17	9	18	57	53	4	60
13	Crawley Town	44	16	12	16	52	55	-3	60
14	Bradford City	43	16	10	17	48	50	-2	58
15	Stevenage	44	13	17	14	37	38	-1	56
16	Oldham Athletic	44	15	9	20	71	74	-3	54
17	Harrogate Town	44	15	9	20	46	53	-7	54
18	Mansfield Town	44	11	19	14	50	54	-4	52
19	Walsall	44	11	19	14	45	51	-6	52
20	Colchester United	44	10	17	17	43	61	-18	47
21	Scunthorpe United	43	13	8	22	41	59	-18	47
22	Barrow	43	12	10	21	49	56	-7	46
23	Southend United	44	9	14	21	26	56	-30	41
24	Grimsby Town	43	9	13	21	34	63	-29	40

 

Be thankful!

 

 

[jules_darby]

4 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Barry, even L2 players can take the opportunity to shoot, take a corner or free lick and find a team mate from a throw in. Today we had a young loan full back who had two opportunities to shoot, took them and scored with one on his wrong foot and forced a good save with the other. How many did Doyle, Isgrove, Delfouneso and the others try? None other than a ballooned shot from Delfouneso. That’s not good enough, it’s almost as though they’re frightened of shooting and pass instead. That’s garbage and not good enough. Yes we won and that’s great, but only because of yet another back foot performance from a game we should have won comfortably. It’s ok some on here saying I should F off pointing these out when we’ve won and if that’s their real opinion, they need to get real.

It was frustrating but this is where you're wrong

It was

The league table tells you that

Where's your comments on the defending, or other positive aspects? 

Look at what run this squad has been on. 3 months ago our current position was unthinkable 

 

[woolli]

16 minutes ago, burnden said:

 

Fuckin fantastic! Welling up!

[Spider]

6 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Barry, even L2 players can take the opportunity to shoot, take a corner or free lick and find a team mate from a throw in. Today we had a young loan full back who had two opportunities to shoot, took them and scored with one on his wrong foot and forced a good save with the other. How many did Doyle, Isgrove, Delfouneso and the others try? None other than a ballooned shot from Delfouneso. That’s not good enough, it’s almost as though they’re frightened of shooting and pass instead. That’s garbage and not good enough. Yes we won and that’s great, but only because of yet another back foot performance from a game we should have won comfortably. It’s ok some on here saying I should F off pointing these out when we’ve won and if that’s their real opinion, they need to get real.

Theee points you boring fucker

We won

We did enough to beat a team for the 22nd time this season

Go and moan to your wife/cat/husband. No one on here gives a shite today.

[dusan nikolic]

1 minute ago, observer said:

Then:

League Two table after close of play on 05 February 2021

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cambridge United	26	13	6	7	41	24	17	45
2	Forest Green Rovers	26	12	9	5	33	23	10	45
3	Carlisle United	23	13	3	7	34	22	12	42
4	Cheltenham Town	25	11	8	6	34	23	11	41
5	Tranmere Rovers	25	12	5	8	32	30	2	41
6	Morecambe	25	12	5	8	33	34	-1	41
7	Newport County	24	11	7	6	35	27	8	40
8	Exeter City	25	10	9	6	45	31	14	39
9	Salford City	25	10	8	7	32	21	11	38
10	Leyton Orient	26	11	4	11	34	29	5	37
11	Crawley Town	24	9	8	7	35	31	4	35
12	Walsall	25	8	11	6	32	33	-1	35
13	Oldham Athletic	26	10	4	12	41	46	-5	34
14	Mansfield Town	24	7	11	6	32	30	2	32
15	Port Vale	27	9	5	13	39	40	-1	32
16	Scunthorpe United	26	10	2	14	28	34	-6	32
17	Bradford City	24	8	7	9	25	27	-2	31
18	Colchester United	25	7	10	8	28	34	-6	31
19	Bolton Wanderers	25	8	7	10	30	37	-7	31
20	Harrogate Town	25	8	6	11	28	32	-4	30
21	Stevenage	25	5	10	10	19	27	-8	25
22	Barrow	24	5	8	11	31	34	-3	23
23	Grimsby Town	26	5	6	15	20	45	-25	21
24	Southend United	26	5	5	16	17	44	-27	20

 

NOW:

League Two table as it stands now (2020-21 season, still in progress)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cheltenham Town	43	23	9	11	56	36	20	78
2	Cambridge United	44	23	8	13	66	44	22	77
3	Bolton Wanderers	44	22	10	12	54	47	7	76
4	Morecambe	44	21	9	14	65	58	7	72
5	Tranmere Rovers	44	20	12	12	54	48	6	72
6	Forest Green Rovers	43	18	13	12	54	48	6	67
7	Newport County	43	18	12	13	51	41	10	66
8	Salford City	43	17	14	12	50	33	17	65
9	Exeter City	43	16	15	12	65	46	19	63
10	Carlisle United	43	17	10	16	56	48	8	61
11	Leyton Orient	44	17	10	17	51	49	2	61
12	Port Vale	44	17	9	18	57	53	4	60
13	Crawley Town	44	16	12	16	52	55	-3	60
14	Bradford City	43	16	10	17	48	50	-2	58
15	Stevenage	44	13	17	14	37	38	-1	56
16	Oldham Athletic	44	15	9	20	71	74	-3	54
17	Harrogate Town	44	15	9	20	46	53	-7	54
18	Mansfield Town	44	11	19	14	50	54	-4	52
19	Walsall	44	11	19	14	45	51	-6	52
20	Colchester United	44	10	17	17	43	61	-18	47
21	Scunthorpe United	43	13	8	22	41	59	-18	47
22	Barrow	43	12	10	21	49	56	-7	46
23	Southend United	44	9	14	21	26	56	-30	41
24	Grimsby Town	43	9	13	21	34	63	-29	40

 

Be thankful!

 

 

It's really been an insane run and long may it continue. Nearly There.Com

[Whitesince63]

49 minutes ago, Ani said:

Do you know what inept means ? It means 'generally incompetent'. Which we were not. 
We were made bad decisions in final third.
It was a game we should have finished but we were not inept. Last three away games we have beaten the two teams with best home record in the division. Last week at Grimsby might have been inept. 

But we were incompetent in and around their goal. Same from corners, free kicks and throw ins. How can you not see that? When players constantly can’t do the basics tell me what you call it. These weren’t “bad decisions” it was bad play, inept, whether you like it or not. Sorry but it is, like it or not.

[Ani]

20 minutes ago, burnden said:

 

Stuart Holden just retweeted this. 
 

Sarce and Santos retweeted the coach being clapped in 

[Leyther_Matt]

6 minutes ago, observer said:

Then:

League Two table after close of play on 05 February 2021

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cambridge United	26	13	6	7	41	24	17	45
2	Forest Green Rovers	26	12	9	5	33	23	10	45
3	Carlisle United	23	13	3	7	34	22	12	42
4	Cheltenham Town	25	11	8	6	34	23	11	41
5	Tranmere Rovers	25	12	5	8	32	30	2	41
6	Morecambe	25	12	5	8	33	34	-1	41
7	Newport County	24	11	7	6	35	27	8	40
8	Exeter City	25	10	9	6	45	31	14	39
9	Salford City	25	10	8	7	32	21	11	38
10	Leyton Orient	26	11	4	11	34	29	5	37
11	Crawley Town	24	9	8	7	35	31	4	35
12	Walsall	25	8	11	6	32	33	-1	35
13	Oldham Athletic	26	10	4	12	41	46	-5	34
14	Mansfield Town	24	7	11	6	32	30	2	32
15	Port Vale	27	9	5	13	39	40	-1	32
16	Scunthorpe United	26	10	2	14	28	34	-6	32
17	Bradford City	24	8	7	9	25	27	-2	31
18	Colchester United	25	7	10	8	28	34	-6	31
19	Bolton Wanderers	25	8	7	10	30	37	-7	31
20	Harrogate Town	25	8	6	11	28	32	-4	30
21	Stevenage	25	5	10	10	19	27	-8	25
22	Barrow	24	5	8	11	31	34	-3	23
23	Grimsby Town	26	5	6	15	20	45	-25	21
24	Southend United	26	5	5	16	17	44	-27	20

 

NOW:

League Two table as it stands now (2020-21 season, still in progress)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cheltenham Town	43	23	9	11	56	36	20	78
2	Cambridge United	44	23	8	13	66	44	22	77
3	Bolton Wanderers	44	22	10	12	54	47	7	76
4	Morecambe	44	21	9	14	65	58	7	72
5	Tranmere Rovers	44	20	12	12	54	48	6	72
6	Forest Green Rovers	43	18	13	12	54	48	6	67
7	Newport County	43	18	12	13	51	41	10	66
8	Salford City	43	17	14	12	50	33	17	65
9	Exeter City	43	16	15	12	65	46	19	63
10	Carlisle United	43	17	10	16	56	48	8	61
11	Leyton Orient	44	17	10	17	51	49	2	61
12	Port Vale	44	17	9	18	57	53	4	60
13	Crawley Town	44	16	12	16	52	55	-3	60
14	Bradford City	43	16	10	17	48	50	-2	58
15	Stevenage	44	13	17	14	37	38	-1	56
16	Oldham Athletic	44	15	9	20	71	74	-3	54
17	Harrogate Town	44	15	9	20	46	53	-7	54
18	Mansfield Town	44	11	19	14	50	54	-4	52
19	Walsall	44	11	19	14	45	51	-6	52
20	Colchester United	44	10	17	17	43	61	-18	47
21	Scunthorpe United	43	13	8	22	41	59	-18	47
22	Barrow	43	12	10	21	49	56	-7	46
23	Southend United	44	9	14	21	26	56	-30	41
24	Grimsby Town	43	9	13	21	34	63	-29	40

 

Be thankful!

 

 

Mental. Absolutely mental. 

[jules_darby]

2 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

But we were incompetent in and around their goal. Same from corners, free kicks and throw ins. How can you not see that? When players constantly can’t do the basics tell me what you call it. These weren’t “bad decisions” it was bad play, inept, whether you like it or not. Sorry but it is, like it or not.

And how many points did it cost us?

[Whitesince63]

1 hour ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

It's his view on the game & he's entitled to it ( tbf he's not wrong 😊). I'm sure deep down he is as happy as everyone else on here. 

Thanks RP and you’re spot on I’m absolutely made up we got the win but I’m not blind and as pleased as I am, I’m not going to ignore and gloss over the realities of our performance like some on here who’s only response is to swear and insult. Water off a ducks back to me anyway 😉

[Ani]

1 minute ago, Whitesince63 said:

But we were incompetent in and around their goal. Same from corners, free kicks and throw ins. How can you not see that? When players constantly can’t do the basics tell me what you call it. These weren’t “bad decisions” it was bad play, inept, whether you like it or not. Sorry but it is, like it or not.

But the fact is you said we were inept, now you are qualifying it by saying 'around their goal' so as I said we were not inept, certain aspects of the game were not great but inept does not cover the performance. 
So onto your other untruth , did we sit back or did we create numerous shooting opportunities ? 
Remember you were the one questioning other people's intelligence. 
 

 

[Spider]

“We got promoted, but I don’t like how we did it”

This is like a Man City fan moaning because they won the league but didn’t put double figures past everyone.

Its a mentality that should trouble relatives.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Whitesince63 said:

Sorry but even though we won, that was inept and we ended up very nearly giving it away. Sarce came on and had four or five clear opportunities to shoot, yet never even considered it, just wanted to pass. It’s no wonder we don’t score goals, this must be the most inept forward line that’s ever worn our shirt, yes, I know it’s another moan even though it’s a step closer to the automatics but that really was painful and it shouldn’t have been. We could easily have conceded late on and that’s why we need to kill games off when we’re on top. Sadly though, we don’t have the players to do it so it looks like sweating up to the end.

Well, that’s one way of looking at it!

[Mantra]

8 minutes ago, observer said:

Then:

League Two table after close of play on 05 February 2021

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cambridge United	26	13	6	7	41	24	17	45
2	Forest Green Rovers	26	12	9	5	33	23	10	45
3	Carlisle United	23	13	3	7	34	22	12	42
4	Cheltenham Town	25	11	8	6	34	23	11	41
5	Tranmere Rovers	25	12	5	8	32	30	2	41
6	Morecambe	25	12	5	8	33	34	-1	41
7	Newport County	24	11	7	6	35	27	8	40
8	Exeter City	25	10	9	6	45	31	14	39
9	Salford City	25	10	8	7	32	21	11	38
10	Leyton Orient	26	11	4	11	34	29	5	37
11	Crawley Town	24	9	8	7	35	31	4	35
12	Walsall	25	8	11	6	32	33	-1	35
13	Oldham Athletic	26	10	4	12	41	46	-5	34
14	Mansfield Town	24	7	11	6	32	30	2	32
15	Port Vale	27	9	5	13	39	40	-1	32
16	Scunthorpe United	26	10	2	14	28	34	-6	32
17	Bradford City	24	8	7	9	25	27	-2	31
18	Colchester United	25	7	10	8	28	34	-6	31
19	Bolton Wanderers	25	8	7	10	30	37	-7	31
20	Harrogate Town	25	8	6	11	28	32	-4	30
21	Stevenage	25	5	10	10	19	27	-8	25
22	Barrow	24	5	8	11	31	34	-3	23
23	Grimsby Town	26	5	6	15	20	45	-25	21
24	Southend United	26	5	5	16	17	44	-27	20

 

NOW:

League Two table as it stands now (2020-21 season, still in progress)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cheltenham Town	43	23	9	11	56	36	20	78
2	Cambridge United	44	23	8	13	66	44	22	77
3	Bolton Wanderers	44	22	10	12	54	47	7	76
4	Morecambe	44	21	9	14	65	58	7	72
5	Tranmere Rovers	44	20	12	12	54	48	6	72
6	Forest Green Rovers	43	18	13	12	54	48	6	67
7	Newport County	43	18	12	13	51	41	10	66
8	Salford City	43	17	14	12	50	33	17	65
9	Exeter City	43	16	15	12	65	46	19	63
10	Carlisle United	43	17	10	16	56	48	8	61
11	Leyton Orient	44	17	10	17	51	49	2	61
12	Port Vale	44	17	9	18	57	53	4	60
13	Crawley Town	44	16	12	16	52	55	-3	60
14	Bradford City	43	16	10	17	48	50	-2	58
15	Stevenage	44	13	17	14	37	38	-1	56
16	Oldham Athletic	44	15	9	20	71	74	-3	54
17	Harrogate Town	44	15	9	20	46	53	-7	54
18	Mansfield Town	44	11	19	14	50	54	-4	52
19	Walsall	44	11	19	14	45	51	-6	52
20	Colchester United	44	10	17	17	43	61	-18	47
21	Scunthorpe United	43	13	8	22	41	59	-18	47
22	Barrow	43	12	10	21	49	56	-7	46
23	Southend United	44	9	14	21	26	56	-30	41
24	Grimsby Town	43	9	13	21	34	63	-29	40

 

Be thankful!

 

 

Indeed, some fans are getting greedy, saying we should be winning the title, condemning us for losing to Grimsby, we need to score more goals. Yes, yes we all want more but football ain't that simple.

From where we were to where we are now is huge and the overarching feeling should be one of gratitude.

We are going up! 

[Whitesince63]

46 minutes ago, DomRepWanderer said:

You ain't half one miserable cunt, moan when we win, moan when we lose, where do you get your kicks? A&E?

Yawn.

[W.cramp]

Whitesince,    can you confirm which 'key player ' they lost through injury ?     

You talk some sense but mostly absolute bollovks

[jules_darby]

4 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Yawn.

Come on our superintelligent friend, are you going to answer Ani and my questions?

I'm on tenterhooks here

[Tonge moor green jacket]

52 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Just stating the obvious that any half intelligent person would accept but I wouldn’t expect you and the other rosy tinted glasses brigade on here to agree. If you think for one minute that playing like that in L1 next year will keep us up, you’re much mistaken. I fully acknowledge the win and the 3 points but other than the defence that really was dreadful stuff.

Winning 1-0, albeit somewhat nervously, will do nicely in any league.

It's a ridiculous, nonsensical comment, as we will be looking to strengthen next year, and with a squad that knows each other and the manager's requirements. 

Not even finished this season, and you're bemoaning next.

[hughmungus]

1 minute ago, jules_darby said:

Come on our superintelligent friend, are you going to answer Ani and my questions?

I'm on tenterhooks here

It’s like talking to that other wanker Starmer, you tell me what you think and I’ll call you a wanker but have no opinion of my own, so why is he wrong Jules?

[darwen_white]

Just pour a drink and enjoy the night. Jesus

[Max Cherry]

46 minutes ago, Mantra said:

Saw someone say "Morecambe? More like Morecambe and Wise" for the home commentary today.

Didn't listen to it but just seen this on twitter

They were so unprofessional it was unbelievable.  even my 80 year old dad said who are these two shepherds?

At one point someone from Bolton clearly called them bell ends which riled them and one of them called IE a "pillock" . Thats how professional they were. Actually enjoyed laughing at them second half they were utter shithouses like their team and manager but funnily enough accused us of dark arts!

[Rudy]

We won right?

[onefinfrandsen]

22 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Barry, even L2 players can take the opportunity to shoot, take a corner or free lick and find a team mate from a throw in. Today we had a young loan full back who had two opportunities to shoot, took them and scored with one on his wrong foot and forced a good save with the other. How many did Doyle, Isgrove, Delfouneso and the others try? None other than a ballooned shot from Delfouneso. That’s not good enough, it’s almost as though they’re frightened of shooting and pass instead. That’s garbage and not good enough. Yes we won and that’s great, but only because of yet another back foot performance from a game we should have won comfortably. It’s ok some on here saying I should F off pointing these out when we’ve won and if that’s their real opinion, they need to get real.

It’s all about context, if it was the first 10 games of the season then I could kind of see your point . But it’s the arse end and we have played 44 games, every team is suffering from fatigue, Cambridge and Cheltenham are struggling to get over the line, the six or so teams below us would all swap places with us, tonight is all about enjoying the fact we are on the brink of promotion. 

[woolli]

2 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

Whitesince,    can you confirm which 'key player ' they lost through injury ?     

You talk some sense but mostly absolute bollovks

I can. It was Osullivan, akin to us losing Santos. Massive loss! We won though, and thats it really!

[jules_darby]

3 minutes ago, hughmungus said:

It’s like talking to that other wanker Starmer, you tell me what you think and I’ll call you a wanker but have no opinion of my own, so why is he wrong Jules?

Awww is Someone sore that Evatt’s pretty much got us promoted?

63 is literally only talking about negatives 

he said stuff cost us - it didn’t. He’s wrong.

he’s also taking about how we’d be ducked next season. 
 

next season 🤣🤣

We have no idea of the make up of the squad and it’s 4 months off starting FFS

Have a day off, we won, we’re going up 👋🏼👋🏼