paulhanley

On its own merits going there and getting a point is decent. Would have been even better if we had won last weekend. Overall though there is no question it is our away record that is the difference between 6th and top 2. The sooner we start picking more wins up away the better.

Frustrating game but nowhere near as much as if we'd have been mugged with a late goal and that was the creeping feeling we were all getting. Still unbeaten at home though. I think the chief frustration is that you can see with the pedigree of our forward players that we have goals in us but sometimes just getting that first one seems to be the biggest hurdle. This division is absolutely wide open. Its ripe for the taking. Next week is a test. Luton are a proper Jeckyll and Hyde outfit. As good as our form has been and as high as we are in the league we've still only won one of our seven away games. Improve in that area and its a big contribution to getting us where we need to be. In my mind our strongest starting XI includes many of those who started v Wigan - Erhahon, Simons, Gale, Forss etc. Be interesting to see the starting XI next week and beyond and how SS evolves it.

Superb to see this and the away game. That home game we barely touched the ball. They showed their class. I remember my old Dad saying ruefully "It feels like they've got 15 players on the pitch".

Per Frandsen inspired as I recall....

Quite enjoying this. Wish it was Blackpool or the pie men but this will do...

Let us hope he can handle it.

We played these loads in the 70s and early 80s and a rivalry of sorts built up, especially on their side. We took thousands there and invaded the place on a good few occasions. After that fixtures have been sparing. Two league games there in the 90s in the Championship - a 3-1 for them in 94/5 and a 0-0 towards the end of our 100 goals 98 points season. in 96/7. Folk have mentioned the most recent couple of games (a 0-2 win for us in COVID and the horrible 1-0 in 16/17). We should not forget a 0-1 win there for us in our Prem years with Vaz Te on the scoresheet. A couple of memories from the early 80s. We had a 2-3 win there in 82/3 in a season when we got relegated from what is now the Championship. Freezing cold day (as always) and a game or two after that famous day when Seamus McDonagh scored direct from a goal kick v Burnley at home. Something I remember better was a Tuesday night trip a couple of season later (84/5) in the League Cup. This was the year we never picked up a single point in something like our first 12 or 13 away league games lasting until January. Unbelievable. Yet early that season we went to Oldham (a division above us) and drew 4-4 after winning the first leg 2-1 at Burnden. Not a derby that ranks high - but a lot of interesting trips there down the years!! Pretty sure we have never played them in this competition before.

This was a game we were hot favourites to win but the manner of it combined with results elsewhere makes it feel like a significant day. Suddenly we are third. We are still unbeaten at home (not sure I can remember us getting this far in to the season unbeaten at home since the big 96/7 season), best goal difference in the league joint with Cardiff, three league wins on the spin. This is now November so it's all for real. Next up a titanic encounter with the team directly above us in front of what is likely to be a near sell out. A great place to be and we have that priceless feeling of footballing optimism for both the immediate and medium term future. Its the stuff that makes you want Saturdays to come around quickly But lets keep our focus - club and fans alike. The division is opening for us ... lets make it count week in week out as we head in to the key winter months.

This needs to be a win regardless of how it is achieved. The longer we preserve this unbeaten home record the more solid the base we are building. Same levels of focus and concentration as against Cardiff are required - that is how consistency comes about.

Charles has finally got his first goal for Udders in't Sherpa Van tonight.

Must have been talking about Cheese.

I think most of us were surprised the minute Evatt signed him, it never stacked up and injuries made the situation worse. None of that adds up to making it that right for people to act like dicks on social media. All we can do now is wish the lad well in the Jock league and in having to cope with the hideous sound of bagpipes.

Pretty shite draw. At least Mansfield (who we play in the league on the Tuesday after) have also got a League 2 side away in the form of Accrington who will hopefully kick the shit out of them. I am sure Carlisle are chuffed with Blackpool away. Be a lively do.

Pleased about that. It is a tough league with a queue of ex league teams battling it out, he will learn his trade like Max Conway did and get used to the weekly treadmill of senior football. Clearly we have forgiven Aldershot after 1987! 🙂

If he keeps this up Evatt will want to spend £300K on him to take him to Gloomfield Road.

Only note of caution to strike there is that a good few have games in hand but there is no doubt we are in that mix now.

That is a brilliant result. A draw would probably have been fair but it was us who nicked it with yet another injury time goal. It has been a theme all season and now they are winners rather than equalisers. We all felt low after the shambles at Burton. After that, six points against Huddersfield and Cardiff was better than we could ever have hoped. The four league fixtures in November will refine our thoughts even more. Feels like we are gradually building and slowly improving as the season moves along.

If the game today had been in the 1980s there would certainly have been a chant or two of: "Burn your bungalow down .. Taff" to the tune of (erm) Rolf Harris "Tie me kangaroo down sport"

Well I think we did for Burton 2-1 at home under Evatt after going in to the 90th minute at 0-1. There was one v PNE in the late 80s when we were losing it until very, very late and won 2-1. Struggling now though.

I remember listening to that Stockport game being reported on the radio at the time.

Yep!

Can anyone remember us ever scoring two very late /injury time goals to come back from 1-0 down away from home before? I can think of a few examples at home down the years but I am really struggling to come up with an away from parallel of last night.

Not very often your side scores twice in injury time to win after being a goal down. We feel down in the dumps with them often enough so enjoy this one. It feels like a pivotal moment in the season. Fingers crossed it is.

Ten. This is starting to feel as long. I never thought we would see it happen again but here we are. Only this time with 21000 average gates instead of 5000. The result yesterday was right up there challenging in the upper bracket of the grimmest results if you combine the 80s and this current spell.

Five pints has not made that result any less bleak. Bolton fucking Wanderers.