Morecambe Match Thread

[Chrisr]

It sounded like a feisty derby on radio lancs, there is a question and answer session after the supporters club meeting. So come along and ask John why grey and Hatfield are out on loan. ask him to explain his decisions with loan signees on the bench. 8.00pm on the 9th of April. PS Bring your coaching badges to prove you are qualified to ask a question.

[peter9001]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

You weren't any better. As for your manager...

Rising from the dead is a popular theme at Easter ........

[Revived Red]

Originally Posted by Chrisr

ask John why grey and Hatfield are out on loan

Will Hatfield is not on loan - he has left the club.

[Revived Red]

Originally Posted by Redraine

Not only James Gray but also Will Hatfield scored today for our "rejects". Maguire missed a hatful of chances according to the beeb too!
"You'll never beat the Stanley!"

And our goal was scored by a defender (but not Crooks!)

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

Were all transport links closed ! Poor turn out from you guys.

The motorway was blocked solid oh intelligent one, if yeh had learned to read correctly yeh would have noticed.

[Shrimpster]

Originally Posted by cashman

The motorway was blocked solid oh intelligent one, if yeh had learned to read correctly yeh would have noticed.

If you'd have planned ahead you would have travelled by train

[choirboy]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

Were all transport links closed ! Poor turn out from you guys.

Well. as far as the fans are concerned..... It's QUALITY that counts not Quantity.
It also seems to work with the numbers on the pitch too......Our ten men outplayed your eleven during the second half.
ON STANLEY ON

[Crown Grounder]

The stats on the BBC Sport website look good for Stanley, shots on and off target, corners, possession. And to say we played for over 50 minutes with only 10 men. The lads must have put a shift in and Adam got a run out. Really pleased with the point. Couldn't get there today due to illness........

[football19]

What a nightmare!!,3 hour drive,got on the ground to a large roar,saw their players celebrating,so decided to get a drink.
Heard another roar,ran out and we had scored !!,missed both goals
Back to the game,both teams went 3-5-2 and it was decent game in which we played most of the football.
Keeper and back three were good and once again Joycy was excellent.
Terry has to learn you can't throw tackles in like he did,defo sending off.
Ref made a couple of bad calls,crooksy looked at Ellison and down he went,never a penalty.
Jones then took a quick short free-kick and all the players weren't watching,Devitt was and he raced away to score,defo goal.
He evened it up tho as we were denied a stone wall penalty.
Good point and everyone put a shift in,toss up for M.O.M between Joycy,Atkinson and Piero.
Positives- Acci" never say die attitude"and Bucko looked fresh and full of ideas.
Negatives - Barry was a bit rusty and Kai was either good or poor,needs to get his decision making better and consistency will follow and Shaun struggled to hold the ball up( he's a better 10)
What ever Morecambe fans say,we play most of the football,whilst they played very narrow and played into our hands
One more win will do nicely KTF

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

If you'd have planned ahead you would have travelled by train

Why dumbo, we travel to all games by car.

[Redraine]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

If you'd have planned ahead you would have travelled by train

Cashy is correct. If you could read you would also know that train travel was discouraged over Easter, clever clogs.

[football19]

I nearly give up Cashy when still in Lancaster,but there was some lovely buildings to look at to calm my temper!!.
At 2-30pm,both teams didn't have a full team

[smobile]

Originally Posted by Shrimpster

Were all transport links closed ! Poor turn out from you guys.

I notice you didn't post on this forum the last time you beat us in the league.......................

Hold on a minute................... the internet hadn't been invented had it ?

[Redraine]

Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

Good point today; I feared it might be the end of the unbeaten sequence but the Shrimpers have surely angered the Voodoo Gods of Football in some way.

Stanley's recognised striker now banned. Stanley's unrecognised striker scores two more for Northampton.
It must be a racing certainty that Mr.Crooks will be draughted in as CF for the next game, rather than recall Mr.Gray.

James Gray wouldn't come back even if Coley guaranteed starting him every game!

[choirboy]

Choirboy and daughter set off from Clayton at 1pm for the 55 minute trip to The Globe Arena anticipating three more points.
Despite using my cycling knowledge of the roads it still took us 2 hours and 15 minutes to get there.
We finished up coming into Lancaster from the south on the last bit of the A6. Nightmare!....it took about 40 minutes to do the last two miles through Lancaster centre to the bridge over the River Lune. We arrived at 3.15pm!
The ultras were in good voice and we promptly added the sound of our plastic 'single note' horns to the chanting!
The match was looking pretty even until at a Morecambe corner the Ultras gave a bit too much stick to Kevin "The Swimmer/Diver" Ellison......Yes.. he scored from the corner!!!!!.
I feared the worst but we went upfield and Jones got the ball outside their penalty box and I said to myself inwardly, 'Shoot', but he didn't and the ball went out to our wing and then eventually came back to Jones in more or less the same position and my goodness this time did he shoot? .......He curled the ball superbly from 30+ yards out to the right of centre into the top left corner with a superb shot!...what a goal... and I thought..."Yes, we are back in the game!"
Then there was handbags at two yards in the dugout with Jimmy Bell appearing to separate the 'Heavyweights!' Coley was sent to the stand in his lovely blue tracksuit. Soon after Terry G went in for a tackle a long way upfield from the Stanley end and was sent off, it appears on the say so of the assistant referee. It was too far away for us to make a judgement but there was probably no need, so far upfield, for Terry to make a tackle where he seemed to be over stretched!
The Ultras kept on singing as we do and we held out until half time.
The second half started with Morecambe subjecting our defence to some pressure but the defence and particulaly Scott in goal looked pretty solid.
There was a flurry of substitutions. Morecambe were awarded a penalty for what looked to be a 'dive' from Ellison after being 'monitored' by Crooksy. Although again, "It was reight up t'other end o't'field".. IT LOOKED LIKE THE REF WAS CONNED BY AN EXPERT CHEAT TO ME!.
'Special Agent', Laurie Wilson aimed for the roof of the stand and thankfully he was successful...Still one all!
Cal went off for Buxton to come on. Cal had done ok going forward but did some risky stuff trying to beat players in midfield but losing possession a bit too much. Shay had run his heart out and was subbed along with Anthony Barry who had worked hard too, with Saun Maguire and Seamus Coneely coming on. Adam looked really solid defensively and very strong going down the left. Seamus helped to choke any forward movement by The Shrimpers and Sean ran his heart out chasing everything down up front. We got on top with our hard working "Magnificent Ten Men". All through the match, Pierro had been doing what we expect, chasing back, tackling like a tiger, linking well going forward, taking on the full back, creating chances! He was my clear 'Man of the Match' once again. Josh had been working hard too and got into some great positions but I just wish that he would leard to do the 'Simple' thing sometimes. A classic situation was Pierro and Sean creating a move which found Josh twenty two yards out with Adam Buxton tearing up the left into an even better position but Josh tried his 'too clever, too often, step over ' on the last defender and lost possession. Adam would have been in a much better position to score had he got the simple pass. Josh has clearly got the potential to go on to be a great player but he needs to learn that 'skill' sometimes means doing the simple things well! The longer the match went on the stronger we got and we looked the team more likely to score. In the end a draw with ten men felt like a victory and we all came away happy to have maintained our MAGNIFICENT RECORD OVER OUR RIVALS FROM THE BAY!
Results from teams below us were not as bad as they looked at half time and we continue on our journey to mid table security!
THE REFEREE WAS THE WORST I HAVE AVER SEEN!:s_co ol:
It was a pleasure to watch our players today, giving there all physically and being creative going forward.
The STANLEY SUPPORT WAS SUPERB and COLEY AND JIMMY SEEMED TO GET THE TACTICS AND SUBSTITUTIONS SPOT ON!
A GRAND DAY OUT GROMIT LAD! (apart from the slow journey northwards)
We came home via 'The Trough of Bowland' and were rewrded with beautiful scenery and a lovely rainbow. It took us just 70 minutes!
ON STANLEY ON