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Just read on BBC Sport, Fulham have another Goalkeeping injury, so depending its down to em if Betts may be recalled.:eek: Hope not if match is on tonight.:eek:

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Saw that Cashy, they do not have a game until 22nd - I think - so would hope not....

:) :) :)

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No point, the defence is crap anyway. They might as well use the youth team keeper :)

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Thats very hopeful then joe.;) Match is on ive just been told no inspection needed, so unless a torrential downpour, think were cooking on gas.:D:D

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Well im hoping we will be ok, as their number 3 (Etheridge) is back from injury.

Fingers crossed!!!

Hows the weather looking up there??? Its torrential here!

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light rain earlier today but no rain at this present time

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Pitch was ok before lunch....took a couple of my workers down and helped them sheet....was impressed by the condition overall,but a couple of the corners are very soggy just off the pitch and they have run a new touch line 6 inches or so inside the old line....here's hoping for a good game!!!

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any text comm does anyone know ? - not got the electronic match prog yet so getting anxious here on the south coast with kick off looming.

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Not according to the club twitter as it's on the radio. Except for those of us who don't get radio Lancashire as it's not online

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thanks deeayess - bbc text comm it's gotta be then !

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Dam..no Dan text commentary. C'MON STANLEYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Gooooooaaaalllllllllllll

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Goal !!!! Moly

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1 - 0 Moly !!!!!!!! come on you reds

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3 more and we will be 14th

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Shhh!

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Sorry make that 2 - murph

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2 - 0 van Murphy !!!! - no letting up now Stanley

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Heaven :)

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Dam internet keeps crashing down here,,,:(

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I see you blokes/blokettes are having plenty of rain?-any sign of it going away?

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I blame the french...

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Half time. Awesome stanley

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too interested in the match, Kiwi, to bother looking out to see if the English channel has breached the beach head at the end of the road ! Heavy rain and 80mph gusts forecast for tonight - more fence panels wrecked I guess come morning - but never mind, 2 - 0 at halftime ! Thanks for asking.

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I really do hope it gets better for you all-and quick smart.

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^#q^$&$%&@*%$#!^!&^%#$^!

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thought we might have a match free from chewing fingernails - seems not - c'mon you reds

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wot the cotton-pickin' - - - - :mad:

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%%^^%*^$#&^%@$%^&(*))^^

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Hatfield on. Time to reprise his super sub form from last year.

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Hell:mad:

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feel like I'd won the lottery and lost the ticket !

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Agony

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No comment

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Thought twas a game of 2 halves, 2 sides played well in abysmal conditions, First half we had the wind played great, cannot remember a scunny shot on goal? second half they had wind behind em they played very well fer a spell then Stanley fought back, had quite a few efforts, They scored winner in injury time, overall we did not deserve the loss, but thats life, Noway any neutral could tell who was top of div2, Credit to the display given, gutted about the loss, Roll on Bury.

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We came out the second half to sit back waste time, defend and try and hold onto the wind.

The wrong idea straight off but to try that whilst playing 4-4-2 was bloody suicide. If you are trying to hold then pack the midfield - especially when their CBs had the beating of Kayode and Bowerman all night!


Tactical naivety shown today - hope the management team learn from it.

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Disagree Sam, they were obviously gonna come out all guns blazing wi the wind behind em, Aint top fer nowt.

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Gutted at losing three points but I am more GUTTED by the way we GAVE the game to Scunthorpe TONIGHT! Yes we played quite well in the first half. The wind was helping us as it blew hard and brought showers from the changing room corner diagonally down the pitch to the Clayton/ Whinney Hill corner from where they tried to pass it out, with confidence in there ability to play on the ball. In the second half we got it totally wrong tactically. Joyce and Murphy conceded midfield and defended as if they were in a back line of six with Joyce and Murphy often positioned either side of Aldred. Our centre midfiled MUST PRESS HIGHER UP THE PITCH even when playing against the wind! I thought it was a mistake to take Koyode off even though he wasn't having a good match because he had the height needed to defend corners and free kicks. It would have been better to bring on Liddle, Hatfield and Atkinson to fill the midfield gap that we allowed. Yes I accept that the conditions were worse for us to defend in the second half as the wind really got up and it lashed it down with rain...horrendous conditions in which to play and defend. There is an old saying that you all have heard......"The best form of defence is attack!" Which in football terms must mean play up in their half of the pitch!!

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much of a crowd on tonight or was the weather agin it ?

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They said 1200 n odd but i find that hard to reckon.:confused:

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Cashman I have to say I agree with Sam.
As I just said in my previous post, we gave midfield away in the second half. It would have been better to have packed the midfield with Liddle, Hatfield and Atkinson. I would have left Koyode on to defend free kicks and corners with his height and taken Moly, Murphy and Joyce off early on in the second half...as soon as they got one back was the clear signal for that!
Scunthorpe are clearly a good side though so we should give them credit and they are clearly up near the top of our division on merit. It's only a couple of years ago that they were in the Nationwide division, two levels higher than us!
Gee....FRUSTRATED though!:mad:

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disappointing for a friday night - but not surprised if it's half as rough up yon as here on the south coast.

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Exactly!

So how do you go about countering that?

For me you have two options:

* Push onto the front foot and go for a third
* Pack the midfield to plug the gaps and defend like your life depends on it.

We tried to hold onto the game playing 4-4-2 - they always had a spare man to pass to as we had a man short in midfield.

The ONLY way that play could work is if you had pace in behind with the 2 men you leave up front - then the opposition can't over commit for fear of being caught but with Kayode and Bowerman they were safe as houses!

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Bowerman was a correct substitution i have no doubt, the lad was absolutely knackered. He had a decent game i thought but was well goosed.

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I can remember our longest serving manager saying the best defence is in the opponents half.

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Cashy... sounds like you are agreeing with Sam and myself?

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ps. I thought the pitch held up amazingly well tonight.
WELL DONE TO BUZZA !
An amazing job to get the game on!:mosher:

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I must say also our defending from set pieces was incredibly negative - several times we didn't have a single player outside of the penalty area.

Leave a man up at the half way line - he takes 2 defenders with him and gives our keeper more room to come and claim the ball - plus it gives any clearance a chance of sticking rather than going straight to the opposition.

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Time to move on me thinks....all players gutted after game....the results for the next two games are FAR more important.....Bury at home and Torquay away.....

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And how many times did we throw away a 2 goal lead from the first half to lose the match 3-2 when he was manager? A few I'll wager. I can remember the taunts from opposition fans of 2-0 up and you mucked it up on a number of occasions.
Although I agree with what he is saying, he would have done well to remember that when he was manager!!:eek:

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I think it was game of two halves.. of the elements. Scunthorpe got the better of them in the second half, otherwise not that much to choose between them. Never going to be a classic in those conditions but well done to Buzzer and his volunteers for getting it on, and the referee for allowing it to continue. From where I was sat the Whinney Hill side looked very iffy and probably worse than it was against Morecambe.

The attendance was up against the weather, the weather won.

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Aye,he was well known for the dog walker's failing of not being able to hold on to a lead!

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Something very strange here - we lose by an odd goal and nobody's complaining about the officials!!

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They are all confused because there were 5 of them :D

Somebody on here did mention the referee to me after the game ;)

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Another ref would have not allowed our first............

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Another ref would probably have abandoned the game :)

Nowt wrong with first goal, was a Scunthorpe player who played the ball through to Bowerman

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Again no comment

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Stuck here at home I put on Radio Lancs just to hear the half time summary to hear the ominous news that Scunny were hugely adding to their attacking power by introducing 2 forward subs and that "They were really going all out for it". I was amazed that we didn't appear to react to that straight away and only put on like for like subs late in the game rather than bolstering the midfield/defence immediately, as others have mentioned. I appreciate that JB's half time talk probably wouldn't have anticipated such a bold move from Scunny's manager, but the addition of McSheffrey alone should surely have brought a more effective response? Today's results suggest that the damage hasn't turned out to be as bad as it might have been but we can't afford to be out thought tactically in our next two games!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I know, but..........