A second half to forget - Tranmere home
 

Dire. From 3-0 up almost a home defeat as I forecast.

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You couldn't make it up!
It only took 23 minutes to go from another season in L2 to the verge of the abyss.
The buck stops with Doolan.

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Wouldn't count on beating Carlisle. They have a very good Sheffield Wednesday loanee.

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My flabber is well and truly ghasted. The only minor consolation is that Morecambe didn’t win, which would have doomed us good and proper!

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We're Doomed!...thank-you all.......good point today as I thought we'd lose to Tranmere........ we fight on until we're safe.....still more points than the bottom 2, 4 to go and its one game at a time......

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o-m-g!!!!! .^&$&^&^*&^%###$%#^%

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Well , the match billed as “make or break” has neither made nor broken Stanley who were six points clear before the game, and are still six points clear.

It means that soubriquet passes to the next home game against Carlisle.
And probably all four of the final fixtures.

It was a massively, gut wrenching end to the game, with a typical panic stricken second half defensive performance, but, tbh, I came to the game expecting no better than a draw.

So, whether it was driven by drunken frustration, or a less than secret dislike of our current managers, I thought the booing from a very small section of the Clayton End pathetic.
The season’s not over, so either sober up and support the team to the end or stay away.

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Well said Exile, we were all gutted at the final whistle but some of the scenes & reactions I witnessed made me question where I was & saddened me almost more than the result

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These sort of capitulations are happening far too regularly. Time for the two clowns in charge to go.

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Yes the buck stops with Doolan but the budget we have and the kind of players we can get plays a massive part.

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I couldn't believe the 16 min overtime, was the ref waiting until they scored the equalizer?

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Twas ever thus.
Where the massive budget that got us back into league football?
Where the millions that saw us promoted to League 1?
For the history of Stanley read; 'Shoe string budget' .
Our success in the past has defied all the rules of economic logic, so stating what is obvious is of little comfort.
It was built on polishing rough diamonds, on bargains bin rejects.
Our current predicament is due largely to wasting what budget we had over the past few seasons for a bloated squad of unused players; and we all know where the blame for that lay.
Looking back I wonder how we ever obtained the likes of Billy Kee, Paul Mullin & Kayden Jackson. Or the wing wizards Gary Roberts & Jordan Clark.
The midfield intelligence of Josh Windass & Matt Crooks and the defensive rocks Mark Hughes & Matty Pearson,
Let's be honest, our current squad is made up of unremarkable journeymen who are struggling to compete at this level.
Looking at the games we have left, away to Salford & Walsall & home to a resurgent Carlisle, I'm not feeling optimistic.
The second half collapse today could yet prove to be our downfall.
Get polishing Mr Doolan, we need another miracle

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In a nutshell.- yes

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Presumably these are the “clowns” (your word, not mine) who helped coach Stanley into League 1 and had one of the best U23 squads until it was sacrificed to offset the financial chaos of the playing squad wage bill.

Surely, if you really believe they are “clowns”, the blame lies with the genius “ringmaster” who brought them into the club?

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Searched @andyhholt on Twitter for his take. Said account did not exist.

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He has done his usual Haggis a few weeks ago now.



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He is at most games Haggis, I sit 6 feet away from him and speak to him regularly after the match. He's not difficult to find if you have a question to ask. .

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And next years budget just went down by 100k with the 3500 tickets that you could have sold to the Tranmere and Carlisle fans that for some secret reason the clowns now running the club chose not to.

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It’s obviously rankled you, NorthernSoul, but your maths assumes every ticket would sell for £28.50.

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Hard to believe, leading 3-0 at half time, then drawing 3-3 at full time! How is this possible. A couple of questions:
- What was talked about in the dressing room at half time?
- What did they drink/eat at half time?
Cheers

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Those questioning what was said to our players at half time etc, how about reversing it & wondering what was said to their players?
They'd obviously had a rocket up their backsides & that plus the changes they made meant they came out a different side - Tranmere have a record of coming back from the brink of defeat to claim a late draw & were never gonna just roll over
Gutting I know but we go again

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Hardly a secret reason.&;for once the decision was made not to give a numerical advantage to the away teams for a few quid extra in the pot

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And I guess that’s why, on current six game form, Tranmere are second best in L2 and Stanley second worst.
But taking four points off Tranmere in league games is not a bad return.

Thus far Stanley have “lost” 12 points from leading positions, by late (85+ mins) goals from opponents*, and “gained” 6 points.

Is fitness and strength an issue?

* Harrogate, Colchester, Port Vale, Wimbledon, Gillingham, & Tranmere.

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Not at all just factor in the spend on food, drink and programmes [Do Stanley still do a paid for programme ?]etc and its not hard to arrive at the figure i quoted.

Its not the fact that this decision has been made that rankles with me but the fact that no one at the club has the balls to come out and explain the rationale behind a decision that makes absolutely no financial sense what so ever.

And if they did no doubt they would cover up the real reason with crap about not letting the visitors fill the ground but hey ho it didnt do much harm in recent seasons against say Leeds, Ipswich, Derby and of course Sunderland did it all of which were great spectacles and the fans of those clubs all went away with nothing but good things to say about Accrington Stanley in my opinion it adds to the crack on the day and in the long term would do more to encourage the fans of the future to get hooked than any shirt give away would do.

And all that is before the fact that the club could well end up with some of the police bill that will be needed when a thousand Cumbrians descend on the town on a Bank Holiday Monday without tickets if the great escape is still on after the Port Vale game on Friday. It makes absolutely zero sense to have 1700 empty seats in the ground when there are 1700 fans sat in Carlisle [ or in the pubs in Accy] who would have been quite happy to contribute to that 100k defecit.

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Perhaps you could point me then to somewhere where someone from Stanley has actually come out and said that because if they have its an utter disgrace and they need reminding of the mantra "Without fans there is no football" and they will deserve all that they get on Monday.

Ask Lancashire plod how mush they spent policing Morecambe and Lancaster town centres on Saturday after having intelligence that up to 500 Carlisle fans were intending on travelling without tickets.

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As far as I know nobody from the club has said this officially or otherwise but if it is the reason why exactly is it a disgrace?
In another post you mention games v Leeds, Derby, Sunderland etc where the opposition have outnumbered the Stanley fans & yes, they were good games with a cracking atmosphere BUT on other occasions, for example the play off game in 2016 v Wimbledon & the semi final of the Efl trophy v Bolton giving these clubs a massive numerical advantage backfired on us, not only because of the results but also the away fans behaviour, particularly in Boltons case & I would hope lessons were learned from that.
If the games against Tranmere & Carlisle were not so pivotal.for both clubs, i'm.sure more tickets would have been made available & a good day out would have been had by all.with us welcoming any additional revenue but that is not the case so why should we give in to.'bigger clubs' demands for more tickets just because we're going to disappoint some of their fan base?
You mention there could be a police bill if fans travel without tickets, well that would be a guaranteed bill if we allowed more opposition fans in the ground

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Youre right they Havnt.

And i see they've now don it again in only giving the reduced number to Chesterfield as well.

Can anybody really believe that reducing the away allocation increases Stanley's chances of winning games ? Does it hell having a cracking atmosphere in a full ground does is encourages the Stanley boys to turn up in numbers and be just as loud.

I wasnt at the Wimbledon game so can't comment on that one but the Bolton game was a bit different because whatever they did they couldnt win either give them the tickets or risk having Bolton fans in the home areas but once again backward thinking from Accy when they should have said its a thousand tickets or you pay for and bring 30 stewards if you want the other 1700 seats.

Personally i would have charged 40 quid for a ticket and given 2x £10 vouchers to use at future games or at the bars and kiosks to increase the take on the night as the Bolton fans would have all spent them on food and drink on the night putting another 50k into the coffers.

Anyway we both live to fight another day and nobody was more relived than me to hear the Accy boys had done the business at Salford and were superbly backed into the bargain and that despite trying to do an Accy and throw away a 3 goal lead our miracle is still on and its now looking like its Tranmere with all the work to do and if our Cumbrian neighbours do us a favour on Monday it most definitely will be. We're just targeting getting to 49 points and see where that gets us and if we do we.ll gladly accept our fate knowing that both Hughes and the team couldnt have done any more.

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Well it wasnt much of a spectacle as far as the game went was it ? and the draw was about a fair result but i think the decision the ref at the Port Vale game made to send Matty Dennis off cost us the extra 2 points today as your 3 centre backs managed to contain Kelly but would they have been as effective if theyd had another striker who puts himself about to worry about as well when instead you got the lightweight ineffective Hugill to manage which you did pretty easily. But it was pretty clear to see that Fridays exertions had taken it out of us as we were nowhere near as bright as we have been in recent games.

But what gets me is why you havnt played that system away from home and picked up more points using it.

Anyway the point does a lot more for you than it does for us but hey we fight on and put ourselves in the hands of Crewe and Newport as 1200 of us take the road to Cheltenham.

As for the numbers issue if what the stewards told us is correct the capacity of the Coppice has been cut in half due to the issues that were discussed on here a couple of weeks ago and there was proper fencing attached to the back row of barriers where the temporary bit starts as opposed to the tape that was there previously. There didnt look to be much different to how its been for the last 10 years and nothing that a set of accrow props wouldnt put right like they did at Gillingham.

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Fair assessment, Northernsoul, and, the way this season’s gone, a draw was inevitable once extra time was announced.
You maybe be right about the absence of Mr.Dennis, but Stanley had two of their best defenders, Rawson and Batty, missing and the latter’s absence meant Ben Woods impact was “sacrificed” at left back.
As a Cumbrian I wish CUFC well. But may change my mind if you manage two 6-0 wins! ;)

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This was talked about at the Fans' Forum - watched on YouTube - and it was down to Policing costs.........


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