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The Opponent: Tranmere Rovers

Imagine having Liverpool as your older and better brother or sister, that’s what living in Birkenhead is like. Having Liverpool, despite its drabness and petty criminality, as the place nearest to you that’s actually OK in places. And then picture yourself ‘across the water’ in Birkenhead looking at Liverpool everyday and knowing that the town you live in is overshadowed by a dying, decaying once-great gateway to the world. And then picture yourself looking at Birkenhead itself. It’s most famous statue is a replica of the cake Queen Victoria scoffed at her wedding. A fucking cake statue...... Merseyside PCT records show that they also have the highest suicide rates in the country, the area is famous for its smuggling, luring ships and wrecking and murdering shipwrecked sailors, nothing has changed apart from different targets, old age pensioners. The Wirral is also known to have more drug addicts and hookers per square mile than anywhere else in the country. Impressive. Commonly known as ‘North Baghdad’ by those in more fortunate parts of Wirral, this blighted spot is quite possibly the most resolutely working class enclave in Britain. The middle classes have totally fled from it.

Hot off the local plastic Scouser press, Channel 4 has decided not to film a new series of their infamous reality show Benefits Street in Birkenhead North. Last week residents in Fairbrook Drive received letters from programme makers Love Productions, inviting them to take part in a potential second series of the reality show. It sparked outrage from householders, who told the Globe they would not be taking part in the programme. Now Channel 4 has backed down in the face of protests.  A spokesman for the channel said: "As part of research producers spoke to two residents of Fairbrook Drive in Birkenhead and to Magenta Housing."We are not planning to feature the street in the series." Surely this could have been the perfect start to regenerating Birkenhead back to standard shithole levels? Talk about ungrateful. The thing I find most surprising is the Channel 4 producers didn’t just go for a more widespread view of the area, Benefit Town, so to speak.
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Where the opposition gather –  The other Tranmere site requires registration it would seem. I ain’t telling them a thing, cunts will burgle my house next time we are at home.

http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/boards/list/s383.htm


Last 6 – WDLLWL – Currently 20th on 39 points with a minus 21 goal difference.

They have served us both – Gareth Edds, Gary Williams, Abe Rosenthal, Steve Peplow. Roy Greenwood, Nicky Summerbee, Alan Navarro, Marlon Broomes, Wayne Allison, Paul Rideout, Pat Jackson, Ian Muir, John Kelly, Tony Warner, Stewart Williamson. Jake Jervis, Ken Beamish, Scott Endersby, Iffy Onuara, Bryan Hamilton, Alf Day, Arthur Briggs, Frank Curran, Liam Ridehalgh

The Odds –  Tranmere 9/5  Draw 12/5  Swindon 13/8  Can we make it 3 games unbeaten including 2 on the road? Of course we can. 1-0 Town pays a large 10/1 with Ladbrokes. I noticed they seem to be offering much better prices on 1-0, 2-1 and 2-0 scorelines to either side than anyone else. The same 1-0 Town scoreline is 15/2 with most others. Paddy Power are offering 18/1 on the new great white hope, Ben Gladwin scoring first, worth a few bob?

The Son Says – He is still buzzing from Saturday’s effort it seems. After managing to drag him away from Minecraft (don’t ask) for 3 seconds he has predicted a handsome 2-0 victory.

The Prediction – The shellsuit wearing Northerners are in a relegation battle and will be looking to take the game to us. We will expose this and destroy them. 3-1 Swindon, Gladwin, Smith and Luongo with the goals, 267 making the journey, poor sods.

And Finally – HMS Birkenhead (no really) was designed as a frigate, but was converted to a troopship before being commissioned.  On 26 February 1852, while transporting troops to Algoa Bay, she was wrecked at Danger Point near Gansbaai, 140 kilometres from Cape Town, South Africa. There were not enough serviceable lifeboats for all the passengers, and the soldiers famously stood firm, thereby allowing the women and children to board the boats safely. Only 193 of the 643 people on board survived, and the soldiers' chivalry gave rise to the "women and children first" protocol when abandoning ship, while the "Birkenhead drill" of Rudyard Kipling's poem came to describe courage in face of hopeless circumstances.


COYR COYR COYR

We will win

Might do this.

3-1 us, Peterborough will lose and everyone will start talking about the playoffs again...

I was starting to dislike the place until this sentence.

A town devoid of the parasite middle class sounds perfect.

2 all draw.

I'm toying with it as well. What time are you leaving if you do?

Jeez I hate twattish comments like that - 2-1 to the Town from the parasite over here..........

Quite. No doctors or engineers or IT specialists or a whole host of productive and necessary members of society. Also no entrepreneurs who are usually educated 'middle class' (hate the classifications, mind) and build productive businesses that employ others. Perhaps that is the problem in Tranmere after all.

1-0 to the Town.

*Birkenhead

I felt quite confident about this game until I heard Ward is likely to start!

I always had Tranmere down as being in Prenton....a place mentioned in Domesday.

I'm an IT specialist (Networking and IT security) and I don't think anyone could accuse me of being middle class.

I think he means contractors. The wankers.

Fucking contractors

 :D

Since I have started predicting more positive results, we are unbeaten.

The run will continue. 1-0 away win.

Reg will be pleased come 9.30.

3 more points will see us above his relegation cut off prediction.

1-3 with more Town fans travelling to the grimy north than those yellow bastards managed at Southend last night - tosspots

Getting 3 decent results in a row, has been a major problem all season...we had one trot of 3 wins in a row in October, and that's it.

It kind of comes with the territory of a young side....inconsistent, so grinding out a draw would be a very decent achievement, and give us 52, usually enough to stay up.

I actually agree with Reg! Playing teams at either end of the table this time in the season is always tricky. Tranmere are fighting for their League 1 existence, while we have nothing much to play for.
I'd take a draw.

I wouldn't be too sure

We could end the day 4 points from the playoffs and right bang in the mix. Something I'm sure the players will be aware of even if a lot of others have given up hope already.

I love the unending optimism of Flashheart :)

Not necessarily saying I think we'll do it, I think Sheff U are most likely to take 6th spot. Just that I would hope the players would still give it their best shot when, mathematically at least, it is still a very achievable goal. They're a bunch of cunts if they have given up already.

If we were rising up the table after a bad start instead of vice vera then we'd all be much more positive about our chances.

It would take something pretty fucking special, but that is probably why we all like football so much. Special things do sometimes happen.

I agree that it's not completely out of the question, but with only 8 games left to play and being 7 points behind Peterborough (who also have a game in hand) it's extremely unlikely.

Sheffield United had a slight dip the last couple of games, albeit, two tough games, but still can't rule them out, nor Franchise who are starting to find a bit of form at the right time, while Peterborough are struggling at the moment.
If we were to do it, we'd probably need to win at least 7 of our remaining 8 games.
If we win tonight and Preston beat Peterborough it'll look a lot more promising.

To be in this position with 8 games to go is still a pretty good achievement all things considered.

Tranmere haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last 8 games, so fancy us to score, so going for a 2-1 win tonight.

I'd take a point away from home on a Tuesday night up norf..

From Clare in the ticket office

as a fan you are always going to have that little bit of hope for a magical run. whilst it is still mathematically possible lets go for it, absolutely nothing to lose (we are safe lets get that out the way).

as for the talk of Sheffield utd, i think their next 3 fixtures will ruin their dream, tues sat tues. brentford, rotherham, leyton orient and then they are off to wembley.

You may be right. But it was Birkenhead that was being discussed as a shithole and which TT was suggesting would be greatly improved by an influx of IT specialists. It's what every town dreams of :)

Imagine being that elitist with absolutely nothing to show for it. An arse-end boom town whose most famous feature comes from the fact some f*ckwit lacked the common sense to not pile 10 roundabouts on top of each other. Reek of fat opinionated mosher you. Green Day is a fitting soundtrack indeed. Imagine coming from somewhere so drab and cultureless that an irrelevant, outdated American band was your reference point (and then even going for a more irrelevant album). Imagine also appearing to know f*ck all about anywhere else in the world, that you could be so out of touch in your opinions. Even the fictitious parts of Merseyside in you fantasy would have more culture pumping through them than any part of some pointless middle earth town. Do yourself a favour and leave Swindon once in a while.

I see what you mean

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Decent response, and a fair description of our own sweet shithole. You'd have thought it'd be OK to say fuck in Prenton though.

Original. I guess a lack of wit goes hand in hand with a lack of culture though. Isn't there a speedway meeting you're missing?

Why is Daniel Radcliffe in the middle there?

You're just bitter because we've got more IT specialists than you

*contractors

Calm down, calm down

I would stay but I've got to pop out and check me hub caps

Let it go, it was over 20 years ago.

And a sense of humour.

There was I having a miserable afternoon at work and you've chereed me up no end. Thank you.

I am guessing that being Tranny play in Birkenhead then you call yourself "Birks" how very apt I feel.

I'm intrigued to know what the acronym stands for.

I think it might be sniggers with attitude.

Been a while since we got a chomp that hard. Quality.

2-0 win, confident tonight.

I'm just surprised anyone from Tranmere could afford a computer.

He probably nicked it.

2-1 and the lights went out
2-1 and the lights went out
2-1 and the lights went out

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqnFgHmT3BA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqnFgHmT3BA)

Hahaha you have saved me a job there, i was just going to post the same thing Gnasher 8)

Shame he couldn't save your job at Honda too..

You really should stop biting

Why?

I've got a day to pass in work too.

Fuck me, they've got computers in Greggs!

Have a load of blokes been scared off by the local 'beauties' perchance? Or are they in prison?

A visiting irate Tranmere fan is almost a TEF tradition.

more away fans on the site is a positive thing in my eyes.

Although I would rather discuss the football with them as opposed to unfunny 'banter' that it often boils down to.

When they're the same tired scouser jokes there isn't really much room for "funny banter" is there. So.. Football?

And I'm hardly irate.

Sorry. SWA was a ray of sunshine before logging on to TEF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw

Just kind of thought it was worth pointing out what people outside of Swindon think of Swindon.

It was a huge surprise to us all.

Ah, that's what it stands for...
Swindon's a Wonderful Area

It works both ways SWA, for every tired scouser joke, there is one for a 12 fingered bumpkin from Swindon, which doesn't bother me per se, I just find it a bit unimaginative.

What can we expect from Tranmere tonight? I read you have a few injuries and your defence is prone to the odd calamity or 2?

 :nod:

We get that plenty.

I wasn't even heading down the 12 fingered bumpkin route to be honest, I was thinking it was more Milton Keynesy. And Speedway. Any town where the mojority of the inhabitants walk around in those god awful jackets is pretty bleak hey. Obv the only busniess I've had there is the County Ground though.

When haven't you seen a Tranmere defence which is prone to the odd calamity or two? I think we've conceded the most home goals in the country this season. There's talk of Ian Goodison being drafted in tonight, so that could go either way. We have got a few injuries in the middle, yes. James Wallace managed to shake off his to play on Sat, Koumas needed injections, Steve Jennings didn't make it. All three could be out/could feature. I find it difficult to keep track of League 1 injuries anyway. I reckon we often use them as a smoke screen. Danny Holmes at full-back and Arthurworrey (CB) on loan from Fulham are also doubts (though I'd prob rather Goodison anyway).

Goodison must be close to getting his bus pass by now, hope he plays!

I have to say, I don't think I've seen anyone in the town centre wearing a speedway jacket  :sherlock:

It's more about cycling down here, have a look at the cycling thread and check out the lycra  :)

Could be worse you could be a Gashead. Then you'd be Irene :)


.... I'll get me coat. Taxi!

I'm with you on the speedway jackets, although I don't see that many when I go to football!

Recently we had been prone to calamitous defending but Troy Archibald-Henville has been a rock at the back since coming back from injury. Sadly he is Ledley King Mk2 and can't play more than a game at a time so will be replaced by Brazilian bull in a china shop Rossi Branco.

Hopefully we'll go with Smith and Storey up front and give your 40 year old centre back something to think about!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEf5I_Wdb94

He is, and partial to the odd bit of spot fixing by all accounts. Still, can't see Nile Ranger forcing him to do much against his will, if you excuse the pun.

Do wanna be a Birkenhead Idiot,
One Giro to feed all the minions,
Can you hear the sound of the crack heads?
Snatched handbags swiped down Tesco Express

Interestingly SWA, a majority of the first paragraph was kindly borrowed from someone who had been 'lucky' enough to live in Birkenhead for 50 years of their life, the same article pointed out to me that (if by a miracle of a chance) the working class dockers citizens of Birkenhead make it to 65, the mortality rate thereafter is the shortest in the whole of the UK. The reason for this? They can't wait to get away from the  ghastly cesspit, even if it is in a wooden box.

People have spent years tirelessly campaigning for The UK to have its own Dignitas, why bother, send them to Birkenhead.

Thanks for the bite by the way, its nice to know obnoxious little job shy scally cunts like you take the time to read it, let alone join up to comment on it. Don't tell us you have a job, the DWP could be looking. Every year Tranmere followers make an appearance, we could lose 5-0 tonight and I still would sleep easy knowing I don't have to wake up in Birkenhead the following day. Your only saving grace is the fact you have a sense of humour.

Nile is out for the rest of the season unfortunately. He's concentrating on upping his arrest stats.

Wasn't Goodison one of the Tranny players caught up in the 'spot fixing' sting.

Be good for the Town if Goodison is playing, he has the pace of a breeze block, Storey will rip him to shreds.

I like the wooly coming on here its cheered up a slow boring day :)

We don't actually have a bad record up at Prenton Park, I have been there 5 times (my dad living back then up in Runcorn we always popped up for the Friday night games and back (pre 2008) I never saw the Town lose there.

Tranny have only beaten us twice in 11 games with us winning 8 and drawing once.

Having conceded 34 goals at home is the equal worst home defence in the whole football league as Coventry who have played one more home game.

The only club in the top 5 tiers of the Football League that have conceded more at home are Hyde in the Conference who are rock bottom.

Could be an interesting encounter tonight.

Good job i dont work there then innit xx

Wow. You do really love that Yank teen angst band don't you. Do you not feel that they piss against the wind a little bit with regard to your own right wing ideology? I can't help but feel you dropped a couple of typos at the begining as well. 3/10

Ironically I feel the same way about waking up in cultureless Swindon as you do with Birkenhead, and I'd say there was a much better chance of you beating us 5-0 than the other way round. Make of that what you will.

Your only saving grace is the inclusion of the 'women and children first' and the Birkenhead drill. You obviously take a little break from your days spent rewording Green Day songs to compile these little pre-match pieces.

Jinxed it. 0-0!

I did think that as I typed it :D

Tranmere and no mention of half man half biscuit? Tuesday night and the gates are low! one nil Town (Ward)!

We didn't do too well 2 years ago today in that hot sunny day at Wembley, lets hope we can win today :)

Foderingham, Thompson (C), Stephens, Branco, McEveley, Smith A, Kasim, Luongo, Gladwin, Storey, Smith M

Subs: Belford, Barthram, Reckord, Cox, Barker, Reis, Waldon

So no Ward, not even on the bench.

falling out or injury I wonder

Can't see it being a falling out as Ward is very professional but it could be, I expect its injury.

I think its just his slowness and shitness.

Unfortunately he is still on a fair wedge for next season aswell

Confident for a third clean sheet in a row tonight.

Bin dippers 0 Roundabouts 2

Wards probably shellshocked after the Wolves game and to be fair, he's best left out for a while. Good to see Smith and Storey together again and hopefully it'll be enough for a 2-0 win to continue the run

Didnt Ward say when he signed his new contract that he'd taken a big paycut? Depends how large his original salary was though

So you have emptied all the bins then?

Im sure he would probably still be one of the highest paid players

 :girlgiggle:


Not going to be a falling out, Ward's too professional. More likely a realisation that he's not the defender he used to be.

Stephens, Branco and McEveley centre backs then? Nathan and Smith wing backs?

Good to see Storey and Gladwin start again. Good midweek performance away from home at a hell-blasted northern shithole would be a real coming of age for the pair of them.

2-0 to the Town. YOU REDS!

Think there's been a family bereavement at the weekend, which may explain it.

Oh, that's a bugger then.

Six pages of pre-game chatter...and we only managed 2½ on Saturday.  There's no logic to this, but it's put me in optimistic mood about our chances tonight.

A good win does wonders for people's interest and enthusiasm.

Also the fact that not many people will be at the game tonight, and will be on here instead.

Don't mobiles work in the wirral?

There are two main reasons for so many pages.....1. we had a live one prodding the locals witha  shitty stick.....2. we are away, we nearly always get less pages pre game when we have home games :)

Maybe the belief of the play offs is back.

And it's a Tuesday and we are all bored at work

Yesssssss

Can't help but think of this every time his name is mentioned.....

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I think either of bleach or batteries

Goooooooooooal smith

Yay to swa

Get in!

Yes!

GOALLLLL Alex Smith, Gladwin assist

Domestos or Duracell? :D

Get in there!

Steve is in the room. You at the game Steve?

Both  ;)

Sounds a cracker too!!

Ah Max Power, great name. That Kirby guy sucks though.

Edit: Cunt.

Bugger.

Bollocks 1 1. Counting power

  ::)

that escalated quickly

Here we go...

Ha!

I had btts.  :)

Cooper out  :doh:

Why do you keep banging on about 'cultureless' Swindon? It's got loads of history, has reared many famous people and has a lot going on if you know what to look for. Prenton's only claim to fame is Tranmere bloody Rovers  ::)

Well that didn't last very long!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQh-fr44-Nk

I forgot he played for them. And Ridelhaugh.



It was going so well! Can't wait to see Smith's goal, sounds like a corker.

Bet them to score?

Very nearly 2-1 to them with a bicycle kick.

Posh are winning. Thor will be gutted

and Half Man Half Biscuit

 :)

premature celebration.

OMD

I think we'll win this 3-1, just seen it's 1-1...come on Town!!!

Who?



See what I did there?



For the record I genuinely don't know who that is! :)

Cracking atmosphere  :pint:

Is it Goodison,  morrison or Goodwin?   :sherlock:

Bournemouth 3-0 Leeds
Arsenal 0-1 Swansea

 :tumbleweed:

Scores n Div 4 looking really good. Don't think the Scum will stay in the play offs.

This Gboly Ariybi thats just came on is supposed to be pretty good, nearly broke into the Southampton side when down there before he signed for Lids.

A few good runs and crosses on his obligatory youtube clip in which he looks handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-O9h2bDEuA

Fods makes a great save from Lowe, caught out with pace at the back...again.

Come on mass

Unless I'm being whooshed...  Both Teams To Score

Sounded like we had the better start to the game but Tranny finished the half a lot better than us, could still go either way.

1-1 at half time I will take that.

I used to suffer from this until I talked to my doctor. Now I can last entire seasons.

Bradford 0 - 0 Walsall

Bristol City 4 - 0 Port Vale

Carlisle 0 - 0 Shrewsbury

Crawley 0 - 1 Sheff Utd

Crewe 0 - 1 Notts County

Leyton Orient 1 - 0 Oldham

Franchise 0 - 0 Gillingham

Preston 1 - 1 Peterborough

Rotherham 2 - 0 Brentford

Tranmere 1 - 1 Swindon

Wolves 3 - 0 Colchester

 :toocool:

Sounds almost all them this half.

Top of the table getting more and more interesting. Errrrr, three points for us here would make you have silly thoughts again.

Like Jesus Christ, Lee cox has risen.

God this season does not want to decide itself does it?

Lee Cox on! Blimey, I remember him!

Yesssss

Storey!!!!

Benson has scored for luton.

So has storey!

Dodododo miles storey..

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Get in Town!!! Milesssssssssssssssss!

MILES MOTHERFUCKING STOREY YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD!

Don't deserve it by the sound of things but fuck it we've had enough of those against us this season.

Come on Preston, get the winner or two.

What's the Scorey Miles Storey, Weeeeeeeeeelllllll.

Ha, sounds like daylight robbery but who cares.

Amazing how one player makes such a difference to our defence though, we sound all over the place after two solid games.

Don't let Thor see this.

Ref being subbed

He's done well, get him off and give him a rest for Saturday.

He's too busy posting on Posh forums mate  :nod:

Best ref injury I witnessed is one that bit his tongue when trying to blow his whistle #localleague.

Nice to see the fourth official do something of use for a change

Anyone know what N!Guessan has done to be left out in the cold

Bloody hell, Shitty 5-0 up on Vale

I like ref/lino instances. Flag coming of the stick, ref falling over etc. Wasn't there a game where one of our players got two yellows but no red?

Danny NG: Being a disinterested lazy bastard (posh tie aside)

Did I really just hear the commentator just say: "I like the look of Cox"?

His last game he got subbed at half time & Cooper made a comment about the fact that his half time sub was to bring on someone who would at least put in some effort.

Heh heh!!

And now he's just said that Smith has wonderful legs.

I think he's trying to tell us something.

Preston lead...

Preston 2-1 up now

Well if memory serves he wanted to be sent out on loan to a London-based side earlier in the season because he wanted to be closer to London.

I vaguely remember a statement or something that contradicted this.

Preston winning. Stupid season won't die will it

Heh heh. The football gods like to toy with us.

They've got the JPT final at the weekend too so we could potentially be a point behind.... Long way to go in this game though yet.

We'd have to beat Sheffield u to make it interesting but that seems unlikely..

As things stand Pompey are in the division 4 drop zone with Rovers 1 point above them.

Franchise v Wolves on Saturday as well.

Someone on the posh forum says that ajose missed a sitter

I thought that beating Preston was unlikely.

Thor was behind the goal looking menacing  :girlgiggle:

Will someone give Moyes his P45?

Man U 0 Man C 3

beating them both must be really unlikely then!

Rotherham 3 Brentford 0

Preston 3-1 up now

Ft. Sound like a slightly fortunate win. Who cares.

 :pint:

Well done. Struggled at times by the sound of it but 2 away goals and 3 points.

And that little bit of hope rears it's head again.  Damn it!

It's the hope that kills you in the end.

Good win, and first back to back since October if I remember?!

IT Contractors 2  Whippet Fancying Hubcap-Stealing Scroungers 1

Well done Swindon.

LET THE RADIO SWINDON IDIOT TEXT IN BEGIN!

 :headhurts: :banana: :mex:Get in there....

 :nod:


November apparently. 

Reg will be happy. Takes us to 54 points.

Fucking brilliant!

Surely better to have some hope than none at all

well done town !!  :pint:

Cross cumshot from Storey apparently for our winner.

This highlights reel should be good.

Our last back to back league wins was October.

Storey will never make it as a footballer. He's too coherent.

I think that one's available on Pornhub already.

Cooper giving cox praise. Not committing to offering a new contract though :)

Yep always happy after a win  :)  hopefully our lads can enjoy the rest of the season now and play some good progressive football.

Cooper saying JayMac wanted to play because it's on his doorstep.

Desire, energy etc. all talked about, happy with everything, Smith apparently scores stuff like that relatively regularly.

Says that we're not safe but that the playoffs are dangling there as well.

Well done Coops, this formation and these tactics obviously working.

I think he was being a tad sarcastic when talking about being safe.

Aimed at Reg, I think!

According to the stats we had 3 shots and all on target!

Tranmere only committed 2 fouls the entire game - no wonder they're struggling!

It did sound it a tad.

Fucking superb.

I said after the JPT tie, Peterborough were absolute dog shit and wouldn't make the playoffs on that showing. Looks like they're trying their best to throw it away.

Fair play Town.

Actually thought 2-1 but before I saw the line up (particularly the bench) and then thought as I did Saturday we will struggle.

Great to be totally wrong !

Hope Gladwin had a good game. Could he become a bit of a talisman ?

I questionned how good Storey really is after he came back from Shrews. To be fair, he was decent Saturday second half and scored today. Long may me being proved wrong continue :D

I bet you thought this was fucking hilarious.

Kudos to the scouse clown for pointing out the pompous nature of your usual drivel :toocool:

Yep, still pissing myself now. Nice of you to take the time to read my usual drivel, wouldn't have expected it (for such a miserable twat).

Sounds like we got a bit lucky but that's often the case with away wins. Play-offs do look tantalisingly close now, but I'm expecting somebody else to get there ahead of us. Good to see Miles on the scoresheet, he's impressed me on the rare occasions I've seen him play.

I'm an IT consultant- that's probably even worse.

And I got an Ocado order yesterday. Middle class a fuck.

In my defence, I had a 25% off voucher.

According to the stats, Tranmere committed 2 fouls for the entire game compared to our 13.

lose to sheff u then that's it for this season. Win and who knows, but could make April a bit more interesting?

Only 127 there tonight, lowest away attendance since..?

That was pretty small for a league game that's for sure. We've had lower in the JPT I think but must be a long time in the league.

Mammoth journey what with the usual M6 shite on the way up and the the M42/M40 intersection being shut on the way home.

A brief synopsis would be that the system was no where near as effective as on Saturday and we were bloody lucky to still be in the game when Miles clipped in/flukes the winner. Nevermind, we won so who gives a fuck! Makes Saturday a massive game now.

We haven't had many sub 200 away attendances in the past 10 years.

09/10 - Exeter JPT 189 (a week after the league game)
08/09 - Brighton JPT 141 (Malpas' final game in charge, a few days after the infamous Histon defeat, still more turned out for it than they did tonight)
08/09 - Hartlepool 139 (On a night, Malpas)
07/08 - Tranmere 160 (night, nothing to play for)
07/08 - Oldham 152 (night, nothing to play for)
05/06 - Hartlepool 164
05/06 - Peterborough JPT 112
05/06 - Boston FA Cup replay 181
04/05 - Exeter JPT (no figure but was probably under 200)
03/04 - Tranmere 159 (night)
03/04 - Boston JPT 145
03/04 - Southend LGE Cup 199

Only one lower away attendance out of all those awful fixtures, and it was a JPT game. No idea when the last sub 127 league away attendance was, but that puts into context how poor it is.

All very true but did you go yourself? If not, it's a bit rich banging on about how poor it is IMO!

I didn't make last night as I couldn't get out of the NEC on time.

But...I was at Malpas last game at Brighton.....fucking woeful.

That Exeter JPT 04/05 game I witnessed one of the best town goals I've ever seen.

25 yard screamer by none other than Andy Nicholas

I went to that Hartlepool game a few years back, I think they gave us a £5 club shop voucher or something like that.

Not in the last 10 years I know but I think we had about 92 at Blackburn for a Simod Cup game at Blackburn in '87. I know because I counted them  :nod:

so as en famille trudged out of the GC after stuffing Thor's hammer up his arse the wise father said, "Sheffield Utd will the last game we see this season as i can't see us winning every game to qualify for the play off's". Hhhmmm, may have to revise my plans to do the garden later rather than sooner if we win on Saturday. If Posh win the QD trophy as they should they ought to use that as a platform to secure 6th place. We have to much to do, or do we?  

As good as it is to finally get a few wins under our belt, I really wish people would stop mentioning the P word. IF we win our next 2, then we still have an outside chance, but realistically it's just not gonna happen. And the fact we are even in with a shout after how poor we've been since the turn of the year is a pretty damning indication of how poor the league is.

I thought we were out of the race a long time ago, and my mind won't change unless we go on a mental winning run.

I'm just relieved that it looks like we won't get dragged into the relegation mix, it was starting to seem possible a few games ago!

Just shows, though, that if during those dozen or so games when we were absolute dog shite, if we had only been averagely dog shite we'd probably be 6th now.

Anyhoo the game against the Blades will sort it out one way or another so not long to wait to find out

Yeah and if we won every game we'd already be promoted!

We're in a nice healthy, safe position.

If the money was there then I'm sure we'd bring in a couple of players to enhance the push but we're giving players like Connor Waldon a chance instead.

Let's see what happens and stay above Bristol City.

They did indeed,first time I'd been to a ground that was so windy that it blew some lasses tray of chips out of her hands
 

You're learning...

One thing I'd take a bit of issue with however, I don't think the league is particularly much poorer than most years....our visitors on Sat are in the FA Cup semi final having ditched  something like 3 Prem clubs....

I went to the 3-3 in Hartlepool. Two hattricks, 3-0 up, sigh. I got two signed Simon Cox footballs as a result of that.

The 0-3 at Carlisle United resulted in a hat and letter of appreciation.

Either way I was a fraudulent fan as I'd only travelled from Newcastle for both.

Talking of usual drivel............

Checking the Tranny forum made me chuckle....SWA posting on there pre game yesterday.....




:D

Swindon
Win
Again

All makes sense now  :)

:nod:

Oh dear god, that game at Carlisle was awful. To think I drove a 500 mile round trip to watch that. At least I got a free hat and a handshake from my namesake.

The drive back to Durham was bad enough.

Quality reportage:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/tranmere-1-swindon-2-fortune-6877624

Alex Rea, on work experience at the Echo?

I've got a hat from that game as well, but I'm even more fraudulent than you as my mate who went who lives in Darlo sent it to me.

"Early on in the second half, Rovers were into the Swindon back four much like a herd of rhinoceros would make their way through a Wendy House."

Well judging by this, "Lowe took down another Lowe long ball" I have a feeling he might not be the most observant of journalists. That or Lowe is damn fast.

Does this journalist not realise that a sentence and a paragraph are two different things?

It's awfully written. I think it's pretty clear Tranmere were the better side and missed a few chances but jesus christ, he's written it as if we were pegged back on our goaline for 90 minutes as Bayern Tranmunich produced a footballing masterclass.

That's 6 points from Tranmere without ever really playing well. Damning for them.

It's typical local journalism, isn't it?

That article makes Morshead look like Shakespeare.

I hadn't realised John McMahon was their caretaker...

The ex Grimsby footballer?

They made a big point of it pre game on the radio, calling it a "Swindon connection"....not exactly but there is a connection to a Swindon connection!

Highlights up. Our defence looked so porous, Tranny'll be depressed to come away with nothing.

I think Miles might have meant that. If not, I don't know who he was aiming at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDycYuFypEw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDycYuFypEw)

I always thought of Craig as more of a Walsall man....my fave other Shakespeare is Robbie.

I like a good footballing 'daylight robbery' victory.

We've had enough against us tbf!

Tranmere need to work on their finishing

Poor finishing from Tranmere...they should really look at what we did to get the victory... ;)

Given the suspect nature of our defence last night, why no Ward on the bench at least? Was he attending his own funeral at the weekend?

With luck like that we must surely be play off bound  8)

Don't know why but I read the comments on ThisIs.

Some nob was bemoaning, after we let in the equaliser,

'how long is it since we kept successive clean sheets'

Previous 2 fucking games you moron

The commentary on these vids is so obviously put on after the fact its laughable

Who was it shitly chesting the ball before they scored theirs? Awful defending. Mind you, theirs wasn't much better.

Nice to see the rub of the green the other way for once, if I was a Tranmere fan I'd be pissed off.