Man of the Match Presentation

[RedRedWine]

Is it really worth doing when it's plainly obvious to all that everyone was rubbish? I felt sorry for Barky having to come and collect his 'award' tonight and answer MDs questions. It should really be Jimbo standing there when the team has performed so poorly and demonstrated so vividly to all that they were completely inept tonight from near enough start to finish. He does all these interviews for Radio Lancs, The Bay etc, but the people that actually give a shit are at the ground and many are 5 meters away the other side of a glass door.

If the sponsors want a photo with their favourite player they can have it in a room away from a dejected group of home fans.

Going on a good FA Cup run should be a big priority for a team like Morecambe, despite MDs attempts to gloss over this I think even he knows that tonight's result is a massive kick in the bollocks - perhaps the biggest for a decade.

[Keith]

tonight's result is a massive kick in the bollocks - perhaps the biggest for a decade.

tonight's result is a massive kick in the bollocks - perhaps the biggest for... 12 months, since we last went out of the FA Cup with a whimper.

[marky No.1]

Wont go down well on here no doubt, but I feel sorry for the sponsors when they have paid their money and then have to hang around and wait to do all that stuff.
Think Jim will be dejected enough without coming in to the W&L den having done the interviews outside. Mrs. B wont be looking forward to a good night

[RedRedWine]

I think it's worse. Dover was in front of 100 or so, tonight was in front of an already dejected home support that had high hopes of progressing to the third round. People really have had enough of this shite at home now, and there's no way of dressing it up as anything else. Tonights performance was far worse than Dover IMO where the result was poor but we gave it a real go in the second half at The Crabble.

The main reason why it's a massive kick in the nads for the club is financial; £33k + a home tie riding on tonight's result, and also the now much tougher sell of the clubs fantastic promotion to entice people to come along to the Cambridge game... A win would have created a bit of buzz about the team, and have people talking about us positively.... Which is far from most peoples mind sets.

[Seasider9601]

tonight's result is a massive kick in the bollocks - perhaps the biggest for a decade.

tonight's result is a massive kick in the bollocks - perhaps the biggest for... 12 months, since we last went out of the FA Cup with a whimper.

Exactly. It just annoys the HELL out of me when I think what last nights defeat has cost us.

Prize money, TV coverage money, a passage to the 3rd Round (?).

Dover Athletic, Northwich Victoria, Dagenham.... where will it all end??

I know this day and age clubs "dismiss" the FA Cup, but, FFS.... clubs like ours??

It's essential. And we fcuked it up. Massively.

[Keith]

Exactly. It just annoys the HELL out of me when I think what last nights defeat has cost us.

Prize money, TV coverage money, a passage to the 3rd Round (?).

Even more than that, it's cost us the opportunity to get the crowds back, some interest in the club. A comfortable win last night, which was there for us if we'd gone for it, would have put five hundred on the gate for next Tuesday. Now, the people who didn't go last night will feel they made the right decision and those that did go, will be wondering why.

Good job we're capable of playing tight, boring, defensive football and keeping a covered clean sheet, rather than going for a win... oh, hang on, no... we're crap at defending. Doesn't stop us trying.