Morecambe 0 Crewe 0 Player Thread

[John L]

Disagree completely John. He might not be the best player but he works hard and gives 100% and changed the game for me if only for that presence and movement up top. It might not be affective most of the time, but he isn't afraid to run at people and give them something to worry about. Before that we could have played all day and never got out of our half.

He certainly looked afraid to run at people... or perhaps he just lacks fitness. I've seen him give 100% but he looked a shadow of that today.

[mrpotatohead]

We played crewe in 2010 at the Globe arena in front of 1793 fans Neil, we were near the top of the league and we lost , so under ''boring'' jim, we got a point, but it cost us 19 bums on seats, big deal eh?

This town doesn't have a succesful team because it doesn't deserve one.

[Gone_Shrimping]

My take on todays game was that barry made some great saves to keep us in the match. Crewe played some good stuff and we seemed to be lethargic, but as the game wore on we got ourselves together, lead by flemmo who i thought was mom. End to end footy by both sides made it a tense game and when the ref, who i thought had a good game, blew for full time, I was glad of the point especially when hearing other results.

When they got that free kick just after 2 minutes went up on the 4th officials board I was taking a point with no problem !

[shrimper]

Mullers has had a few appearances recently and not done much. Wildig has had a few minutes here and there since his injury and looked really sharp, especially when pushing forward. No surprise at all to me that Jim gave Aaron a try further forward with Rhys injured.

Three at the back with two wingbacks pushing forward has worked okay for us recently.
The change today after McGowan's injury gave us something a bit different against their line up. I thought the big change for us was when Flemmo started to get a grip of midfield. He was quiet for a bit but then really grew into the game. He's been superb recently.

[RedRedWine]

Really disappointed with the crowd today. Thought it was a bit busier than announced, I know two turnstiles were closed due to a 'technical fault', but I was really hoping that the town came out and showed that it wanted a football league club to represent them. The club is on the bones of its arse and begging for support, yet less than 2,000 people care. Flip that around to Chorley vs Fylde yesterday.... 3,000+ crowd. Pathetic support from the area.

[Teams like Morecambe]

The club is on the bones of its arse and begging for support, yet less than 2,000 people care. Flip that around to Chorley vs Fylde yesterday.... 3,000+ crowd. Pathetic support from the area.

4,400 at Hereford in the 8th tier today. Technically a club record attendance as the current club was formed in 2014.

[Old Man Kensey]

Really disappointed with the crowd today. Thought it was a bit busier than announced, I know two turnstiles were closed due to a 'technical fault', but I was really hoping that the town came out and showed that it wanted a football league club to represent them. The club is on the bones of its arse and begging for support, yet less than 2,000 people care. Flip that around to Chorley vs Fylde yesterday.... 3,000+ crowd. Pathetic support from the area.

You could flip the argument around. Has the club done enough to deserve the support? I know lots of people who don't go any more for various reasons. Has the club done enough to gain this support back?

Support is a two way thing after all, just a thought.

[nobbyshrimp]

The club is on the bones of its arse and begging for support, yet less than 2,000 people care. Flip that around to Chorley vs Fylde yesterday.... 3,000+ crowd. Pathetic support from the area.

4,400 at Hereford in the 8th tier today. Technically a club record attendance as the current club was formed in 2014.

A bit misleading really. Lower league and none league yes but compare this against our current situation.

Hereford unbeaten this season in the league
Top of the table clash as Evesham 3rd
Local derby game
Bank holiday

All everyone needs to do is get behind the club at this very very difficult time and stop worrying about others and moaning as you're just making things worse for everyone

[John L]

Really disappointed with the crowd today. Thought it was a bit busier than announced, I know two turnstiles were closed due to a 'technical fault', but I was really hoping that the town came out and showed that it wanted a football league club to represent them. The club is on the bones of its arse and begging for support, yet less than 2,000 people care. Flip that around to Chorley vs Fylde yesterday.... 3,000+ crowd. Pathetic support from the area.

You could flip the argument around. Has the club done enough to deserve the support? I know lots of people who don't go any more for various reasons. Has the club done enough to gain this support back?

Support is a two way thing after all, just a thought.

What are these various reasons?

[Phil Anderer]

Thought yesterday was, overall, a good day. End to end football and we never gave up. Flemo my MOTM, although not to take anything away from Rose, who also had a good game. Kev was pleasantly surprising as well, getting into some good positions and beating his man on occasion. Can I also say that, after the Cheltenham debacle, I thought the ref had a good game. No way was it a penalty when Flemo went down; he'd lost the ball and was falling over before any contact occurred, so I'm afraid the ref got that one spot on. The liner on the Berlin Wall side needs to relearn the offside rule though .

Plenty of positives to take away, and another game without the side being booed, and no booing the ref to confuse Jim either.

[KenH]

A very enjoyable game which was a pleasure to watch. Good to see very little hoof-ball at last. Hard to believe that these are the same lads from a month ago. Jim has clearly been working hard in the practice sessions. If they can perform like that more often than not, and if Jim can bring in a bit of new blood, presumably loans, then I think we're safe for another season. (on the pitch at least - the Board need to sort out the finances etc).

[Gone_Shrimping]

There seemed to be more than 1,722 present yesterday. More people in the Omega stand than there has been lately and Crewe must have had 150/200 in the Bay Radio stand which is usually empty. Maybe with the automatic card/ticket sensors being down they couldn't make an accurate audited count and had a guess on the low side. It looked more like 1,900/2,000 to me.

Kevin did a good job on Crewe corners yesterday , getting good headers away on several occasions. As mentioned Fleming and Rose were outstanding as was Baz with 2 great saves as well as good handling and good distribution.

[P/T Indie]

A very enjoyable game which was a pleasure to watch. Good to see very little hoof-ball at last. Hard to believe that these are the same lads from a month ago. Jim has clearly been working hard in the practice sessions. If they can perform like that more often than not, and if Jim can bring in a bit of new blood, presumably loans, then I think we're safe for another season. (on the pitch at least - the Board need to sort out the finances etc).

We just need to play it through the midfield more instead of the defenders trying to chip long balls over. The few times we did go through midfield especially in the second half we looked a lot better.

[Duffman]

The perfect performance for me by the players. It looked like yet another home battering during the first half but the players kept going, Barry (my MOTM) pulled off plenty of saves and the fans didn't jump on the players backs. As a result the game completely swung in the second half. How it stayed 0-0 I'll never know.

Difficult circumstances for everyone involved but the players showed great fight which I hope occasional fans that made an effort, recognise.

Only negatives was the closed turnstile behind the goal (with no warning from the club on social media meaning fans missed the start) and the catering err... shambles? Only 3 staff, lack of pies (no CHL) before kick off and the till lady serving anyone at random ignoring the queue. We've been at the ground over 6 years now and it's still shambolic.