Crawley 1 Morecambe 3 (Turner, Mullin x2) LIVE PLAYER THREAD

[MFC-Manc]

Excellent game.....
Sounds like Crawley have the same CD we play before the game and at halftime.....

[bill ding]

Accy down to 10 men, Newport winning and we're upto 14th,

Think Newport could be a tough game on Tuesday night , they are unbeaten since signing 14 players in the transfer window !

[skeletor]

this is a great response after the barnet result,well done to jim and the team.50 points target is within reach now.would be good to get rid of the negative 'goal difference' as well.

[Phil Anderer]

Substitute know-it-all in residence. From Wiki:

'The origins of the word are a point of debate. An early use is in the novel A bad lot by Brian Glanville (1977).[6] According to Alex Leith's book Over the Moon, Brian - The Language of Football, "nuts refers to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this".[7] The use of the word nutmeg to mean leg, in Cockney rhyming slang, has also been put forward as an explanation.[8]

Another theory was postulated by Peter Seddon in his book, Football Talk - The Language And Folklore Of The World's Greatest Game.[9] The word, he suggests, arose because of a sharp practice used in nutmeg exports between America and England. "Nutmegs were such a valuable commodity that unscrupulous exporters were to pull a fast one by mixing a helping of wooden replicas into the sacks being shipped to England," writes Seddon. "Being nutmegged soon came to imply stupidity on the part of the duped victim and cleverness on the part of the trickster." While such a ploy would surely not be able to be employed more than once, Seddon alleges it soon caught on in football, implying that the player whose legs the ball had been played through had been tricked, or, nutmegged.'

[bill ding]

"Pulling cox off"

[bill ding]

Newport now drawing 2-2 after having a 2-0 lead

[Keith]

1-3

Silly pen to give away.

Not to worry, that's worth an extra couple of points in the prediction competition!

[bill ding]

How is the mystery persons bet looking now ?

[marky No.1]

How is the mystery persons bet looking now ?

Glad I didn't buy it for £200 anyway

[bill ding]

Mitch Rose off for Newport , so there won't be a battle of the Roses on Tuesday night

[bill ding]

And now Newport are losing , maybe need some more players

[halfwayprawn]

5pts coming

[bill ding]

Great win and broken the 40 points , onward and upward

[Wild Bill]

Awesome result. Makes you wonder if we'd being doing this well (or certainly be this unified) if Diego's money had come through and we'd have signed a few players in January. Something to be said for a small, tight nicked squad where everyone feels they have a part to play.

[Christies Child]

I'm getting rather sick of having to say 'bloody well done fellas'......can't we revert to type.....

[Gone_Shrimping]

Awesome result. Makes you wonder if we'd being doing this well (or certainly be this unified) if Diego's money had come through and we'd have signed a few players in January. Something to be said for a small, tight nicked squad where everyone feels they have a part to play.

Jim's results are seemingly better when we are down to the "bare bones".

When we have had a squad of 22 results didn't seem so good maybe because some are kicking their heels in the stand not even making the bench. At the moment we have a siege mentality Morecambe against the rest and the players are responding.

Really pleased for young Mullin. He is looking like the player we all wanted Jim to sign when he came pre-season a few years back.

[Christies Child]

Loooks to me as though young Evans our Everton loanee had an influential hand in both of Mullers goal.s
He also looked as though he's got into the squad ethic and enjoyed his first full FL debut by the way he celebrated Mullers first goal.

Woulld like to hear from those who went if his enthusiasm was a contributing factor in our win.

Just another successful loanee that JIm and Co have unearthed and in this case came from Everton now under the stewardship of the former Man Utd reserve team boss who arranged last seasons loan of the United goalkeeper....wonder if he's got a soft spot for our club and in particular our management team.

[shrimper]

Evans played well. Closed down their midfielders and won the ball a number of times. Won a lot in the air and, when on the ball, showed good close control, plenty of skill and an eye for an incisive pass, like for Mullers' first.

Flemmo tidied up and played a very responsible, more restricted role, allowing Evans to get forward. Rose was his usual influential self and we ran the midfield first half.

Second half we coped with their possession well and played well on the break. They didn't trouble Baz much and we could have had a couple more, had two blocked on the line.

[Christies Child]

Evans played well. Closed down their midfielders and won the ball a number of times. Won a lot in the air and, when on the ball, showed good close control, plenty of skill and an eye for an incisive pass, like for Mullers' first.

Flemmo tidied up and played a very responsible, more restricted role, allowing Evans to get forward. Rose was his usual influential self and we ran the midfield first half.

Second half we coped with their possession well and played well on the break. They didn't trouble Baz much and we could have had a couple more, had two blocked on the line.

Thanks for that appraisal; sounds as though we have a player who could win the aerial battles in midfield, something that for me we have fallen short of in other games over a few seasons.

Look forward to seeing him hopefully v Grimsby.

Excellent.

[marky No.1]

It's a joy to see us comfortable on the ball and passing it around. Crawley hardly had a look in first half and when they did Baz was there to mop up.
Mullers was fired up, Rose was cool and Evans slotted into our game comfortably, looking interested and to be part of it - obviously he understands our language more than he does at Everton....

Not sure about Winnard at left back with Wakefield at right back and Conlan on the bench, but obviously Jim knows his players.
Shame for me that McGowan hasn't climbed a few more rungs recently, hopefully that may come with a bit more time but progress does seem to have faltered..

Fairly sure Flemmo gave the penalty away, not Wakefield. Just a shame all the goals were at the far end!!

Great day and performance

[Freez]

Wakefield was responsible for the pen, he tackled Murphy on the flank on the half way but the ball bobbled away and Murcphy got there first and knocked it down the line, he was going for the return pass and Liam pulled him back in the box, defo a pen!

[Gone_Shrimping]

Wakefield was responsible for the pen, he tackled Murphy on the flank on the half way but the ball bobbled away and Murcphy got there first and knocked it down the line, he was going for the return pass and Liam pulled him back in the box, defo a pen!

A definite penalty. Don't know why he did it as it wasn't nailed on that the guy would collect a pass and score.

Ref's never see the off the ball stuff that we have to endure.

[shrimper]

Deffo a pen but it was Flemmo who pulled the lad back. We all thought it was Liam at the time but it's clearly Flemmo having seen the highlights. Grabs his arm and spins him back.

[marky No.1]

Deffo a pen but it was Flemmo who pulled the lad back. We all thought it was Liam at the time but it's clearly Flemmo having seen the highlights. Grabs his arm and spins him back.

Thank you Glen, I thought my eyes were deceiving me at 1st... C5 said it was Liam too

Apologies for the crap pics

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[shrimper]

It all happened rapidly and as soon as the ref pointed, Liam was there holding his head in his hands (he'd followed up trying to get another challenge in).