by steve mfc » Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:48 pm
From the Coventry forum,
Best thing Morecambe can do is to go a goal up and then defend that, knowing a draw will suffice.
An extract from Crewe fan. When Morecambe played there last week.
I have nothing against Morecambe, good little club who have punched above their weight for years. But their absolute failure to take the game to us the other week could ultimately cost them their league status and deservedly so.
A Crewe side completely on the beach and experimenting a strike partnership of two big lads in Bowery and Porter who were as useful as a chocolate fireguard together and a Crewe side who kept passing to Morecambe shirts at will and were being carved open with ease on the very few occasions Morecambe decided to attack because we played like we didn't give a shit. So what did Morecambe do against this side? Play 5 at the back, put everyone behind the ball when we had the ball ourselves and failed to show any attacking ambition bar their few dangerous counter-attacks. Soon as Artell put Miller on we immediately started looking dangerous and we bagged a 90th minute goal that could potentially contribute to Morecambe's unprecedented relegation.
I'll give Barnet their dues, I don't like Martin Allen, but Barnet played some lovely stuff at the Alex under Rossi Eames in August. How they didn't score I don't know as we mugged them late on for 3 points. When we played recently, I thought both Barnet and Crewe were atrocious in poor weather, but give Barnet their due again, they played attacking football and got the reward that their industrious play deserved, even if we did give them a helping hand with the two penalties.
That was on 21/04/18
Now that is exactly how I saw the game which is why I felt so annoyed at the final whistle, sometimes I think maybe I'm being too critical but when even the opposition supporters can see it then obviously not, and lets face it there's been a few games like that including the Barnet game, so lets just go for it, no negative tactics, the season has come down to this one game its not a time for faint hearts if we are to go down then don't let it be with a whimper, if any player isn't going to give 100% then they shouldn't be on the pitch.
