A place for fans of both Tranmere Rovers and Woking to discuss Tuesday evening's upcoming match at Kingfield Stadium......
Following Saturday's last gasp 2-1 home win over Guiseley in the National League, our match discussion thread returns once again as Rovers prepare to travel to Woking on Tuesday night for their second game in four days. Tranmere are going into the game having finally ended a four match scoreless run with the win over Guiseley.
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Rovers travel to Woking for the first time on Tuesday Evening
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Am in London tomorrow so intending to jump on train to Woking. Anyone know if you can pay on gate? -ignore that just read official site, all pay on gate
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015:11:23:22:24:36 by AndyMase.
Ive questioned Brabin numerous times this season but not asked for his head, I am now he has to go. Clearly we have not improved since day 1 when we struggled to beat these 1-0. I spoke to their staff that day and just the week before they didnt have enough players for a team on the books. Brabin IS NOT capable of winning promotion and we will not finish in the play offs this season with him whatever the if buts maybes, games in hand or not and mathematics are.
P.S the fact is at this level you have to be capable of scraping a team from scratch and building winning form straight out of the box with no "gelling" thats what non league football is about.
Not been on for a while but felt I need to vent my anger to fellow fans(apologies)
Completely agree with Higgo, 22 games in, 10th in the league and not looking like getting any better! Brabin appears to be surviving on the back of two good away wins (fgr and Cheltenham) however we have not looked like a team on the up, even Saturday we managed to win what should've been a dead cert by A last gasp penalty and still he refuses to change tactics???
Is it now 3 nil? Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhh
Get rid of brabin now before its too late!!!!!!!!!
This league is stronger than league 2 there should be 4 up 4 down its league 3. I think lots of us have expected this league to be rubbish and it's far from it, I expected to win this league before we kicked a ball now is be happy with a top 10 finish and hope for better next season, keeping this manager for any longer will hurt us next season as we need to start next seasons pre season now if peeps understand where I'm coming from.
Blue&white2015 This league is stronger than league 2 there should be 4 up 4 down its league 3. I think lots of us have expected this league to be rubbish and it's far from it, I expected to win this league before we kicked a ball now is be happy with a top 10 finish and hope for better next season, keeping this manager for any longer will hurt us next season as we need to start next seasons pre season now if peeps understand where I'm coming from.
See what you mean re next year, I dint think we would walk it, I wasn't sure we would get promoted but I thought we would make a better showing than what we have done, and to make it worse from next year parachute payment is far greater and we loose out so it will be tougher still.
Blue&white2015 This league is stronger than league 2 there should be 4 up 4 down its league 3. I think lots of us have expected this league to be rubbish and it's far from it, I expected to win this league before we kicked a ball now is be happy with a top 10 finish and hope for better next season, keeping this manager for any longer will hurt us next season as we need to start next seasons pre season now if peeps understand where I'm coming from.
'Next season' is always our season to 'fight back' isn't it?!?
We scraped an extremely lucky win against a part-time team last Saturday and now we are being trounced 4-0 by Woking. I am sick of reading the Brabin apologists trying to defend this clown. He brought McNulty in to solidify the defence (well literally) and we now look worse than ever. Brabin has to go and go now, before we sink even lower. Palios must act now.
Brabin has had his day! He built HIS team and hasn't produced anything! We can't stick with him! We can't score, defend, do anything! I just hope a decision gets made soon, I have no faith in the man!
Will continue to go to home games, only cos I've spent nearly £300 for the privilege!! Usually go away but cannot justify Boreham wood on Saturday, would rather wipe my @#$%& with a broken bottle!!!!!! Than watch a team led by Brabin!!!
I bet they'll be a few people who will still say he needs time not that I'm calling for his head in 30 years of supporting the rovers I've only wanted Barnes out again I didn't think we would p*** this league at the start of the season I said top 10 finish which I think we will be lucky to yes we do have virtually a new team I'm only guessing at this so don't shoot me but that is probably the same for majority of teams in this division Cheltenham are one of those and look at them we won't sack every player that's for sure if it's the players that are not up to it surly that's the managers fault after all he signed these players so the question is how long do you give brabin
id rather have holness than mcnulty, waste of space to be honest, there has got to be some reserve team players comin thru by now surely, god to have ash taylor back now would be better
A disastrous result. Every time I look on the BBC to track the score its only Woking who are doing the scoring. We cant score and cant defend. The thought of us continuing like this is just sad.
Palios is an intelligent man and he wants league football. Surely he has had an expectations discussion with Brabin and those expectations surely haven't been met. Why is Brabin still here ? Same old rubbish different owner, it's time to take a positive step here and NOT by going on the loan market either. Time to step up Palios lets see the strength and reality of your vision for the club......please! Long time season ticket holder here and I really have had enough now I'm struggling to find any positives at the moment
dinamofookdarest Tbf to Gary Brabin, it might be very 'windy' so we can't play our usual game/football whatever that might be
I blame the opposition they insist on keeping the ball ,not giving it back and the only time they do give it back is when they put it in our net just not fair.
I have been a supporter of not making change of manager but giving him time to make changes if players, tactics, formations. But it seems he doesn't want to make a change, gamble etc. GFT should be on bench at best. Keep Norwood up front not on wing.
Still feel we need a real goal poacher to much just wanting one more touch or long range shots, not enough conviction in front of goal.
Thankfully I did not have far to travel back home after this inept, embarrassing, bottleless performance. Jennings, Hill, GTF absolutely awful with the rest not far behind. Each and every one looks unsure what to do when they get the ball, What the hell do they do in training? Brabin has to go, he has had ample opportunity to get things right but I honestly fear that who ever takes charge could do nothing with these bunch of misfits. It costs me a lot of money to travel up to home games and as has been said by another I will carry on as I have purchased a season ticket but unless we rapidly improve will not be bothering next season.
Maynard- didn't look interested in playing RB, when moved to CM in the final 10 mins, looked a different player.
Hogan- average
McNulty- ok at defending but his distribution is awful, it's like he's naturally left footed, but trying to play with his right foot for a laugh.
Hill- average tonight, still offers nothing going forward though
Mekki- did ok, but struggled with their big (huge) LB
Harris- ran around lots, didn't really do anything right or wrong
Jennings- looks like a poorer Harris
Norwood- isolated on the wing as hill offers no overlapping runs, you could tell he was frustrated at the end and at least made the effort with the fans (mom)
Mangan- quiet
GTF- poor
Tomlinson- offered nothing
Sutton- is a centre half, not a RB
Brabin- enough is enough now, a damn near full squad and this is what we get
All we need is two decent full backs who can tackle and get up and down the pitch, two central midfielders who can pass it forwards, a pacy striker to play alongside Norwood, and a manager who knows what he is doing. Then we may challenge for play offs. So, low mid table it is then.
We need a manager from Division 1 or 2 to go forward not another non league manager who knows the league. Mark Palios will have to invest in a bigger budget to get Tranmere out of this hell hole. We have a non league manager with mainly non league players that have played in this league for years and a few recently signed overweight has beens and you have the formula for a mid table or lower end of season finish. If Mark Palios is happy to stay in this league keep the present format.
what a terrible result last night. sure has put me on a downer today. one sure thing from last night is that mr palios will not be having anymore of this. is brabins job in real jeopardy or not?
look at the amount of times that we have not bounced back from a bad result or setback this season. ok we did well to get a great result at forest green after the barrow loss but did we get a response after the borehamwood, altrincham, kidderminster, eastleigh and dover games, no we didnt. we have just suffered our worst defeat of the season and if we dont get a reaction at bwood this saturday then maybe time for mr palios to start delivering a serious ultimatum to , not just mr brabin, but some of the players too.
After a great start in August, I thought we were gonna bounce straight back up, no questions asked. Then from then, it's gone down hill. Forest Green and Cheltenham are the only decent results we've had. I feel embarrassed when we lose to teams that I've never heard of! Cheltenham brought in 16 new faces and have transformed their team, Brabin has brought in players and they're not performing! I feel that we may never bounce back from the conference now! Brabin ain't quite at Edwards an Barnes level yet but he is out of his depth here! Time for him to admit defeat and do the honourable thing and move on!
maybe, just maybe this disastrous result at woking will kick us up the anus and allow us to have a long hard look at ourselves and sort it out.lets hope so.
Matt34 I'd politely disagree with that as it sounds a bit demeaning or patronising to the part-timers.
I'm sure you didn't mean it like that, so nothing personal .
Although the sentiment of being hammered or nailed by labourers, would have a slight irony to it.
No I did'nt mean it like that and no offence taken. I just meant that who would have thought three seasons ago that that would be happening
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