Crewe Alexandra v Tranmere Rovers Match Discussion
By Deadly Submarine
September 7 2012
If you can't make Tranmere's game away at Crewe Alexandra on Saturday afternoon, why not join in the banter right here with other Rovers fans who are unable to attend......
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I'll go for a win, but no scoreline predicted, however Crewe did beat a very out of sorts Coventry, but I would think Tranmere currently have to be considered the slight favourites because they have 4 more points and also a much beefier scoring record, not to mention a 25% consession rate in open play.
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
I thought we played better than them. We created more chances, just couldn't finish them off. Hard to pick out one player for MOTM. Maybe Ash Taylor deserves it.
A pretty toothless performance from us against an equally toothless (and diving) team!
I thought Crewe certainly looked anything but the good footballing side they've been made out to be at times although they did show some signs of it on odd occasions.
Their diving tactics though were the worst I've seen this season and in the end the biggest culprit was stretchered off (say no more).
In the end though we barely tested them and they barely tested us. We looked most likely to score second half and should ahve done so through Akpro's chance. I was also amazed by Akpro's missed header chance. Yes it was offside but they don't come any easier than that!
A great point though away from home again with two home games still to come now. All still looks quite promising!
A little dissapointing, but a clean sheet and still unbeaten.
What made me more ticked, was Notts County were losing to Shrewsbury and then went on to win and top the table and of all the people to score their winner, that loathesome wretch Lee Hughes got it.
Now even if Tranmere top the table next week, County will get their match shown first, on the Football League Show league one highlights.
However if Coventry fail to beat Stevenage tomorrow, it will put added pressure on thme newxt week and I think Tranemre can beat them, because their start to the season has been worse than would have been expected.
Still though, unbeaten with a 60% win rate and 60% clean sheet rate, so compared to the last 3 seasons, a much more virile start to the season.
Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.
Let us not expect too much. I seem to recall Leyton Orient shooting ahead and then having a terrible mid-season. If we have a minimum of 21 points after 12 games, I think it will be a good season. There will inevitably be a 'bad' patch where we lose even if performance is good.
Hopefully, suspensions won't be as frequent this year as in past few seasons.
I think a lot depends on the likes of Wallace and Robinson staying fit and clear of injuries over the season. Robinson was injured for most of Les's bad run of results.
strange sort of game really i thought we only had to score and i think they would have folded, then they got alot of space in midfield and put us on the back foot. agree their players went down a bit easy at times but hope lad who was stratchered off is ok.what pleased me was the way we kept playing until the end, still a point away & a good day out in the sun, hope our expectations don,t get us carried away still a long way to go.
It seemed to me as if Crewe were happy to take a point on Saturday from the off. It sort of got to the stage where they were content with the point, and as the away side so were we, thus the stalemate.
JLAA had the best chance after being put through by Robbo, and if any team was going to nick it, we were the most likely. As a side note I don't know what was up with Wallace on Saturday, his passing and general play was a bit all over the place.
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