Match Day Good Friday fixtures

[Davidimp]

We are also going to have the money to bring in better players thanks to massive increase in gates and the cup run money.
I expect the likes of Anderson, Angol Margetts and Knott to make their loans permanent as we'll have the money to offer them deals we wouldn't have had otherwise.

 

[PaulHaddock]

I would like a Tranmere fan to define 'best team'.

 

[CrazyImp]

We are also going to have the money to bring in better players thanks to massive increase in gates and the cup run money.
I expect the likes of Anderson, Angol Margetts and Knott to make their loans permanent as we'll have the money to offer them deals we wouldn't have had otherwise.

I genuinely wouldn't take Angol or Margetts. They're not up to it.

 

[Davidimp]

I agree BUT our manager likes them.

 

[slaphead]

Not quite matey boy who wore the blue square thing on his head needs to be at our place next week with EFL on his bonce this time!

Fair point, I'd forgotten about that bellend!

 

[Boz]

I would like a Tranmere fan to define 'best team'.

How about "last season Tranmere won and drew against Grimsby so we must be the BETTER TEAM"

 

[GTFCfish]

How about "last season Tranmere won and drew against Grimsby so we must be the BETTER TEAM"

Yeah but that was only because we had loads of injuries and Hurst should have been got rid of earlier and Slade brought in last season......

 

[DontBringBertie]

As has been mentioned you did a real number on us and more importantly the rookie ref who before the second half started was sharing jokes with your players!
Also we got a bit gung ho after levelling up we hit the post and Margetts missed a sitter and kept pushing for a winner with 10 men when we should have sat in and taken a point instead we caught on the break twice late on.
Unbeaten now at home since our only other defeat so far to Barrow(again caught out late on from a breakaway goal) a total now of 22 games (16 wins 6 draws).

Lincoln really can't complain about refs being conned and teams being over physical. Farman has a tactical injury just about every game so Cowley can regwoop and Rhead goes down like a sack of shit on a regular basis.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Lose to Mickey Mellon's Tranmere and you've been out-swashbuckled, lose to the Cowleys' Lincoln (and we did, twice) and you've been ground into submission by the time and motion man

 

[Mark kavanagh]

Are there any Tranmere fans out there capable of saying Lincoln deserve to win the title without adding the words "but" or "however" after it?!

Check my post from Saturday mate

 

[GodsGift]

Check my post from Saturday mate

Friday you mean? But fair enough, you're one of the good ones!

 

[slaphead]

Lose to Mickey Mellon's Tranmere and you've been out-swashbuckled, lose to the Cowleys' Lincoln (and we did, twice) and you've been ground into submission by the time and motion man

What if you don't lose to either?

 

[JaredSUFC]

As has been mentioned you did a real number on us and more importantly the rookie ref who before the second half started was sharing jokes with your players!
Also we got a bit gung ho after levelling up we hit the post and Margetts missed a sitter and kept pushing for a winner with 10 men when we should have sat in and taken a point instead we caught on the break twice late on.
Unbeaten now at home since our only other defeat so far to Barrow(again caught out late on from a breakaway goal) a total now of 22 games (16 wins 6 draws).

I would have thought the most amazing atmosphere in the National League would have intimidated a rookie ref though.....

BTW Dos likes to share a friendly word with most officials for all the good it's done us on the road

 

[The Jovial Forester]

What if you don't lose to either?

Shots clearly heralds of a brave and better new non-league world.

 

[Chris FGR]

What if you don't lose to either?

Then you are clearly awesome. Which must make any team that wipes the floor with you twice doubly awesome.

 

[Bendubz]

You don't have to be the best team to be the most deserving of the title.

I have to agree with that. Take this year's Prem for example. No one can doubt that Chelsea would deserve the title if they finish top. But when you consider that Tottenham haven't had a full squad available for a single match it's illogical to come to the conclusion Chelsea has the best side. Hell, if you take Lamela out of the equation then the best possible side has still only played 2 games together, one of which Vertonghen got injured in, whilst the other was a 2-0 win AGAINST Chelsea.

 

[Luke Imp]

I find it strange that Lincoln are the only team away from home we've kicked off the park. Not denying we're physical but questioning why it only really worked at Sincil Bank

A few things, really. It was early in the season when we couldn't sustain our levels. Wood, who was playing CM at the time and added a physical element alongside Woodyard, got sent off. Five minutes later we lost Rhead, so we had no target man. Then at 1-1, we went for the win and should have, in hindsight, settled for a point.

Barrow at home we probably should have settled for a point given that we weren't playing well but we ended up losing that one. Again, that was early in the season.

 

[Chris FGR]

I have to agree with that. Take this year's Prem for example. No one can doubt that Chelsea would deserve the title if they finish top. But when you consider that Tottenham haven't had a full squad available for a single match it's illogical to come to the conclusion Chelsea has the best side. Hell, if you take Lamela out of the equation then the best possible side has still only played 2 games together, one of which Vertonghen got injured in, whilst the other was a 2-0 win AGAINST Chelsea.

Plus Chelsea, like Leicester last year, have the advantage of not having been in europe this season. Makes a big difference.
Not sure Lamela is in Spurs' best xi though.

Lincoln on the other hand have played more games then Tranmere this season.

 

[Luke Imp]

Our set-up in terms of sports science and assessment of fitness will be better than anybody's at this level. Sometimes injuries are just down to luck. A defender putting his studs into Jake Kirby's leg and snapping it in half can't be prevented by the physio.

There are no complaints from me about Lincoln winning the title, as the most deserving team always finishes top. However, to say we would have had a better chance if Mellon had been in charge all season is just a statement of the obvious. Circumstances meant that was not possible.

Perhaps, and I'm not sure whether what I'm about to type has too much relevance but when Brabin was sacked, you were 2 points behind us. When Mellon was appointed you were 4 points behind. You're now 5 points having played a game more.

You don't have to be the best team to be the most deserving of the title. Not one Tranmere fan is suggesting Lincoln don't deserve to win the league because that would be a pointless and ultimately futile argument to make. The team that wins the league deserves to win it, end of story. No complaints here.

Not making excuses either, I'm just making the point that if we'd had Tollitt, Cook, Hughes, Maynard, etc, for the entire season we'd have possibly had a better chance of winning the games against the better sides. We've been on constant damage control in terms of selection since Christmas. At the end of the day, even if I'm in a minority of one, I stand by the fact that a fully-fit Micky Mellon Tranmere are a better side than a fully-fit Danny Cowley Lincoln.

If Lincoln fans are so confident that the reverse is true, rise above it and move on. You only get rattled by things that have a ring of truth about them, so if there's no validity to my arguments, ignore them and let my ignorance sit for everyone else to see.

We've been making anywhere from 2 to 5 changes a game since Xmas until the last 3 games or so where we've got back to putting a settled XI out because we've hit the home straight. The changes weren't necessarily down to injuries, just in the main down to the amount of games we've had to play in the second half of the season.

It's not rocket science to say that when all of your best players are available for the whole season, your team are likely to do better. I'm not sure that the sports science thing is a key factor as both Rovers and Lincoln use it. It can often be down to pure luck as to whether players sustain a serious injury or not.

I think the fact this league has been more competitive this year will actually help Lincoln in L2 next season. Last season Cheltenham strolled to the title, but are not guaranteed to stay up yet.

Again, agree to a point. I think you've had two or three ACL's? That's down to fatigue, not luck. They're serious injuries, which are generally preventable unlike a Kirby injury, for example.

 

[Sparrow]

I think you've had two or three ACL's? That's down to fatigue, not luck. They're serious injuries, which are generally preventable unlike a Kirby injury, for example.

Not sure about this, at all. Rendell did his ACL 40 minutes into last season. Yakubu - eight games in. Surely muscle injuries are much more down to fatigue (and luck) and are easier to prevent by stretching, doing the appropriate recovery after games and warming-up rather than twisting or falling awkwardly and doing an ACL.

 

[Chris FGR]

Wait, what? Rendell and Yakubu did their acl's last year? Why did no one mention it.

 

[Luke Imp]

Not sure about this, at all. Rendell did his ACL 40 minutes into last season. Yakubu - eight games in. Surely muscle injuries are much more down to fatigue (and luck) and are easier to prevent by stretching, doing the appropriate recovery after games and warming-up rather than twisting or falling awkwardly and doing an ACL.

The normal muscular injuries are easier to prevent, yes.

I can't remember the whole science behind it, and I only know this because a mate of mine had to retire from professional football in his early 20's due to doing his ACL in both knees on separate occasions, but it's to do with the muscles/fibres around the knee being able to contract when you land/change direction. Fatigue or accumulated fatigue over a period of time means they don't respond as quickly and don't lock the knee and muscles in place, hence the 'pop' the person often gets. Once you've done one knee, the likelihood of doing the other one is higher.

I might be slightly out with that, but that's the gist of what I was told (admittedly about 8 or 9 years ago).

 

[Sparrow]

Wait, what? Rendell and Yakubu did their acl's last year? Why did no one mention it.

Some of the current posters weren't there at that time. Like Crazy Imp, who cried off the forum.

 

[CrazyImp]

Some of the current posters weren't there at that time. Like Crazy Imp, who cried off the forum.

Depends how you define "cried off the forum" (when we were top, neglected to mention) - if you mean deal with severe personal trauma, then you might be closer to the mark.

Then again, you wouldn't understand, because you're a fucking idiot aren't you.

 

[Bendubz]

Plus Chelsea, like Leicester last year, have the advantage of not having been in europe this season. Makes a big difference.
Not sure Lamela is in Spurs' best xi though.

Lincoln on the other hand have played more games then Tranmere this season.

I'd say it depends on the formation as to whether Lamela would be in the best XI. Before he got injured he definitely was, as part of a 4-2-3-1 formation. However since then not only has the formation switched to a 3-4-3, which would not accommodate him as a first choice pick, but Son's form has also picked up so he would possibly get the nod in a 4-2-3-1 instead.

I'm going off on a tangent though, that's a very good point about Lincoln having played more games (the fixture congestion coupled with fatigue from prior games is why I believed Tranmere would take it at the start of the month).

 

[Boz]

Rovers had 2 players who did their ACL. While Tollit's happened when nobody else was close to him, so the circumstances Luke Imp describes, Harris' was as a result of an accidental fall on to him by a Forest Green player, one of those things I'd class as unavoidable.​

 

[Davidimp]

We've played 57 so far.
The Cowleys have planned to play at least 60 and don't expect the team to peak until around now.

 

[Sparrow]

Depends how you define "cried off the forum" (when we were top, neglected to mention) - if you mean deal with severe personal trauma, then you might be closer to the mark.

Then again, you wouldn't understand, because you're a fucking idiot aren't you.

Of course, Chris and I were talking about last season when said Rendell and Yakubu incidents happened - and when you horrendously abused another poster. I'm not sure why you're going on about this season. But I'm the idiot.

 

[RLC]

Perhaps, and I'm not sure whether what I'm about to type has too much relevance but when Brabin was sacked, you were 2 points behind us. When Mellon was appointed you were 4 points behind. You're now 5 points having played a game more.

Those stats don't tell us how we would have been performed in the first six weeks of the season when Brabin was in charge. It was our September slump that resulted in Brabin getting the boot, and I doubt we would have been down in ninth under Mellon. More generally, if Mellon had a full pre season with the players, time to get a pattern of play in place, root out Brabin's deadwood etc.we might have performed better. However, we decided to keep Brabin on last season and I don't dispute that Lincoln have been more consistent and deserve to win the league.

 

[1884 Belmont]

Obviously certain Lincoln posters would try to prove they have the best physios in the league based on the fact that their mate told them something about knees 8 or 9 years ago. Of course they have, best at everything see.

This despite the fact that our current physio has worked with the Welsh national rugby team, the one before him now working at Liverpool and the one before him being arguably one of the top physios in the country, with a PhD in it, and being in charge of the Man United academy's fitness programmes. Oh, and our former head of the FA chairman obviously just employed a random bloke to look after the team.

Seriously, I don't know what Lincoln's problem is. The fact you need to continually assert your side as the best at everything, from atmosphere to physios and everything in between, just shows you actually have quite the inferiority complex.