Match Day National League fixtures 20/02/2018

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Aldershot v Bromley
Barrow v Gateshead
Boreham Wood v Maidstone
Chester v Leyton Orient
Dover v Dagenham
Ebbsfleet v Woking
Guiseley v Fylde
Halifax v Hartlepool
Maidenhead v Eastleigh
Solihull v Wrexham
Torquay v Sutton
Tranmere v Macclesfield

Rovers don't have a great record against table-topping Macclesfield,so not confident in our battle of the top two. Mention of only 25 advance away end tickets bought so far, was expecting rather more travelling support. May many will just pay on the gate?

Expect Boreham Wood, Dover and Fylde to win their games at the top and probably Sutton. Less sure about Shots v Ravens, as Bromley were an awkward opponent for us at the weekend or Wrecsam's visited to a revived Solihull. At the bottom, Barrow have a good chance to pull away with a home game v Gateshead, but the games at Chester and Halifax are hard to call.
 

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Just got my ticket online, though I'm at work in Stockport and don't live in Macc, so not sure if internet is freely available for majority of Macc folk.

Ooh get me and self deprecation comedy.
 

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There's way more riding on this for Tranmere than Macclesfield. If we win, it's still advantage Macc, but if we lose, I think that is our challenge over. Huge game for us.

Should be a decent crowd and hopefully a good atmosphere.
 

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There's way more riding on this for Tranmere than Macclesfield. If we win, it's still advantage Macc, but if we lose, I think that is our challenge over. Huge game for us.

Should be a decent crowd and hopefully a good atmosphere.

Even if we somehow managed to beat you tomorrow we'd just lose to Maidenhead on Saturday after Jalal manages to slice a goal kick into his own net.
 

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Dover have been on an iffy run right? Clutching.
 

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Must win really, especially with Tranmere v Macc and Aldershot v Bromley playing. Expect Boreham Wood and Sutton to win too.

Can see us dropping points though, and would look likely to be play-offs for us.
 

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Dover have been on an iffy run right? Clutching.
We are on a bad run.
Would think that your manager know everything there is to know about a Kinnear team.
You always beat us - it seems
Even without your lost players there's a good chance you will get at least a point.
 

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There's way more riding on this for Tranmere than Macclesfield. If we win, it's still advantage Macc, but if we lose, I think that is our challenge over. Huge game for us.

Should be a decent crowd and hopefully a good atmosphere.
Yes, if we lose it is a potential ten point gap to Macc if you consider their game in hand and there is no way we would make up that ground at this stage of the season. It has taken us three months to make up eleven points on Wrexham.

We had over 4,000 pre-sales for the game five hours ago, which probably means a gate in excess of 6,000.
 

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On paper tomorrow should be easy. Put Football isn't played on paper, it's played on glorious 3G. Or grass. Long trip for our plucky part-time team of builders, sales reps, picture framers and pros inbetween full-time clubs, which we'll be doing on the day as per Barrow last week. No Beautyman or Bailey either. Ross Stern recalled from his loan at Bath. I'll be pleased with any kind of win
 

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Guiseley away for us. It’ll be a tough game as our previous meeting with them was. If we have real aspirations of reaching the play offs then tomorrow is a must win game
 

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Our first visit to Chester since March 2006, when a 2-0 win lead to Keith Curle getting the sack.

I would expect one or two changes, maybe Dan Happe for George Elokobi if George can't play two in a week again.

Wary of Chesters win on Saturday, before this weeks run of fixtures I'd have taken four points and that is still the case.
 

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We need to beat Bromley to cement our place in the playoffs tomorrow, although our home form is poor considering we're 3rd. 1 win since the end of November and that was against Woking (who we always beat with Waddock)
 

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Playing at home to Gateshead feels like the best opportunity to register a home win in a long while. No doubt with optimism currently quite high, we'll stutter again. A draw is probably most likely.
 

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You can get 4/1 on a Macc win tomorrow night! I really don't think we will but does seem very long odds. I got 5/2 on the high street for us to win at Aldershot which was still generous I thought.

Some really nice looking odds for tomoz nights games:
Aldershot Evs to beat Bromley
B Wood 4/6 to beat Maidstone
Dover 11/10 to beat Daggers
Ebbsfleet Evs to beat Woking (worth a good few quid I reckon)
Tranmere 4/5 to beat us
 

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Another defeat incoming

I rubbished your (I think it was you) claim a few weeks ago that you could go down. Few more losses and you'll be right in it! Hey, at least if you go down you'll still have the play off final victory over us! ;)

Woking at home. Should be looking to win, but we've lost at home to both Chester and Torquay, so I'm not predicting anything!

For some strange reason, police have insisted the game is segregated. Don't recall us segregating against them before.
 

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Tonight is the biggest game we've played since the play-off final last season. Lose and the title is gone, draw and it's increasingly unlikely. The only real result that will keep us in the hunt is a win, and after nine in a row at home, I should be fairly confident. But I'm not. Ten wins in a row at home sounds like something you do on FIFA or PES, not something an actual Rovers team does on an actual Prenton Park pitch (which is starting to wear at the wrong time). Macclesfield have developed into a bogey team of sorts whilst we've been down here and they're unbeaten in their last four against us.

It would be very Tranmere to see Adam Dugdale (not especially popular here) or Nathan Blissett score an 89th-minute winner in front of the Kop (Macclesfield, of course, having switched ends at K.O., which never ends well).

I'll predict a 1-0 win, but I'm not sure about it at all.
 

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Back to losing ways for us, might sneak a draw if that donkey Denton misses as many chances as he did at our place.
 

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Tonight is the biggest game we've played since the play-off final last season. Lose and the title is gone, draw and it's increasingly unlikely. The only real result that will keep us in the hunt is a win, and after nine in a row at home, I should be fairly confident. But I'm not. Ten wins in a row at home sounds like something you do on FIFA or PES, not something an actual Rovers team does on an actual Prenton Park pitch (which is starting to wear at the wrong time). Macclesfield have developed into a bogey team of sorts whilst we've been down here and they're unbeaten in their last four against us.

It would be very Tranmere to see Adam Dugdale (not especially popular here) or Nathan Blissett score an 89th-minute winner in front of the Kop (Macclesfield, of course, having switched ends at K.O., which never ends well).

I'll predict a 1-0 win, but I'm not sure about it at all.
I don't think Dugdale is still with us, he was only here for a month's loan and never even featured in a matchday squad. Blissett on the other hand is our main goal threat at the moment and is probably the most likely player in the team to score. So when Norburn and Jennings obviously score against us that will make the score 2-1 to Tranmere.

I think Tranmere are a better team than us but we have the points advantage. A draw would do us nicely.
 

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I have a feeling Tranmere are going to destroy us tonight. Fylde style.

Should be a good atmosphere though- heading over after work. Hopefully take about 500 or so.
 

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I don't think Dugdale is still with us, he was only here for a month's loan and never even featured in a matchday squad. Blissett on the other hand is our main goal threat at the moment and is probably the most likely player in the team to score. So when Norburn and Jennings obviously score against us that will make the score 2-1 to Tranmere.

I think Tranmere are a better team than us but we have the points advantage. A draw would do us nicely.
I've been really impressed with Blissett. He's quick too for a big lad and Tranmere's pitch is HUGE so could have the beating of FatNulty.
 

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I've been really impressed with Blissett. He's quick too for a big lad and Tranmere's pitch is HUGE so could have the beating of FatNulty.

Seems like you're one of the first clubs to utilise Blissett properly. Hopefully he can keep his form up but I wouldn't be surprised to see his form tail off.
 

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Will be interesting to see if we can make it two wins in a row tonight. If we are to escape relegation then I think we'll need this win to develop a positive (and confident) mindset going into the next couple of months, rather than simply gaining three points over another possible relegation candidate.
 

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