League 2 relegation thread 14/15

[Richard Cranium]

Why the police fall for it everytime is beyond me. They just allow the problem to move onto nottingham road and there's more chance of hassle. If they can't deal with 500 tranmere fans they should get a different job. If it's that bad, just keep them behind for 5 mins

Notts Police... Full of fucking morons.

 

[shoddycollins]

Funny to think that when Tranmere appointed Adams there was a mini-meltdown on our forum as everyone thought it was the managerial appointment of the season and we'd screwed ourselves over by not looking at him.

 

[Wizwag]

Funny to think that when Tranmere appointed Adams there was a mini-meltdown on our forum as everyone thought it was the managerial appointment of the season and we'd screwed ourselves over by not looking at him.

I wanted Adams too. Funny how things work out.

 

[hellogregory]

Funny to think that when Tranmere appointed Adams there was a mini-meltdown on our forum as everyone thought it was the managerial appointment of the season and we'd screwed ourselves over by not looking at him.

For all we know he could have done really well for us. Tranmere seems to have been an exception in an otherwise impressive CV at this level.

 

[Glasshalffullpools]

Well Mr Hellogregory , I'd like to see how you can cunjure up a relegation scenario now! Any chance of apologising to us all for having to put up with your unwarranted doom and gloom

 

[Glasshalffullpools]

Well Mr Hellogregory , I'd like to see how you can cunjure up a relegation scenario now! Any chance of apologising to us all for having to put up with your unwarranted doom and gloom

 

[LondonOrn]

There's not a single positive about going down to that level, not one

Apart from winning more games and getting promoted, that is?

And even if you argue that that one year in the Conference set you back, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have enjoyed the nine years in League 1 which included several good seasons (with one almost getting promoted to the Championship, and another nearly getting to the play-offs) if you haven't gone down there in the first place. Sometimes in any walk of life you need to take a step back to move two steps forward, and getting promotion from the Conference at the first attempt proved to be vital in giving you that long elusive winning mentality back, leading to the back-to-back promotions.

 

[Laker]

Still looks like 2 from 3, but Cambridge are bloody lucky they've shithoused their way out of this. Or more fairly they're lucky they had a good first half to the season.

Yep, we've been the worst side in this division ever since we played Man Utd, just fortunate we did well up to Christmas and there are a lot of other teams struggling.

 

[AdamStag]

Apart from winning more games and getting promoted, that is?

And even if you argue that that one year in the Conference set you back, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have enjoyed the nine years in League 1 which included several good seasons (with one almost getting promoted to the Championship, and another nearly getting to the play-offs) if you haven't gone down there in the first place. Sometimes in any walk of life you need to take a step back to move two steps forward, and getting promotion from the Conference at the first attempt proved to be vital in giving you that long elusive winning mentality back, leading to the back-to-back promotions.

No, the conference and everything about it is shit, there is nothing positive about being in there, at all.

This has been the worst season for me following Mansfield in general it's been dire, most seasons we would have gone down, we are very lucky that there is some sides actually worse than ours.

We are still in this, though I suspect come Saturday tea time we will be sorted

 

[womble76]

Still in this? mathematically maybe. I will place a large bet with you if you like that you will not go down. You are not actually in it.

 

[AdamStag]

Still in this? mathematically maybe. I will place a large bet with you if you like that you will not go down. You are not actually in it.

Well yeah the odds of it happening would be staggeringly high, but its still possible.

 

[Duffy]

Personally I'm still of the belief it's a 3 horse race, I just don't see two of the bottom three picking up enough along with those above dropping enough, I do think Carlisle will lose tonight though.

 

[hellogregory]

Well Mr Hellogregory , I'd like to see how you can cunjure up a relegation scenario now! Any chance of apologising to us all for having to put up with your unwarranted doom and gloom

It still only takes Tranmere or Cheltenham winning 2 games and you winning one before you visit us.

By all accounts chelte were excellent last night and 3-1 flattered Cambridge. They have 2 winnable away games left. You still have 2 winnable games before you play us, so are quite capable of winning one of them which would put you only a point behind us going into that game.

Had Cheltenhsm lost I may have considered an apology last night, but I'm not apologising for predicting relegation when there's still a realistic chance of us actually being relegated. What a tit id look then.

If we beat Burton away tonight, I'll post a long apology.

 

[AdamStag]

It still only takes Tranmere or Cheltenham winning 2 games and you winning one before you visit us.

By all accounts tranmere were excellent last night and 3-1 flattered Cambridge. They have 2 winnable away games left. You still have 2 winnable games before you play us, so are quite capable of winning one of them which would put you only a point behind us going into that game.

Had Cheltenhsm lost I may have considered an apology last night, but I'm not apologising for predicting relegation when there's still a realistic chance of us actually being relegated. What a tit id look then.

If we beat Burton away tonight, I'll post a long apology.

Tranmere were not excellent at all.

They still wouldn't have scored against us if they were playing now. I'm still in shock that ive witnessed an attack more inept than ours. Had they started with their subs instead it could have been a completely different story, but that's their issue

 

[Laker]

Mansfield fans, how about we play for a boring 0-0 on Saturday? We'll play 8 at the back if you do too. ;-)

 

[Richard Cranium]

Mansfield fans, how about we play for a boring 0-0 on Saturday? We'll play 8 at the back if you do too. ;-)

Can't we play out a 3-3 thriller?

 

[localhero]

It still only takes Tranmere or Cheltenham winning 2 games and you winning one before you visit us.

By all accounts tranmere were excellent last night and 3-1 flattered Cambridge. They have 2 winnable away games left. You still have 2 winnable games before you play us, so are quite capable of winning one of them which would put you only a point behind us going into that game.

Had Cheltenhsm lost I may have considered an apology last night, but I'm not apologising for predicting relegation when there's still a realistic chance of us actually being relegated. What a tit id look then.

If we beat Burton away tonight, I'll post a long apology.

65% possession and spending most of the game in the opposition half does not make an excellent performance, especially if you then only manage three shots on target.

 

[localhero]

Tranmere were not excellent at all.

They still wouldn't have scored against us if they were playing now. I'm still in shock that ive witnessed an attack more inept than ours. Had they started with their subs instead it could have been a completely different story, but that's their issue

Funny how you've seen us play one game and you're still capable of making a better judgment on who should be starting than Micky Adams!

 

[hellogregory]

65% possession and spending most of the game in the opposition half does not make an excellent performance, especially if you then only manage three shots on target.

Edited seeing as I obviously meant to put Cheltenham.

 

[AdamStag]

Funny how you've seen us play one game and you're still capable of making a better judgment on who should be starting than Micky Adams!

Well it is actually 2, I witnessed the bore draw at prenton park too.

Odejayi and hume were easily better and caused us lots more problems, the first touch of your starting forwards wasn't up to much at all.

 

[localhero]

Well it is actually 2, I witnessed the bore draw at prenton park too.

Odejayi and hume were easily better and caused us lots more problems, the first touch of your starting forwards wasn't up to much at all.

Odejayi has been decent most of this season, Stockton however has been terrible in nearly every game he's played for us, yet less than one week after returning from a long term injury he's straight into the starting lineup. Hume and Koumas could both have kept us out of this mess but Adams' ego has meant they've both spent more time on the bench than on the pitch.

 

[Luke Imp]

Just looking at the table, and how Mansfield aren't further in the shit given that they've only scored 35 goals this season is a minor miracle in itself!

 

[AdamStag]

Just looking at the table, and how Mansfield aren't further in the shit given that they've only scored 35 goals this season is a minor miracle in itself!

Well, we've won 13 games this season - all of them by 1 goal. 9 x 1-0 3 x 2-1 and a 3-2

 

[shoddycollins]

Apart from winning more games and getting promoted, that is?

And even if you argue that that one year in the Conference set you back, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have enjoyed the nine years in League 1 which included several good seasons (with one almost getting promoted to the Championship, and another nearly getting to the play-offs) if you haven't gone down there in the first place. Sometimes in any walk of life you need to take a step back to move two steps forward, and getting promotion from the Conference at the first attempt proved to be vital in giving you that long elusive winning mentality back, leading to the back-to-back promotions.

I don't think we had to go down to the Conference in order to get promoted to League 1. Had Paul Simpson been appointed at the start of our relegation season instead of part-way through he may well have gotten us up within two seasons without us needing to go down first. We might even have done better in League One that way as we'd have had had more money than a team who have recently spent a season in non-league would.

We were transformed as a club by new ownership and management, it just happened to come too late to save us from relegation but we were already on the upswing when we went down, and still made hard work of getting promoted, almost didn't make it at all.

 

[Railway Blue]

It can't be that long ago (15yrs?) since Tranmere were playing the likes of Bolton and Reading for a place in the Premier League.

 

[martinox]

I don't think that anyone who can say that there are benefits in being relegated to the Conference has ever supported a team that has been there. It is dire. Don't even start me on the standard of the referees! There are a lot of good teams in the Conference now and with only one automatic and the play-off winner being promoted it is a nightmare to get out of. Ask any Oxford or Luton fan and they will tell you!

 

[1884 Belmont]

It can't be that long ago (15yrs?) since Tranmere were playing the likes of Bolton and Reading for a place in the Premier League.

It's much longer than that. Lost to Swindon in 1993, Leicester 1994 and Reading 1995. It is 15 years since we were League Cup runners-up though.

To be honest, we haven't been 'that' club since 1995 and we have been on a 20 year slide which will end up in the VNL next season. Johnson hasn't looked interested since he left for Everton and the Palioses are having to deal with a lot of his apathetic decision making now. I just hope the slide stops in the VNL, but at this point whilst I expect it to plateau next year I wouldn't totally rule out a relegation fight again.

 

[LondonOrn]

Just wondering if the unthinkable happens to Tranmere, what kind of reception will the players/management (maybe the club itself if they are largely to blame) get during their final game of the season?

I've seen some shocking relegations during my 15 years as a football fan, but if Tranmere go down, this has along with Wolves and Stockport of late to be among the very worst.

 

[ShrewdBlue]

It's much longer than that. Lost to Swindon in 1993, Leicester 1994 and Reading 1995. It is 15 years since we were League Cup runners-up though.

To be honest, we haven't been 'that' club since 1995 and we have been on a 20 year slide which will end up in the VNL next season. Johnson hasn't looked interested since he left for Everton and the Palioses are having to deal with a lot of his apathetic decision making now. I just hope the slide stops in the VNL, but at this point whilst I expect it to plateau next year I wouldn't totally rule out a relegation fight again.

Surely you wouldn't be battling relegation again next season if you're down here. Stockport and Tranmere in the conference north would be ridiculous.

 

[localhero]

Surely you wouldn't be battling relegation again next season if you're down here. Stockport and Tranmere in the conference north would be ridiculous.

I thought that last season and look how that's turned out! A complete clear out is needed from top to bottom to ensure that the downward spiral doesn't continue into next year.