Wistaston Ram

Could be worse, we might be getting tonked 3.1 at Burton

Could be worse, we might be getting tonked 3.1 at Burton

Burton 1 Wednesday 0 - J Brayford,  automatics back on!

Burton 1 Wednesday 0 - J Brayford,  automatics back on!

Utter rubbish. 

26,793,  162 out, I think that can be classed as close.

There’ll also be a few absentees due to being away on holiday. All stuck in the queues at Dover if they’re unlucky.

Wildsmith 6.0
Hourihane 6.5
Chester 6.5
Forsyth 6.0
Cashin 7.0
Collins 6.5
Bird 🦅  6.0
McGoldrick 8.0
Mendez-Laing 6.5
Dobbin 6.0
Smith 5.5
Roberts 7.0
Davies 6.0
Sibley 5.5
Barkhuizen 6.0
Knight  7.0
Was there in the home end

Wildsmith 6.0
Hourihane 6.5
Chester 6.5
Forsyth 6.0
Cashin 7.0
Collins 6.5
Bird 🦅  6.0
McGoldrick 8.0
Mendez-Laing 6.5
Dobbin 6.0
Smith 5.5
Roberts 7.0
Davies 6.0
Sibley 5.5
Barkhuizen 6.0
Knight  7.0
Was there in the home end

Wildsmith 6.0
Hourihane 6.5
Chester 6.5
Forsyth 6.0
Cashin 7.0
Collins 6.5
Bird 🦅  6.0
McGoldrick 8.0
Mendez-Laing 6.5
Dobbin 6.0
Smith 5.5
Roberts 7.0
Davies 6.0
Sibley 5.5
Barkhuizen 6.0
Knight  7.0
Was there in the home end

Don't worry, the good lady is joining me for this game.  Her record this season;
Shrewsbury 0.0
Portsmouth 0.0
Ipswich 0.1
Barnsley 1.4
Surely she is due a win.

Thank god!

Blimey, and I thought I was a Jonah....🤣

My record this year:
Oxford (H) W 1-0
Ipswich (A) L 0-1 😓
Bristol R (H) W 4-2
Forest Green (H) W 4-0
Charlton (H) W 2-0
Cheltenham (H) W 2-0
I'll be at FGR Saturday ....
 

Don't worry, the good lady is joining me for this game.  Her record this season;
Shrewsbury 0.0
Portsmouth 0.0
Ipswich 0.1
Barnsley 1.4
Surely she is due a win.

Don't worry, the good lady is joining me for this game.  Her record this season;
Shrewsbury 0.0
Portsmouth 0.0
Ipswich 0.1
Barnsley 1.4
Surely she is due a win.

Don't worry, the good lady is joining me for this game.  Her record this season;
Shrewsbury 0.0
Portsmouth 0.0
Ipswich 0.1
Barnsley 1.4
Surely she is due a win.

Don't worry, the good lady is joining me for this game.  Her record this season;
Shrewsbury 0.0
Portsmouth 0.0
Ipswich 0.1
Barnsley 1.4
Surely she is due a win.

Outplayed for 10 minutes. Got into it for 3. They counter and score. Why did Smith seem to totally ignore Chaplin? Why did he choose to go towards a ball he was never ging to get and leave Chaplin in a dream position? After 30 minutes we got into it and played well for the rest of the half.

2nd half we played well. Looked dangerous without really being so, until Cashin nodded home only for the assistant ref to tell the ref he'd seen a foul.... he hadn't and later admitted he was wrong. That goal stands and you've got a totally different game on your hands. A draw or a win may well have been on the cards. They get another counter goal. Why was Smith ambling back rather than sprinting? When he eventually did decide he maybe should have been running rather than dawdling it was too late. 0-2. Played OK the rest of the game but to no avail.

Ipswich are good and are now on 7 wins on the bounce with 0 goals against. No disgrace losing to them but it was so unnecessary. Goals on the counter seem to becoming a habit. We need to rearrange to stop conceding them.

Hate to sound like a broken record but the ref wasn't at all good again and this time it was one of his assistants who pointed out the ghost foul that saw our goal disallowed. Having said that, another ref may have red carded Cash instead of a yellow. The penalty shout when Knight went down was rightly turned down. When Chaplin went down in our box and claimed a penalty should have seen him yellowed for diving. Didzy's yellow was correct as was White's, less sure about Smith's which was, IMO, debatable as a foul. They had 2 booked for time wasting, too little, too late. Clarke might have had a 2nd as well but was let off by the ref and then subbed off to avoid a second. He was off the pitch when he saw he was to be subbed off and should have stayed off and walked round the pitch back to the dugout. Instead he he wandered back onto the pitch at the North end and then took his sweet time walking almost up to halfway, turning right and heading, nice and slowly, to the dugout....

Playoffs are still a possibility but not a great one as we appear to have the hardest of the run-ins. Average League position of our opponents being higher than those of our rivals. If we make the playoffs great. Idem ditto if we win them. IMO we are in profit on the season. My forecast was midtable and anything better would be a welcome bonus. It's bonus time.

Definitely brings us luck. We could have lost Shrewsbury and Portsmouth too.

Hope she can improve her record !

There was a lot of stroppy people leaving on 75 mins in the SW Upper today, including one stone island clad individual letting everyone know what an embarrassment our club is, losing to Fleetwood (had he been locked in the ground for two weeks?). 

There was a lot of stroppy people leaving on 75 mins in the SW Upper today, including one stone island clad individual letting everyone know what an embarrassment our club is, losing to Fleetwood (had he been locked in the ground for two weeks?). 

There was a lot of stroppy people leaving on 75 mins in the SW Upper today, including one stone island clad individual letting everyone know what an embarrassment our club is, losing to Fleetwood (had he been locked in the ground for two weeks?).