Rovers v Macc

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If you create clear cut chances, win the game and restrict the other team to nothing but a long range free kick that hits the post, how are the tactics wrong?

I can't wait to see what happens when he gets it right if that's the case...
I think we might have won more comfortably if we had played with two strikers. As you say yourself, Macclesfield are not a great team. I am not sure our defensive performance would have been any different in a 442 to a 451.

However, anyone who has read anything I have posted knows I am a huge fan of Mellon and the job he is doing. I don't think anybody is beyond criticism though. It is not as if it was even a particularly harsh comment, just an observation on the game.
 
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Wasn't our worst performance but still far from good enough to compete in this league. Our lack of quality is absolutely killing us. On a positive note Grimes had a good game in defence and Rose's free kick deliveries were excellent.
 

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Both free-kicks that hit the post were from debatable decisions by the referee. Banks made a meal of the challenge for Buxton’s effort, while McNulty appeared to have won the ball cleanly for the Macc one.

I think Rovers improved after h/t, but weren’t comfortable winners. Agree with RLC that had we changed the formation things might’ve gone more smoothly for Rovers.

Macc, I don’t know. Rose played well, didn’t look a bad side, but lacked a cutting edge.
 

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What a cracking attendance, considering one was Champions and the other went up via the play-offs you are poles apart now.
Feel for Macc, always had a soft spot for them but looks terminal even this early.
 

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The title winning team is a distant memory. Killed off by Askey leaving and Yates trying to replace the team with utter shite players.
 

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We can't be anything but unambitious with the shite we signed in the summer to try and replace Whitehead and TRFC's favourite son Hancox, along with having a first midfield four all out injured.

The only bit of hope I'm clinging on to is that Durrell, Whitaker, Evans and Lloyd are back fit before it really is too late.
 

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It certainly wasn't pretty last night but we got the win and on the balance of play, I'd argue we probably just deserved to win. Not much in it though.

Macc have gone backwards at an alarming rate - they played some great football when they battered us 1-4 in the VNL, yet now the only player interested in getting the ball down and playing was Marsh (who won't be there long if they stay rooted to the foot of the table). I appreciate they lost a few players, and Askey, during the summer, but they look a shadow of their former selves.

4 points from 39 is atrocious. It's going to be very hard come back from that type of start. You'd need near play-off form (46/99 points) to reach 50, and even 40 points looks a tough ask (36/99) with current form. Granted, it's not impossible, but it does look unlikely even at this early stage. Given GD, they're already two wins from safety and have yet to win at all.

Grim. As for us, we've had a great start. Doubt we'll stay up there all season but will enjoy it whilst it lasts.
 
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It certainly wasn't pretty last night but we got the win and on the balance of play, I'd argue we probably just deserved to win. Not much in it though.

Macc have gone backwards at an alarming rate - they played some great football when they battered us 1-4 in the VNL, yet now the only player interested in getting the ball down and playing was Marsh (who won't be there long if they stay rooted to the foot of the table). I appreciate they lost a few players, and Askey, during the summer, but they look a shadow of their former selves.

4 points from 39 is atrocious. It's going to be very hard come back from that type of start. You'd need near play-off form (46/99 points) to reach 50, and even 40 points looks a tough ask (36/99) with current form. Granted, it's not impossible, but it does look unlikely even at this early stage. Given GD, they're already two wins from safety and have yet to win at all.

Grim. As for us, we've had a great start. Doubt we'll stay up there all season but will enjoy it whilst it lasts.
In fairness to Macclesfield, Durrell, Whitaker, Lloyd (and Whitehead) are the players that made them a good side last season, probably the major reason they won the league. The midfield was their great strength and their strikers were not brilliant even in the division below. So being without those three due to injury is a big blow to them, whoever is in charge.
 

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It certainly wasn't pretty last night but we got the win and on the balance of play, I'd argue we probably just deserved to win. Not much in it though.

Macc have gone backwards at an alarming rate - they played some great football when they battered us 1-4 in the VNL, yet now the only player interested in getting the ball down and playing was Marsh (who won't be there long if they stay rooted to the foot of the table). I appreciate they lost a few players, and Askey, during the summer, but they look a shadow of their former selves.

4 points from 39 is atrocious. It's going to be very hard come back from that type of start. You'd need near play-off form (46/99 points) to reach 50, and even 40 points looks a tough ask (36/99) with current form. Granted, it's not impossible, but it does look unlikely even at this early stage. Given GD, they're already two wins from safety and have yet to win at all.

Grim. As for us, we've had a great start. Doubt we'll stay up there all season but will enjoy it whilst it lasts.
Thankfully whilst we are 2 wins adrift, it could be a lot, lot worse but Cambridge & Cheltenham are struggling too so (whilst it's highly unlikely) a couple of quick wins could see us back in the game.

No idea where them wins are coming from though. We need to hope the two aforementioned sides also continue to struggle and we have a 3 team shoot out to beat the drop later in the season!
 

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Unfortunately Cheltenham were our best chance of a league win. But we fluffed that.
 

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