Anyone seen the goalkeeper?...
My last missive on my beloved Rovers brimmed
with enthusiasm for our chances of outright
promotion. I talked of our inventiveness and
dedication to the cause, our superb away form
and sense of optimism. Now though I’m writing
the night after a fourth straight defeat, and a near complete collapse of the season, our
morale was last seen legging it down Borough
Road with all of it’s cases packed swearing never
to come back.
We have plummeted from table toppers to
sixth in just ten days, any reasonable Tranmere
fan will now tell you automatic promotion is highly unlikely and the play offs represent
our only hope of salvaging a season that has
promised so much. Optimists might point out
that the top of the league has concertinaed so much that if results go well on Saturday we
can actually go back top, realists will point out
the teams we are being forced to field at the
moment are simply not capable of taking us
into the play off zone.
Against Swindle Town last night we could of
been 4 down by the interval, they were much
the better side. We have seven players out right
now who were in our primo primo side at the
start of the season, and here’s the rub, we won’t
get the opportunity to play that side again this
season.
Saunders (as a favour to Doncaster perhaps?)
is keeping our best goalscorer Jake Cassidy at Wolves, so that’s a major blow. It’s been
confirmed today that James Wallace is out for
the rest of the season, you can’t over estimate
how much this damages our chances.
Gibson, Akpa Akpro, Palmer, Holmes are all due
to drift back after injuries and suspensions but
without the spine of Wallace and Cassidy it still
looks grim.
The splendid early season form of Fon Williams,
our Cambrian wonderboy, in goal has dipped
noticeably of late too. The aforementioned
problem of a severely depressed morale may well account for this, the stone age old cliche
of winning being a habit hanging over us like a
Mersey storm cloud.
I really can’t blame the lads who have come in
and even after our fourth straight defeat I can’t
get angry with the team, Ronnie’s fragile side
of loan stars combined with injuries has done
for us. Crawling in at 6th and having some play
off fun is something I’d bite your hand off for
right now.
On a lighter note the Swindon game provided
us fans with a comedy moment we won’t
forget. As we were pressing for an undeserved
late equalizer our goalie Fon Williams went up for the free kick, the ball was immediately
cleared and fell to Blacky, our full back, on the
half way line... he then passed it back to the
goalie... who of course wasn’t there.
IAN PROWSE ||
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