MATCHDAY THREAD Fleetwood v The ( not so ) Mighty Gas

Much improved but if we are comparing it to the performance at Accrington we'd have been hard pushed to do worse.

Ignoring league positions and current form and just looking at this as a one off game away from home, I think we did pretty well.

Apart from 1 excellent save from Day at the start of the second half I never really felt like Fleetwood looked like scoring. We showed the necessary fight and concentration to keep their forwards very queit.

I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say we bossed the midfield but Grant had a good game and Liddle did okay after a slow start. However, McCormick definitely improved us when he came on so I'd play the same team but McCormick in for Liddle on Tuesday.

It was good to see Daly back and his pace twice took him in behind their defence, firstly misfiring with his left foot and then failing to latch on to a ball forward from Bladwin when it loked like either him or Hanlan could have got there before the keeper.

The front 3 caused Fleetwood plenty of problems, Hanlan and Nichsolson both putting close range efforts just wide in the second half and on another day we might have got 1, if not 2 penalties.

All in all, a better performance and a welcome point but I felt our play might have just deserved all 3.

I thought the same especially the second one, nailed on in the premiership.
Also i thought Hanlon got a raw deal from the Fleetwood defence all afternoon but he does hit the floor a bit easy.

A solid if unspectacular point. A point probably fair enough. Neither team did enough to win it.

Having Daly back looked a big plus, he is a real menace and can smell blood. We seem to have so many players that can play in the middle but none stand out. The best is probably Ogogo but obviously hes now our injured. I was thinking back to that spine that BG got rid of under GC. OK, Jaakkola got injured quite a bit, and JCH was never gonna stay but getting rid of Craig and Ogogo along with that was really self destruction.

Anyway we move forwards.

Agree, don't underestimate Liddles contribution out of possession, protected the back 4 very well and hasn't played for 10 weeks or so so obviously way short of match practice. Take in to account his performance against Darlington he will be ok better than some of the other players played in there this season to date.I would replace him with McCormick for Tuesday however as we need to win.

Daly did well today, his battling style up top will serve us well in the games to come. He’ll get fitter and sharper again soon no doubt

Wasn't the suggestion Ogogo was forced out as there were concerns over his fitness, PT brought him back and now he looks to have picked up a season (and Rovers?) ending injury, perhaps BG, or whoever advised him, made the correct decision as we're now left paying 100% of his wages for the the rest of the season. As far as Craig which one of us would have offered him a 2 year contract in the summer to match what Crawley were prepared to offer him? 

I assume Baldwin, who was captain once in his younger days, along with Ehmer were seen as Craig's replacement, not sure why BG thought Grant & Liddle could replace Ogogo/OC, upfront we've always looked one striker short. 

After Tuesday's debacle this is a real positive result. An away point is always valuable and a clean sheet too. Please please please start the next games with McCormick.

Craig may have and most likely would have taken 1 year with us over 2 years with them tho? But it’s only an issue in hind sight tbh. I was gutted to see him leave but I certainly didn’t see him as irreplaceable at the time

I agree. I think for Hanlon’s appeal he had dived around too much earlier on so the ref decided against giving it.