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are we all shell shocked tonite

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Just glad i stayed until the end to see Twissy score thought the fans did a superb job and totally out sang PNE well done lads

I thought we played some good stuff tonight and we wont face teams with that much movement every week. No shame at all tonight, we kept it down and didn't just go for long balls.

Roll on next saturday.

First 30 minutes we were the better team IMO - Played the ball along the floor, some nice one twos, I actually thought we could come out winners. Then the penalty, easy for the keeper once he was going the right way.

1700 or so Morecambe fans which I thought was a great turnout, anyone have an official away attendance?

We gave a very good account of ourselves, but as the match went on the gulf between the two sides was increasingly evident. Preston did well to take the goals that they did, but we should have scored a couple more, plus the penalty.

Was impressed with Haining's performance at the back, our MOTM for me.

Unfortunately Twissy strayed into midfield and onto the wings too much, this is particularly bad when he's the only fit striker in the squad at the moment! Took his goal well though, if he stays up top and uses his strength well as he did, he should be able to get a couple more at Burton.

Matty Poole's cameo appearance never did him any harm, could have done a bit better with the goalscoring opportunity but even so it's good to see some more youth team players progressing.

credit to preston thought they played very well, morecambe started bright but could not keep to prestons pace and flare.

Poor performances from:-

twiss 5/10
adams 6/10

Good performance from:-

Duffy 9/10

Overall thought we deserved the last min goal, i would give our performance a 7/10 against a great team.

Crooky MFC wrote:First 30 minutes we were the better team IMO - Played the ball along the floor, some nice one twos, I actually thought we could come out winners. Then the penalty, easy for the keeper once he was going the right way.

1700 or so Morecambe fans which I thought was a great turnout, anyone have an official away attendance?

I think it would have been a different game had we scored that pen

Twiss played quite well i think you'll find, he was constenly fouled by number 14 chilvers everytime he got the ball played to him chilvers would just shove him in the back. He took his goal extremly well.and if Chilvers hadn't been fouling him everytime the ball was hoofed twissys way he would have got alot more of the ball and done better.

Fair play to a much better Preston side tonight.. who knows what would've happened had we scored the penalty or a couple of our chances in the first 30 minutes.

I thought Wilson had an excellent game, and was Morecambe's MOTM for me. Never gave up, and ran his socks off.

I wonder if Danny has stopped spinning yet, he got turned inside out that many times ????

I enjoyed the match last night and it could have been so completely different if Duffy had put the penalty away. Just a shame so many people missed Twiss's goal, especially those that left early - some wandered off with 14 mins left on the clock.

Serves em right for not stopping till the end, i bet most of those that left early are the "big game watchers"

we played some good stuff but got outplayed by a better side which you would expect,looked a bit lost when we got into the last 1/3rd of the pitch with a lack of a cutting edge.Kept throwing long balls up to twissy who is not a target man.
our defence was constantly getting turned whereas we did not get behind their defence very much
an unrealistic score but they were the better team

Gnasher wrote:I enjoyed the match last night and it could have been so completely different if Duffy had put the penalty away. Just a shame so many people missed Twiss's goal, especially those that left early - some wandered off with 14 mins left on the clock.

Is it on video anywhere Brian , youtube etc. I got txt from 2 people that Stanley had missed Pen . Anyway thats 2 missed Pens already , maybe Twissy should have taken it because as P.Schmiecal says " The Hardest Shot in Football"

Don't know about it being on video but you can see a photo of Duffy taking the penalty on the official site.

http://www.morecambefc.com/page/Gallery ... 31,00.html

parceldave wrote: I got txt from 2 people that Stanley had missed Pen .

It's difficult to see the difference between those 2, must have been the floodlight glare

parceldave wrote:

Gnasher wrote:I enjoyed the match last night and it could have been so completely different if Duffy had put the penalty away. Just a shame so many people missed Twiss's goal, especially those that left early - some wandered off with 14 mins left on the clock.

Is it on video anywhere Brian , youtube etc. I got txt from 2 people that Stanley had missed Pen . Anyway thats 2 missed Pens already , maybe Twissy should have taken it because as P.Schmiecal says " The Hardest Shot in Football"

Twiss always used to take our penalties and was awesome at them, he then missed a few and then stopped taking them. I'd like to see him taking them again

Again, we made all the atmosphere and the Preston fans were rubbish and only started singing when they were 3-0 up .

Abbo wrote:Serves em right for not stopping till the end, i bet most of those that left early are the "big game watchers"

I had to drive to Cardiff after the match, so slipped away just before Preston's 5th.

Sorry

IMO, we were forced to play through the middle because there was no one to get onto the crosses. Twiss, skilled as he is, cannot win headers.

Campdave thats a poor excuse, what would a few minutes more in the ground have made to your journey, bet you would have stopped till the end if we had won !!!!!!!!!!!!

Abbo wrote:Campdave thats a poor excuse, what would a few minutes more in the ground have made to your journey, bet you would have stopped till the end if we had won !!!!!!!!!!!!

Meant not sitting for ages in traffic so saved at least half an hour. Only second time ive left early in 6 yrs. Both times ive left, we scored!

campdave wrote:

Abbo wrote:Campdave thats a poor excuse, what would a few minutes more in the ground have made to your journey, bet you would have stopped till the end if we had won !!!!!!!!!!!!

Meant not sitting for ages in traffic so saved at least half an hour. Only second time ive left early in 6 yrs. Both times ive left, we scored!

can you do it more often please!

james456 wrote:Twiss, skilled as he is, cannot win headers.

So you weren't at Stadium:MK to see his equaliser?

marky No.1 wrote:

parceldave wrote: I got txt from 2 people that Stanley had missed Pen .

It's difficult to see the difference between those 2, must have been the floodlight glare

Yeh , Stanley's only about a foot taller with dark hair and Duffy doesn't resemble the F.A Cup in any way . . Or was it something to do with the amount of liquid refreshment Mark .