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First half was an enjoyable outing on a beautiful sunny day. Support in good voice and a great performance on the pitch from the lads, including some well worked goals and we're in 2-0 up at half time.
Second half was utter dross. Hereford hadn't turned up first half and sadly in the second half neither did we. They were rubbish and instead of kicking on and trying to get a third to kill them we sat back and didn't even look interested in getting forward.
For which we were nearly very seriously punished. Danny Coyne made one hell of a save to keep them out in their first dangerous attack of the game, after Ian Goodison had gifted the ball to them. Goodison let the ball pass through his legs, thinking a Tranmere player was there to sweep up and in fact it was a Hereford forward who snapped up the gift and but for Danny's full stretch save that would have been a goal.
Then after one of our passing phases went aimless and broke down, Goodison flies in two footed on the halfway line, when no danger whatsoever - one of the stupidiest tackles ever. Looked like a 17 year old centre forward's tackle.... mis-timed and well just terrible really. Straight red and there can be no arguments.
So the stands turning into a library, our players deflated and down to ten men. Thoughts of Leeds away without a first team centre back... and we give away a soft penalty. I don't think there could have been much contact and certainly their player threw himself down... but it was given and scored. 2-1 and we've lost the second half 0-1. Felt like a defeat at the final whistle.
But for Danny's save we would have drawn 2-2 and been out of the running for the play-offs. But for Ian's stupidity we could have won by more and done our goal difference some good.
I'm going to have to stop there for now, I'm just so cross at Goodison. Stupid man.
Second half was utter dross. Hereford hadn't turned up first half and sadly in the second half neither did we. They were rubbish and instead of kicking on and trying to get a third to kill them we sat back and didn't even look interested in getting forward.
For which we were nearly very seriously punished. Danny Coyne made one hell of a save to keep them out in their first dangerous attack of the game, after Ian Goodison had gifted the ball to them. Goodison let the ball pass through his legs, thinking a Tranmere player was there to sweep up and in fact it was a Hereford forward who snapped up the gift and but for Danny's full stretch save that would have been a goal.
Then after one of our passing phases went aimless and broke down, Goodison flies in two footed on the halfway line, when no danger whatsoever - one of the stupidiest tackles ever. Looked like a 17 year old centre forward's tackle.... mis-timed and well just terrible really. Straight red and there can be no arguments.
So the stands turning into a library, our players deflated and down to ten men. Thoughts of Leeds away without a first team centre back... and we give away a soft penalty. I don't think there could have been much contact and certainly their player threw himself down... but it was given and scored. 2-1 and we've lost the second half 0-1. Felt like a defeat at the final whistle.
But for Danny's save we would have drawn 2-2 and been out of the running for the play-offs. But for Ian's stupidity we could have won by more and done our goal difference some good.
I'm going to have to stop there for now, I'm just so cross at Goodison. Stupid man.