.Rochdale v Barrow match thread

[blue nige]

Fine margins Oldham lose to 90,+6 goal, Carlisle win 2 games in injury time , what is important that we don't lose on Tuesday just glad they didn't win today!

[boyliegladbach]

3 WINS IN 25 NOW (OR 1 IN 11 - OR 2 IN 16)

COOPER OUT

It's shit.

Some will still say its not the managers fault.

We will be okay though as I recently read there is a lot of poor teams around us.

[Gaffer]

Dear Mr Cooper please ask the players to shoot. Thanks love from the fans. X

[saltcellar]

Decent point against a team who have won 3 and drawn 6 of their last 9 home games.

[Methuselah]

I thought it was a decent result today.Granted we haven,t got a prolific goal scorer and haven,t had one since Quigley left.Our biggest problem is that we keep changing the team.I also think that Ollie Banks needs to control himself better.He is now one yellow card away again from another three match ban.How does that help the team?It was nice to see Dimitri Sea coming on as he is a player who can create goals from nowhere and I would like to see more of him.Our biggest problem is that when they do get in the goalmouth they are too timid and don,t seem to know what to do with the ball and end up passing it instead of taking a shot.That is something that needs to change.Hopefully if we manage to stay up,we have to get someone early on who is able to score goals on a regular basis even if the club has to pay a bit to get one.Onwards to another season in Division 2.

[Bingo]

Too slow, too much [SwearFilter] around

[Fazered]

We may survive but only because there are 2 teams worse than us. Cooper has been backed by the board with so many different players I don't recognise some of them. None of us know what our best team is. Too late to change now just have to pray for survival. I am not sure whether to buy a season ticket for next year the football has been so bad to watch

[Jim]

I thought it was a decent result today.Granted we haven,t got a prolific goal scorer and haven,t had one since Quigley left.Our biggest problem is that we keep changing the team.I also think that Ollie Banks needs to control himself better.He is now one yellow card away again from another three match ban.How does that help the team?It was nice to see Dimitri Sea coming on as he is a player who can create goals from nowhere and I would like to see more of him.Our biggest problem is that when they do get in the goalmouth they are too timid and don,t seem to know what to do with the ball and end up passing it instead of taking a shot.That is something that needs to change.Hopefully if we manage to stay up,we have to get someone early on who is able to score goals on a regular basis even if the club has to pay a bit to get one.Onwards to another season in Division 2.

I could only listen to commentary, but my impression is that even if we had a 'proven goalscorer' we wouldn't be scoring many as we don't seem to create any chances. I think the BBC stats showed 6 shots and 1 on target. As Darren Edmondson said, players sometimes need to take it upon themselves to create something, especially the wide men to go forward rather than play the ball inside and back.

Rightly or wrongly, Cooper has decided to be defensively sound and hope one of our limited chances can be converted. Presumably, that is why the midfield and wide men don't take risks. However, that makes our attacking build up very predictable and pedestrian.

[Steeley]

We weren’t great today and Rochdale will probably be thinking they should’ve won, so not a bad point I guess.
Table looking slightly better but we need 3 points from somewhere. Never look like scoring.

[Jonty]

Not knowing how this game panned out I’m happy with a clean sheet and a point today. Our situation isn’t great and games are a grind but with 11 games to go things are very much in our hands. Staying positive.

[Back of the net]

Not knowing how this game panned out I’m happy with a clean sheet and a point today. Our situation isn’t great and games are a grind but with 11 games to go things are very much in our hands. Staying positive.

That’s good. Reading between the lines Cooper seems happy with a point per game ratio and looking at past tables that average would mean we stay up.

[AugustusCorpa]

I can’t see us winning against Scunthorpe, Carlisle or Orient with our powderpuff attack. 2 more draws and a loss.

[mall]

Tuesday is biggest game of the season! Got to get 3 points
[/quote ] You know what the script is now!!

[pjdaly]

I can’t see us winning against Scunthorpe, Carlisle or Orient with our powderpuff attack. 2 more draws and a loss.

Don't get too down, we have Forest Green coming up at home soon (three defeats and two draws in their last five).

On second thoughts though . . . for a few years now we've had a bad habit of kick-starting the seasons of struggling teams. We tend to do better against the good sides.

[xerxes]

We have to be happy with a point from that, as Rochdale created far more than we did. O'Keeffe on the right wing caused us the most problems. We did have one or two chances to nick the win, but it would hardly have been deserved. Immense performances by Canavan, Platt, Brough and Farman. But goals appear as elusive as ever. If we manage 11 more 0-0 draws will it be enough to keep us up?