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Another strange line-up from Adkins will do well to get something from todays home game v Gills.

I hope that whoever drops out of the league this season does so on footballing reasons. Of the sides I've seen play this season, the Shrimps are not in the bottom two, have seen three worse than them including my own team. Tranmere co-chair. Mark Palios has broken his recent silence, by a...

No expert on Solihull Moors, but after last season thought they might be better placed rather than just scraping into the play-off spots.

Rovers v Gills. Two sides right down the bottom of the form table. I tipped the visitors to be in the top seven, but another manager not delivering and they've slid down the table. New boss John Coleman was at our last home game v Carlisle, unclear if he had been sounded out then. Losing at home...

Some suggestion from the bookies that Andy Crosby, who’s been working with Adkins at Rovers on a short-term basis is a contender. Hard to say what impact he’s had with us.

I'd originally thought I'd go to this, new ground etc. However, not practical to stay over in London this weekend and rail replacement buses at both the start and end of the journey put me off. A 5 hour+ journey on bus/train combo after another away thumping doesn't bear thinking about. Very...

Returning to the question of relegation prospects, at this point, I find it very hard to call. There are a lot of poor sides down near the bottom, my own team Tranmere included. At the start of the season, I felt that we'd assembled a squad capable of a mid-table finish and Adkins had done a...

I actually think the NL play-off system is better than the FL one, attaching more benefit to the sides finishing further up the table.

If Carlisle are bringing all these additional players in, without moving others on, how do they manage to comply with the financial and squad size regulations? At Tranmere, we were told by the management that our budget was close to the limit such that we can only do one in one out deals, even...

Some Rovers fans were hoping we’d have done this. Coleman was at PP yesterday presumably scoring for the Gills visit at the end of the month. It will be interesting to see how it goes, Coleman’s spells with Rochdale and Southport were not the success that the two Accrington stints were.

1286 Carlisle at PP.

At the pre-Christmas forum we were told it was expected to be concluded by the first quarter of 2025. So too late for any financial input in the transfer window, unless the new owners wished to make funds available, which seems unlikely. I’m unsure what the prospective buyer attitude will be...

See my observation on the Carlisle thread, but irrespective of the performance in this or any other game Palios is not going to sack Adkins and the manager is not going to walk away. Hence fan frustration. Agree with you re the outcome. I don’t think it will matter which team you field today...

Rovers v Carlisle I imagine we’ll ditch the idea of playing young forward Solomon in midfield and probably start with Khan/Merrie in a 442. Adkins appears to have lost the dressing room and the plot. I hope because the visitors are a “possession based team” that Adkins doesn’t adopt the same...

I haven’t seen Carlisle play this season. On paper, even without the recent additions you’ve got a better squad than Rovers though both sides are missing important players through injury/illness. The Morecambe game we had 4 decent chances before they took the lead. No decent finisher at the...

749 SWA watching more dross at Morecambe

Result as predicted. It sounded like we had a few decent chances in the first half, didn't take any and were fairly toothless in the second, as the Shrimps turned the screws. Unless both Adkins goes and we get some investment in the playing squad Rovers are going down.

The one change for Rovers is Tom Davies returning from suspension at the back. Zak Bradshaw seemed to struggle at left-back v Barrow but keeps his place and no left-back cover on the bench. Sol Solomon, a striker stuck in midfield again. The Shrimps first league win at home this season looks...

Jennings has actually been one of our better players when deployed correctly either in a front two or as a no 10. It doesn’t work well using him out wide or as today in a midfield role.

Not at the game either, but the commentary I was listening to gave a different impression. Rovers started the brighter but heads dropped after the Barrow deflected opener and even after the equaliser, Barrow were the more threatening going forward. Despite all the let-offs, Kristian Dennis had a...