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BartonRaz wrote:First half and majority of the second half was awful, but the comeback was great. Shariff was like a breath of fresh air when he came on and his goal was top drawer.

Wrexham looked bloody good but just seemed to take their foot off the gas or get tired, they'll be kicking themselves for that.

Farrell needs to be dropped. Either Cousins or Shariff should start next game.

Left the ground feeling quite happy, great end to the game, and a good point psychologically.

Agree with all of that, we shouldn't have got anything from this game much like the game at Wrexham but Wrexham didn't take their chances again and paid the price, nice to see such a great comeback when we looked hopeless for much of the rest of the game and I couldn't see us coming back.

Glad Shariff was given more time than he has had before, he looks very decent and a superb first senior goal.

On a negative note, the defence was very poor at times today and there needs to be a clearout in the summer as a lot of the team just clearly aren't good enough. But happy with the point today and certain results elsewhere :lol:

Sharrifs goal was well taken, hopefully JE sees sense and plays him, good atmosphere after o'connors goal!

diamond.jack99 wrote:Sharrifs goal was well taken, hopefully JE sees sense and plays him, good atmosphere after o'connors goal!

True that, was thinking the same, nice to hear a great cheer for the goal, don't hear that NP much these days

Oh and the last thing I forgot to mention about today: Aaron's shushing of the Wrexham fans. :lol: He just has to stay for next season, a great captain.

How the hell we came away with a point today, was a complete mystery to me. Our defence was all over the place and once again we gifted them a goal start with a p!ss poor decision from Jamie Day. TBH we never really looked like getting into the game. We do not dominate midfield, we create very little and we constantly hoof the ball up in the air. It was poor, poor stuff. Yet we still managed to carve out a draw.
None of them earned more than a 4 in ratings for me today. Even the match sponsors gave it to Shariff cos there was no one else who looked close to winning MOM. The sooner this season is committed to history, the better. I just hope we're still around come the new season cos with attendances like this we don't deserve to be.

I was very surprised by the extremely poor turn-out from our fans today .Given the club is struggling and we were playing a decent side, i expected a better turn-out than just over 900 from us :( .

diamond.jack99 wrote:Sharrifs goal was well taken, hopefully JE sees sense and plays him, good atmosphere after o'connors goal!

He was excellent when he came on and even dare i say Cousins did well. The three subs changed the game, as they all seemed to sense they could make a difference as Wrexhamn seemed to think they had done enough for the win!

TheIncognitoKid wrote:

diamond.jack99 wrote:Sharrifs goal was well taken, hopefully JE sees sense and plays him, good atmosphere after o'connors goal!

He was excellent when he came on and even dare i say Cousins did well. The three subs changed the game, as they all seemed to sense they could make a difference as Wrexham seemed to think they had done enough for the win!

Wrexham had also taken off Obeng a few minutes earlier which I thought made a big difference, since he would've been the player picking up O'Connor for the goal.

I think Shariff should start on Wednesday though, maybe Keehan as well, at least give him a proper run out before he's released!

agree about Keehan, he looked good on saturday and if porter does go then maybe the wage of keehan would be more suited to the clubs budget,

Perfect oppotunity to give Keehan a go tomorrow as Power is banned for two games!