Author Topic: Tranmere Rovers (Read 92935 times)

Redsnappa · « **Reply #400 on:** March 24, 2019, 10:54:01 am »

Six wins in a row

Game in hand (away at Oldham) over MK Dons who are in 3rd 5 points ahead plus they play them at Prenton Park in three weeks.

The travelling SWA enjoyed themselves yesterday

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/h01lWsDj6iE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/h01lWsDj6iE</a>

Redsnappa · « **Reply #401 on:** March 30, 2019, 08:24:52 pm »

Seven in a row

Statto Red · « **Reply #402 on:** May 4, 2019, 05:40:48 pm »

Tranmere v Forest Green in the playoffs, Tranmere home first leg.

Redsnappa · « **Reply #403 on:** May 5, 2019, 10:33:03 am »

Quote from: Statto Red on May 4, 2019, 05:40:48 pm

Tranmere v Forest Green in the playoffs, Tranmere home first leg.

No love lost between those two, hate each other. Will be feisty games - home leg next Friday night, away leg the Monday night following, both 7.45 ko.

Incidentally, congrats to Sol Campbell keeping Macclesfield up yesterday. Bet CheshireMike is happy!

CornerFlag · « **Reply #404 on:** May 5, 2019, 08:05:22 pm »

Quote from: Redsnappa on May 5, 2019, 10:33:03 am

No love lost between those two, hate each other. Will be feisty games - home leg next Friday night, away leg the Monday night following, both 7.45 ko.

Incidentally, congrats to Sol Campbell keeping Macclesfield up yesterday. Bet CheshireMike is happy!

No-one will be happier at Sol Campbell getting praise than Sol Campbell, the massive Tory that he is!

CornerFlag · « **Reply #405 on:** May 10, 2019, 08:04:47 pm »

They're playing the first leg of the play-offs right now, Forest Green already had a fella sent off. Perfect chance to smash a few home to take to their place.

JoeCole · « **Reply #406 on:** May 10, 2019, 08:12:50 pm »

What a hit!

BrandoLFC · « **Reply #407 on:** May 10, 2019, 08:14:20 pm »

Hilarious game between the sending off and the goal.

CornerFlag · « **Reply #408 on:** May 10, 2019, 10:04:54 pm »

Should have done a lot more with the man advantage, looks like there was an injury to Norwood at the end of the game too?

Statto Red · « **Reply #409 on:** May 13, 2019, 09:42:46 pm »

Tranmere drew the second leg 1-1, win 2-1 on aggregate, will play Newport County in the final.

OOS · « **Reply #410 on:** May 13, 2019, 10:07:42 pm »

Mike Dean in the tranmere end standing on a barrier celebrating.

Hope they keep Norwood next season, he's the only reason they are in the playoffs. They will struggle to get a player as good as him in. Hes been terrific this season, Championship level performances.

Gerry Attrick · « **Reply #411 on:** May 13, 2019, 10:46:05 pm »

Quote from: OOS on May 13, 2019, 10:07:42 pm

Mike Dean in the tranmere end standing on a barrier celebrating.

Hope they keep Norwood next season, he's the only reason they are in the playoffs. They will struggle to get a player as good as him in. Hes been terrific this season, Championship level performances.

They'll need to find fortunes to keep him I reckon. Championship clubs will be queuing up to take a chance on him. Promotion or not I doubt it'll be enough.

andy07 · « **Reply #412 on:** May 13, 2019, 10:47:24 pm »

So how many will Tranmere take to Wembley?

TepidT2O · « **Reply #413 on:** May 13, 2019, 10:52:12 pm »

Has everyone seen the footage of Mike Dean dancing on his seat like a bad un?

davidlpool1982 · « **Reply #414 on:** May 14, 2019, 05:19:55 am »

Quote from: Tepid Sweet Sweet Transfer Jizz on May 13, 2019, 10:52:12 pm

Has everyone seen the footage of Mike Dean dancing on his seat like a bad un?

Gave his 100th red card this season and now Tranmere made the play-offs. Utopia!

rodderzzz · « **Reply #415 on:** May 14, 2019, 06:58:53 am »

Quote from: davidlpool1982 on May 14, 2019, 05:19:55 am

Gave his 100th red card this season and now Tranmere made the play-offs. Utopia!

It was to Ashley Young who he sent off too wasn’t it?

Red Beret · « **Reply #416 on:** May 14, 2019, 07:03:16 am »

Wow, this could be my bestie's third trip to Wembley in as many years. Will have to ask her if she's going!

Qston · « **Reply #417 on:** May 14, 2019, 11:02:28 am »

Well done to Tranmere. Fingers crossed for the final.

Palios runs the club very well.

On the subject of Norwood, he is out of contract at the end of the season and 27 years old. This is his last real chance at a big payday that can set him up for life. I cannot see him staying.

Pensby · « **Reply #418 on:** May 14, 2019, 03:02:30 pm »

Nice one Tranmere

Redsnappa · « **Reply #419 on:** May 19, 2019, 03:13:44 pm »

Quote from: Qston on May 14, 2019, 11:02:28 am

Well done to Tranmere. Fingers crossed for the final.

Palios runs the club very well.

On the subject of Norwood, he is out of contract at the end of the season and 27 years old. This is his last real chance at a big payday that can set him up for life. I cannot see him staying.

Yep, says so himself ... the big Lampard lookalike

James Norwood hoping for more Wembley goals and a shot at the big time

Top league scorer bids to shine again in playoff final for Tranmere.

By Jonathan Northcroft

It was in the first half of his trial for Exeter that James Norwood realised professional football was more serious than he had thought. A substitute, he got the munchies. So he nipped to the food stand, returning with a hotdog and Diet Coke.

Paul Tisdale, Exeter’s manager, was astounded to see his would-be new striker refuelling on the bench. “League One footballer!” Tisdale screamed. “I said, ‘I’m hungry,’” Norwood recalls — he can smile about it now. “And that I always get a Diet Coke with a hotdog.

“For me it was nothing out of the ordinary. I was at Eastbourne Town in the Rymans (League), sometimes playing for the ressies (reserves) where people would turn up hung over. I didn’t understand what professionalism was. When you do a scholarship you learn the ins and outs of being a footballer, but I’d no idea.”

Norwood actually won a contract that day. In the end, Tisdale sent him on and his natural pace, strength and finishing quickly established his case. But, 18 and fresh from A-levels at St Bede’s private school, Norwood remained a naïf in the professional game.

He had always been entrepreneurial — delivering takeaway curries while a pupil, gaining the offer of a business and sports scholarship in Michigan — and was ambitious to take over his dad’s roofing firm. When he realised that training finished at 12 and he would have afternoons free, he applied for work with a pizza chain for extra cash.

That did not go down well and after playing Exeter’s first four games of 2009-10 he was discarded, beginning a series of loans that ended with a permanent move to then Conference Premier side Forest Green. He and Tisdale met this season and could laugh about those times. Norwood is different now: a savvy, seasoned pro, into gym work, ice baths, protein shakes. As English football’s top league scorer of 2018-19, with 29 goals — plenty of those high quality and none penalties — he has helped to shoot Tranmere to Saturday’s League Two playoff final against Newport. There is very serious interest from Ipswich. At 28 there is still scope for a non-League-to-big-time story; to be the next Jamie Vardy.

Norwood is a candid and quietly funny interviewee, in the sunshine on a hotel patio near his home in Huyton. If Tranmere triumph, he points out drily, he will just be back where he was 11 seasons ago: League One. That pace, strength, and finishing never left him — so why the circuitous journey? Others’ misjudgement played a part: he was an England schoolboy international but dumped by Crystal Palace because at 16 he was 5ft 2in. Then, for four years at Forest Green, he played out of position at left midfield because managers wanted pace on the flanks.

It took a while to get his food intake right. “My physique was incredible and I could outrun anyone so I’d eat whatever I liked and didn’t feel the need to change. Then you hit 23, 24 and start working a little harder, eating a little leaner and feel the benefits. You’re looking for that extra per cent and realise food’s going to make a big difference.

“But people don’t realise how hard it is for footballers down the levels to eat well. You’re on the road to away games stopping at service stations for your pre-match meal. The pay’s not great. First-year pro wages. I’m going, ‘Am I going to spend £5 on a chicken?’ I was on 60 quid a week after rent — you’ve less than nine pounds a day for everything including two meals. And a microwave dinner is £1.99!”

Being uninitiated meant he did not have an agent —he did not know any, and no one ever rang. So despite having captained England C and his 46 goals in three seasons from that midfield position he stayed tied to Forest Green on dead-end deals. “I did contract talks myself. I’d panic I wasn’t good enough, that’s the thing.

“When I played I was, in my head, the best player in the country. Yet as soon as the season finished, I’d panic, ‘what if no one else will sign me?’ and ended up taking year-after-year deals until I was 24. Cardiff were interested, Port Vale. I missed out on opportunities. Contract talks? I had no idea. I didn’t know about appearance fees, goal bonuses, none of that. I began to think, you know what, I’m just going to have to be that guy people say ‘he should’ve played higher’”

Andre Gray was his strike partner for England C and he rooted for his friend in the FA Cup final while hoping Sergio Aguero didn’t score. He and Aguero started the day level with 32 goals as top scorers in all competitions. He loves Tranmere, its people, the canny management of Micky Mellon — but after 92 goals in 188 games, including the one that returned the club to the Football League last season, he faces a dilemma. “I have an idea in my head where I can play,” he says. “There’s a great opportunity to get promoted with a club who are so good for me. But there’ll also be opportunities at other clubs who, if I do well there, might help get me where I want to go. After Wembley there’ll be a decision to make, the most difficult decision of my life.”

“I want to push to see how high I can go. But I’d back myself. Back myself to score goals in the Premier League.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/james-norwood-hoping-for-more-wembley-goals-and-a-shot-at-the-big-time-3rbjhkff8

CornerFlag · « **Reply #420 on:** May 23, 2019, 05:12:51 pm »

They on TV on Saturday?

Qston · « **Reply #421 on:** May 23, 2019, 05:28:38 pm »

Quote from: CornerFlag on May 23, 2019, 05:12:51 pm

They on TV on Saturday?

I presume they are on BT sport. They showed their previous games.

Good luck to Tranmere as well

oojason · « **Reply #422 on:** May 24, 2019, 11:22:39 pm »

'On Merseyside at the moment the spotlight is on Tranmere, says Mellon':-

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/24/micky-mellon-tranmere-league-two-play-off-final-newport

^ Fair play to Micky Mellon on getting Tranmere to Wembley 3 times in 3 years...

Red Beret · « **Reply #423 on:** May 25, 2019, 10:04:58 am »

Quote from: oojason on May 24, 2019, 11:22:39 pm

'On Merseyside at the moment the spotlight is on Tranmere, says Mellon':-

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/24/micky-mellon-tranmere-league-two-play-off-final-newport

^ Fair play to Micky Mellon on getting Tranmere to Wembley 3 times in 3 years...

Must be costing my bestie an arm and a leg. She's off down there again today.

oojason · « **Reply #424 on:** May 25, 2019, 02:08:08 pm »

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Tranmere Rovers vs Newport County - the League Two Play-Off Final - a 3pm kick off.

https://twitter.com/TranmereRovers : https://twitter.com/NewportCounty : https://twitter.com/EFL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_English_Football_League_play-offs

Newport XI: Day, Poole, O'Brien, Demetriou, Butlet, Bennett, Sheehan, Labadie, Willmott, Amond, Matt.
Subs: Pipe, Dolan, Marsh-Brown, Azeez, Bakinson, Crofts, McKirdy

Tranmere XI: Davies, Ridehalgh, Nelson, Monthe, Harris, Norwood, Jennings, Caprice, Perkins, Morris, Banks.
Subs: Pilling, McNulty, Buxton, Gilmour, Pringle, Mullin, Dagnall

The game is live on Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Main Event in the UK - https://www.live-footballontv.com

TV Stations around the world showing the game live (+ great for IPTV etc) - https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/3309967/newport-county-vs-tranmere-rovers

Streams:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsoccercity/comments/bsu8ku/1500_gmt_newport_county_vs_tranmere_rovers
https://stream-hd.live/stream/344789/newport-county-vs-tranmere
https://streamwoop.net/event/74890/Newport-County-vs-Tranmere
https://www.hulkstream.com/live/soccer/england-league-two
https://www.usagoals.net/football.html
http://soccerlegacy.net/premier-league-live-stream-1
https://www.mamahd.org/league-two---play-offs-newport-co-vs-tranmere-live-stream/
https://www.ronaldo7.net/video/manchester-live/manchester-free-live-streaming.html
https://www.vipboxtv.se/football-stream

Good luck to 'em

Highlights - https://www.reddit.com/r/footballhighlights/new & https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football

CornerFlag · « **Reply #425 on:** May 25, 2019, 03:02:32 pm »

Mickey Mellon's a bit tank-like isn't he?

G'waaan Rovers!

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #426 on:** May 25, 2019, 03:30:53 pm »

Tranmere with a cracking chance earlier

0-0 after a drinks break

Mostly water, but a few barcardi and cokes and someone with a cheeky stella.

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #427 on:** May 25, 2019, 03:35:15 pm »

Getting a bit tetchy

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #428 on:** May 25, 2019, 03:36:25 pm »

Naughty little off the ball tackles and fouls all over the park from both sides.

Going to be a card soon

CornerFlag · « **Reply #429 on:** May 25, 2019, 04:59:27 pm »

Newport down to ten, just ticked over into extra time. Got to be, just got to be.

Red Beret · « **Reply #430 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:03:37 pm »

Newport have their captain sent off right on the cusp of full time. Extra time being played after it finished 0-0

oojason · « **Reply #431 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:36:08 pm »

Well in Tranmere - winning 1-0 vs Newport in the Play-Off Final to secure promotion

Connor Jennings goal for Tranmere on 119' - https://streamable.com/ugyr8 & https://streamable.com/316jj & https://streamable.com/slt6s

Highlights - https://www.reddit.com/r/footballhighlights/comments/bsuyhj/newport_county_vs_tranmere_rovers_efl_league

& https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11728431/newport-0-1-tranmere-aet

& more here later - https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football

Red Beret · « **Reply #432 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:40:47 pm »

GTFI!!

jillcwhomever · « **Reply #433 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:43:20 pm »

Tremendous achievement by them.

Son of Spion · « **Reply #434 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:43:27 pm »

Quote from: oojason on May 25, 2019, 05:36:08 pm

Well in Tranmere - winning 1-0 vs Newport in the Play-Off Final to secure promotion

Connor Jennings goal for Tranmere on 119' - https://streamable.com/ugyr8 & https://streamable.com/316jj & https://streamable.com/slt6s

I didn't realise Pickford played for Newport now.

Well done, Tranmere, you bad wools.

Peabee · « **Reply #435 on:** May 25, 2019, 05:48:43 pm »

Congrats Tranmere.

Redsnappa · « **Reply #436 on:** May 25, 2019, 06:00:24 pm »

Only heard it on the radio - clients I’m working for came out wondering what all the noise was about

Well done Micky and the boys, first honours for Merseyside this week!

mikeb58 · « **Reply #437 on:** May 25, 2019, 06:27:09 pm »

The commentator on talksport did well to keep his emotions in check...it was Nigel Adderly. No secret he is a Rovers fans and he did a great job!

If people didn't know that, they mentioned it in the studio after the game finished!

Crouch Potato · « **Reply #438 on:** May 25, 2019, 06:46:08 pm »

Grats to the Plastic Scousers!

kavah · « **Reply #439 on:** May 25, 2019, 08:47:21 pm »

Well in

I love this arl photo of the cowshed