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Halifax’s equaliser was dreadful defending once again.

We were 4 v 4 in the box when the ball went in.

We had a 2 (us) v 1 (them) at the near post area and a 2 (us) v 3 (them) at the far post area. Why?

From the footage… Evans seems to be in no man’s land. He appears to just watch the ball go past him. Could he not have reacted?

The scorer, Kawa pushes Boyce out of play and then gets back and past Belehouan (I believe) to pick up a free knock down header from Tarima.

Bray was also on the scene and would most likely have slotted home if Kawa hadn’t.

Pretty shocking defending to be honest.

View from about 9min 55sec to see their goal

2 v 1 near post
2 v 3 back post

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Good luck to Mark Beck and the rest of the boys on Saturday.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

‘Planet Online is about as far back as I go – anyone use it even earlier, perhaps through military or academic use?’

Lol, Military use? Are you getting Bru mixed up with an armed forces recruitment site?

Covert operations, under cover scouting of SIS… secure intelligent striker.

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A “did I say that out loud” moment?

He may think it – but as leader of the team, he shouldn’t really be saying it… unless he has the yea sayers backing.

BoD might be a little irked by the statement?

At times we all have negative or differing thoughts on formations, tactics, substitutions, starting line ups, penalty takers, player ratings, transfer targets, transfer signings etc – the stadium would be empty if everyone who held or had negative thoughts on any issue were censored.

It’s 2025; the internet has been around a long time now. In 1998, only 9% of UK households had internet – in 2020, that figure had increased to 96%

Nearly everyone who chooses to, has a voice.

Forums & user groups etc (connecting people) are the internet – I disfavour the huge multi levelled international .com type organisations who are controlling this ‘brave new world?’

Planet Online is about as far back as I go – anyone use it even earlier, perhaps through military or academic use?

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The Sutton game [C&P from the MM thread]:

Subject: Maison Campbell
Charge: Flapping
Incident: Sutton’s 1st goal
Verdict: Not guilty

Our defence allowed their forward to get inside Mason’s shirt for the corner!

Why was no ‘guard’ deployed.

Surely it is routine to deploy an ‘enforcer’ to keep their spoiling/wrestling player from interfering with the keeper?

Deploy a shield – protect Mason!

We were 8 (Iron) v 6 (Sutton) in the box at the corner.

Why couldn’t the defenders organise themselves better? Not the first time this pre & season.

They ended up with a 3 v 1 overload at the back post when they scored – they bundled & battered our player out of the way and it was an easy header for their forward to score.

We’ve seen that happen before, as early as pre-season.

The back four plus others need to defend much better at corners & free kicks.

Take the blinkers off – see the bigger picture.

It’s easy to blame the GK – yet there’s chaos all around him at corners & free kicks.

Watch the highlights, pause the play, rewind the play, take photos… study what you see – it’s chaos.

Let’s see a ‘guard’ deployed to protect Mason at corners & free kicks in order to give him a chance to deal with what’s thrown at him.

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Two thirds of the game with only 10 men.
Squad riddled with injuries.
Great point.
Undefeated.
Game in hand.

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ironfromafar wrote:

Walking wounded considered im going for 1-1
Att 5,056 inc 367 away

Money… as those Yanks yell.

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As for their second goal.
Too easy to lay off, not tight enough and no challenge.
No urgency to close down the crosser.
No marking of the scorer.
Free header.
No one tracked the scorers run.
We had 8 players (not inc GK) in the box / D – they had 5.

Verdict: Maison not guilty
Verdict: the outfield players, guilty of poor defence.

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lesgeo wrote:

Thoughts on the red card?
Personally, I thought it was an orange.

Tangoed!

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Awaywego wrote:

Hope Butler sticks with Maison if nothing else he’s proving a lucky goalkeeper for us, go out with the attitude that we’ve got to score one more than them because of the circumstances.
Rory was never that lucky.

Plenty of goals in our forward & midfield players.

We’ll score one more than you,
We’ll score one more than you!

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lesgeo wrote:

I’m sure that I could hear Rene shouting for Sutton in that last 16 minutes.

Not me, IFA had 3-3

I had 3-1 to us.

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Phew!
P3 W3
Happy days… except it seems we’ve being involved in the battle of the Somme?

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another fed up fan wrote:

3-2 Iron
Safe travels have a good day all

Bang on the mark if it ends up as it is.

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MK Iron wrote:

Shame Alfie had to go off. Was running the show with Ewing – or Erwin as he is known in Sutton.

Yeah, seems Beestin was running the game.

I think we’ll get another.

Sutton 2-3 Iron will do, but I feel that we’ll get that fourth.

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ironfromafar wrote:

Whilst i predicted a 2-2 draw having seen the odds on 3-3 I’ve had a slippery tenner on that at 50/1

You’re in with a sniff.

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A great start for the boys.
Be fantastic if we can go in 2-0 up at half time. Press on boys, let’s notch that second goal asap.

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Boom!

Sutton 0-1 Iron

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Double Result HT – FT

Draw – Draw 4/1
Draw – Yellows 24/5
Draw – C&B 6/1

Yell – Yell 12/5
Yell – Draw 12/1
Yell – C&B 28/1

C&B – C&B 18/5
C&B – Draw 12/1
C&B – Yell 25/1

In the two games we’ve played so far, both have finished: Iron – Iron

I don’t see any reason why it should be anything different today.

Iron to lead at half time and at full time (18/5) for me.

Sutton 1-3 Iron

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Deereyme66 wrote:

They’re struggling for goals recently and I think we’re pretty solid at the back.

& dynamite up top.

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Awaywego wrote:

Right got to go the women’s rugby is on,

Eng 69-7 USA

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For post match reference:

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I see they took a good thumping last night.
We’ve enough offensively to come away with the 3 points.

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CCJs… who’s that to and what for – tuts, shakes head and ambles off in disbelief. I thought we’d seen the back of those days.

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Lancs Live – 07:36, 18 AUG 2025

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Morecambe Saved – Updated: 15:10, 17 Aug 2025

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Played 2, won 2
Scored 5, conceded 2
2nd in the league

Shit happens
Give the kid a chance

Why – Because everyone, in every walk of life; whether they be King, President, peasant or pauper… makes mistakes.

Live is life… enjoy the ride.

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BigLeftToe wrote:

Great result, hope all those with the 3-1 predictions but some money on it.

Wonder if Campbell will get in the team of the week again after that absolute clanger.

He’d done 3-1 himself (joking)… [mischievous jokey face icon]

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Rene Artois wrote:

3-1 is popular.

Congratulations to all those of us who tipped 3-1

Happy days!

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PhilAnders wrote:

you have more chance of seeing a pig flying over The Attis Arena than see this young man play there for Scunthorpe United.

Not looking to ridicule Phil – his full post goes on to say that the lad will most likely be playing at a much higher level in 3 or 4 years time.

However, to link in to today… just so pleased that we finally secured the services of this young man. It sort of makes up for releasing him all those years ago.
Great kid, great attitude, great striker!
Go Dec!

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Let’s compound Woking’s misery and slot another couple of goals in the second half.

Where we are at half time today:

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