Posh Blog

A wonderful sound could be heard at Prenton Park on Tuesday night. Joe Lewis was finally commanding his defence. Due to the low attendance it was quite easy to hear player shouts at some points in the match and Joe Lewis was the loudest of all of them. He's been criticised in the past for not communicating with his defenders but now it seems he's past all of that. Now to erradicate some of the errors and he will be well on the way to being a top goalie.

In a previous blog I mentioned that people in Tranmere are basically as thick as shit, specifically their use of anti-Welsh chants in an attempt to taunt us, despite them being far closer to Wales than we are. I thought maybe I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were just chanting at our Welsh centre back Craig Morgan. Except it seems that isn't the case, Morgan didn't play last night due to injury yet they again chanted about "sheep shagging". So I guess my first assumption was the correct one.



We started the match itself pretty shakily, giving Tranmere the earlier chances to take the lead and it wasn't long before they did. We failed to clear our lines after a cross came in and after a bit of to'ing and fro'ing they eventually volleyed the ball past Joe Lewis. At least Lewis wasn't at fault for this one.

After just half an hour Fergie made the tactical decision to take Chris Whelpdale off and bring Lee Frecklington on while changing the formation to 4-3-3. It was a new system for us and we've struggled before to change but this time it really seemed to work. For the first time in ages we had a central midfielder who could get forward with the strikers and get into the box rather than just hang back on the edge of it. We were getting dangerous and finally another amazing thing happened, Craig Mackail-Smith finally scored a one on one with the goalie. After only about 20 attempts. We were happy to go into half time with the score at 1-1.



The ref in this match didn't really have a great game. He seemed to be very easily swayed by the crowd except when it came to the big decisions. He seemed to miss two penalty decisions, one for each side and he also disallowed what would have been a winning goal for Tranmere although we couldn't see why. The rest of the time he spent giving free kicks when the Tranmere fans shouted for them.

The match ended 1-1 which was predictable really, we have played Tranmere 4 times now this season and after 90 minutes in each one, the score was even. The only time we won was when we scored in the last minute of extra time in the FA Cup replay back in December.

Next Match Attending

Hereford v Posh
21/2/09 3pm
Edgar Street