Match Day Thread: Stockport (A) 3rd April 2026

[thecatwwfc]

If i make mistakes in my job like Norris does, I get sacked

[Benk]

@OxfordBlue

A litany of errors at the back there, but predictably it’s Norris with abject distribution and decision making to kick it all off.

Not sure there was a litany of errors. The ball sort of bounced of Allen at a difficult height. But Taylor was fairly beaten.

And we should be 2 down, tgat was over the line.

[Atomic]

@Benk

Not sure there was a litany of errors. The ball sort of bounced of Allen at a difficult height. But Taylor was fairly beaten.

And we should be 2 down, tgat was over the line.

I was just about to query if we have goal line sensors today. Assume not.

[Barneysmith]

@thecatwwfc

If i make mistakes in my job like Norris does, I get sacked

He will be.

[Brownie]

Familiar feeling so far sadly. Playing well, but losing.

[Brownie]

And Stockport have a fantastic goalkeeper.

[Benk]

@Brownie

But Woodrow has a simple 5 yard pass to Taylor to rectify it and gets it wrong. Woodrow and Grimmer are then both caught watching eachother in the box as the ball drops after the second shot. It’s not great from Norris but we had 2/3 fairly straightforward opportunities to prevent the chance in the first place. All round crap defending.

Not sure its was simple, he had 3 players on him, which is why he shouldn’t have been passed the ball in the first place.

It was just another example of his pretty ropey distribution.

[Barneysmith]

WTF is Norris doing there?

[frequentstander]

Sickening that we didn’t replace Norris in summer. Really is.

[Brownie]

@frequentstander

Sickening that we didn’t replace Norris in summer. Really is.

We did, but then it turned out the replacement wasn’t particularly good either.

[Wetherby-Blue]

Defence so flat and slow

[Malone]

@Benk

That was all due to god awful pass from the keeper into total danger.

It was the root cause of the goal.

It wasn’t “all” down to it though was it.

Woodrow dreadul touch, Taylor bypassed like a statue, Allen dreadful rebound into a dangerous area, Grimmer sluggish as heck, Woodrow looks like he could still influence things but instead leaps to the left waving his hand for no particularly reason.

[carrickblue]

@Atomic

I was just about to query if we have goal line sensors today. Assume not.

From the replay on TV it’s nigh on impossible to say, but given it’s the whole ball over to count I’d say Lino got it right. Maybe half inch not over

[Wendoverman]

Great improvisation for shot, no-one was stopping that. I thought the ball out to Taylor slowed a bit in the wet and he misjudged it myself. Shame as I thought we were pretty solid up to then.

[Malone]

@Brownie

But Woodrow has a simple 5 yard pass to Taylor to rectify it and gets it wrong. Woodrow and Grimmer are then both caught watching eachother in the box as the ball drops after the second shot. It’s not great from Norris but we had 2/3 fairly straightforward opportunities to prevent the chance in the first place. All round crap defending.

Agreed, it’s absolute agenda bloated toss to try and put that just on the keeper there. When 4 other players have a woeful impact.

It’s like the Bloomfield just kick it out incident at Wembley v Southend.

[Brownie]

@Malone

It wasn’t “all” down to it though was it.

Woodrow dreadul touch, Taylor bypassed like a statue, Allen dreadful rebound into a dangerous area, Grimmer sluggish as heck, Woodrow looks like he could still influence things but instead leaps to the left waving his hand for no particularly reason.

My point exactly. It was dreadful all round team defending. Several opportunities for multiple players to take charge and prevent the goal.

[Benk]

@Malone

It wasn’t “all” down to it though was it.

Woodrow dreadul touch, Taylor bypassed like a statue, Allen dreadful rebound into a dangerous area, Grimmer sluggish as heck, Woodrow looks like he could still influence things but instead leaps to the left waving his hand for no particularly reason.

If he doesn’t play a risky ball into a man with 3 on him, we dont concede. Its what set the goal up. The other things were then chasing it.

The goal cane from us being in possession.

[frequentstander]

@Brownie

We did, but then it turned out the replacement wasn’t particularly good either.

Not having that one bit, sorry. Van Sas had no pro experience. No chance he was signed to be outright #1, especially as we kept Norris. There was clearly big doubt there. We should’ve signed an actual goalkeeper instead of Norris and Van Sas. Wrong approach.

[Barneysmith]

We can get at Stockport, just can’t afford to go 2 down.

[Brownie]

@Barneysmith

We can get at Stockport, just can’t afford to go 2 down.

Indeed. The next goal in this game is huge.