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Tonight’s Fixtures

Shrewsbury blew a big chance to drop us in it tonight, instead they've dropped themselves further in it and after a decent run mk dons are back in it too.
 
Dons gave first goal away with spectacularly poor attempt to play out from the back....
Tranmere winner from route 1+, keeper to striker....
Sean Raggett assists Pompey clincher.
 
Davidimp said:
Shrewsbury blew a big chance to drop us in it tonight, instead they've dropped themselves further in it and after a decent run mk dons are back in it too.
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Far from Shrewsbury blowing a big chance to 'drop us in it', they blew a big chance to pretty well confirm Tranmere's relegation. As a result a few teams between us and Tranmere, all with significantly worse goal difference that us, will be looking more nervously over their shoulders in case it's the start of a Tranmere revival, or just a dying twitch.

There's still a lot of padding between us and Tranmere. We all bear the scars of 2011 (and 1987) but this feels a different set of circumstances.

A win would be nice though
 
Chesterimp said:
There's still a lot of padding between us and Tranmere. We all bear the scars of 2011 (and 1987) but this feels a different set of circumstances.
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Is it just me, or does the 2011 run only seem like it happened a week last Thursday? Nearly a decade from debacle to today. I'm not sure whether I feel old or just folded into a crease in time.
 
cherryexile said:
Is it just me, or does the 2011 run only seem like it happened a week last Thursday? Nearly a decade from debacle to today. I'm not sure whether I feel old or just folded into a crease in time.
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“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
 
i remember it, particularly for the repeated comments along the lines of 'we are safe' + 'we will not go down'

our situation this season is different, because since january, when we made our decision to give up on the season, tranmere have done nothing but look like a dead duck.

we have been banking on their terrible form (which is out of our hands, as a previous manager might have said). but if they start showing signs of life...
 
Sincilbanks said:
“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
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True, but I'd still not rather have had the experience in the first place if it is all the same to you. I still cringe at the away game at Oxford and the last game of the season against Aldershot, when we just needed one fucking point to stay up and avoid a mass of misery..

Not sure my quote will last the test of time, but the passion is nevertheless integral to the narrative; regardless of the context (and living 12 miles from Shrewsbury I haven't missed the irony of quotations from someone who specialises on writing about the Lake District).
 
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