Fair assessment.

He will get another chance next seaso
n unless they get relegated

So, he has one complaint

He forgot to say we're the best team he's played against in the league.

Fair play to them they did not park the bus and tried

An Honest assessment from an Honest Manager of a Minnow Club, compared to us, and our Resources.
Credit to you Morecambe, sincerely hope you avoid relegation - you do well to maintain your League 1 level.

The early goal for us was really important last night. The longer it had taken us to score the first goal, the more dug in they would have become as they proved they were very capable of doing in the second half.

I didn't see the game but I am still concerned. It sounds as if Morecambe were a bit rusty coming into the game and events conspired to allow us take a four goal lead by half time. However, 4 substitutions and having seen our style, they were able, like so many others, to nullify us in the second half. If so, we still haven't solved our problem.
Conversely, if we were taking our foot of the pedal in the second half, we shouldn't be unless it's a friendly. Goals scored count and goal difference counts in league football. Ruthlessness is essential till the final whistle blows in every game. That's what it takes to be champions.

I was also concerned with the second half. Everything slowed down and we didn't seem fired up to score more goals. With a 4 goal cushion this was an ideal time to take chances and break down a stubborn defense. I felt it was a wasted opportunity to try some adventurous risk taking attacking.

Game management isn't it? Why try to bust a gut and risk injuries etc when the game is essentially over after 45 mins?

Jugsy - Surely that is why clubs have squads? You have to keep up the tempo. I don't think it is game management. If the pressure brings 4 goals, then keep the pressure up. Besides, no-one is talking of busting a gut. Better to risk losing one goal at 4 up, to get more. If the opposition do score before you add to your tally then you convert to managing the game. Whilst a team is there for the taking - take 'em!

4-0 victory and some fans find something to moan about. Get a grip.

Goal 1 - their guy heads the ball downwards into the danger area. Flicks off a heel but was a rubbish clearance regardless.

Goal 2 - checked back on the highlights. Ladapo very clearly onside when Broadhead releases the ball. None of their defenders claimed offside so don't know where he's getting that from.

Overall, it got scrappy after the break, but the number of subs on both sides changed the game. We'd won by that stage and they wanted to limit the damage. Not sure we should read too much into it. Hirst didn't really have much service so I found it hard to judge him. Impressed with new boys Clarke & Broadhead. My Stoke mate is a season ticket holder and was disappointed to lose him

Morecambe fell into the trap after their 3 straight home wins that they could come here and take us on and play an expansive game...they found out they weren't good enough and giving the ball away cheaply to their cost...should have learnt from other teams that shut up shop.

@62wasbest, I think your points are well made. I was walking out of the ground last night in the company of Mrs Budgieplucker who also has a season ticket with me. She asked why I seemed flat after such a good victory. In a sense I was feeling guilty feeling like that, I am signed up to the Kieron McKenna fan club and hope he continues to be our manager for a long time to come, I see the parallels with the young Bobby Robson and I was lucky to witness all of the Robson years. I was trying to put my finger on it, it wasn't a sense of unsatisfied greed by expecting to see another 4 goals in the second half which would have been perhaps unrealistic to maintain that tempo, but more a sense of that we had done enough to win the match and we could take our foot of the pedal in the second half. I think we thought we would still continue to dictate but some credit to Morecambe by adjusting and neutralising much of our play. Maybe we had at last the turn of luck in our favour getting the first goal and if Ladapo was slightly offside (although I was in line with him when the ball was played and I think he was probably marginally onside but I immediatelI looked at the lino straight away). So I was being slightly cautious about how good our performance was and felt we disrupted our own rhythm in the second half by making all the changes rather than putting out a message to the rest of the league that we can be a relentless and ruthless force that fights to the end, psychologically putting the fear of god into the rest of the league. I don't think any player who went on the second half had any other intention than trying to go and take the game to the opposition but certain players to me whilst maybe showing the skills in training continue not to be able to reproduce on the big stage, or make good decisions.

Our fans have been magnificent this season and I felt we deserved a little more in the second half and if Morecambe stopped us playing then there is certainly a message there. It was a game of two half's I would have just liked to have won both half's!!!!