The cup that cheers.. E.F.L Away to Wrexham Tues Feb 11th 7-30.

[Harry Genshaw]

These officials feckin ell

[Mar]

Nice of the referee to stop us having a corner there. Free disney subscription coming up.

[DJBlu]

This match needs investigating for integrity purposes. These officials have been a disgrace.

[boltonboris]

That pass by Toal has summed the whole evening up. Crap.

A really leggy, wasteful performance. All on the players. Too many of them are simply not good enough at football to consistently deliver results. This is probably the worst Wrexham have played at home all season and we've barely hurt them despite the possession

[DJBlu]

Didn't mind losing but the manner of it is what stings. Hard to like players that think they only have to put a shift in once a week. Summer can't come quick enough.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

You gonn add that minute on, ref?

No, course he isn't, token 30s

[boltonboris]

A neutral watching that would most likely have just casually taken the tele of the wall and launched it out of the window. A shocker

[Mar]

Didn't mind losing but the manner of it is what stings.

Exactly this. Fkin disgraceful yet again from this ref who looks like he's got something against us.

Pathetic performance up top.

Baxter can get gone, signing off his Bolton career by watching the ball casually float into his net without diving is a disgrace. Clearly telegraphed and yet not even dived.

Like I said pre-match, this competition is what we make of it. We turned in a performance that didn't get shots off and lost as a result of it. Could've had a penalty early on, should've had free kicks and corners that the referee hasn't given.

Got a bit of Mike Riley feel to that ref. Shouldn't go into the match dreading the referee.

[BWFC_Insane]

Aye that was a poor performance. As others have said. A Wrexham reserve side looked pretty hapless yet we went sideways and backwards had little penetration. Nothing up front of any sort all night. And this is the worry for the season. We don’t have a striker worthy of the name really - not a traditional one. Loads of number tens who get in each others way.

Classic Parky performance. Defend well, show one bit of quality and win.

Doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme, hopefully injury free and we focus on the league. But I still think we are a long long way off the top 4 or 5 in this league and that’s down to the recruitment. Nobody can say McAtee was a good buy. Nobody. We lack pace and threat up top and physicality.

I’m sure Schumacher is working this all out.

Onto Saturday when hopefully we can score and get the win as it’s a really critical game if we are to get top 6.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

A pity. Two defeats to nil in Schuey's three games, contrasting greatly with a very different 4-3 win. I like that we look for different answers and shapes, but you get the feeling it will take a bit of time to change some bad habits to good ones.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Onto Saturday when hopefully we can score and get the win as it’s a really critical game if we are to get top 6.

Although they're still playing, scores tonight aren't TOO bad.

• Charlton dominant at home to Posh but only 1-1.
• Orient dancing to another victory, 3-0 over Mansfield - they're in the winning habit. They go above us into 7th.
• Reading being held at home by our next opponents, Shrewsbury.

[Bertie Wooster]

Glad that we are out, but that game just shows yet again that we needed a decent proper No9 in the transfer window - we have no actual out and out strikers in the squad.

[BorsdaneWhite]

Can you lift a cup through the fourth wall?

Next year: There’ll be documentaries with vox pops from Ruby Wax, Smithers, and the corpse of the sycamore gap. Ryan Reynolds, the Everyman, will muse how every man in Wrexham is the Everyman. Every man stood up and was counted. Every man can be the Everyman. And then he’ll smile all nice and hold up a box of Cheerios and say something about arseholes.

[TANGODANCER]

Simon and Garfunkel from me.

[The_Gun]

Not concerned at all about the result, and not overly concerned about the performance.

Plenty of fresh legs for Saturday, when I expect we’ll be much better.

[DJBlu]

hopefully injury free and we focus on the league.

I suspect Sheehan will have a sore foot in the morning. Referee deeming that tackle on him okay and not worthy of a yellow card.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Glad that we are out, but that game just shows yet again that we needed a decent proper No9 in the transfer window - we have no actual out and out strikers in the squad.

Depends how you mean, Bertie, IMO.

I think both Adeboyejo and Collins have proven they can play as part of a front two. But the early indications - and we're getting more info all the time - are that Scumacher doesn't often play a front two; when he's gone for a back three it's usually been 3421, and a back four it's 4231. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but it means you need a strong 'single' No.9 who can link play up, either through strength or guile. I'm not sure we have any of those, so a beefy No.9 will presumably be top of the summer shopping list.

[Bertie Wooster]

Glad that we are out, but that game just shows yet again that we needed a decent proper No9 in the transfer window - we have no actual out and out strikers in the squad.

Depends how you mean, Bertie, IMO.

I think both Adeboyejo and Collins have proven they can play as part of a front two. But the early indications - and we're getting more info all the time - are that Scumacher doesn't often play a front two; when he's gone for a back three it's usually been 3421, and a back four it's 4231. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but it means you need a strong 'single' No.9 who can link play up, either through strength or guile. I'm not sure we have any of those, so a beefy No.9 will presumably be top of the summer shopping list.

I mean this.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Glad that we are out, but that game just shows yet again that we needed a decent proper No9 in the transfer window - we have no actual out and out strikers in the squad.

Depends how you mean, Bertie, IMO.

I think both Adeboyejo and Collins have proven they can play as part of a front two. But the early indications - and we're getting more info all the time - are that Scumacher doesn't often play a front two; when he's gone for a back three it's usually been 3421, and a back four it's 4231. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but it means you need a strong 'single' No.9 who can link play up, either through strength or guile. I'm not sure we have any of those, so a beefy No.9 will presumably be top of the summer shopping list.

I mean this.

In that case I agree

[boltonboris]

Glad that we are out, but that game just shows yet again that we needed a decent proper No9 in the transfer window - we have no actual out and out strikers in the squad.

Depends how you mean, Bertie, IMO.

I think both Adeboyejo and Collins have proven they can play as part of a front two. But the early indications - and we're getting more info all the time - are that Scumacher doesn't often play a front two; when he's gone for a back three it's usually been 3421, and a back four it's 4231. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but it means you need a strong 'single' No.9 who can link play up, either through strength or guile. I'm not sure we have any of those, so a beefy No.9 will presumably be top of the summer shopping list.

They can beefier than Ian Botham in a bath of Bovril. Strength and size is absolutely irrelevant if they run like they’re towing a caravan.

I’d rather have had a quick, agile player who can get in behind or travel with the ball than a big one up front.

In fact, I’d have had my 8 year old lad ahead of Vic tonight.