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Tranmere's first home game of the 25-26 campaign kicks off on Saturday against Shrewsbury Town with an early 12.30 KO! There were a lot of encouraging signs last Saturday as Rovers earned a respectable 1-1 draw against Danny Cowley's Colchester with Jennings getting an early goal only for late pressure from the visitors to equalise and share the points.

Visitors Shrewsbury were relegated last season finshing rock bottom having won only eight league games all season. They started this season with a stalemate at home against Bromley and similar to Rovers have made plenty of transfers in the close season. Players out include Pierre, Rossiter, Gape, Feeney and Shipley with five of their new signings making their debuts on Saturday (Anthony Scully, Sam Clucas, Will Boyle, Sam Stubbs and Tom Anderson).

The last time the two teams met was way back in 2020 in an entertaning League One match which Rovers won 2-3 thanks to goals from Ellis, Woodyard and a last minute winner from Corey Blackett-Taylor. Wow, over five years ago!



Relatively new Shrews manager Michael Appleton will want to improve on his fairly miserable record to date which reads 10 games in charge with just 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses. Rovers manager Andy Crosby has managed 14 games for Rovers with 6 wins, 6 draw and only 2 losses.
 
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Despite the game being on Sky the Shrews have apparently sold close to 1,200 tickets so despite the early kick off the atmosphere should be good.

If everyone is fit then I’d still expect the same starting 11 as last week, although as we’re at home and if Dennis has had another weeks training could he start ahead of Davison as we played late last season? Will Whitaker get a start? Unlikely given Connor’s goal and all of Solomon, Harris and Dennis came on ahead of him last weekend.

Prediction. A close narrow game that we might just win.
 
Out of the four relegated sides, Shrewsbury and Crawley seem the weaker. The Shrews had a difficult end to last season with a failed takeover and would-be saviour Gareth Ainsworth decamping to manage Gillingham.

I would expect a similar stating xi to last weekend , possibly Dennis starts though Davison seems to be one that Crosby believes can do a job up front. I'm unsure, but far too early to say he's wrong. It's a game we can win, but would need to maintain the more positive approach from the first half at Colchester. No longer a season-ticket holder, but I will be going to this one.

The ongoing Palios/Trust issues continue, with uncertainty as to whether the Trust tent will be open this weekend.
 
Got an email possibly that you have seen. The trust continues to say nothing whereas Palios is quite damning. I have to go with the latter on the new tent fiasco however the old one should just carry on surely.
Re- Davison he may contribute more but Dennis is likely to do little but score. The outcomes have been different thus far but the methodology -very similar graft over quality
Boz said:
Out of the four relegated sides, Shrewsbury and Crawley seem the weaker. The Shrews had a difficult end to last season with a failed takeover and would-be saviour Gareth Ainsworth decamping to manage Gillingham.

I would expect a similar stating xi to last weekend , possibly Dennis starts though Davison seems to be one that Crosby believes can do a job up front. I'm unsure, but far too early to say he's wrong. It's a game we can win, but would need to maintain the more positive approach from the first half at Colchester. No longer a season-ticket holder, but I will be going to this one.

The ongoing Palios/Trust issues continue, with uncertainty as to whether the Trust tent will be open this weekend.
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DB, the e-mail I had from the Trust this morning suggested ongoing discussions with the club as to whether the Tent will be open on Saturday. I must have missed the “new tent fiasco” been back and forth during July. Doubtless, you’ll enlighten me.
 
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Got an email possibly that you have seen. The trust continues to say nothing whereas Palios is quite damning. I have to go with the latter on the new tent fiasco however the old one should just carry on surely.
Re- Davison he may contribute more but Dennis is likely to do little but score. The outcomes have been different thus far but the methodology -very similar graft over quality
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If the old tent isn't allowed to open on Saturday then it's further evidence of the poor way the club is being run
 
Boz said:
DB, the e-mail I had from the Trust this morning suggested ongoing discussions with the club as to whether the Tent will be open on Saturday. I must have missed the “new tent fiasco” been back and forth during July. Doubtless, you’ll enlighten me.
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Quite simple Palios has made several damning allegations, most notably it cannot open due health and safety failures over ventilation issues exposed by an independent expert. The trust have not responded bar holding statements. I understand the trust has internal troubles also.
Getting the tent open seems a no brainer though
It is very clear now the trust cannot counter Palios's stance
 
Although only our first home game, the concerns still exist about our attacking strengths. Last week we had two shots on target in the 90 minutes. No problem on our travels especially as we picked up a point, but at home we need more and hopefully we can carry on from last seasons home form under Crosby
 
I have gone for a loss, I think and I'm really hoping not that the shrews will be too strong enough for us.
We can't dominate possession for more than an hour, and we haven't got the strength in depth to hold on through to the final whistle, this is why AC had strengthened the defence and sitting mids. And of course, the striker scenario.
Hope I'm proved wrong.

The club is in a mess as @bigmart says. The trust is trying to help the supporters as well as the club by profit sharing. As it always has done. The club's problems all stem from the owners decisions making plus covid and the relegation. And more importantly the failure to bring in much needed investment to support a league club.
None of what is happening is the supporters fault.
And it speaks volumes, when the owners attack a supporters attempts to bring more income into the club.
And the silence from the top is deafening.
The sooner the takeover happens the better, but my doom and gloom reasoning, keeps telling me that we could become the next Bury, Morecambe or Wednesday?
 
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Although only our first home game, the concerns still exist about our attacking strengths. Last week we had two shots on target in the 90 minutes. No problem on our travels especially as we picked up a point, but at home we need more and hopefully we can carry on from last seasons home form under Crosby
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This will always be a concern with such weak forward options. Defence and midfield are probably good enough to get us into the top half but the forward line as it is will always hold us back. I thought there might have been some comings and goings this week but it's been very quiet since the game last week.
 
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Surely it can be open. First home game of the season, a decent away following, weather forecast is good.

I know Palios wants out of the club but they should be doing all they can to have it open.
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Barring a late change of heart its not going to be open on Saturday, talk of cutting off your nose to spite your face.....
 
bigmart said:
Barring a late change of heart its not going to be open on Saturday, talk of cutting off your nose to spite your face.....
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Well the club have kicked the trust out of the fan park as they wanted the trust to pay an increase of rent which relates to 691% increase.
The behaviour of MP and NP is absolutely disgraceful, the trust are tranmere fans trying to help the club and fellow supporters, the sooner the club is sold the better
 
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