Most liked posts in thread: Shrewsbury Home 29th January

What's great is, Bradford City, Oxford United and Bristol Rovers all conceded late equalisers. We must have all been gutted.

Only one went on to win the game courtesy of a great reaction

If fine margins will settle the relegation battle, hopefully moments like that will make the difference!

 

Now Wright's out of the side, some hold Akpan solely responsible for our terrible start. I mean he was terrible - but then so were all the other

 

We've got a top L1 keeper IMO.

 

Play the ball on the floor and stop hoofing it to Doyle.
When we did that at in the second half at Burton we were all over them.

 

A few have a game in hand.

We must win to drag Shrews into this relegation battle.

Shrews win then that's 6 points clear of us with a game in hand.

 

Bit early for drinking .

 

Results not going out way again. It's up to us to get the points, we aren't getting any favours from other teams.

 

I’ve had a hot chocolate so don’t judge me on this but I think akpan could do a decent enough job for us if we utilised him better . We don’t make the easy pass and keep possession . We’d rather hit it over the top and hope for the best . Give him it and let him spread the play

 

I got told off for waking the kids up

 

Beautiful!!

 

Not celebrated a goal as much as Ball's tonight for a long time

From complete despair to sheer ecstasy in that period of injury time.

Lets hope we can get in a couple of decent additions this week now for the run in

 

What a rollercoaster that was. I completely lost it when Ball scored. Those extra 2 points could be the difference in staying up. What a game Ball had. I hope we can make him our player.

 

He was, and so was Woods until he went off (hope that's not the last we see of him this season, given his history with injuries).

 

Always a rollercoaster ride watching city. Great spirit and belief tonight. Job done. CTID

 

I too giggled at the keeper critics, but we must remember that some on here were probably a bit 'meh' about Pickford

 

Saw and thought the same as I rewound the goal several times on ifollow. Also love Akpan’s celebration, relief and passion coming out and then a kick to the advertising board. Another sign how Hopkin has influenced a ‘togetherness’ in this squad. We wouldn’t have been celebtrating this goal pre Hopkin, rather already in the dressing room reflecting on another defeat.

Hope they take this into the Wycombe game. Peterborough and Barnsley did us a massive favour getting back into their respective games, and the table could have looked a lot worse than it does now. Such are the fine margins of the bottom half of the table, we really need to give it our all at Wycombe and hope to avoid defeat.

 

Soft pen dude. He was going the opposite way from the player and caught is trailing leg... and he as been our best player since he arrived so I will cut him some slack. OH YES SIGN HIM UP NOW.

 

Tough to sum up how important that goal could be. Hopkin is right to call it a potential turning point. Its hard to see how the team could've picked themselves up again after surrendering a 3-1 lead like that, but that goal should give them a huge boost. A complete change in mentality.

I know we've conceded three but I actually thought the back four did pretty well. Woods looks like exactly what we need at left back. A mix up in communication between O'Brien & Wood allowed an easy pass round the back for the first, not much the defence could have done about the free kick apart from giving away needless fouls and a tired error from Caddis for the penalty. All stuff that can be worked on.

Thought Doyle worked hard considering the pelters he gets (from around me anyway). The run he made for the first goal doesn't show the makings of a lazy player, without that run the Shrews defender can go and close Payne down. He just needs to take more chances.

Huge goal from Ball, huge win. But still a huge 48hrs to get players in before the window closes.

 

The balls gone over the wall with pace to the far postage stamp of the goal, no way is he saving that. He takes a slight movement to the right as he thinks he's going to bend it into the near post. The free kick is quality, I don't many keepers saving it.