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Quoted from GYinScuntland

Missing my first Lincoln game ever as flying out 5am Friday, playing Bremen in the Norderby.
Glad you enjoyed it, knew you would and did you notice the relaxed atmosphere with the Old Bill?
Mind you there never is trouble with Dortmund because of what's happened in the past.
Saying that though, can you imagine the police overkill if someone had died in a previous fixture say between Town and Lincoln? instead of treating the fans as adults.
It's a completely different experience.

Must have seen about 10 all night. Plenty of friendly stewards.

Quoted from arryarryarry

These so called core of a dozen or more posters must be sat near each other in the Youngs stand as there were several shouts of "this is crap" and "sort it Fenty".

The Main stand was the same one bloke even shouted to RS about getting the ball on the floor cos he couldn't see it in the fog.Dave Moore at that point had to look away he was nearly dying with laughter

You would like to think with RS being an experienced Manager he has a game plan. I don`t like his traditional style of play personally BUT he will pick up more than enough points to keep us away from danger playing that way.I can only speculate but I assume we are in transistion til he gets enough players in of his type and enough players out to afford them before he makes a move on League 1. I would bet this time next Season Town are top 6 and challenging for top 3 whether the fans will back this and stick it out treading water so to speak for 12 Months is questionable? Looking back over the years one thing as stood out usually before we go on a Promotion charge we often have some success in a Cup prior. Now if RS could get us to at least round 3 of the FA Cup and a game against a Prem team..................

Quoted from friskneymariner

Perhaps one of the underlying reasons that there are so many threads about this is that a significant number of fans are experiencing anomie due to their constant disenfranchisement and need a cathartic outlet.

Is that a rival to the McArthur Glen chain ?  

Town will finish in the top half this season . The of Asante will be like a new signing and guarantee goals .

Quoted from 1mickylyons

You would like to think with RS being an experienced Manager he has a game plan. I don`t like his traditional style of play personally BUT he will pick up more than enough points to keep us away from danger playing that way.I can only speculate but I assume we are in transistion til he gets enough players in of his type and enough players out to afford them before he makes a move on League 1. I would bet this time next Season Town are top 6 and challenging for top 3 whether the fans will back this and stick it out treading water so to speak for 12 Months is questionable? Looking back over the years one thing as stood out usually before we go on a Promotion charge we often have some success in a Cup prior. Now if RS could get us to at least round 3 of the FA Cup and a game against a Prem team..................

Maybe a fair point but he has signed 11 new players and re-signed 2 so one could conclude that these are his type of players.
I don't like the " blame game culture " that exists these days because mostly there are too many variable factors to pin things down to one specific thing. Having said that what happens on the pitch is down to the players and those players are coached and selected to play by the manager. I make no bones about the fact that I never wanted " The Nearly Man " back and I think his choice of players, tactics and results indicate ( at least to me anyway ) that he is past his best ( just like professional footballers do in the twilight of their careers).

It looks to me like he hasn't found his best 11 with the changes made each week . Or possibly he has to keep changing the team to raise performances each week to get the most out the squad .

Quoted from ginnywings

That's why i said "feels like". The little guys like Dembele struggle to make an impact in the game nowadays. Small skillful players don't prosper in the English game generally, which is probably why he ended up at the Nike academy in the first place.

Dave Gilbert did alright though 20 odd years ago. Maybe we should get Dembele watching Diddy vids!  

There are some similarities between Gilbert and Dembele. Both like to beat the defender several times before doing anything with the ball!

Different types of player though. Gilbert was a bit stockier but I can still remember games where he never got going if the full-back had the nouse to give him a hefty whack early on (of the sort which would probably draw a red card in today's game!).

I blame the council for not helping us get a ground 20 years ago when we was a championship club