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Quoted from 1739

I would take boring 1-0 wins for the rest of the season if it meant us getting out of this league. The priority is getting league football and keeping the club alive financially. Would you be prepared to have another 5 seasons of non league football if we played attractive football? Woods teams played some good football and look where that got us. Slade was our most successful manager in the last 15 years and did he play attractive football? Results attracts people to watch Town not a  style of play.

Will never have promotion with this manager...and IMO I would say this boring football is keeping fans away.

We were second and lost 800 fans ...what's that telling you

Weflannell  some good points  We all know getting out of this nightmare crap League was not going to be easy.Its brokken alot  of very loyal fans to Grimsby . Losing today was  a Real downer Hurst won't change Our season isnt over but we need to start playing as a team again. Bristol R Will win the League that leves us with Barnet Eastleigh Gateshead  maccs T  WHO in a playofff can easily beat us. I'm annoyed we løst  I would love to see Town go up  but this  League is Harder than Winning the Champions League  thursday is Big game UTM

Quoted from barralad

We attacked down both wings today.

From my perspective Mariner91 and Big Chris have done pefect summaries of what we saw today. In respect of our "wingers" In the last two home games I cannot recall either trying to go outside their full back. Arnold had numerous opportunities in 3 v 3 situations to try and go round his man but rather wait for Thomas to run 50/60 yards only to give him a totally crap ball.

Big Chris is right when he says at 1-0 we had two situations which with a bit of poisecwould have seen us 3-0 up and game over. I find it hard to criticise anyone for their first goal, great strike and you just have to accept that on occasions these "worldies" do happen.

We are as others have said very slow and predictable in our forward play and we need improvement in centre mid and out wide otherwise our inconsistency will continue. Not a fan of Parslow but in support of Thomas thought he was fouled prior to their break for the third goal, however, the ref allowed quite a bit of physical contact today and to be honest thought he did ok.

Will probably turn out for the Barnet game but after that unless some new players come in will stick to golf on a Saturday.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Knock, knock, knock, is there anybody there?

excuse me?

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

excuse me?

No, no, no. You're supposed to say, "Who's there?".

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

From my perspective Mariner91 and Big Chris have done pefect summaries of what we saw today. In respect of our "wingers" In the last two home games I cannot recall either trying to go outside their full back. Arnold had numerous opportunities in 3 v 3 situations to try and go round his man but rather wait for Thomas to run 50/60 yards only to give him a totally crap ball.

Big Chris is right when he says at 1-0 we had two situations which with a bit of poisecwould have seen us 3-0 up and game over. I find it hard to criticise anyone for their first goal, great strike and you just have to accept that on occasions these "worldies" do happen.

We are as others have said very slow and predictable in our forward play and we need improvement in centre mid and out wide otherwise our inconsistency will continue. Not a fan of Parslow but in support of Thomas thought he was fouled prior to their break for the third goal, however, the ref allowed quite a bit of physical contact today and to be honest thought he did ok.

Will probably turn out for the Barnet game but after that unless some new players come in will stick to golf on a Saturday.

A lot of truth there. I suspect the wingers are scared to go down the outside for fear of losing the ball and being out of the game because we are an 11 man defensive side. No attacking passengers are allowed. Rule One it seems is to be goal side as soon as the opposition has the ball. In fact most of the best crosses come from LJL or Pittman after a ball down the channel. The plan is boring but fair enough if like Slade and McMenemy you get a player with pace to exploit a breakaway plus a reliable finisher, but we don't have either.

Today might be a useful lesson but the omens for learning don't seem good. Several times in recent games we have been lucky when, in spite of our defensive midfield strategy, players have still been able run at us through the middle, today that luck ran out.

Agree entirely.

Quoted from chaos33

Agree entirely.

Any indication as to how McLaughlin is feeling? I'd feel pretty p1ssed off if I were him.

What does the kid have to do to get a run out in his proper position??

Neilson did not give us an outlet on the right wing.  He played more in field (whilst he was on).

At one point he was so confused about where he was playing he took it from RM to LM. If we're going to play him I'd like to see him behind the forwards.