Just Back (Merged)

I've just got back via getting drunk up and my thoughts still  are.....


We were flipping excrement and deserved to get beaten.

UTM and all that.

Quoted from tonyfordsmicrofro

I've just got back via getting drunk up and my thoughts still  are.....


We were flipping excrement and deserved to get beaten.

UTM and all that.

   I'm drunk too love it

Quoted from barralad

We weren't great defensively but to say we were set up defensively with the likes of Arnold, Pitman and Neilson in the side is stretching the bounds of reality....

Neilson got taken out early , if there was a game plan that changed .  There were times when 20 players were almost stood together . Far to narrow knowing how slow we are .
Game lost , big one on Thursday . Who's going to be fit ?  
Big decision time now for Hurst , players in , players out , change style .

Quoted from DocTower

Neilson got taken out early , if there was a game plan that changed .  There were times when 20 players were almost stood together . Far to narrow knowing how slow we are .
Game lost , big one on Thursday . Who's going to be fit ?  
Big decision time now for Hurst , players in , players out , change style .

We'll have to agree to differ. An awful lot of Town's attacking in both halves went down both flanks..

As for Thursday it may be a case of whoever is fit plays...

Anyone else think of this when they scored their equaliser? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGLSeWYCggw

Not for the first time this season, Hurst got it wrong tactically.  Lincoln packed the middle of the park and dominated us in there.  Power sat between their midfield and attack, completely controlling the play and we did nothing to pick him up.  

Selection wise, I don't think Hurst did a lot wrong.  Clay over Brown because of the height issue was fair enough.  Neilson over Mckreth after a heavy game on Friday.  Arguably Magnay should have been given another game to recover but sometimes you don't know how players will cope until they actually play.

Most frustrating thing for me was that we got drawn into another long ball game with Lincoln, even more frustrating considering the early joy we had playing Pittman on the last shoulder early on.  

The above said though, you can only blame tactics or selections so much when your players choke on the day.  That's what happened. They froze.

Quoted from barralad

We attacked down both wings today.

I must have nodded off

Holding my hands up here. I missed the game on Sunday (First home game I've missed this season) as I was visiting my brother in Surrey.

I watched the highlights this morning though and I'm surprised there has been no mention of the performance by Lincoln's goalie. I know they had a goal disallowed and hit the frame of the goal but , I don't know if those highlights were biased towards us but it seemed that we had plenty of chances and their keeper made several great saves.

As I said, I can only go on the highlights but it looked to me that we could just as easily have won that.

Brilliant strike for their equaliser though. 9 times out of 10 they go flying over the top of The Pontoon!  

Their keeper certainly played pretty well (and his kicking was hugely better than McKeown's), but most of the shots were pretty much straight at him so he didn't have to do too much with them. I think we should certainly have been more clinical for one or two of those chances and at least made him work harder. And, of course, the wasted chances when we were in the lead were a big problem. No real excuse for messing up 2 or 3 really good scoring opportunities like that. Pittman's cross for the goal was perfect but the other crosses were poor.

We certainly had enough chances to score a few goals but a combination of poor defending and poor finishing made the performance look all the worse.

Simple difference between the 2 sides, they targetted and took out our most influential players by kicking them in the air early on and they had three big strong fast players up front who when they got the ball aimed straight for the goal or byline as soon as they could with another 4/5 players flying into the box ready for the cross, unlike ours who got booked for soft cynical challenges (Neccesary in both cases) and  but why didnt they try to hurt them at the same time as they were obviously going to get yellow cards. and our wingers who simply turn back inside at every opportunity instead of flying forward and hitting the byline. We lacked pace everywhere on the pitch. Best players Pearson by a mile then Lenny Pitman and Clay, the rest should have stayed at home. Wish I had.