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Quoted from Abdul19

Dogshit performance. A bit like the Lincoln game 2 years ago but this time they punished us. Thomas was awful and we missed Brown (not fit?).

Fair play to their fans though for creating an atmosphere.

Knowing Hurst, he dropped Brown for no apparent reason?

Quoted from ginnywings

Knowing Hurst, he dropped Brown for no apparent reason?

I don't think he's been fully fit since he's been injured to be honest, but as always lets blame hurst!

No complaints about the result. We still struggle to compete with up and at 'em teams when they are on their game and Lincoln had way too much pace throughout the midfield and forwards for us today. Oh, the difference between our longer-range shots and theirs was night and day.

The most obvious thing for me today was that the lack of pace and running power in our midfield as compared to theirs was very telling. Their second and third goals were carbon copies of each other with a pacy break down the wing and plenty of runners in the middle not covered by our slack defence. We could have been punished on a couple of further occasions in the second half as well. For their first goal, I feel sorry for Magnay who was clearly nothing like fit enough to play, so that selection was a bad error by Hurst.

Other than that, we had more than enough decent chances to score at least one or two more goals but, as too often this season, the final shot, cross or pass just wasn't good enough.

I thought the game itself was actually played in a pretty decent spirit for a change, the odd slightly late (but not nasty) tackle aside. You can see why Lincoln score a reasonable number of goals but you can also see why they concede plenty as well as we created a good few chances without really playing at all well.

Ultimately, unless we make a couple of good signings, I think the play-offs are the best we can hope for with the central midfield options available to us. Are we capable of stringing 3 good performances to win promotion via the play-offs? Possibly, but it is more likely we'll fail to turn up for at least one of the games and that won't be good enough.

I have to say that I've come to the considered opinion that Parslow isn't really quite good enough in any of the positions he can play. One bad performance for each decent one really isn't good enough. I don't doubt we'll still sign him in January but to have any sort of chance we'll need to have the first choice defenders available as much as possible.

the first Adams was not closed down he had loads of time to pick his spot Mc Kewon won't want to see it again

Ronnie I admire your optimism ,but FFS MAN .

Quoted from highcliff mariner

Ronnie I admire your optimism ,but FFS MAN .

Someone's got to be  

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

No I'm not having a laugh. Though magnate couldn't play from an earlier dirty tackle.

He got caught by Tomlinson and never recovered. It was just a typical derby challenge, which to me showed they wanted it more. Could just as easily been any other player, including theirs.

That's football.

Looking from afar, really disappointed with our result today very poor , it seems to me one step forward two steps back  as usual big game we flattered to decieve. ive seen it so many times,  let's hope the wheels don't come off in the next month. Let's brush ourselves off and start again lots of games to play very important ones alt that Utm

I am getting fed up of thinking we will make it this season,

Only to be disappointed again and again,

Why do we always play poor and lose when we have a big gate,

The ones who want us to do well turn up when they think we have turned the corner,

Watch another defeat and will not be back for a long time,

This is costing you a lot of money Mr Fenty !!!!!!!!!!!

Quoted from ginnywings

He got caught by Tomlinson and never recovered. It was just a typical derby challenge, which to me showed they wanted it more. Could just as easily been any other player, including theirs.

That's football.

He went in a bit too hard for me, they did well to put him out early!