Just Back (Merged)

For reasons i w'ont bore anyone with, plus at present a  strange general apathy towards Football, its the first time i have seen
Town in a while and to be brutally honest judged on that we are a mid table side,out fought, out tackled, outpaced and out desired,
which is not acceptable, to be honest Lincoln looked more like a side capable of going up then us, even allowing for the injuries.
Central midfield is still anonymous, OK Disley scores a few, but when have we had a midfield that actually controls games? Years ago
IMHO.  Pittman and Shop caused Lincoln problems when some decent service was actually provided, but that happened all too rarely and
we play far too deep as a team in my opinion, you should compress play at home and trust your defenders to do their jobs if the
opponents counter.
Bitterly disappointed by that, had hoped attending today would inspire some more interest in me, its had the opposite effect unfortunately.
Two other things - what a strike for Lincolns first goal - d'ont think i have ever seen a shot hit with more power at BP and despite the fact that
i cannot stand  the inbreds, you have to give credit to the Lincoln fans (bar 1) for respecting the minutes silence so well and their general
support - but then again they had plenty to support, we had very little.

Anyone blaming Macca for the first goal needs their head testing. Fantastic strike, nothing else to be said. I didn't think we were bad, just picked off after attempting to get back in the game. Lincoln played well.

Quoted from Chrisblor

I think Lincoln are getting too much credit for their first. Was right down the middle of the goal and McKeown didn't react. Should have at least got a hand to it for me.

He gets beaten by long range efforts quite regularly.

Quoted from itsnotcoditshaddock

Anyone blaming Macca for the first goal needs their head testing. Fantastic strike, nothing else to be said. I didn't think we were bad, just picked off after attempting to get back in the game. Lincoln played well.

This. Thank god!!

intercourse off.... Hurst doesn't even think that was a poor performance!! Total and utter moron. Aswad and Arnold didn't look remotely arsed today, no way did they give everything as you stupidly suggest.

Quoted from ginnywings

He gets beaten by long range efforts quite regularly.

That means the defence is doing the job when they have to resort to long range shots, but to be honest, today's and Telford's where imo near to impossible to save.

Quoted from itsnotcoditshaddock

Anyone blaming Macca for the first goal needs their head testing. Fantastic strike, nothing else to be said. I didn't think we were bad, just picked off after attempting to get back in the game. Lincoln played well.

It was hit hard but from a long way out meaning he had enough time to get in the way of it. It was relatively central and not towards the corners of the goal. Watch a replay and you'll see he was slow to react.

We're always going to concede a long range goal or two a season. It's the poorly defended goals that we can deal with better that we need to cut out - and we conceded two of those today. I can't think of any player who played better then 6/10 today. That is unacceptable for a derby game let alone being the supposed better side going into it.

We'll bounce back eventually and I'm still confident we'll make the play offs because the league is so poor but the big games don't suit us and going into the play offs it doesn't bode well.

Quoted from Chrisblor

It was hit hard but from a long way out meaning he had enough time to get in the way of it. It was relatively central and not towards the corners of the goal. Watch a replay and you'll see he was slow to react.

Poor header out from Disley too. I was taught from a young age to never head the ball to the edge of the box and he had a clear sight at it.

It looked pretty clear to me that Magnay was not well enough to play today, even before he was caught. He looked ill and was puffing and panting after just 5 minutes. If he's had one of the many chest infections currently going around, it's no surprise he struggled. Unfortunately, Thomas looked well out of sorts as well and Parslow just couldn't cope with their pacy No. 15.

I don't think McKeown had much of a chance for their goal. It might have been relatively close to the centre of the goal but was an absolute piledriver. The Lincoln keeper played well enough but didn't have to face any shots nearly as good as that. Our defending for their last two goals simply wasn't good enough.

Disley ran out of steam in the second half but I was disappointed to see that Clay was much the same as well. I don't think our current options in central midfield are good enough for a team looking for a promotion. It will be interesting to see if Hurst does anything about this in the transfer window (I tend to doubt he will).