Mansfield thread

Shocked! Never let your expectations run too high with the Mariners. If you do you will get brought back to earth very quickly.

We just didn’t create any chances. We are much better when we can counter, at home when we have to break teams down we struggle. Doesn’t help when the quality of crosses into the box are woeful, and the delivery from free kicks especially was terrible. We never seem to have enough players in the box either. Max Wright going off and the change of formation was a turning point and Green was especially ineffective.

Mansfield were excrement and we weren't good enough. Most of the deliveries were shocking and I knew, just KNEW  that was going to happen at the end.

Shocking reffing, shocking performane from Green,(every attack broke down at his feet) we had little going forward once Wright had been kicked out of the game  Well done Robson and Hess, Onwards and hopefully upwards but I am seriously fuming at the incompetence of this referee allowing them to get away with so much and having no idea about the laws of the game.

We went downhill the moment Wright got subbed. Green was the wrong sub today should of been Rose, like for like pace not to mention Green was excrement today no other words for it.

We started bright, a mix of short quick passes and direct balls. Once Wright went off it went downhill, Green coming on didn't work and the adjustments to our shape/personel positioning didn't work.

Second half was a shocker when they went down to 10 men we should.of passed them off the pitch, instead it looked like we were down to 10 men and just aimlessly hoofed the ball forward. You could see the winner comung the moment they got the freekick.

The ref needs sacking after that I'm not saying anything else on the matter he was just that bad today, but that shouldn't be used as an excuse for our poor performance.

Typical town against a team low on confidence we let them off. Decent first half without being great but poor second half and we never seemed to know how to make them work when down to 10. Awful set pieces from us especially.
The ref was one of the very worst I've ever seen in over 30 years and was the worst at losing control of a game I think. His performance probably contributed to the scenes at the end with the aggro between players. I really do hope the club put in a formal complaint because that refereeing is not acceptable for the football league. Bizarre.

Lots of effort but zero intelligence from Town

We wasn't good enough, but my god the ref did everything in his powers to prevent a game of football. Over 30 fouls in the game, some truly mind boggling decisions, and at one point he had to put his hand up to apologiae after he let their player back on whilst he waa stood next to Hess. I genuinely can't remember what happened in the last 30 minutes apart from hearing his whistle. If I performed like that in my job, I'd be shown the door.

3 points lost today, and we need to play better, but I'm not too disheartened.

Just one of those games today I think. Difficult to get anything going and somewhat standard GTFC when we follow up a great performance with a poor one. Failed to take advantage of 10 men and struggled to create much. Should have done more in the first half as the second was always going to be downhill.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Lots of effort but zero intelligence from Town

This perfectly sums it up for me, as angry as I was at the ref through the game and livid at timewasting Mansfield, I feel we could've done more to win that, though I wouldn't say it was a bad performance by us. Just that we could've been more inventive, felt like we were hoofing it up to Hanson when we should've been playing it out from the back, and then bizarrely playing it out from the back when we absolutely should've been hoofing it up to Hanson.

Feel like our set pieces have gone downhill from the start of the season and we seem to line up the same way for every corner and free kick and make things easy for the other team.

And last of all I don't really wanna attack green but feel like it was unfair on ogbu to have to move out wide to make way for him when he came on, feel like theres a reason we lined up the way we did today at the start today and we should've tried to stick with it somehow when wright came off.

Again thought most the game we actually played decent just think these points are what will make the difference in games like this