Lincoln City Accounts

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Well winning away to a club that size and with that history with 30k inside, just like last season in the Play-off semis, is still something to ‘pinch yourself’ about …. in comparison to losing to the likes of Bromley of course.

I’ll settle for being an established ‘3rd Tier’ as quite frankly The Championship looks far too expensive to compete in, for a club of our size.

Yeah, it was a good result regardless and a bit of tongue in cheek by me, but they are pretty poor at the moment.

Nice of you to mention losing to Bromley, so touche to you.  

I've got no axe to grind with Lincoln. You have dragged yourselves out of the dead pool and turned the club around massively. Hope we can do the same with our new owners.

15 years ago there were 4 Lincolnshire teams in the Football League. Next year there could be just one.

Quoted from GrimRob

15 years ago there were 4 Lincolnshire teams in the Football League. Next year there could be just one.

Yes, part of me thinks that's pretty sad, when you consider the 3 way battle for promotion back in say 1972, when only half a dozen points separated Town (Champions) Scunny (4th) and Imps (5th) with attendances of 15 or 16 thousand.

On the other hand, we might be able/continue to attract youngsters from places like Caistor, Kirton Lindsey and Skegness into supporting their 'local' EFL team?

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Yes, part of me thinks that's pretty sad, when you consider the 3 way battle for promotion back in say 1972, when only half a dozen points separated Town (Champions) Scunny (4th) and Imps (5th) with attendances of 15 or 16 thousand.

On the other hand, we might be able/continue to attract youngsters from places like Caistor, Kirton Lindsey and Skegness into supporting their 'local' EFL team?

We'll fight you at Caistor, Vladimir, that's ours and no plants of people walking around in Imps shirts to give the impression it's yours already...surely Skeg and KL are already yours like the Crimea

John Marquis scored 3 goals for Donney at BP when they got promoted. He looked everything that you could hope for in a lower-League striker.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Yes, part of me thinks that's pretty sad, when you consider the 3 way battle for promotion back in say 1972, when only half a dozen points separated Town (Champions) Scunny (4th) and Imps (5th) with attendances of 15 or 16 thousand.

On the other hand, we might be able/continue to attract youngsters from places like Caistor, Kirton Lindsey and Skegness into supporting their 'local' EFL team?

I would probably do the same in your shoes, but there is nearly always a sting in the tail of your posts. You make a general point then put the knife in!

Yes, we get it; you have been on a fantastic run, with good owners and great investment and beating people 3-0 in front of 30,000 and as you say will probably have first dibs of good localish players blah blah.

Football is cyclical and although we have had a torrid time of it for nearly 20 years with a particularly ghastly owner, we will be back.

The sting in this post is despite all your good work you have not made it further than league 1 - even Scunthorpe managed better than that when they were on the up!  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

John Marquis scored 3 goals for Donney at BP when they got promoted. He looked everything that you could hope for in a lower-League striker.

That was with the Marcus Bignot organised defense mind...

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

That was with the Marcus Bignot organised defense mind...

The sheer randomness of Bignot’s tactical planning and team selection was something to be behold. It would either be so bad that we’d take an absolute tanking (such as that 5-1 defeat at home to Donny), or it would completely bamboozle the opposition and the 3 points would find their way to us.

Plymouth and Carlisle away spring to mind in particular, and it’s easy to forget that Bignot’s final game was a 2-0 win away at eventual play-off winners Blackpool.

Donny at home was of course when Bignot opted to give a first start to Dan Jones.

Jones, signed as one for the future, has since gone onto have a decent career at left-back/left side centre-back and is currently at Port Vale, where he kept Danny Amos out the starting line-up this season.

Of course, Jones made his full debut for Town in a central-midfield.  Why?  Well Bignot said he'd seen that Jones had a decent left peg in training.   Despite taking the lead, Town got dicked and completely over-run in a really bizarre midfield system that I think was intended to be a diamond but ended up looking more like a fried egg, Craig Disley sat on the bench throughout.

Marquis took the plaudits but it was a Gary McSheffrey pulling the strings behind that ran the show.  12 months later he'd be blowing out of his bottom as Town got dicked 4-0 at, former club, Coventry.  Soon to never be seen again.

Quoted from Poojah

The sheer randomness of Bignot’s tactical planning and team selection was something to be behold. It would either be so bad that we’d take an absolute tanking (such as that 5-1 defeat at home to Donny), or it would completely bamboozle the opposition and the 3 points would find their way to us.

Plymouth and Carlisle away spring to mind in particular, and it’s easy to forget that Bignot’s final game was a 2-0 win away at eventual play-off winners Blackpool.

Randomness is an established game-theoretic tactic - didn't it save us from nuclear war when Lyndon Johnson got his member out in a meeting with the Soviets - if he does that he might actually press the red button. Possibly apocryphal, but he did get it out and wave it about alot, which would be unsettling in any negotiation.