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Quoted from ginnywings

Or maybe Mansfield stopped us going 2 or 3 up because they were better than us once they got to grips with the game.

Some people seem to forget there is another team on the pitch, who also want to get forward and score goals.

Yep and Hurst lets them, he doesn't attack teams and the few times he does are the times when we are the better side. Just like in the Salford game midweek, we attacked them for 90 minutes and didn't let them back in once bar one or two moments, compared to today, we attacked Mansfield at the start and didn't let them have the ball when they did get the ball we harassed them and their passing was poor and all over the place (same for the County game when we pressed and harrassed them) we scored and then slowly drifted deeper and deeper for the next 20 minutes, let them back in and then let them control the game for the next 70. Hurst is toothless. If there was ever a game to go at Mansfield it was today, we're the home side, at practically full strength and they were weakened and showing it at the start, but thats fine, we'll have another season with what? 6 home wins all season.

Quoted from ginnywings

And you know this how?

Mansfield are no bigger as a club than we are, but have spent many seasons, sticking with their manager and getting better year on year.

If we don't win every game, every week, the same doom mongers are on here saying we are sh1t or mid table dross, or relegation fodder. You have no idea how the season will pan out, and I have no idea why I keep trying to make people see the reality of where we are in the scheme of things at the moment.

We have lost ONE game FFS.

Post of the week for me.

Thought Mansfield was excellent on both showing I’ve seen them and should be what we should be aspiring to be. Not seen a L2 club knock it round like that probably since David Artells Crewe team. They are simply a better footballing team than us and sometimes it’s a bitter pill to swallow and admit but they’ve had this seasons in the making.

We will play better in the future and end up losing games that’s just how it is, another day Mansfield could have had 3 or 4. Let’s take the point against a good team who will be up there and move on to Walsall.

Why can't some accept that Mansfield were plain and simply better than us...
A team that has been together for 3 years now, have a style of play embedded into them that the execute perfectly.
We are a new team, players still getting to grips with each other, but it will take time, and I'll say this now, Rodgers is class, far better than league 2, actually better than Flint who is supposed to be the best centre back in the league.
We need Maher back, for as much as I like Waterfall, I do think his race is run as a lg2 footballer, great with his head, courageous but his bloody woeful with his feet and turns slower than an oil tanker!.
I'm not convinced we'll be anymore than mid table this season, and we won't face many teams, if any, as schooled as Mansfield.

Mansfield look like a good side and play some expansive stuff with runners all over the place. We weren’t awful, we defended well but I thought they were the better side today and after scoring we struggled to control the game for any length of time.

Happy with a point tonight.

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Why can't some accept that Mansfield were plain and simply better than us...
A team that has been together for 3 years now, have a style of play embedded into them that the execute perfectly.
We are a new team, players still getting to grips with each other, but it will take time, and I'll say this now, Rodgers is class, far better than league 2, actually better than Flint who is supposed to be the best centre back in the league.
We need Maher back, for as much as I like Waterfall, I do think his race is run as a lg2 footballer, great with his head, courageous but his bloody woeful with his feet and turns slower than an oil tanker!.
I'm not convinced we'll be anymore than mid table this season, and we won't face many teams, if any, as schooled as Mansfield.

Absolutely correct about Luke Waterfall. I love the guy to bits but he makes us play far deeper because of his lack of pace. Niall Maher can’t come back soon enough.

Not a lot really to add to the sensible posts above - they will be up there come end of the season, the stats show they’ve dominated possession every game this season. PH clearly had a plan not to get cut apart like they did to us last week. I continue to be impressed by our defensive signings and Conteh. Rose looks ok and would look better if we could get players closer to him in a bit of space. We have Wilson and Khan to come in. But we aren’t getting round the back of teams which is what I had hoped Eisa and Vernam would bring to us.

I think over the length of the season that point will look very decent. Mansfield will be up there.

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Why can't some accept that Mansfield were plain and simply better than us...

Because they were only better than us, once we let them be better than us, those first 20 minutes when we attacked and harrassed them they barely got a kick of the ball and when they did they were panicked and rushed. Mansfield was only better than us when we stopped doing that, it was the same at County and we all saw what happened against Salford when we did it for 90 minutes