Team for this afternoon:

Russell, Hewitt, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Rose, Clifton, Taylor, Williams, Windsor, Bennett.

Subs: McKeown, Starbuck, Tilley, Morais, Edwards, Jackson Jr, Gibson.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Team for this afternoon:

Russell, Hewitt, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Rose, Clifton, Taylor, Williams, Windsor, Bennett.

Subs: McKeown, Starbuck, Tilley, Morais, Edwards, Jackson Jr, Gibson.

No backup centre back. Must plan on shifting Hewitt in there if required.

Fingers crossed for a fighting performance and 3 points.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Team for this afternoon:

Russell, Hewitt, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Rose, Clifton, Taylor, Williams, Windsor, Bennett.

Subs: McKeown, Starbuck, Tilley, Morais, Edwards, Jackson Jr, Gibson.

That is a much stronger bench. Let's hope they are not needed though.

For the last few seasons we seem to have struggled with injuries. Hendrie Wright Hanson and Scannell would strengthen this massively.  Why do we have so many injuries?  Back in the 70s and 80s we had half the team going ever present through the season.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Team for this afternoon:

Russell, Hewitt, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Rose, Clifton, Taylor, Williams, Windsor, Bennett.

Subs: McKeown, Starbuck, Tilley, Morais, Edwards, Jackson Jr, Gibson.

Thought Morais was meant to be straight on, shame to see him on the bench.

Glad to see Jackson Jr in the squad. Must have done enough in training to impress Ollie.

Nice to see Jackson Jr on the bench. Think thats a first for him in the league?.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

For the last few seasons we seem to have struggled with injuries. Hendrie Wright Hanson and Scannell would strengthen this massively.  Why do we have so many injuries?  Back in the 70s and 80s we had half the team going ever present through the season.

Hendrie suspended though.

Taylors got to have something on Olly to keep making the squad

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Taylors got to have something on Olly to keep making the squad

Whilst i havnt been his biggest fan so far i thought he was probably one of the better ones on the ball on Tuesday, seemed to gel quite well with Bennett.

Bennett could get subbed in a minute...awful start for him

Bennett not at the races yet....

Wow. A shot on target already. We are being spoilt!
Bennett has had a terrible start.3 misplaced passes and awful bit of  control. Town look better, but then mansfield are no Newport or exeter

Mansfield are putting no pressure on us at all, you would like to think with the extra time we should get ourselves sorted.....

Bennett is such a fuckin bone idol twit

Stevenage & Bradford both losing   :)

Good run and cross by preston  , twice now.bennett continues to be awful

Clifton is fouling at will, I don’t get it....bright start though

It'd be nice if Clifton would stop repeatedly giving away stupid fouls while we've got them under pressure up the top end of the pitch.

How have we not got a peno there? He kicked Williams standing foot

Williams has got to be getting a shot off in a position like that!! Good recovering tackle but how much time did he want to line a shot up?!

Is Edwards not 100% ?  Best player we have.  Why didn't Williams do better there?  Why is Clifton in defense?

Better today so far, mind you that's not hard.

We’re looking ok, just need Bennet to sharpen up and Clifton to not foul so much......

Pollock poor so far.stevenage 2 down now

Typical Mansfield 3 of their subs trying to distract our corner taker 🤬

Barrow losing   :)

Quoted from Chrisblor

Williams has got to be getting a shot off in a position like that!! Good recovering tackle but how much time did he want to line a shot up?!

That's the team all over. Pedestrian.  You've got to be getting a shot in there.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Williams has got to be getting a shot off in a position like that!! Good recovering tackle but how much time did he want to line a shot up?!

Because all of our attacking players try to make a good chance into a better chance every time.

Getting pushed back now. Bradford 2 down

Don't Town players talk to each other?  Someone has loads of time and they act like headless chickens.  

These are excrement, we have to beat them.....

Two poor teams today , 0-0 written all over this

Obviously olly sees players in training. But i would love to see jackson jnr and sisay up frontvas a pair

Quoted from Norseman

Obviously olly sees players in training. But i would love to see jackson jnr and sisay up front as  a pair

They look dangerous from their many corners.williams and Hewitt look good

We are absolutely excrement in the attacking third.
What do they do in training????

Edwards should cause then more problems second half.....

Bennett is playing crap today......

Wtf is bennett playing at? Needless free kick and rallies far too long when he was in a really good position
Stevenage now 3 down.barrow equalise

Not sure what Bennett is but not entirely sure it’s a footballer...

Bennett has got a bit of quality when he gets on the ball, but he trots about like he's having a potter around a car boot sale. No urgency at all from him.

Not a bad start but then tailed off
Is Taylor playing?? and Bennett is dross and lazy
Hope there both off for the second half.

So frustrating.......

Miscue by Taylor, says it all.

Jeez we are crap in front of goal.

Can we end the Terry Taylor experiment and ship him back off to Wolves please. The lad can barely kick a ball properly - what's his role in the team? Completely perplexed by him.

Taylor's shot was embarrassing.  Get him off.  

Quoted from Steve Richards

Good job we have a manager that sees them in training then

Genius response

Get Edwards on for Taylor, he'll have a ball against this Mansfield side

Quoted from Son of Cod

Bennett has got a bit of quality when he gets on the ball, but he trots about like he's having a potter around a car boot sale. No urgency at all from him.

Love that analogy 🤣

1 goal to win it

2 average teams, we need to win this just need someone on the field with pace to run at them, as their defence looks a bit dodgy. And F Taylor off back to U23 football as thats the way he plays, backwards, sidewards and at a stroll.

Got through to h.t. 0.0
Think mansfield look a touch more dangerous.bennett having a mare

Quoted from Madeleymariner

2 average teams, we need to win this just need someone on the field with pace to run at them, as their defence looks a bit dodgy. And F Taylor off back to U23 football as thats the way he plays, backwards, sidewards and at a stroll.

2 below average teams, but it's definitely winnable!

Few being a bit harsh on Taylor here, acting like it was a glorious opportunity. He’s not been bad.

Ffs bennett! What a stupid foul. He has been awful

Hit his chest, no way handball. All Mansfield players appealed as that’s what they do....

We are still in the dressing room

Mansfield starting the second half far better than us, get Edwards on Ollie asap to start causing them problems ffs.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Mansfield starting the second half far better than us, get Edwards on Ollie asap to start causing them problems ffs.

Got your wish.

Good chance, side netting, from mansfield.

Thank God  Edwards for bennett, not before time

Quoted from oochiad

Hit his chest, no way handball. All Mansfield players appealed as that’s what they do....

The Mansfield commentator said Nigel Clough was adamant it was a penalty!  How the hell could he see that from his position.

Quoted from Steve Richards

Bit harsh that attacking players play on confidence if we tried playing Williams and Windsor every week I believe it would come! In those two you’ve got technical skill and endeavour!

That may be the case but as of now we are very bad up front

Thank god Taylor off

Quoted from Mariner93er

Few being a bit harsh on Taylor here, acting like it was a glorious opportunity. He’s not been bad.

A toe poke with the right peg.  He hit it was with his left which was completely unnatural.

Williams off, shame, hes played well. Windsor and taylor off, not done much either of them. Jackson  Morais and gibson on

Get the F in!

Yeeesss

Jackson

IRA jackson junior tap in.yes!!

JACKSON!!!!!!!!

Quoted from Son of Cod

Bennett has got a bit of quality when he gets on the ball, but he trots about like he's having a potter around a car boot sale. No urgency at all from him.

Love that analogy 🤣⁸

Lovely stuff - hope we can hang on to this now

Get in!!!!!!!
Johnny on the spot

Get in 1-0 Town...Jackson Jr

And other results going for us   :)

There’s an example of a goal against the run of play...

Reminiscent of a goal we’d concede...

Decent ball down the line put them in trouble.  Decent shot on target.  Ball's in the danger area.  Owt can happen. Get in.

Good work all round

Didn't take the lad long to join our extensive list of excrement hot strikers ;)

He clearly knows where the goal is.

Oh dear

Flips sake, peno

Mansfield penalty

How easy was that through ball.

Rose caught to far up?

1.1

Penalty to them   :o

Typical Town

FFS poor defending once again

I think that’s probably an example of why we’re both relegation fodder...we’ve both conceded awful goals

All too brief as per...

Preston looking to play offside

Quoted from aldi_01

There’s an example of a goal against the run of play...

Reminiscent of a goal we’d concede...

Like that one we’ve just conceded ?

Morais looks good

Looking at the replay he looked offside when the ball was played

On the plus side Morais looks good.  How long before we turn him into a mediocre player?

Just new we wouldn't hold that lead - 20 minutes left & I fear the worst.

Despite the goal we’ve looked pretty disjointed this half.

Jackson can at least hold the ball up and bring others in.

Come on Town we can win this.

In other news...Lincoln 0-4 Sunderland   8)

Hope we can hang on for a point (especially as I pommed 1-1) :P

Holloway going for it.pollock off Tilley on

Quoted from forza ivano

Holloway going for it.pollock off Tilley on

Great to see positivity from Holloway his liking for attacking football was mentioned when he arrived, he'll get pelters if we concede tho'

We give away so many stupid free kicks

Southend beating the scunts

Southend take the lead against Scunny.

Scunthorpe down at Southend

Quoted from forza ivano

We give away so many stupid free kicks

Southend beating the scunts

Week in, week out.  Jackson just lost us possession in the final third. Their defender had already headed it out.

What on earth is Holloway shouting at or even shouting? That isn’t passion, just sounds like desperation.

We give away so many daft free kicks.

Once again, we’ve had a couple of chances but don’t put them away...

Quoted from promotion plaice

Southend take the lead against Scunny.

I'm not sure that's good for us.

Quoted from TAGG

Scunthorpe down at Southend

Oh dear, mind the gap which is getting smaller!

Edwards does my head in, clearly talented and equally careless with possession.

Rose caught forward .. again! Waterfall clipped.

Quoted from MarinerDevil

I'm not sure that's good for us.

Agreed, I’d even go as far as to say I wanted scunny to win.

I have shamed myself.

Cant disagree with waterfall as motm

The ref's flipping blind, the keeper got a hand on that ffs

That was awesome skill from Edwards.  Deserved a goal.

Quoted from forza ivano

Cant disagree with waterfall as motm

Hewitt for me

Town look better going forward since Morais, Tilley and Edwards came on.

Quoted from Mayaman

Town look better going forward since Morais, Tilley and Edwards came on.

Gibson and Jackson have done a good job holding the ball up as well

Pleased with a point I suppose but really we have to beat teams like Mansfield They were urine poor and apart from the penalty they were never going to score

Full time 1.1 fair result

2 points thrown away through sloppy defending, disappointing

FT....1-1

Probably a fair result.

Other results going for us today in general.

Quoted from Chrisblor

2 points thrown away through sloppy defending, disappointing

and our inability to score more than once.

Two sides without a cutting edge. About the right result, but we had enough sniffs of the goal to have nicked all three points. Need someone canny in front of goal.

Well we scored and didnt lose..

now we wait for Billy Bullshit and his match thoughts

I’m just pleased we created some chances. Think the Tilley/Pollock sub didn’t help as Hewitt was doing well in the middle but maybe Pollock had a knock.

Morais looked like he can deliver a good cross and pleased Jackson scored.

The fact we’re happy with a point at home against a Mansfield side as bad as us tells you how bad we really are...

Had chances to win it but in truth lacked the cutting edge again to finish the game off...

Quoted from Steve Richards

Team in first half more organised and played like a team. Team we finished with very messy very individual and didn’t operate like a team. Too many changes!

possibly but morais and edwards definitely improved us, and even Tilley was far more effective than Bennett.
think we can take  a bit of confidence from that ( and it takes us another game closer to January)

Two poor sides
Fair enough result.
Waterfall mom
Bennett & Taylor need sending back to where they came from.
Jackson looked okay and held the ball up well.
Edwards is a great player to watch, the final product will come very soon.

Overall a more professional performance
Green shoots??????

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Well we scored and didnt lose..

now we wait for Billy Bullshit and his match thoughts

Are you doing the post match again??

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Well we scored and didnt lose..

now we wait for Billy Bullshit and his match thoughts

It's almost as if you want us to lose, so you can tell us how right you are.  :-/

Quoted from Stadium

Are you doing the post match again??

No its the fraud

Should of won, the run for the penalty the guys a couple of feet offside. Thought Jackson looked decent, Hewitt and Clifton are must haves and Edwards caused them problems as well. Didn't really notice Morais to be honest but for that great cross soon after he came on. We really are in a relegation scrap got to win a couple of games by Christmas.

Quoted from aldi_01

The fact we’re happy with a point at home against a Mansfield side as bad as us tells you how bad we really are...

Had chances to win it but in truth lacked the cutting edge again to finish the game off...

They are actually in decent form since Clough went there and have only lost 1 game in their last 6, and that was only 1-0.

They are 11th in the form table. We are now 22nd, so the fact we made them look quite lame is a decent sign. I think we will get better as time goes on.

Quoted from TAGG

Two poor sides
Fair enough result.
Waterfall mom
Bennett & Taylor need sending back to where they came from.
Jackson looked okay and held the ball up well.
Edwards is a great player to watch, the final product will come very soon.

Overall a more professional performance
Green shoots??????

Yes he does but he doesn't score many

What do mean by Green shoots????

When did that happen? 😀😀😉

Quoted from Boris Johnson

No its the fraud

Takes one to know one.

Quoted from Steve Richards

Team in first half more organised and played like a team. Team we finished with very messy very individual and didn’t operate like a team. Too many changes!

Was going to post similar ,  although it took a substitute to convert a chance the flood of subs in a short period disrupted us more than anything.

Unfortunatley Clifton at right back was the one playing them onside for their penalty , a more experienced right back/ defender may have stood firmer in line with the rest of the back four , his first instinct is to chase.

All in all a better performance and if we had been more ruthless in the first half should have been an easy 3 points.

Great for Jackson to come on and get a goal.

I felt sorry when Bennett was subbed in the first half, possibly on his first outing but today he was not in the right frame of mind. Windsor unlucky, hardly had a decent ball second half but Gibson held it well. Hope Jackson makes the next squad. Morais not a defensive player, would have had Tilley earlier.

First half we slowed it down with back to the keeper who wacked it anyway and looked in no hurry to take the corner with seconds to go before half time.  

Edwards has to start next game. Rose and Taylor not providing enough protection for defence. I like how Hewitt looks for the runs of forward players.

Quoted from Croxton

I felt sorry when Bennett was subbed in the first half, possibly on his first outing but today he was not in the right frame of mind. Windsor unlucky, hardly had a decent ball second half but Gibson held it well. Hope Jackson makes the next squad. Morais not a defensive player, would have had Tilley earlier.

First half we slowed it down with back to the keeper who wacked it anyway and looked in no hurry to take the corner with seconds to go before half time.  

Edwards has to start next game. Rose and Taylor not providing enough protection for defence. I like how Hewitt looks for the runs of forward players.

Prefer Edwards as an impact sub. Had plenty of starts and done little with them really, looks flash but nothing at the end of it.

Thought that was better.. Waterfall definitely mom for me think we are screwed if he gets injured etc.. the 3 subs second half seemed to help we had hardly got in there half for 10 mins after the break. Really pleased for Jackson with the goal

Tho I hate VAR think we could have done with it today looked offside to me tho camera angle not the best.

upon reflection a lot more pluses than negatives
hewitt & waterfall throughout
williams in the first half particularly
clifton did as well as can be expected, filling in
morais looks very decent
ira was a bit of presence, plenty of energy and getting the goal must have sent his confidence soaring
thought that even Gibson looked a lot more effective and 'at it'
good news that Tilley returned and did some good things
Edwards is a livewire and gave them real problems, 2 great curled shots at the end, and was very unlucky not to score


ps noticed there was far less Fanny ing around at the back and we were a lot more direct. tried lots of long diagonals , which i am sure Holloway got us doing at the back end of last season

Thought we weren’t too bad and deserved a point, Impressed with the impact Edwards out of all our loan signings he looks by far the most promising. I’d like to see more of Jackson and Gibson  too.

Bennett was poor as was Taylor I think we should be looking at sending them back to their clubs, Southend winning today worries me as Tuesday is a game we cannot lose and winning today will give them a big boost and they’ll fancy beating us.

First half I thought 2 very poor sides.

2nd half both teams improved slightly, we looked a bit more dangerous after the 4 changes but overall I didn't really see anything that would suggest we will be moving up the table anytime soon.

Tuesday's game against Southend very important after their win today.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

What do mean by Green shoots????

When did that happen? 😀😀😉

Boom Boom  ;D ;D ;D ;D

From the Mansfield forum
"The poorest weve played under Clough against the worst team we've played all season. A tenner well spent".

Second game running that's the opposition's view. Couldnt argue with that either. Makes me weep when I watch the "on this day" clips of the Buckey era and the football on view! No wonder he gave up commentary! I could give up football all together.

well the worst team should have won because they never worked our goalkeeper all 90 mins apart from pen which by the way was offside in build up, take a point today against a team with top 3 budget ln whole of league , some decent play at times admittadly against the worst side i'v seen visit blundell park this season  :P

Quoted from chipsandgravy

From the Mansfield forum
"The poorest weve played under Clough against the worst team we've played all season. A tenner well spent".

Second game running that's the opposition's view. Couldnt argue with that either. Makes me weep when I watch the "on this day" clips of the Buckey era and the football on view! No wonder he gave up commentary! I could give up football all together.

maybe our pressing didn’t allow them to play any better?, good closing down by the likes of Hewitt etc.

Quoted from fishcake63

well the worst team should have won because they never worked our goalkeeper all 90 mins apart from pen which by the way was offside in build up, take a point today against a team with top 3 budget ln whole of league , some decent play at times admittadly against the worst side i'v seen visit blundell park this season  :P

No he wasn't, just played the highlights back with freeze frame and he was just onside as he ran between Pollock and Preston. If I knew how to do a screen grab I would upload it.

Thankyou for correcting me arry i'v probly got older eyes than you mate , it must have been tight then ? all in all i thought yesterday was something to build on , think we got few decent players for this level just need 4/5 in january to make us a really good team , ollie will sort it utmm

We've got 2 very versatile players in Hewitt and Clifton as was shown yesterday. Neither stops working whatever their position.

To be fair however bad this season has been I don’t think we’ve got any players on our books that are just going through the motions , I believe they’re all given their best , it just a question whether their best is good enough

Quoted from fishcake63

Thankyou for correcting me arry i'v probly got older eyes than you mate , it must have been tight then ? all in all i thought yesterday was something to build on , think we got few decent players for this level just need 4/5 in january to make us a really good team , ollie will sort it utmm

No problem fc, I thought he looked off-side as well till I could access the highlights, a wonderfully timed run and pass or just lucky :-/