Really looking forward to this match, if we are injury free & both Francis & Jordan are playing i fancy our chances. Also the fact its to be played to a finish does addd a little spice imo
Massive game today. If this team can display it's undoubted ability together with heart and passion then we can earn a historic win and a place in the final 8.
COYW!
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Poor display from us I thought...they were nothing special and if we had managed to play some decent passing football (did we string more than 3 passes together?) then we would have taken them.....an Oxford second half would have done it....hats off to Ricky yet again as being so solid...very disappointed overall :((
Poor display from us I thought...they were nothing special and if we had managed to play some decent passing football (did we string more than 3 passes together?) then we would have taken them.....an Oxford second half would have done it....hats off to Ricky yet again as being so solid...very disappointed overall :((
I didn't see it like that at all. I thought they were much the better team. Granted the Francis **** up gifted them their first goal but to be fair if it wasn't for a couple of excellent stops by Lewington they would of been out of site by half time. They came out second half and put us to bed within 10 minutes with two identical goals. We never let our heads drop though and nicked one back but the game was lost by then. Nothing wrong with the effort today just beaten by a better unit.
A dreadful performance against a Lincoln side who made 7 changes from their league match last Tuesday. It was a dreadful error by Francis for the first goal and we were lucky to get in at half time one down. Then the first 7 minutes of the second half were an absolute disgrace- a complete shambles. At three down it was all over and our decent spell for 10-15 minutes was a complete irrelevance.
So after 5 games there is no sign that our 'caretaker' management team is anything less than permanent. I also notice that Tristian Lewis wrote the program notes yesterday as well as been doing the post match interviews for the last few games so it would seem as though he's taking the lead role.
I have no doubt that Lewis and Wheeler will keep us up but for me scraping over the line is not good enough. We should be looking to finish the season in good form, with a mid table place as a good platform to build on for next season. We should soon be looking to tie down our better players for contracts for next season. And the best way to do this is to employ a proven manager who will have the chance to look at this group of players and decide who stays, who goes and who needs to be brought in.
If MG thinks Lewis is the man for the club long term then he should at least do things properly. Interview the best applicants for the job, as well as Lewis, and if Lewis is still the best man (he certainly would n't be if the criteria was previous success but he may be if it was down to cost, motivation etc) then appoint him as permanent manager. As a caretaker he has no authority.
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So after 5 games there is no sign that our 'caretaker' management team is anything less than permanent. I also notice that Tristian Lewis wrote the program notes yesterday as well as been doing the post match interviews for the last few games so it would seem as though he's taking the lead role.
Harry Wheeler did the post match interview at St Albans so I think that they are taking it in turns.
manager who will have the chance to look at this group of players and decide who stays, who goes and who needs to be brought in.
Like at the end of last season when someone decided that Barney Williams was worse than any right back we've had this season.
In the 7-8 games prior to the last week Matt Fish had been excellent, but yes, getting rid of Barney was madness, as was losing Corne. There is little point in replacing players for a similar standard level player unless their replacement is either cheaper or younger.
-- Edited by Chris on Sunday 5th of February 2017 06:00:10 PM
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First of all credit to Lincoln who fully deserved the victory - hungrier, quicker, sharper and clearly better - if anything the final scoreline flattered us. Despite us having plenty of experience in the team it looked like men against boys at times and they bullied us all over the park. They might have made numerous changes to their normal starting XI but they are still full time players plus some new additions they have brought in who clearly wanted to make an impression and push for a place in the starting XI.
It doesn't help of course when you give them a soft goal to start with - a schoolboy error which was compounded by the failure to chase back and try and compensate for the original mistake. Another gift at the start of the second half and it was game over. Our lads didn't throw the towel in but there was never going to be a comeback and our mini revival was as much down to Lincoln taking their foot off the pedal as anything else.
Disappointed that we never really gave them a game. You could have driven a bus through the centre of our midfield and defence in the first half at times and but for a few decent saves and some wayward finishing by them it could have been half a dozen. We never really got stuck into them at all - I don't know if it was down to his first half booking but Fish almost looked frightened to tackle them in the second half. I thought centre halves were supposed to be brave and put their bodies on the line and throw themselves into challenges - we have one that will do that but the other one couldn't tackle a crossword...
Sadly the team appears to pick itself at the moment as the squad is so lopsided so you are likely to stay in the team regardless of how well/badly you are playing which is never a healthy state of affairs. We need some competition for places in certain areas of the team and, at the moment, we don't have that.
I assume that the current interim management team is supposed to be muddling through to the end of the season although we have heard precious little about that as well...If so then we need a few tweaks to the squad to see us through to the end of the season and get ourselves towards safety sooner rather than later.
