8 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Correct - pulling it out of the bag when not expected.  Eg Cardiff, Huddersfield, Wycombe 2 down, Plymouth.

As opposed to pulling it out the bag when its needed - Vale, Northampton.....you get my drift.  Lincoln have pulled out those results and that's the difference, they did it again today.  But that's because they are the best team in L1, rather than having better mentality or fighting qualities, they are just the best team clearly.

Exactly what I said in my post.

We've lacked consistency. 

But there's been a gazillion games we've won that had no right of winning.

Last minute goals all over the show.

We've barely put a run together all season where we looked properly impressive but still sit 3rd and have an uncanny knack doing someone magical.

Which bodes well in an end of season cup competition not against shithouses.

 

Lovely stuff yesterday.

The Mentality of this squad is streets ahead of any team we have had since administration. The Evatt team that won the Papa Johns was a much better team football wise. As regard Mcatee it is rank bad scouting to sign a player who will not jump and head the ball, i thought he could be the answer to our problems alongside Dalby i was wrong. Burstow is levels ahead of him and only going to get better.

21 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Exactly what I said in my post.

We've lacked consistency. 

But there's been a gazillion games we've won that had no right of winning.

Last minute goals all over the show.

We've barely put a run together all season where we looked properly impressive but still sit 3rd and have an uncanny knack doing someone magical.

Which bodes well in an end of season cup competition not against shithouses.

 

The games v Donny and Vale were ones where we'd temporarily run out of rabbits, ones where we couldn't keep having a shitter and bailing ourselves out late on.

Great that the rabbits have been restocked, hopefully we wont need to use them all by May

Can’t believe mcatee is pleading not intentional. He never looks where ball is and lines up the jump into Mitchell with a (limp) elbow. 

Presumably hoping to avoid an extended ban. 

Btw My lads who were on the Barbican last night with some of your lads say we’ll swap you the Whites Away (which we started singing early in the season as “…I hate it”when we were shit) for the Whitney number .

1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

it 

🎵 That’s the way, I like it 🎵

or

🎵Max Conway, I like it🎵

A bit of both..

Or whatever the fuck you want 😂

Whatever way 🎵 I like it 😂🎵

… and its in my head this morning

I thought it was " jack's the way I like it ..."  Serenading jack bohnam after his assist and early saves ...

Then it just seemed to morph into "that's the way I like it " 

Think hearts fans have copyright in it with "hearts the way I like it ..." 

15 minutes ago, Nottm_Wanderer said:

I thought it was " jack's the way I like it ..."  Serenading jack bohnam after his assist and early saves ...

Then it just seemed to morph into "that's the way I like it " 

Think hearts fans have copyright in it with "hearts the way I like it ..." 

4/10 fishing attempt, it’s a good job I’m in a good mood 😉 

Was a good day for random chants. “Jack Bonham” to the “I’m horny” Mousse T tune sounds ridiculous and somehow turned in to a piece of genius. 

To save me reading through where all our midfield players yesterday ? 
 

Not even on the bench ? 

5 minutes ago, Ani said:

To save me reading through where all our midfield players yesterday ? 
 

Not even on the bench ? 

Dempsey, family/personal issue

EE/Simons, collided with each other in training and likely out for a couple more weeks

1 hour ago, green genie said:

Can’t believe mcatee is pleading not intentional. He never looks where ball is and lines up the jump into Mitchell with a (limp) elbow. 

Presumably hoping to avoid an extended ban. 

Btw My lads who were on the Barbican last night with some of your lads say we’ll swap you the Whites Away (which we started singing early in the season as “…I hate it”when we were shit) for the Whitney number .

He obviously didn't intentionally elbow him

sorted

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13 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Blimey whites, that's reactionary even for you.  

Not a red, you're acting as if he assaulted him.  And if its not unusual, when was his last red? (I genuinely don't know so I'm open to being corrected).

At least he can be replaced by the plethora of goalscoring and creative strikers/no.10's we have.

Fair enough, I may be overstating it but it was just such a stupid and clumsy challenge and no attempt to win the ball. He’d already given away two senseless free kicks in dangerous areas so I was already pissed off with him, as clearly were a few of his teammates. Sorry but I’m not a fan and hope he’s away in the summer.

2 hours ago, Matt Lofthouse said:

Agreed, even in the closing stages of injury time he wasn’t pressing the ball where it was needed. Perhaps he was blowing out of his arse at that stage, but on initial thoughts he’s not the defensive midfield ratter it looks like we might need for a couple of weeks.

He's never a defensive ratter as you put it.

Looks capable with the ball at his feet though.

He'd do well enough as a wide midfielder.

41 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Dempsey, family/personal issue

EE/Simons, collided with each other in training and likely out for a couple more weeks

Any chance Dempsey back on Monday ?

Bad time to lose any players 

15 minutes ago, Ani said:

Any chance Dempsey back on Monday ?

Bad time to lose any players 

Aye,  3 midfielders in one go is not good.  

For anyone who was there -  did Conway step into midfield 2nd half and if so how did he look ?

 

6 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

Aye,  3 midfielders in one go is not good.  

For anyone who was there -  did Conway step into midfield 2nd half and if so how did he look ?

 

Yeah him and Desmond played as wing backs really and both looked much more comfortable 

Dalby really puts in some effort to get in the box for the winner. 4 Plymouth players between him and goal here. 

2 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Yeah him and Desmond played as wing backs really and both looked much more comfortable 

Think we look better playing the back 3, it also gets rid of gale (me not liking him grows every game).

47 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Fair enough, I may be overstating it but it was just such a stupid and clumsy challenge and no attempt to win the ball. He’d already given away two senseless free kicks in dangerous areas so I was already pissed off with him, as clearly were a few of his teammates. Sorry but I’m not a fan and hope he’s away in the summer.

He is best out of the team; offers nothing and we’re better with ten men.

1 minute ago, W.cramp said:

Think we look better playing the back 3, it also gets rid of gale (me not liking him grows every game).

I posted the other day that all of our centre backs are more comfortable in a 3, and both Conway and Tutu look more comfortable as wing backs. Just makes sense really, especially with such limited midfield options just now. 

1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

He obviously didn't intentionally elbow him

What was he obviously trying to do? Get bummed?

1 minute ago, green genie said:

What was he obviously trying to do? Get bummed?

He's just not very good at jumping for the ball

3 hours ago, masi 51 said:

The Mentality of this squad is streets ahead of any team we have had since administration. The Evatt team that won the Papa Johns was a much better team football wise. As regard Mcatee it is rank bad scouting to sign a player who will not jump and head the ball, i thought he could be the answer to our problems alongside Dalby i was wrong. Burstow is levels ahead of him and only going to get better.

I’d give Schumacher some of the credit on the mentality he’s very calm winning, losing or drawing, also after a bad performance he’s very balanced in his after match interview. 

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52 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

Aye,  3 midfielders in one go is not good.  

For anyone who was there -  did Conway step into midfield 2nd half and if so how did he look ?

 

He was a wingback from about 45 min to 75-80ish (and looked so much more comfortable than as a left back).

We brought Christie on for RR on 63 mins to be the 2nd centre mid with Sheehan. He did ok to be fair given the circumstances but at about 75-80 mins we noticed Conway had moved central to make it a midfield 3 with Johnston to left back and back to a back 4 (midfield of Christie, Sheehan, Conway with Burstow just ahead and then Dalby furthest forward).

I’m not sure it’s fair to come to any opinion on Max in midfield from that 20ish spell - he was on his arse and it was backs to the wall just try and do a job in any way you can. I wouldn’t say he looked comfortable, it certainly wasn’t the advert that says he’s a natural centre mid, but like I say it was just needs must.

 

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23 minutes ago, green genie said:

What was he obviously trying to do? Get bummed?

What he usually does - pretend to challenge for the header without actually trying to head it

He was expecting your man to jump and he didn't