Mansfield Match Thread.............
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Absolute 100% must win game of the season. With Wycombe playing Northampton tomorrow, gives us the chance to be either 7 points in front of one of them or 6 points clear of both. (would prefer the latter)
With tough away games against Southend and Oxford coming next, don't want to be sweating on the Wimbledon game.
A win tomorrow and we are safe - Simple as
With tough away games against Southend and Oxford coming next, don't want to be sweating on the Wimbledon game.
A win tomorrow and we are safe - Simple as
It depends who JB thinks can cope best with their incredible hulk, Rhead, up front. A Parkin/Akinfenwa -type player of the kind we often struggle to contain.
This will be a tough test against a very physical team who are top of the form table and still have an outside chance of making the play offs. Agree about Moly, Smudgie, as much as him being needed to help the defence to contain Clucas as his attacking "wand". I'm sure James has it all sussed out!
This will be a tough test against a very physical team who are top of the form table and still have an outside chance of making the play offs. Agree about Moly, Smudgie, as much as him being needed to help the defence to contain Clucas as his attacking "wand". I'm sure James has it all sussed out!
Considering how Mansfield scored their three goals against The Dale last weekend (all headers) I'd have thought having 3 CBs and a set of step-ladders might be handy for tomorrow's game.
Interesting to see if they start Clucas. Since his injury he's been brought on in the second half in the last five games and hasn't - from memory - scored. I'd fancy Tom or Deano if fit to contain him. But we do need the stepladder, looking at the highlights of the Rochdale game
Unbelievable! Again!
Well done to the team, and, with over 2,000 at the game, well done to JB for his efforts yesterday.
Well done to the team, and, with over 2,000 at the game, well done to JB for his efforts yesterday.
cashman;1102874[I said:]......funnily enough i predicted 15 mins prior, that Kal would take the penalty[/I].
May the spirit of Mystic Meg be upon you.
Every point is vital.
Did the extra spectators make any difference, Cashers? Or were they all on a day out from Mansfield?
on the balance of play a fair result but considering this team thrashed Rochdale 3-0 it's a great result, almost safe we are now on 51 points. last season Barnet were relegated on 51 points with a -10 goal average. my guess is Torquay & Bristol Rovers for the drop, I was nowhere near with my predictions at the start of the season
I guess that mab will be telling us that a day out from Mansfield
made the biggest difference.
What a tough battle that was !!
The ref decided (both teams),that he would keep his whistle in his pocket and let go numerous challenges,elbows,fouls etc..and it turned into a real 1970s type game.To be fair,he was consistent,he missed everything
I don't think i have ever seen a bigger set of lads and the lively surface didn't help us one bit.(sprinklers not working !!!)
The lads who stood out for me were the battlers,ie Tom,Kayo,Dean and Hunty,it just wasn't a game for the ball players today,and would take a point all day long
The ref decided (both teams),that he would keep his whistle in his pocket and let go numerous challenges,elbows,fouls etc..and it turned into a real 1970s type game.To be fair,he was consistent,he missed everything
I don't think i have ever seen a bigger set of lads and the lively surface didn't help us one bit.(sprinklers not working !!!)
The lads who stood out for me were the battlers,ie Tom,Kayo,Dean and Hunty,it just wasn't a game for the ball players today,and would take a point all day long
Good summary in my view, thought Joyce, who aint me favourite had a good un also.What a tough battle that was !!
The ref decided (both teams),that he would keep his whistle in his pocket and let go numerous challenges,elbows,fouls etc..and it turned into a real 1970s type game.To be fair,he was consistent,he missed everything
I don't think i have ever seen a bigger set of lads and the lively surface didn't help us one bit.(sprinklers not working !!!)
The lads who stood out for me were the battlers,ie Tom,Kayo,Dean and Hunty,it just wasn't a game for the ball players today,and would take a point all day long
Another point another step closer to safety!
660 odd from Mansfield according to the match radio commentator sat right behind me.
Cracking point in the scheme of things.
Cracking point in the scheme of things.
What a tough battle that was !!
The ref decided (both teams),that he would keep his whistle in his pocket and let go numerous challenges,elbows,fouls etc..and it turned into a real 1970s type game.To be fair,he was consistent,he missed everything
I don't think i have ever seen a bigger set of lads and the lively surface didn't help us one bit.(sprinklers not working !!!)
The lads who stood out for me were the battlers,ie Tom,Kayo,Dean and Hunty,it just wasn't a game for the ball players today,and would take a point all day long
I agree with most of that - but we looked a different team when Piero came on. I felt he was far more of a threat than Moly. I sometimes think we look at Moly through those famous rose-tinted specs and we expect too much of him.
Memo to JB:
We like injury time goals, but we don't mind the boys scoring in normal time
Those of us who have a taxi booked for 4.55 in order to catch vital trains have mixed feelings about these late goals. Great for the team - but we do like to see the ball go into the net!
A difficult pitch on which to try and play a passing style of play due to dodgy sprinklers! Yes, The Stags were a big set of lads. They were all 'big uns' except their full backs who were "normal" size!
I thought that we were the better team in the first half but that we were quite poor in the second half. Once again we conceded centre midfield by letting them come at us. This was classically illustrated in their disallowed goal where Peter Murphy backtracked some twenty plus yards into our own penatly box and then still failed to get a tackle in! Simple pass across and goal!
...luckily disallowed for off side!
Apart from his cracking left foot shot I though Peter was poor throughout the match and I would have liked Pierro to have come on for him sooner. Koyode won lots of headers and although I am not a fan of 'route one' stuff he was doing what was asked of him all the match. I was really biting my nails as we entered 'added on' time but I was really impressed with Cal's coolness and confidence for the penalty. The ref took ages to sort out the players on the edge of the "D" during which one of The Stags subs was trying to bait Cal but he just kept playing 'keepie uppie' and kept his cool!
He despatched the penalty with aplomb! The crowd went bonkers as if we had won!
Praise to the team for keeping it up for the whole 96 minutes once again on a difficult pitch, against a big difficult team.
ON STANLEY ON
I thought that we were the better team in the first half but that we were quite poor in the second half. Once again we conceded centre midfield by letting them come at us. This was classically illustrated in their disallowed goal where Peter Murphy backtracked some twenty plus yards into our own penatly box and then still failed to get a tackle in! Simple pass across and goal!
...luckily disallowed for off side! Apart from his cracking left foot shot I though Peter was poor throughout the match and I would have liked Pierro to have come on for him sooner. Koyode won lots of headers and although I am not a fan of 'route one' stuff he was doing what was asked of him all the match. I was really biting my nails as we entered 'added on' time but I was really impressed with Cal's coolness and confidence for the penalty. The ref took ages to sort out the players on the edge of the "D" during which one of The Stags subs was trying to bait Cal but he just kept playing 'keepie uppie' and kept his cool!He despatched the penalty with aplomb! The crowd went bonkers as if we had won!
Praise to the team for keeping it up for the whole 96 minutes once again on a difficult pitch, against a big difficult team.
ON STANLEY ON