Quote:I've never totally understood the logic either, to some extent it shows a lack of imagination from management, fara better to look at the opposition and the squad and pick the best 11 for the job, ideally with a plan B on the bench, particularly going forward. MM has made changes in each game, either by choice or tactics.DevonExile
I have never seen the logic of the adage not to change a winning side.The challenge of winning at FGR is very different from that of winning at Braintree.
We need our strongest side and I would start with Norwood and Tollit replacing Mangan and Dawson. Would also start with Maynard.A draw would be a good result but it is a game that we could sneak
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Confirmation on the FA website, both Vaughan AND Harris suspended for this match. Hard to see how we can put a midfield together with both Steve Jennings and Harris absent that can out battle FGR. Hopefully Micky is on the phone today looking for a midfielder he can get on a last minute loan deal. Maynard and Hughes, although good in the roles they are given, do not fill me with confidence as a central midfield pairing.
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Don't see Harris and Jennings as a big loss.
Quote:KoppetteQuote:Higgosboots
Don't see Harris and Jennings as a big loss.
That might be an unfortunate choice of words HB! No-one else in midfield does what Harris does. I thought with a (recent) full strength side we could get a good draw down there. We seem to be meeting teams that are reacting to a loss to Lincoln at the end of an unbeaten run lately. That reaction coupled with a weakened central midfield I think could result in us being overrun tomorrow. I'm now mentally preparing myself for "a big loss" . 3-0 FGR.
Quote:Harris has been playing well, and does some great work at corners when positioned on the post. Maynard needs to come in to give some fight in midfield and Tollit will scare the living@#$%&out of them.KoppetteQuote:Higgosboots
Don't see Harris and Jennings as a big loss.
That might be an unfortunate choice of words HB! No-one else in midfield does what Harris does. I thought with a (recent) full strength side we could get a good draw down there. We seem to be meeting teams that are reacting to a loss to Lincoln at the end of an unbeaten run lately. That reaction coupled with a weakened central midfield I think could result in us being overrun tomorrow. I'm now mentally preparing myself for "a big loss" . 3-0 FGR.
Quote:There are few players at any level that when you see them get the ball you get out of your seat, he is one of them. I think with some guidance Mekki could fill the gap if we can't retain him until the end of the season. There are few thing more wonderful to watch than a winger in full flight, driving at the defenders and sending in a killer cross....Morrissey and Nevin were the two who I remember mostpez
We have to try and keep Tollitt until the end of the season.
He's pure class at this level and could be crucial to winning promotion.
Quote:vitallincoln
Every picture tells a story.
Mark Cooper's face during his post-match interview with BT was the kind of picture you want to enlarge and place on your mantelpiece. Green about the gills, sour as a sucked lemon, his omnipresent condescending smugness had been well and truly knocked into a red and white striped cocked hat. Incapable of being even a tiny bit magnanimous in defeat, Cooper was trying his utmost not to break down in front of the cameras and cry his eyes out. Instead of congratulating Lincoln on a terrific comeback - which is what Danny Cowley would have done had the boot been on the other foot - he chose to wade into poor Liam Noble as if it was entirely his fault. That little outburst reveals a manager entirely devoid of class. It also reveals a manager under extreme pressure. But if he thinks that his team lost because of one dodgy backpass, he is ignoring what was blatantly obvious to everyone else - that his team has serious problems when attacked and appears perilously close to spineless in the face of a team that wants it more. That does not bode well for Mr Vince's eco-children or for Mr Cooper: perhaps he realises that his notorious five-year deal may actually be dependent on year 2 beginning in League 2.
Now watch Sean Raggett's face when he scored, and the sheer ecstasy of his celebration with the Imps fans behind the goal. Twelve points had become nine points had become six in the space of two glorious minutes, and Lincoln were determined to enjoy every moment of it. Furthermore, compare the confidence oozing from every pore of Raggett and skipper Luke Waterfall when speaking to BT to the face we began this piece with - the sickly-looking Mark Cooper. There could not be a greater visual contrast, but perhaps those faces revealed more than just the story of a match won and lost. How Forest Green react to this may well define their season, and Lincoln's. One thing is for sure: Tranmere Rovers will have looked on with extreme interest.
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If we cant beat the likes of forest green we will never get out of this league
Quote:CybertronQuote:There are few players at any level that when you see them get the ball you get out of your seat, he is one of them. I think with some guidance Mekki could fill the gap if we can't retain him until the end of the season. There are few thing more wonderful to watch than a winger in full flight, driving at the defenders and sending in a killer cross....Morrissey and Nevin were the two who I remember mostpez
We have to try and keep Tollitt until the end of the season.
He's pure class at this level and could be crucial to winning promotion.
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Absolutely brilliant second half. Man for man we won the battle. Jeff Hughes bossed the game, Maynard battled for everything, I can't fault a single player in the second half.
Both teams could have won it, end to end action. The best game I've seen in a very long time.