Danny Cowley (12 Viewers)

[Mucca Mad Boys]

McNulty has been doing that ALL season. Don't disagree with the point though!

Not to mention his persistent diving. He and JCH will go down under the slightest amount of contact.

 

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[steve82]

A lot of people, influenced that great Barcelona team managed by Pep, have become purists. I honestly do not care how we play if the result is a positive one. Look at Southampton, they sacked Puel for his footballing philosophies, one glance at where Leicester are compared to Southampton tells you all you need to know. Never sack a manager over a footballing 'ideology' if results are good.

Football manager's need to be utilitarian, there's no point playing tiki-tac football when you have two 6"4 strikers with two left feet. Always build your style with what you've got.

I think the Cowley's should stay at Lincoln until they've taken them as far as they possibly can, at this point, I think L1 is about Lincoln's limit.

I’m sure I heard the Lincoln chairman say he’s willing to invest a million if they reach L1.

Every reason to stay but I sure they will get good offers soon


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[Irish Sky Blue]

A lot of people, influenced that great Barcelona team managed by Pep, have become purists. I honestly do not care how we play if the result is a positive one. Look at Southampton, they sacked Puel for his footballing philosophies, one glance at where Leicester are compared to Southampton tells you all you need to know. Never sack a manager over a footballing 'ideology' if results are good.

Football manager's need to be utilitarian, there's no point playing tiki-tac football when you have two 6"4 strikers with two left feet. Always build your style with what you've got.

I think the Cowley's should stay at Lincoln until they've taken them as far as they possibly can, at this point, I think L1 is about Lincoln's limit.

I agree with most of what you say but not on this. I want to see us win but I want to see us win playing good football. Anyone growing up watching the Fergie, Wallace and Hutch team of the late seventies will know how exhilarating that football was. That is the style I would like to see us at least aspire to play. I also hate the timewasting and cheating that went on last night and would feel the same if we were doing it. It is ant-football and needs to be stamped out.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

I couldn't. I'd give up if I had to watch us hoof and cheat our way to 3 points every week.

Really? So you’d rather we play nice football and lose rather than win the league ‘hoofing’ and ‘cheating’?

Lincoln’s hoofing and cheating has provided them a lot of success while our nice football hasn’t

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

Not to mention his persistent diving. He and JCH will go down under the slightest amount of contact.

I agree about JCH. Needs to stay on his feet and stop falling over. I think McNulty takes a lot of stick and I don’t see him going over unless he has forced to.

 

[CCFC54321]

I’ve witnessed those two brothers every time they have been to the Ricoh in the corporate areas. Sniffing around the areas trying to catch the attention of anyone representing CCFC in a club suit etc. Shifty pair walking around as if there looking to catch the eye of Fisher to kick off a conversation. I thought about it before these two think there bigger and better than the club there at looking for a bigger club. Called putting them self’s out there.

I was embarrassed with there antics last night. I’d rather win/lose with some dignity than push the laws of the game.

 

[MusicDating]

I’d rather win/lose with some dignity than push the laws of the game.

I can guarantee 90%+ of fans would disagree and this pov only appears when we've lost.

 

[CCFC54321]

I can guarantee 90%+ of fans would disagree and this pov only appears when we've lost.

I totally disagree with your comment. Everyone I spoke to at work said straight away bunch of cheats and I’d never pay to watch that behaviour.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Surely laws are there to be pushed and be taken advantage of as much as possible without actually breaking them?

How many times does a player steal an extra 2 yards for a throw in or go down with a head injury to stop an attack?

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

I totally disagree with your comment. Everyone I spoke to at work said straight away bunch of cheats and I’d never pay to watch that behaviour.

Do you think we deserved to win the game last night?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Ha ha yes, I’ve praised them a lot this week. Several promotions to there cv, with cup success too climbing up from non league.

Young English managers breaking into the pro game still having success in a cut throat business where every supporter can do your job and better and bringing success to every club they’ve managed and reigniting a fan base at Lincoln.

Just the thing a club like us would love.

Do agree I’d like to beat them in the final tho deploying some of the tricks used against us from that of Lincoln, Accrington, Notts County....


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If the trick is lump it at a shit defence and hope they cock up then it's a masterstroke. Even when we played Grimsby at home there was McSheffrey going on about how Robins always sets up the same way and you know what to expect. So much success at this level comes from exploiting mistakes rather than outplaying the other side. Giving shite opposition confidence boosts is a City specialty and no doubt we have given out a lot of presents this season.

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Sorry football purists but Crowley is the manager we can only dream about, his successes so far are outstanding and it is churlish to suggest otherwise.
He has created something that wasn't there previously and that is an identity for Lincoln City, just as Jimmy Hill did for us and he will be much sought after.
Now let's see if we can wipe that smug smile of his face in the play off final.

 

[rupert_bear]

Is a thread about the Crowley brothers on here on how well they are doing and how well they set up their team the other night masking how poor Mark Robins did in comparison ?

 

[pastythegreat]

Indeed. Nothing to do with homework, they played to the players at their disposal. We failed to defend it properly. Making out it was some sort of master class belies what actually happened. We should have scored twice second half so we weren't exactly bossed.

When it came to actually football on the deck They looked like rabbits in headlights. EVERY time Grimmer or Bayliss or Kelly ran at them they couldn't handle it. Just an old fashioned, body on the line, throw yourself in the way block. In terms of footballing ability, they have zero, in terms of grinding out wins using hoofball and bully boy tactics, they're the team to beat.

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[Otis]

Every single time we had a free kick or Burge had the ball there would be a Lincoln player stood in front of them to slow it all down. I'd stick that in the 'things wrong with football' thread. It's unsportsmanlike conduct and should be a booking.

Yep. I was shouting to the ref from the stands but I don't think he heard me.

For the freekicks it was right in front of the player, not just a few yards back, it was right over the ball every time. Players clearly should have been booked for that.

Rhead's time wasting was a disgrace and they were clearly rotating the fouls too.

Hated the way they played. That's not the way to play football and I honestly think if City ever deployed tactics like that for a season I would stop going up.

Everything that is wrong with football.

 

[Otis]

I totally disagree with your comment. Everyone I spoke to at work said straight away bunch of cheats and I’d never pay to watch that behaviour.

Same here. Would feel EXACTLY the same if it were the City doing it.

I just hate to see it full stop and it kills all entertainment value.

 

[Otis]

Surely laws are there to be pushed and be taken advantage of as much as possible without actually breaking them?

How many times does a player steal an extra 2 yards for a throw in or go down with a head injury to stop an attack?

I don't like it when the City do it, I truly don't. I see Grimmer constantly stealing yards for throw-ins and hate to see it.

 

[Nick]

When it came to actually football on the deck They looked like rabbits in headlights. EVERY time Grimmer or Bayliss or Kelly ran at them they couldn't handle it. Just an old fashioned, body on the line, throw yourself in the way block. In terms of footballing ability, they have zero, in terms of grinding out wins using hoofball and bully boy tactics, they're the team to beat.

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That's where robins should be exploiting that by putting reid on to run at them.

 

[Otis]

That's where robins should be exploiting that by putting reid on to run at them.

We did cut through them easily at times on Tuesday.

 

[shmmeee]

Laws are not there to be broken. The sort of tactics teams like Lincoln employ are cheating pure and simple and should be clamped down on my refs.

So should diving or anything else, even for our players.

And yes I’d rather watch us lose 3-2 playing passing football than see us repeatedly win 1-0 using dirty tactics and shit football.

It’s called the beautiful game for a reason.

 

[Otis]

Laws are not there to be broken. The sort of tactics teams like Lincoln employ are cheating pure and simple and should be clamped down on my refs.

So should diving or anything else, even for our players.

And yes I’d rather watch us lose 3-2 playing passing football than see us repeatedly win 1-0 using dirty tactics and shit football.

It’s called the beautiful game for a reason.

Well said. Totally agree.

 

[Grendel]

Same here. Would feel EXACTLY the same if it were the City doing it.

I just hate to see it full stop and it kills all entertainment value.

Ridiculous

 

[skybluesam66]

From the Lincoln forum. They loved the ref, and accepted that he tried but failed to control their cheating:-

Excellent performance from the man in the middle last night
Same here, he ignored all the play acting (including Rheady's 'head injury' when they scored),
The only blot on his night looked like the Coventry penalty shout before we broke away for the 4th goal. That looked a nailed-on pen on the tv.
Decent ref, has for their pen shout, it's about time we got a decision go our way.
Actually handled Lincoln's 'game management' very well
didn’t fall for any of their antics in the first half or our time wasting in the second.

 

[Otis]

Ridiculous

Why? Totally and utterly disagree with you.

I hate it when our players dive, I hate it when we go to the ref to try and get a player booked and I hate time wasting.

That's how I feel about football in general. I just hate to see cheating and time wasting.

Surely it would be very disengenuous of me to then say it is okay for our players to do it.

Absolutely nothing ridiculous in that comment whatsoever.

 

[pastythegreat]

That's where robins should be exploiting that by putting reid on to run at them.

About mid way through the 1st half I could see a change was needed. I'd of went 3-5-2. Using Davies to sure up the CH position and nulify Rhead, and using Grimmer and Haynes/Reid as wing backs, giving them freedom to run at them and leave the 3 CH to worry about defending.

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[rupert_bear]

What a lot of Bollox Gamesmanship is part and parcel of football always had been from appealing for a throw in you know isn’t yours to a dodgy pen. So Otis we get that very iffy penalty you don’t cheer when it hits the back of the net ?
Are you a vicar ?

 

[covcity4life]

Laws are not there to be broken. The sort of tactics teams like Lincoln employ are cheating pure and simple and should be clamped down on my refs.

So should diving or anything else, even for our players.

And yes I’d rather watch us lose 3-2 playing passing football than see us repeatedly win 1-0 using dirty tactics and shit football.

It’s called the beautiful game for a reason.

we dont do either right now though

 

[Nick]

I'm not going to lie, I would love us to have a bit more about us in terms of gamesmanship.

Maybe not to the extend rhead did it when he kept going down as it annoys me when JCH dives but sometimes the little things.

Another thing is why aren't our ball boys trained properly to help with that?

 

[Ricketts]

From the Lincoln forum. They loved the ref, and accepted that he tried but failed to control their cheating:-

Excellent performance from the man in the middle last night
Same here, he ignored all the play acting (including Rheady's 'head injury' when they scored),
The only blot on his night looked like the Coventry penalty shout before we broke away for the 4th goal. That looked a nailed-on pen on the tv.
Decent ref, has for their pen shout, it's about time we got a decision go our way.
Actually handled Lincoln's 'game management' very well
didn’t fall for any of their antics in the first half or our time wasting in the second.

That just about sums it up. Penalty to us, no goal for them. We would've gone on and won that game comfortably. Pontecelli wouldnt have missed, they would've been panicking and it would've been one way traffic. All because of one glaring cock-up by the ref.

And as this is about the Cowley brothers, clearly they would love the Coventry job. But no, I would not want to play football that way. Maybe they have more about them, and they are playing this way because that is the way you need to at this level with the squad they have? Who knows.

 

[Otis]

What a lot of Bollox Gamesmanship is part and parcel of football always had been from appealing for a throw in you know isn’t yours to a dodgy pen. So Otis we get that very iffy penalty you don’t cheer when it hits the back of the net ?
Are you a vicar ?

Course I cheer. Who said I don't cheer? That's a nonsense, RB.

I feel uncomfortable however if we gain advantage from unfair means. Would obviously much rather we won fair and square, cos we all know if we get a dodgy penalty it is more than likely we will have one against us in return down the line.

Just because gamesmanship is part of the game itself doesn't make it right. That is a feeble excuse.

That's like saying people have always tax dodged.

When England won the World Cup it was a great achievement, but what do most people talk about? About that goal that was given that probably shouldn't have been.

Wouldn't it have been that much sweeter if we had won it without that dubious goal that gave us the 3-2 lead? And you can't just say we won 4-2, because we don't know that without that 3rd goal we would have then gone on to get the 4th.

If I was a French supporter I would have been delighted we beat Ireland a few years back (Thierry Henry), but I wouldn't be happy that our player scored the winning goal with a deliberate handball.

Of course I want to win and cheer every goal and every pen, but that doesn't mean that the decision behind it was correct.

If we had beaten Spurs in 87 by foul means that would be all that anyone would be talking about for decades and decades.

People still talk about Geoff Hurst and Maradonna and Henry etc. etc.

We should all strive for a fairer game and want to root out the divers and deliberate time wasters and the shirtpullers and the spitters etc.

They are cheats. Plain and simple.

I don't want to see any team cheat. The one thing that would be ridiculous here is if came out and said I am against all cheating, but it's okay if our team does it.

 

[SBAndy]

I don't mind a bit of gamesmanship and time wasting but that was a different level to anything I've ever witnessed. Absolutely outrageous and needed a stronger referee to take heed of the situation and ensure it didn't go any further. When a team is timewasting in the last few minutes of a game I get it, don't like it but I get it, but that was going on for the entire second half on Tuesday and it was a piss take.

What irked me the most however is that we stood back and let them take the piss. People should have been on at the ref from the moment it started to shut it down. We didn't show fight or commitment in challenges which meant they could just control the flow of the game and once you throw a few cynical fouls in there, the conditions were there for them to end the game as a contest.

 

[Otis]

The game slowed visibly in that second half, because they were trying everything to stop the flow and the momentum.

I honestly think if we had got that third equaliser we would have won.

 

[Nick]

I don't mind a bit of gamesmanship and time wasting but that was a different level to anything I've ever witnessed. Absolutely outrageous and needed a stronger referee to take heed of the situation and ensure it didn't go any further. When a team is timewasting in the last few minutes of a game I get it, don't like it but I get it, but that was going on for the entire second half on Tuesday and it was a piss take.

What irked me the most however is that we stood back and let them take the piss. People should have been on at the ref from the moment it started to shut it down. We didn't show fight or commitment in challenges which meant they could just control the flow of the game and once you throw a few cynical fouls in there, the conditions were there for them to end the game as a contest.

That's the thing.

Our players should have been straight over to Rhead telling him to get up and kicking off about it. We just stood about doing nothing, shit scared. The first time he did it when he acted like he had a head injury there was a bit of an attempt but not much.

Refs need to get a grip on it as well, any attempt to fake a head injury to stop play should be an instant yellow.

The other thing is when Rhead was in front of Burge, why on earth didn't he just hammer the ball as hard as he can at him (obviously when it's not going to cause a goal) and then go ape shit at him?

That game needed a bit of bottle from us, it needed a couple of minutes of handbags to show we weren't scared.

 

[Mcbean]

Another thing is why aren't our ball boys trained properly to help with that?

This is another of my pet hates - there should be a break in the advertising triangles so that the ball boys can be quicker when we are loosing - they should be allowed to put the ball on the line ready for the lazy *ucker opponent to get on with it - they should all be capable of a goalie throw - if you saw the Champions league game there was only a few seconds lost as soon as the ball went out - ok they have more money but who wouldnt want to be a ball boy - i'd do it and i'd be a billion times quicker if we were loosing - its an area where we are not optimising -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pastythegreat]

That's the thing.

Our players should have been straight over to Rhead telling him to get up and kicking off about it. We just stood about doing nothing, shit scared. The first time he did it when he acted like he had a head injury there was a bit of an attempt but not much.

Refs need to get a grip on it as well, any attempt to fake a head injury to stop play should be an instant yellow.

The other thing is when Rhead was in front of Burge, why on earth didn't he just hammer the ball as hard as he can at him (obviously when it's not going to cause a goal) and then go ape shit at him?

That game needed a bit of bottle from us, it needed a couple of minutes of handbags to show we weren't scared.

If I were Burge, if of followed my kick through and gone through him with my studs

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