Nick
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It just needed that bit of a spark to get a bit of fight in the players and the fans would have been well behind it.
If I were Burge, if of followed my kick through and gone through him with my studs
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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 -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like ball boys lying on the ball when it's a Chelsea cornerThe thing is they seem like really young lads rather than the older ones. There used to be one who looked about 18 who knew the score, it was almost like he would take the piss out of their players by walking so slow if we were winning.
They have no concept of whether they need to be quick or need to be slow, it's things like this that can help give you an advantage in a game.
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.
Sadly my flatmate likes to watch Rugby League and I've noticed they have an interesting rule, whereby if a team starts rotating the fouls as you put it, the ref calls the captain and tells them that the next one on his team to commit a foul, regardless if they've not fouled/just come on, will be given a yellow card - or sinbinned as they call it.
It's used infrequently but it's sole purpose is to combat the Lincoln tactic we had on Tuesday night of rotating the fouls to keep 11 men on the pitch but to totally disrupt the other team.Not quite sure how much time this team warning period goes on for in Rugby League but it seems to be applied for as long as the referee is pissed off with persistent fouling from a team.
I still prefer Rugby Union and more importantly football - I just thought it was a clever rule.
They deserved their win we were shit in trying to stop Rhead.The going down and slowing the game down and stopping us from playing was hard to watch as it was against us but if we were doing it to win a game of this importance I would back it everytime.
The reason there is so much gamesmanship and timewasting at this level is simply that the referees are not tough enough on it. We are in a rubbish league and one of the consequences is that we get rubbish referees, many of which are timeservers who will never reach the top level. Younger ones are unwilling to blot their copybook or rock the boat.That needs a ref to have the bollocks to implement it though.
The reason there is so much gamesmanship and timewasting at this level is simply that the referees are not tough enough on it. We are in a rubbish league and one of the consequences is that we get rubbish referees, many of which are timeservers who will never reach the top level. Younger ones are unwilling to blot their copybook or rock the boat.
Referees have it entirely within their gift to sort out timewasting. For instance, a goalkeeper who wastes time should be given a yellow card without a previous warning. He wouldn't do it again!
We've had a couple of Premier League referees this season. Mike Jones is poor anyway, but it always seems to me that when a top ref does a 4th division game, he often trots around like he can't be arsed. Unless it's on the telly, of course!I agree. But the other night we had a premiership referee and his performance was as bad as all the other this season.
Maybe so but I’ve witnessed those two crawlers twice with my own eyes at the Ricoh sniffing around. As I’ve said in an earlier post there trying to get the faces about.They have signed contract extensions until 2022
Maybe so but I’ve witnessed those two crawlers twice with my own eyes at the Ricoh sniffing around. As I’ve said in an earlier post there trying to get the faces about.
What are you doing next season? Put in for the job when MR does one in the summer. I aree with what you said by the way.I thought the contrast in management styles was extremely evident on Tuesday. The Crowley's were constantly providing feedback to their players and coaching them through the game. Robins stood there with his arms folded and seemed to me to offer no additional tactical input form the sideline whatsoever.
I hear a lot of criticism of Robins' lack of 'Plan B'. We set up a certain way and within 5 minutes it was clear to me that Lincoln weren't playing the system we might have expected. That should have resulted in a change of emphasis around how we competed for the ball. It was obvious to me that Rhead was going to win everything, particularly as he kept pulling into wider areas to compete against Grimmer and Haynes. A small tactical change could have solved this problem, IMO. Let Rhead win every first ball and don't even compete, pull the full-backs in narrower and play 10 yards deeper competing for the 2nd and 3rd phase instead. Would have plugged the gaps and certainly would have given us a better chance to stop their 2nd and 3rd goals.
Hindsight is wonderful obviously, but Robins' job is to work this stuff out. He said nothing and did nothing from the technical area and that, for me, is a failure of his management style.
They have been on local radio saying they wouldn’t consider Ipswich, they are aware they have only been professional for 2 years. They feel they need further experience. Happy to stay and build on that.Maybe so but I’ve witnessed those two crawlers twice with my own eyes at the Ricoh sniffing around. As I’ve said in an earlier post there trying to get the faces about.
They have been on local radio saying they wouldn’t consider Ipswich, they are aware they have only been professional for 2 years. They feel they need further experience. Happy to stay and build on that.
If Robins left tomorrow I’d put money on them wanting the city job.They have been on local radio saying they wouldn’t consider Ipswich, they are aware they have only been professional for 2 years. They feel they need further experience. Happy to stay and build on that.
If Robins left tomorrow I’d put money on them wanting the city job.
Oh come on! If the CCFC job became available your telling me they wouldn’t be interested?In your dreams. Both brothers moving their families to the wonderful City of Lincoln in the summer.
If Robins left tomorrow I’d put money on them wanting the city job.
Wouldn’t want them here anyway. Christ imagine the gates watching that type of football every week....There's more chance of me becoming your manager than your statement being true.
They have garnered interest from much better and bigger clubs than Coventry, but as they said at today's press conference, it's not all about money. They were offered financially better deals elsewhere but whilst they can add value and learn at a place that allows them to develop themselves and the club, why move? (Anyway we play hoofball whilst only having non league footballers with no skill so why would anyone want the Cowleys?) As Smiley says, moving their families up to a Lincoln in July and kids into local school, so it looks likely they will be here for the foreseeable future anyway. IF they were tempted away before 2022, it's going to cost said club an awful lot of money.
Wouldn’t want them here anyway. Christ imagine the gates watching that type of football every week....
What, you mean managers that win games, get promotion and silverware? Maybe Robins and Coventry should try it some time, it's just gone 2017, not 1987.
To us.Hope they lose in the playoff final to a penalty that was a blatant dive an the other team time waste for 70 minutes with fake injuries.
Wow 2 more class ManagersIndeed.
It’s what the big clubs used to throw at Stoke under Pulis.
And Warnock this season with Cardiff.
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What are you doing next season? Put in for the job when MR does one in the summer. I aree with what you said by the way.
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