MATCHWATCH : Mansfield Town (a)

[windermereROYAL]

Give away a corner from our throw in, sums it up.

[Snowflake Royal]

I'm glad that's over. Can't imagine we can play that badly under such little pressure again.

[leon]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Wrong - it’s the style of play that invites these types of performances every week. No one is learning a fcuking thing.

[windermereROYAL]

That`s right up there was one of our poorest performances ever. desperately awful, feel sorry for the travelling fans on a Tuesday night.

[WestYorksRoyal]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Wrong - it’s the style of play that invites these types of performances every week. No one is learning a fcuking thing.

I think people don't appreciate how fcuking hard it is to play good football consistently. It's a long hard season, you have to deal with injuries, suspension, fatigue and, cliche alert, a cold windy night in Mansfield on a shit pitch.

We signed a load of crocks again this year - it seems we never learn - so we have an injury list longer than my arm. The same players are going out and being asked to perform 3 days after Luton and we're not at the level yet where we can deliver a similar level of performance consistently.

We have these performances in us. Get used to it and enjoy the wins when they come. Hopefully next season we'll be genuinely good.

[Orion1871]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Come on,WYR. Even Ian has dropped the "I'm so sensible. You're all just being negative" act over that absolute pile of vvank performance.

[Sutekh]

Well that was not unexpected

Cr@p pitch
Cr@p performance
Cr@p night
Start again Saturday

[windermereROYAL]

Amazingly we`re still in the same position we were after Saturday.

[Royalwaster]

To be honest we had plenty of chances in first half to win it but seemed unable to just put the ball in the net and then in the 2nd half we decided to start arsing around in our own half and they scored from a deflection ... I agree it was terrible, but we could easily have won that 1:0.

[Gunny Fishcake]

What a truly atrocious performance, I don’t think their keeper touched the ball in the second half.

To think there was a chance to get in the play offs zone, it defies belief

Respect to the poor fans who have the long drive home after that debacle

[Gunny Fishcake]

What a truly atrocious performance, I don’t think their keeper touched the ball in the second half.

To think there was a chance to get in the play offs zone, it defies belief

Respect to the poor fans who have the long drive home after that debacle

[Snowflake Royal]

I expect it will be a close game, that won't end 0-0, decided by just one goal between the sides, if not a score draw.

We've scored at least one goal 16 games in a row, firing blanks in only three league games this season... two of which we opened with. In other words we've failed to score in just one of our last 33 games!

We've scored at least 2 in 8 of our last 10 games.

By contrast we've kept 7 clean sheets, though we've conceded in all of the last 7 games.

Whoops. Sorry.

[Snowflake Royal]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Come on,WYR. Even Ian has dropped the "I'm so sensible. You're all just being negative" act over that absolute pile of vvank performance.

I'm still not pissing my knickers over it or claiming it means anything beyond today.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Watched it on the Red Button. Sober. We had an internet outage, but unluckily, it resolved itself, so I was condemned to watch the last 6 minutes too.

That really was a very hard watch. Fair play to the Stags - they absolutely deserved it, and it wasn't all us being dreadful - they fully deserved it. To play with that energy and commitment after their huge effort against Arsenal is really commendable. Good luck to them.

Wing hardly put a foot right all night.

Savage the only player to play an intelligent pass all night. Doyle was everywhere. Some amazing saves, but also some of the worst distribution in living memory from Joel.

[Sutekh]

One upside only tonight

Stevenage 1-2 Leyton Orient

[yuomi]

Clear what was coming when we missed the third sitter within the first 15 minutes. Regressed hard after that and Mansfield grew, without much effort, into a painful-to-watch game. Completely lost the run of ourselves in the second half as Mansfield pressed with the wind and we seemed to just shut down.

- if it's not on a plate, Long Kelvin doesn't want it
- I hate, like properly loathe, Savage in this position
- Doyle slows down attacks more than Ejaria did, and that's saying something
- Fraser was utterly anonymous (again)
- Even on a night like this, Ward is still a bright light in this team

[stealthpapes]

Somewhere between “that was dire” and RoyalWasters post. Three or four early chances, and it took a deflection to decide it. But that doesn’t hide a pretty miserable second half and a complete failure to change the direction of the game.

Fewer boos at FT than Port Vale.

It took me almost 4 and a half hours to get there from Manchester (via Stoke, Nottingham and a rail replacement bus). Had a nice pint in the Railway Inn.

Lad I was chatting to on the bus has a National Express booked back to civilisation. God speed.

[under the tin]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Oh come on.

A dogshit performance against a struggling side, by a team with play off ?? aspirations.
We were supposed to be the "form side" in the division coming into this match.

I'm listening in, in Fareham.
Before the game, Tim, Mick and Ady were taking a little dig at those fans who have criticised the playing style, and went on to say that
A) "It's all about results at this stage of the season".
And infer that
B) "Get Championship football, and suddenly, its all going to be different".

Well, for me, the playing staff on the pitch didn't heed point A
Tim, Mick and Ady can't envisage (B) what a newly relegated Spurs/West Ham/Forest + Soton/ Bristol City/Millwall etc. would do to this playing squad, were we to get promoted.

It's a season, (or maybe two) too early for us.
We all live in hope: but let's get real.
URZ

[stealthpapes]

- if it's not on a plate, Long Kelvin doesn't want it
- I hate, like properly loathe, Savage in this position
- Doyle slows down attacks more than Ejaria did, and that's saying something
- Fraser was utterly anonymous (again)
- Even on a night like this, Ward is still a bright light in this team

Yeah they’re not far from my player thoughts. That first good chance? Just hit it. Power, on target, make them make a save.

I don’t think Doyle adds much. There was one corner where Lane spent far too long fixated on the wrong ball. I’m not sure about him either.

R. Williams was solid.

Will Keane anonymous. Tough gig for him and Patton.

[MR. CYNICAL]

A lot of overreaction to one bad result.

Wrong - it’s the style of play that invites these types of performances every week. No one is learning a fcuking thing.

I think people don't appreciate how fcuking hard it is to play good football consistently. It's a long hard season, you have to deal with injuries, suspension, fatigue and, cliche alert, a cold windy night in Mansfield on a shit pitch.

We signed a load of crocks again this year - it seems we never learn - so we have an injury list longer than my arm. The same players are going out and being asked to perform 3 days after Luton and we're not at the level yet where we can deliver a similar level of performance consistently.

We have these performances in us. Get used to it and enjoy the wins when they come. Hopefully next season we'll be genuinely good.

We havn't played good football all fcuking season!