Match Thread: Lincoln City v Charlton Athletic
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Red Wimp
Vital Football Legend
Don’t see it personally, but then my definition of a long ball team is Wimbledon in their prime or us under Beck or Keith.
But I’m not sure what you expect when most of the crowd start moaning after two consecutive square passes
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
Hope you didn't miss the game at Bristol a few weeks back!
Impetus
Vital Youth Team
Today's train strike could have caused a few to stay away
StrangelyBrown
Vital Squad Member
It's not an entertainment sport- it's a results sport. Some of the "quality" of football under the Cowley's was dire, shockingly bad. Did we care? No. because we won more than lost.
clanfordimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
We never really came to life until the two periods of extra time at the end of each half.
An incredibly boring game of passing for the sake of it coupled with the fact that we do not have the players to play 5 - 3 - 2 as an attacking force. If we play that formation it's because we don't want to get beat , not that we are going to attack teams down our flanks and get quality balls into the box.
How many times did you see our 'wingbacks', Eyoma and Roughan bombing down the flanks, taking people on and getting quality balls into the box? Answer. You didn't because they are not wingbacks, they not capable of doing that, its not their game.
And even if we got into a crossing position we just didn't cross the ball. No prizes for guessing why really with the monsters they had at the back.
We had absolutely nothing to offer as an attacking force. Honestly the two centre backs for them were not put under one ounce of pressure the whole game and the only player we had who looked like they could of was Diamond but as much as he was trying things weren't really running for him today.
If Kennedy wants to play 5 at the back then he has to address the right and left back positions because Eyoma and Roughan are definitely part of the problem not part of the answer in that formation.
Up front as well we are incredibly lightweight. We created one decent chance in the whole 90 odd minutes and their keeper did make a good save from it.
That's not really good enough and it is worrying me the lack of options we have up front going forward.
An incredibly boring game of passing for the sake of it coupled with the fact that we do not have the players to play 5 - 3 - 2 as an attacking force. If we play that formation it's because we don't want to get beat , not that we are going to attack teams down our flanks and get quality balls into the box.
How many times did you see our 'wingbacks', Eyoma and Roughan bombing down the flanks, taking people on and getting quality balls into the box? Answer. You didn't because they are not wingbacks, they not capable of doing that, its not their game.
And even if we got into a crossing position we just didn't cross the ball. No prizes for guessing why really with the monsters they had at the back.
We had absolutely nothing to offer as an attacking force. Honestly the two centre backs for them were not put under one ounce of pressure the whole game and the only player we had who looked like they could of was Diamond but as much as he was trying things weren't really running for him today.
If Kennedy wants to play 5 at the back then he has to address the right and left back positions because Eyoma and Roughan are definitely part of the problem not part of the answer in that formation.
Up front as well we are incredibly lightweight. We created one decent chance in the whole 90 odd minutes and their keeper did make a good save from it.
That's not really good enough and it is worrying me the lack of options we have up front going forward.
Asylum attendant
Vital Youth Team
As it happens, I did miss the Bristol game due to work commitments, my tough luck. I did see the Derby game though so I know that we can entertain, thrill and leave supporters wanting more. Roll on to Ipswich with hope in my heart, along with several hundred others.
Ruskingtony
Vital Squad Member
I understand what you are saying. But when it starts being 6 or 7 backwards and sideways passes followed by an hopeful punt up pitch. And then this sequence is repeated again and again and again. Fans have a right to moan I personally felt it was putrid today and felt that I have lost a couple of hours of my life today. However I will be there at the next home match and all those following I hope. But those fans who are not season ticket holders or die hards will be thinking twice about how they spend their shrinking finances, and that is a worry for the club.
I said it a few weeks ago, but it just doesn’t feel like we have any identity yet. Hopefully that will come, but apart from Derby and the first half against Fleetwood the home form has been performance wise pretty poor affairs.
Still fingers crossed for the bums off seat stuff…
Still fingers crossed for the bums off seat stuff…
clanfordimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
You can't be a piss poor football team and win matches.
We won matches under the Cowleys because we had a well constructed, balanced, organised team. It was all round pegs in round holes.
We had good players all of who were the right age with good loan signings who all knew what was expected of them and I don't know one person who would consider some of the football played under the Cowleys as dire and shockingly bad.
We won two leagues and a EFL cup final under them and got to the quater final of the FA Cup....we couldn't of playing that bad a brand of football.
It felt strange at times today. Atmosphere was flat, game was boring and we were awful for most of the time.
On the other hand we were defending ok, kept a clean sheet and we are still unbeaten at home.
We looked like it was us away from home today and playing for a draw. We didn't have any plan going forward, struggled to even exchange few passes. Plenty of bad touches and bad decisions too.
What we did ok was defensive bit which was helped I think by playing three centre backs. Thanks to that we were able to cope with their big forwards. Downside is obviously lack of the wing backs which was evident.
Bag of mixed feelings really. We were pretty far from being good, so were they and the game was rubbish but I do respect this point.
On the other hand we were defending ok, kept a clean sheet and we are still unbeaten at home.
We looked like it was us away from home today and playing for a draw. We didn't have any plan going forward, struggled to even exchange few passes. Plenty of bad touches and bad decisions too.
What we did ok was defensive bit which was helped I think by playing three centre backs. Thanks to that we were able to cope with their big forwards. Downside is obviously lack of the wing backs which was evident.
Bag of mixed feelings really. We were pretty far from being good, so were they and the game was rubbish but I do respect this point.
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Ainsworth7
Vital Reserves Team
Maybe the lovely Admin of this website could post a flavour of the opinion after games against the likes of Stevenage and Crawley at home. I reckons it’s odds on it’ll be almost identical to the posts in this thread. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference, but fans across the land from Man City to Brechin City will probably moan about a nil all home draw.
Mattytindraws
Vital Reserves Team
For the level, probably the lowest quality game I can remember watching. No quality on display from either side. We were shit, they were shit, the crowd was shit, the first ref was shit. We’ll be really lucky if there are 4 worse sides than us on that display. Charlton may be one, but given they were the away side, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Think it was one shot during the 90 minutes against a team that hadn’t won in the previous 7. Absolute wank.
StrangelyBrown
Vital Squad Member
Who said anything about being "bad"- the quality of the football was dire at times, the results were good and the players were good. Even our historic Wembley win was something, as a game, I can only remember for Whitehouses goal and Rhead's forearm smash. Other than that, it was a poor game BUT we won. And that was all that mattered. Nothing to do with being a bad team- however the quality, or absence of quality performances, didn't matter if we kept winning.
I remember freezing my nuts off in the L2 winning season at Stevenage (december time)- diabolical game, we won with an Akinde penalty. Cowley gave the away fans MOTM, the quality on display that game was that poor BUT we won 1-0....and that is all that matters.
Winning makes the brain forget. I saw us play better last season (Owls at home, Cambridge and Charlton away) than I ever saw us play under the Cowleys. Only results matter- entertainment doesn't.
sedgleyimp
Vital Champions League
Back home. Will catch up but...
We've all been to 0-0 draws which were end to end games which have been cracking entertainment.
That wasn't today. A game which if it was a mid-table match on the last Saturday of April we wouldn't have been surprised as to how it went.
Some positives though. The defence certainly looks more solid with what essentially was a back 5 today, but that was possibly helped by Charlton's final balls being shocking today. Also we would have lost that game 1-0 in the 95th minute last season so little bits of things to take away.
Creativity though was very much lacking on both sides and that really led to a no event.
Still to keep with the positives unbeaten at home still in the league
We've all been to 0-0 draws which were end to end games which have been cracking entertainment.
That wasn't today. A game which if it was a mid-table match on the last Saturday of April we wouldn't have been surprised as to how it went.
Some positives though. The defence certainly looks more solid with what essentially was a back 5 today, but that was possibly helped by Charlton's final balls being shocking today. Also we would have lost that game 1-0 in the 95th minute last season so little bits of things to take away.
Creativity though was very much lacking on both sides and that really led to a no event.
Still to keep with the positives unbeaten at home still in the league
