Lincoln City v Blackpool Official Matchday Thread 10.04.21

Ahm fed up now

Kicking Dirt Disappointed Emoticons
 
We showed how excellent we can be, yes. But as others have said, we lost concentration and we certainly didn't mark the wide men well enough. Lessons to learn from that.
Only the first goal was avoidable, the second was a well worked goal. We’re a new team and learning very quickly, if we don’t go u0 this year with a few good additions we will be a major force in L1. Still think we’re probably the best side in the division ( maybe I’m bias or I’ve had too many beers already) and I’m confident we will make the play offs . Just hope it’s not the mackems, don’t want to play them 4 times in a short space of time.
 
Simmered down a bit now. Bloody frustrating but in the grand scheme of things it's not a bad point away from home.

Jerry will be rueing those missed chances and we do still have that knack of switching off in us - but, to be fair, when players are tiring at the end of games in the final 20 mins or so, we're still really missing that depth on the bench as back up with the likes of Madine, Keshi, CJ and Stewart being injured.

With a full side today we'd have closed that out IMO. To be honest, on another day we'd have won 3 or 4-0 with the same side out.

Let's come back with a bang on Tues!
Accy stinking the place out at the moment. Need to take out chances on Tuesday
 
I said on another thread we can’t win every game. A point is still a point closer with another game down. The POs are on.
Today got me excited at 2 up thinking we could sneak automatic. With Hull and Pboro winning its probably out of reach now, but as you say playoffs are 100% on!
 
regardless of what happens this season the future looks very bright for next season, as for once the majority of the squad are all on our books. Only Ballard of the loan players will be a major loss in my opinion.
 
to be honest it was a very good performance for 70 minutes, but we jutst didnt have the luck that sometimes need. a ball dropping a couple of inces to the right, or quite so much spin on it as a player hit it and we could have been 4 or 5 up, i had a feeling before the game that this might have been a bit of a banana skin.
 
Jerry Yates needs to not listen to his publicity. His goals will come when he's determined and concentrating. Today there was too much laxity in his finishing.
Really, is that serious?

Do you honestly think that the praise he’s received had an impact on him today? He was superb in his link play, he had one blocked when going in, and another couldn’t quite get it out of his feet. You can’t seriously expect him to score every chance. If yes, I challenge you to name one other player in world football who has.
 
I get the disappointment, but for me today was the toughest test we’ve had since Ipswich away.

We more than did enough to win that game, but only within 70 minutes and I can’t level too much blame on the players for the last twenty minutes they just looked like they were running on empty. But we had to score that third, I don’t know what it was I never felt comfortable at two nil, I’m still reliving Jerry blocking Simm’s shot virtually on the line. 😭

I can’t blame Critch too much either because we had no options off the bench in reality. Possibly could have gone 5 at the back but he would have got pelters for that anyway.

It’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes, their 2 week break looked like it got them out of jail today, plus Appleton had some good options to play off the bench when he needed them. Oh and before i forget the referee really was a Wayne Kerr.

To get into the playoffs from where we were was a phenomenal effort, it was going to be almost impossible to break into the top two so really now it’s about staying in the playoffs and today goes along way towards that.

Well done today lads a guttsey performance.
 
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Very disappointing after being 2 up and playing well, but a point against a play off rival is a good point. Recover and move onto next game. Onwards and upwards.
 
We cement our position in the playoffs.
Auto is out of reach now.
The sooner its mathematically impossible to fall out the play off spots the sooner some of the team can have a well earned rest.
Felt like a defeat, should have been 4 up by the time Lincoln had the chance for their 1st.
The Sunderland matches dont have as much resting on them now🤷‍♂️
Sorry Wizzer, the Sunderland matches have a lot resting on them. We still need to be the team with momentum going into the play-offs. If we get spanked in those two games they will affect our performance from then on in.
 
The bottom line is, you get games like this. Lincoln's first was a great finish that often would be missed, and we'd missed a host of chances before that. We've had matches where we've hardly created anything but finished our one chance and won the game. C'est la vie. I know if feels deflating when losing a lead but I don't know how anyone can be disappointed right now in the wider scheme of things. Fourth in the league, 14 games unbeaten, and in every game we seem to score a goal that could comfortably win goal of the season in the whole EFL. Things are looking good despite 'only' a point away at sixth place.
 
Really, is that serious?

Do you honestly think that the praise he’s received had an impact on him today? He was superb in his link play, he had one blocked when going in, and another couldn’t quite get it out of his feet. You can’t seriously expect him to score every chance. If yes, I challenge you to name one other player in world football who has.
His link play was fine. It was his footwork in the box that let him down. It's fine margins and they packed their box successfully but for me there were three occasions in that second half when he could have done better.
 
when you look at the table we have lost same number of games as top two, we have just drawn a lot more. Ten losses seems a lot for teams that are prob going to be automatically promoted.
 
I get the disappointment, but for me today was the toughest test we’ve had since Ipswich away.

We more than did enough to win that game, but only for 70 minutes and I can’t level too much blame on the players for the last twenty minutes they just looked like they were running on empty. But we had to score that third, I don’t know what it was I never felt comfortable at two nil, I’m still reliving Jerry blocking Simm’s shot virtually on the line. 😭

I can’t blame Critch too much either because we had no options off the bench in reality. Possibly could have gone 5 at the back but he would have got pelters for that anyway.

It’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes, their 2 week break looked like it got them out of jail today, plus Appleton had some good options to play off the bench when he needed them. Oh and before i forget the referee really was a Wayne Kerr.

To get into the playoffs from where we were was a phenomenal effort, it was going to be almost impossible to break into the top two so really now it’s about staying in the playoffs and today goes along way towards that.

Well done today lads a guttsey performance.
Good post. I would add that Appleton's substitutions worked well. My main rant was once their new boys came on and they were using the wings successfully (well, the left wing), we still kept our full-backs narrow.
 
Today was definitely 2 points dropped. The domination they had should have yielded 3 points, and they failed to kill off Lincoln when they were in the ascendancy. That said, you have to admire Lincoln for their never say die attitude, and tbh if both teams reach the play-offs I wouldn't particularly want to face them. Lincoln look a decent side, but for most of the game we looked nigh on invincible. All the more reason to be disappointed with the outcome, even if we might have settled for a point there before the game.
 
Good post. I would add that Appleton's substitutions worked well. My main rant was once their new boys came on and they were using the wings successfully (well, the left wing), we still kept our full-backs narrow.
Agreed their Subs tipped the balance, there was one point where Turton looked like he was running in treacle against one of them down the left.

Maybe a learning point for Critch, could have possible packed the defence considering that’s all we’ve got on the bench.
 
A terrific point for Lincoln . They could have been subject to a massive battering by us today
They were v lucky
 
I know it's if, buts and maybes but I thought Embleton was not effective enough earlier than he was subbed. I suppose managers earn their corn by the timing of these things.
 
First minute and last minute. Sending off and penalty
Your never going to get a red card in the first minute sorry but no ref is ever going to give it.
The second incident yes more of a chance I agree but again 50/50 could have gone either way and yes it went against us.
But to say the officials cost us today (like some posters say) is a bit over the top for me.
We cost ourselves today for switching off the last 15 minutes and not dealing with Lincolns substitutions.
 
Your never going to get a red card in the first minute sorry but no ref is ever going to give it.
The second incident yes more of a chance I agree but again 50/50 could have gone either way and yes it went against us.
But to say the officials cost us today (like some posters say) is a bit over the top for me.
We cost ourselves today for switching off the last 15 minutes and not dealing with Lincolns substitutions.
Their equaliser came from a breakaway initiated by a foul on Dougall which the ref missed, shortly after Kaikai had gone 10 yards with one of their players on his back, again unpunished.

He was woeful and directly contributed to us not winning.

As for you can't send someone off in the first minute, that's nonsense. Foot up, all studs showing and catching the foot. What part of it wasn't a red? Quite what the linesman said would be interesting.
 
Their equaliser came from a breakaway initiated by a foul on Dougall which the ref missed, shortly after Kaikai had gone 10 yards with one of their players on his back, again unpunished.

He was woeful and directly contributed to us not winning.

As for you can't send someone off in the first minute, that's nonsense. Foot up, all studs showing and catching the foot. What part of it wasn't a red? Quite what the linesman said would be interesting.

The ref directly contributed to us not winning. FACT.
 
As good as we were for 70 mins...its become a bit of a theme this season when the opposition raise their game we dont seem to have a plan B to counter act.It would be heart breaking for us to miss out on promotion because of the points we have dropped from winning positions.
 
We played so well, but needed fresh impetus later on, if we had fresh legs on all pressing in midfield still and not sat back it would have been a victory.

Even as it was it should have been 3 points.

Can't believe we gave it away.

Had we had won like we should have, we'd have 66 points with 2 games in hand on posh (76) and 3 on Hull (79).

All of and buts but if we then won games in hand we could have been only 4 beind posh on same games played and 4 behind Hull on same games played.

Obviously that means winning all the games in hand and hoping they they drop points and we win also. A big ask but not impossible, much less likely now though.

Just imagine if we won the games where we should have also like Wimbledon and we should have beat Fleetwood and many more. We could and should have had an extra 10 points.

The bad trend in the late sitting back and conceeding at times, its a bad habit that we dont want.

But we are playing well, if we're honest not good enough for autos even though we could have got it with a little more goals and seeing games out.

But throughout the season we have improved but the weakness remain in small parts. The fact we haven't beat enough of those sides when we were on top and havent seen out enough games when winning near the end puts us where we deserve to be really. Still room to improve but we are playing very well and should have been more than 2 ahead today and then not let them back in.
 
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Understand the disappointment Mac, however surely some of the quality of our play and the 2 goals were good enough to make it not a crap day.

It's the quality of the play but the failure to absolutely bury them that made it hurt so much. Some of the finishing was lacklustre. Obviously we have no divine right to win games but to walk away with draw after the most dominating 70 mins you'll ever witness left me really disappointed. Listening to Critch after the game you could tell he wasn't happy and for the first time he seemed a little curt in his responses.

You don't have to be happy all the time. It was a body blow of a draw which probably ended the faint chance of automatic promotion. No it's not the end of the world and tomorrow it will be fine but in the aftermath of the game but no it was a shitstorm of a last 20 minutes in a game we should have put to bed rather than showboat with backheels and flicks at 2-0 up.
 
It's the quality of the play but the failure to absolutely bury them that made it hurt so much. Some of the finishing was lacklustre. Obviously we have no divine right to win games but to walk away with draw after the most dominating 70 mins you'll ever witness left me really disappointed. Listening to Critch after the game you could tell he wasn't happy and for the first time he seemed a little curt in his responses.

You don't have to be happy all the time. It was a body blow of a draw which probably ended the faint chance of automatic promotion. No it's not the end of the world and tomorrow it will be fine but in the aftermath of the game but no it was a shitstorm of a last 20 minutes in a game we should have put to bed rather than showboat with backheels and flicks at 2-0 up.
Points well made. It’s a different disappointment this time to some of the earlier draws where we have gone ahead and changes were made to protect the lead. This time we went for it and should have been out of sight but for some poor finishing.

I guess Critch is just as if not more disappointed than we are. We will play much worse and win (I doubt if we can play much better than we did in the first 70 minutes).
 
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