Jimstag wrote:What can you tell from pre season? Overall it feels like we’re in good shape.
We’ve done well against higher opposition but how many league 2 teams will attack like that and leave space? How many will sit in and force us to play differently? How effective will we be versus that style? What will the starting 11 be based on that and will they play together in the same way? Many have said how the second half XL have played differently and impressed in a different way to the first XL.
Therefore plenty of unanswered questions, mainly the first one I asked! what can you really learn from preseason?
cerfjaune wrote:Jimstag wrote:What can you tell from pre season? Overall it feels like we’re in good shape.
We’ve done well against higher opposition but how many league 2 teams will attack like that and leave space? How many will sit in and force us to play differently? How effective will we be versus that style? What will the starting 11 be based on that and will they play together in the same way? Many have said how the second half XL have played differently and impressed in a different way to the first XL.
Therefore plenty of unanswered questions, mainly the first one I asked! what can you really learn from preseason?
If we field 40 players our midfield should be pretty impregnable.
Captain Cunno wrote:Please show me who said Heslop is the midfielder we've missed and I will show you a clinically insane person
Rob wrote:cerfjaune wrote:Jimstag wrote:What can you tell from pre season? Overall it feels like we’re in good shape.
We’ve done well against higher opposition but how many league 2 teams will attack like that and leave space? How many will sit in and force us to play differently? How effective will we be versus that style? What will the starting 11 be based on that and will they play together in the same way? Many have said how the second half XL have played differently and impressed in a different way to the first XL.
Therefore plenty of unanswered questions, mainly the first one I asked! what can you really learn from preseason?
If we field 40 players our midfield should be pretty impregnable.
Not as impregnable if they are all fatties though.
Anyway, I think you can tell a lot from pre-season and I do think it is a good guide - when we won promotion in 01/02 we had a terrific pre-season, soundly beating some top sides. I am quietly optimistic of a good season and of being entertained.
Spiritater wrote:Rob wrote:cerfjaune wrote:Jimstag wrote:What can you tell from pre season? Overall it feels like we’re in good shape.
We’ve done well against higher opposition but how many league 2 teams will attack like that and leave space? How many will sit in and force us to play differently? How effective will we be versus that style? What will the starting 11 be based on that and will they play together in the same way? Many have said how the second half XL have played differently and impressed in a different way to the first XL.
Therefore plenty of unanswered questions, mainly the first one I asked! what can you really learn from preseason?
If we field 40 players our midfield should be pretty impregnable.
Not as impregnable if they are all fatties though.
Anyway, I think you can tell a lot from pre-season and I do think it is a good guide - when we won promotion in 01/02 we had a terrific pre-season, soundly beating some top sides. I am quietly optimistic of a good season and of being entertained.
We beat Sunderland 3-1 and lost at home to Middlesbro. Hardly earth shattering
stagmanrob wrote:Captain Cunno wrote:Please show me who said Heslop is the midfielder we've missed and I will show you a clinically insane person
The campest man to have ever pulled on a Stags shirt
Richard Cranium wrote:stagmanrob wrote:Captain Cunno wrote:Please show me who said Heslop is the midfielder we've missed and I will show you a clinically insane person
The campest man to have ever pulled on a Stags shirt
Thats Mellis
Conker wrote:No one can forget how abysmal he and that talented squad was after Evans left, but he’s got to be given a chance.
I really hope we start at least above average or it’s going to turn quickly for him, I’m not his biggest fan but I will not turn ridiculously early like a lot of fickle fans.
Everyone just gotta remember we all are in the same boat as MTFC supporters.
DoomMerchant wrote:Pssst, shout it - ONE THOUSAND POINTS, ONE THOUSAND GOALS, CHAMPIONS BY EARLY SEPTEMBER!
MutinyOnTheCounty wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Pssst, shout it - ONE THOUSAND POINTS, ONE THOUSAND GOALS, CHAMPIONS BY EARLY SEPTEMBER!
Fixed it for ya, Doomsta!
Mercifully it seems like fan expectations are much more rooted this year. I have a feeling we might start off almost undetected and gradually edge to promotion as the season wears on, but for sure we won't have the pomp / fanfare / sloblock associated associated with the Evansgelical one
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