broomo wrote:I rarely look at other teams forums but the matchday thread on the Stockport forum makes for very interesting reading. 37 pages as well, a proper thread that!!
They think we're basically a big physical team of bullies with no flair.
That"s despite us finishing the game with Reed, Quinn, Lewis, DKD, Williams, Clarke, McLaughlin and Pym all under 6ft tall.
Despite their 10 fouls to our eight in what was a battling match but by no means a dirty game.
It also shows how little attention opposing teams fans pay to style of play as for much of this season our football has been sensational.
To be fair if I based my opinion of them on how much I've watched them, I wouldn't have a clue either.
We certainly got it spot on tactically and it was far from a typical Mansfield display, we pretty much cut out the passing amongst the defence/midfield in our own half totally. I'd say our line up and tactics caught them and their management team by surprise. We did a proper job on them.
Just a brilliant team performance.
As a footnote we are now 11 points better off than this stage last season, we've scored 10 more goals and conceded 11 fewer for a total goal difference improvement of plus 21!!
What a season it's been so far and not too shabby at all for a team of no flair bullies!
In all honesty Broomo, I don't think the majority of football fans (throughout the country) actually have the attention span to see past their own team.
How often do we see on this very forum criticism for our own without much thought for others? Donny Rovers just four days ago were given very little credit for coming to our back yard with a thoughtful and considered game plan, which worked.
The vast majority of Stockport County fans have no idea how we largely play as a side; just as the large majority of us lot (myself included) have done little research on them. What I will say is that in the corresponding fixture at our place, we were sensational in that second half in about as good a 3-2 (beating) as you'll see.
As others have pointed out, this manager and this set of players has a whole booklet of Plan's A, B, C etc, after years of sloppy fan comments of "having no Plan B". And the biggest asset that we have is our consistency levels - probably the best over 24 games that I've seen in 40+ years an attender.