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[Billy the fish]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

[bobbystagsfan]

The defending is bloody awful. GC will not be happy.

neither will Maynard

And the whole team... why just Maynard?

did you not listen to his interview yesterday ?

Give it a rest man, I can't be arsed listening to this raspberry all year about how Maynard's depressed being at Mansfield and doesn't want to be here

[spanishstag]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

Its a game against a championship team fgs

[bobbystagsfan]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

Only by the numbskulls.

Some will probably be calling for his head tonight to be fair.

[BH_Stag]

One thing clear to me today is Rose and Cook do not work as a pairing up top. The pair of them offer no threat in behind whatsoever.

Pick one of them with Maynard, and if Maynard can’t play then pick Reid, but not the two (Cook and Rose) together.

[bobbystagsfan]

One thing clear to me today is Rose and Cook do not work as a pairing up top. The pair of them offer no threat in behind whatsoever.

Pick one of them with Maynard, and if Maynard can’t play then pick Reid, but not the two together.

There's no pace between them at all, but saying that we don't have much pace at all in the team

[robbingdog]

It looks to me like we won’t be creating much

Yes it’s still very early but the midfield looks like they doNt want to get
a foot on the ball. All looks very rushed

Onwards and upwards

[nick_stags]

It looks to me like we won’t be creating much

Yes it’s still very early but the midfield looks like they doNt want to get
a foot on the ball. All looks very rushed

Onwards and upwards

Couldn't agree more.

Every logical fan will look at today's game, against a very good championship team, and realise that it's a very accurate indication of how our season will go.

If we didn't create much against these, we have no chance.

[pemill]

The Cook chance was very unlucky on another day it would go in off the inside of the post.

The only positive to take from this game is it's another 90 minutes under our belt.
Stech looks very 'ring rusty' to me, unless that's his level of goalkeeping and I don't think Benning knows what position he is playing in, very vulnerable down his side of the pitch.

I suppose we got to bear in mind PNE are a Championship side and played a strong side and we are literally a bunch of strangers. I would have liked to see us get on the scoresheet.

As someone else has said Cook & Rose doesn't work and offers nothing, I would have liked to see Reid on earlier.

We haven't a great track record against PNE nor getting through the first round of this competition.

Lots of work to do, we need to find a pre-season win from somewhere.

[bellwhiff]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

Only from dickheads

[Amber Andy]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

Its a game against a championship team fgs

I didn't expect to win, however I'm disappointed we didn't score ( or looked likely to, the first 15 minutes excepted ).

Thank goodness we have Maynard.

[gazza1988]

We are saving our goals for when the league starts.

[Billy the fish]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

Only from dickheads

And your user name is ?? Unlike most I tend to judge a manager on his ability at getting results and not by the nonsensical drivel they spout in press conferences..

[yorkstag]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

This is a typical comment - v negative individuals.

Facts

We were playing a Championship side

Defending was poor but the goals in the main were down to poor individual decisions

Looked good in parts

Lacked width - Mal didn't look great today bit i've never been a fan of 3-5-2

Cant recall Maris being featured in the commentary.

Maynard , Clarke, Bowery, Gordon not playing and to come back

This is not the end of the world and the most depressing thing about today is the serial whiners on here - see quote box. All will be fine

[Tippy Tappy Football]

The defending was awful. Is Farrend Rawson better than the Chief? James Perch and George Maris did not play well in front of them. It looks like we will need Ollie Clarke to play in that position or we need to sign another midfield player. If Mal Benning just keeps charging forward all the time then we will concede loads of goals. The wing backs need to know when to sit back and keep it tight.

We tried to play at 100 mph but in the 2nd half we just started giving the ball away or hitting the ball far too long which made us very ragged. We need to be able to keep possession better

Positives?
We kept trying to go forward.
Harry Charsley looked sharp in the first half.
Cory O'Keefe whips in a good cross and did ok.
Andy Cook had a couple of chances and could have scored.

GC needs to spend the next two weeks going back to basics and drilling the defence.

[oldweststander]

2 weeks to get a disorganized rabble into a defence. Think we can do it?
No, me neither!

Think GC needs to get off to a flyer or he’s going to be under pressure

This is a typical comment - v negative individuals.

Facts

We were playing a Championship side

Defending was poor but the goals in the main were down to poor individual decisions

Looked good in parts

Lacked width - Mal didn't look great today bit i've never been a fan of 3-5-2

Cant recall Maris being featured in the commentary.

Maynard , Clarke, Bowery, Gordon not playing and to come back

This is not the end of the world and the most depressing thing about today is the serial whiners on here - see quote box. All will be fine

Agree with most of what you say, exception being, we looked good in parts, we didn't look goid anywhere.

[yellowstagsfan]

This was pre season FGS treat it as such

[one f in mansfield]

Our last competitive game beginning of March , Prestons 22 July . 6 new starters and a pre season cut short , probable captain in Clarke and Maynard not available. We were never going to trouble Preston . Really can’t see how anyone can form an opinion on how we are going to perform in the league Based on today’s game .

[Bradders]

I thought that it went no worse than expected. The first choice eleven isn't even decided yet, and it's clearly too early for players who barely know each other to put in a spirited and disciplined performance. Comparisons with
past feats against higher league teams are irrelevant. We're still in pre season mode and the main aim was to get some competitive minutes in. It was ideal for that, as we were never going to win such a match but it did have the pace of a full on League game, so some players will realise that they have to up the effort if they want a place against Tranmere.

[yorkshire stag]

never the less, professional footballers are expected to give 100% every time they play, that’s the core value of this manager, he’s told us that every interview
only question at this stage then is ;
did they ?

[kevin kents tasce]

I thought we were ok for most of the game. Defensively disorganised though and that led to our problems.

I'm not sure if it was a deliberate tactic or not, but a few times one of our centre backs ran into the midfield to press the ball, leaving a big space behind them. Because they were too good in possession they played around us and we looked exposed over and over again.

If it is a deliberate tactic then we need to either sharpen up with it or hope that less technical teams in our division are not good enough to play around it.

[Warsop Stag]

Our last competitive game beginning of March , Prestons 22 July . 6 new starters and a pre season cut short , probable captain in Clarke and Maynard not available. We were never going to trouble Preston . Really can’t see how anyone can form an opinion on how we are going to perform in the league Based on today’s game .

This.

[spanishstag]

never the less, professional footballers are expected to give 100% every time they play, that’s the core value of this manager, he’s told us that every interview
only question at this stage then is ;
did they ?

Is this for real yorkie ,are you saying they are not giving 100% ,go sit with the numptys

[Sneag]

never the less, professional footballers are expected to give 100% every time they play, that’s the core value of this manager, he’s told us that every interview
only question at this stage then is ;
did they ?

Yes they did. Preston were just much much better than us.

[arsene wengers coat]

Couldn't give a monkeys Bout today's result. Only care for the league performance.

I think playing better opposition all pre-season highlights and exploits deficiencies and areas to work on. Losing 4 nil isn't the end of the world. We have to improve, but we knew that before this game - We finished 21st in division 4 last time out.There's a hell of a lot to improve on.