MATCHWATCH : Lincoln City (h)

[traff]

Lane is such an odd duck. He seems to be trying to do all the right things, has a good record in the division, and yet his passing accuracy is dreadful, he's got no pace so never gets away from anyone, and is frequently just brushed off the ball.

Criticising Lane! tut tut tut

[genome]

I was there today, is the football always that risk free?

[windermereROYAL]

Quite a rewarding Easter weekend zero shots on target from open play and two 90+6 goals conceded, what`s not to like about supporting this lot?

[South Coast Royal]

Quite a rewarding Easter weekend zero shots on target from open play and two 90+6 goals conceded, what`s not to like about supporting this lot?

For a team supposedly pushing for promotion that was a really lame effort.
Neither O'Connor nor Dorsett made a big enough challenge for their goal ,or rather, the player had almost a free header in the box which is unforgivable.

The commentator for Sky kept saying about Reading needed to be brave but we bowed out with a whimper and the goal from our one star outfield player came with our first shot on target in the 95th minute.

The daft thing is that we still have 3 very winnable games to come and could yet make the play-offs but really is there any point?

[Hound]

We’re such a frustrating watch. We put some nice stuff together, make a bit of space then just pass it back. We’re cowardly. Players not brave enough to get something wrong - and yet inevitably lose it when we do keep going sideways

Just thought today some of our players just aren’t good enough, simple as. Every sub made us worse pretty much. Don’t like singling players out especially but bloody hell Lane was dire. He’s touch is shocking

What is Keane meant to be doing and where is he playing? Zero impact at all

DK had a good 60 but we don’t need to keep him on all the time. Should have come off. Savage and Wing up and down. Kelvin did well with the very small amount of service he had. Doyle started well.

Can’t keep a clean sheet and always looked vulnerable. Nyambe best of the defence

LR needs to get bigger, fitter, quicker players in who can cross the ball. Our crossing is dire and we’re weak and slow with a few exceptions

[Hound]

Oh and ref was shite. Didn’t look a fk for the goal, and maybe those watching on tbe steam can tell me otherwise but their forward should have had a (second) yellow for that challenge on JP at 1-1?

[traff]

I was there today, is the football always that risk free?

Quite progressive for a Richardson team today, believe it or not!

[genome]

Oh and ref was shite. Didn’t look a fk for the goal, and maybe those watching on tbe steam can tell me otherwise but their forward should have had a (second) yellow for that challenge on JP at 1-1?

Didn’t clamp down on their time wasting either, took 3 goes and the entire stadium yelling for him to actually book their no. 16

[Ascotexgunner]

We’re such a frustrating watch. We put some nice stuff together, make a bit of space then just pass it back. We’re cowardly. Players not brave enough to get something wrong - and yet inevitably lose it when we do keep going sideways

Just thought today some of our players just aren’t good enough, simple as. Every sub made us worse pretty much. Don’t like singling players out especially but bloody hell Lane was dire. He’s touch is shocking

What is Keane meant to be doing and where is he playing? Zero impact at all

DK had a good 60 but we don’t need to keep him on all the time. Should have come off. Savage and Wing up and down. Kelvin did well with the very small amount of service he had. Doyle started well.

Can’t keep a clean sheet and always looked vulnerable. Nyambe best of the defence

LR needs to get bigger, fitter, quicker players in who can cross the ball. Our crossing is dire and we’re weak and slow with a few exceptions

Don't really know what to think.....we just look utterly broken as a team....
Agree with all the above, especially the last line. Watching players like House dancing past our players makes me wonder "how can we not find players like that?"

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Positives -

We conceded in added time because we were going for the winner, rather than trying to prevent an equaliser.

There was no shortage of effort throughout the game. Some of the passing looked competent, even progressive.

Wing’s goal was thing of beauty.

Richardson’s post match interview suggests he’s well aware of our problem. I trust him to find solutions.

Negaitives -

Despite (seemingly) having the lion's share of possession in the second half we never looked like scoring from open play.

Paddy Lane was dismal. I don’t like to single people out, but really, he looked like a school boy.

I’m afraid we need a new left back - Dorsett has not progressed and is often a liability

Lincoln’s second half “game management” veered towards cheating. I lost any admiration for them. They didn’t look like champions elect.You’d imagine they’ll come straight back down.

I don’t think it was not as boring and tepid as some say, but we will need a massive improvement to make any sort of convincing push for the automatics nexts season.

[windermereROYAL]

Huddersfield and today he takes off Dorsett late and we concede late goals from that side, coincidence?

[leon]

I was there today, is the football always that risk free?

Quite progressive for a Richardson team today, believe it or not!

It was a combination of sterile approach played fairly incompetently with a lack of focus. Too slow and too negative. The team aren’t learning from mistakes.

Keane, Lane, Fraser and Dorsett should be nowhere near this squad. Burns needs to open his eyes when he has the ball.

Savage just not effective in the role. We play shit tedious football.

[MR. CYNICAL]

I was there today, is the football always that risk free?

Where have you been for the last 5 months?

[MR. CYNICAL]

We’re such a frustrating watch. We put some nice stuff together, make a bit of space then just pass it back. We’re cowardly. Players not brave enough to get something wrong - and yet inevitably lose it when we do keep going sideways

Just thought today some of our players just aren’t good enough, simple as. Every sub made us worse pretty much. Don’t like singling players out especially but bloody hell Lane was dire. He’s touch is shocking

What is Keane meant to be doing and where is he playing? Zero impact at all

DK had a good 60 but we don’t need to keep him on all the time. Should have come off. Savage and Wing up and down. Kelvin did well with the very small amount of service he had. Doyle started well.

Can’t keep a clean sheet and always looked vulnerable. Nyambe best of the defence

LR needs to get bigger, fitter, quicker players in who can cross the ball. Our crossing is dire and we’re weak and slow with a few exceptions

Don't really know what to think.....we just look utterly broken as a team....
Agree with all the above, especially the last line. Watching players like House dancing past our players makes me wonder "how can we not find players like that?"

Assume that comment was tongue in cheek seeing he was in our academy.

[Hound]

I was there today, is the football always that risk free?

Quite progressive for a Richardson team today, believe it or not!

It was a combination of sterile approach played fairly incompetently with a lack of focus. Too slow and too negative. The team aren’t learning from mistakes.

Keane, Lane, Fraser and Dorsett should be nowhere near this squad. Burns needs to open his eyes when he has the ball.

Savage just not effective in the role. We play shit tedious football.

At yet at times we play it at pace and combine well - but then it just drifts back to safety first and backwards as a default. Something in the mentality, maybe it’s because we’re so slow at the back we’re shit scared of being countered like that second goal today (not that I had a huge problem with that goal, we had to try to win it)

[WestYorksRoyal]

Lincoln were a proper team, remind me of McDermott's team and perhaps what Richardson wants to emulate. Fitter, stronger and more mobile than us. Very compact and organised, happy to let us have the ball but also capable of breaking to great effect. Their decision making was nearly always right and they had clarity on what they wanted to do when they were breaking. I don't think they necessarily have better players than us on paper, but are very obviously a much much better team. They will have enough to stay up in the Championship; I would predict a solid 14th - 18th finish or so.

[Hound]

Lincoln were a proper team, remind me of McDermott's team and perhaps what Richardson wants to emulate. Fitter, stronger and more mobile than us. Very compact and organised, happy to let us have the ball but also capable of breaking to great effect. Their decision making was nearly always right and they had clarity on what they wanted to do when they were breaking. I don't think they necessarily have better players than us on paper, but are very obviously a much much better team. They will have enough to stay up in the Championship; I would predict a solid 14th - 18th finish or so.

Yes to all of that

[blueroyals]

Wouldn't be surprised to see us finish 9th-11th.

We finished 7th last season despite everything going on.

A resounding failure.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Just posted a massive angry rant about our ineptitude and Wing being the epitome of our utter sh*tness, then accidently deleted it

Long story short, Wing is pcunt, the team was clueless.......but Savage was pretty damned decent playing high up

[morganb]

We decided to sit high up for the 2nd half today

The ol' Sideways and Backwards really is part of our undoing (though we prefer Pass it Back, Pass it Back Reading FC but nobody sings that one any more)

You could easily see Lincoln getting back in shape, putting 11 men behind the ball, before we decided to move the ball forward.

Possession is great but we don't do anything with it, especially with the ball in our half

We really need to get the ball forward faster so the opposition is not set, we need a bit more pace and a lot more intelligence