Carlisle v the ten men of Mansfield

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I don’t think anyone could have gone down in the completely farcical manner you managed, even Haslam wasn’t as disastrously bad as hardy. It was a season long comedy.

Still, now you’re experiencing the #stain on your clubs history it might be good for your soul - you’ll need it when losing 1-0 Bromley or somewhere

So Mansfield were the exception then? Went down looking well run and professional

Totally agree , our season has to be the epitome of comically bad, all season long. An embarrassment on the pitch and somehow even more embarrassing off it. Comically bad.

But not sure you can describe Haslam's time as comical at all, just a long slow depressing death. You may be too young to properly remember but he basically bent the fans over a wall, dropped his pants and shafted the club season after season after season. They just aren't comparable other than the end result of relegation.

Back to the game, I've stuck a bet on the Stags for a higher scoring away win

 

[hellogregory]

Heading over to Carlisle now. Not expecting anything in terms of result, but I’m expecting some positive signs that players are starting to develop understandings, pressley is learning what his best combinations are etc.

 

[Richard Cranium]

We will win today and our lot can shut up talking about us being the next County. Obsessed or what

 

[AdamStag]

We will win today and our lot can shut up talking about us being the next County. Obsessed or what

JR isn’t a wanker of a chairman for a start!

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

We will win today and our lot can shut up talking about us being the next County. Obsessed or what

It's ok Dickie it's nothing new.

1-2 or 2-3, show me the money

 

[Son of Cod]

No that’s getting redeveloped soon as we get promoted to league one, which will be never.

Seriously though, North stand for away fans is great for this level - decent facilities and good views, much better than what you get in Cleethorpes!

Lol until you sort that eyesore of a stand out, you can't claim Field Mill ain't a shithole. Never taken advantage of the facilities in your away end either. It's a decent enough stand, lacks a bit of character though and definitely wouldn't describe it as great. The Osmond End at Blundell Park might have shite views at the top by all accounts but it must be good when it's packed. It's a compact stand for 1800 and the roof carries the noise. Admittedly we're noisier and more likely to sell your end away out than you are ours so you probably think youre away end is better for atmopshere.

Ebbsfleet, we drew 2-2 (ironic given the current theme of this season) before a home win against histon - we lost our first game at barrow.

Classic first defeat.

 

[AdamStag]

Lol until you sort that eyesore of a stand out, you can't claim Field Mill ain't a shithole. Never taken advantage of the facilities in your away end either. It's a decent enough stand, lacks a bit of character though and definitely wouldn't describe it as great. The Osmond End at Blundell Park might have shite views at the top by all accounts but it must be good when it's packed. It's a compact stand for 1800 and the roof carries the noise. Admittedly we're noisier and more likely to sell your end away out than you are ours so you probably think youre away end is better for atmopshere.

Classic first defeat.

Standard, it’s a right of passage

 

[Conker]

Not sure what to think of that line-up, dropping CJ and Khan is brave and with the latter bizarre.

Cook is out for a month so we are left with two strikers for that period, stupid situation to be in considering our budget just like last season!

 

[Spanishstag]

Here come the men in black la la la

 

[Conker]

Carlisle fans have been going mental for the last 20 after the referee did not immediately stop play after a innocent clash of bodies between the GK and Rose, the referee did stop it way later than expected to be fair. Since that they have been frothing at the mouth, even when the referee gives a clear foul which is equally ridiculous.

To be fair to the Carlisle fans, he does seem a bit off the referee i'm not sure what that drop ball was before Maynard scored in added time?

 

[Richard Cranium]

Year of the stag

 

[Spanishstag]

We seem to have an interloper from the non league section revisiting us again

 

[Carver]

IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE?

We beat a Championship side away 3-0 midweek and next match we are 2-0 down at home against a L2 outfit who their fans on here SAID would lose, we should of hammered them!

What kind of sport is this??

 

[AnotherStagsFan]

IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE?

We beat a Championship side away 3-0 midweek and next match we are 2-0 down at home against a L2 outfit who their fans on here SAID would lose, we should of hammered them!

What kind of sport is this??

Sorry to get your hopes up, I was just being super negative yesterday!

 

[Carver]

Well we are in the bottom six of the league in terms of the clubs budget and we are 18th in the league so that's one place outside the bottom six.

So we are not doing too bad considering where we should be based on our finances.

Something to be positive about.

 

[Stringy]

Just what was needed, really happy with that.

 

[Conker]

Tomlinson and Gordon were superb today, the latter in doing really well bombing down the flank and being a pain while Tomlinson added that quality on the ball the other two midfielders don't quite have. Rose and Maynard were a big threat which to be fair they have been every league game thus far.

General play was Carlisle having much more posession but really doing nothing with it, our goalkeeper who must be low on confident was never really tested at all. In the second half we looked much more threatening although we did put the foot off the gas in the last 15 which was needless but didn't matter in the end as it was pretty comfortable, Carlisle just did not do enough and that's why we deserved to win. It's still pretty clear to me that we require a lot of work in our set-up still, but it's a good first win and now it's a decent start all considered really. Two pretty winnable home games coming up hopefully we can continue to improve.

 

[shoddycollins]

Well that was utter garbage. Did we even manage a shot on goal in the entire game? Cant remember seeing one but maybe there was one of those things where the ball richocheted off someone, Logan gathered it and technically it counted as a shot.

 

[Craig]

OH DANNY ROSE!!

 

[hellogregory]

We played shite, but credit to Mansfield they came to make the game stop start, scrappy and ugly, their midfielders got on top of our physically weak little footballers, won the battle and took their 2 first half chances really well. 2 great finishes to b fair. It’s exactly what this team will always struggle against so threyd obviously done their homework.

Second half was a non event, Mansfield sat back knowing full well we don’t have the quality to score a goal against a deep well organised defensive unit. Must have been a terrible game for a neutral.

I’m not too worried by this. Whether we stay up or not won’t be decided in games like this. It will be the games against the teams that will be in around the relegation scrap. Mansfield and Swindon certainly won’t.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Well so much for +2.5 goals, BTTS lol.

Just needed a consolation goal from the home side for a big win. Never mind, sounds like that was never on the cards today .

Great end to a bad week for Mansfailed

 

[AdamStag]

Was pleasantly surprised by the result in fairness.

Carlisle put us under pressure as you’d expect in the first half and we held out well, amazing to see white and the chief play together again - wow.

The goal was brilliantly worked but against the flow of the game, Tomlinson I think put the ball in and rose got the sublime finish. Missed the 2nd as went to get a pint at half time haha


Delighted we were able to hold on though and a most welcome win.

 

[Spanishstag]

Year of the stag

Most definetely

 

[hellogregory]

Carlisle fans have been going mental for the last 20 after the referee did not immediately stop play after a innocent clash of bodies between the GK and Rose, the referee did stop it way later than expected to be fair. Since that they have been frothing at the mouth, even when the referee gives a clear foul which is equally ridiculous.

To be fair to the Carlisle fans, he does seem a bit off the referee i'm not sure what that drop ball was before Maynard scored in added time?

That was actually right that drop ball (I think). The ball hit the referee so he stopped it for a drop ball. Both sets of players didn’t have a clue why it was stopped and he was just telling them all to get back when they were asking. It caused unnecessary confusion that could have been avoided had he just explained it to them. I think some of our players thought he’d given a free kick against them.

Our fans (myself included) felt that whenever we built up a decent attacking situationin the first half a Mansfield player went down holding his head making the ref stop the game, ending our attack with a drop ball. It was just frustrating that’s why he was getting absolute pelters from the paddock.

 

[Carver]

That was actually right that drop ball (I think). The ball hit the referee so he stopped it for a drop ball. Both sets of players didn’t have a clue why it was stopped and he was just telling them all to get back when they were asking. It caused unnecessary confusion that could have been avoided had he just explained it to them. I think some of our players thought he’d given a free kick against them.

Our fans (myself included) felt that whenever we built up a decent attacking situationin the first half a Mansfield player went down holding his head making the ref stop the game, ending our attack with a drop ball. It was just frustrating that’s why he was getting absolute pelters from the paddock.

Yes Mansfield are fucking cheats for doing that.

But meh we were shit and we're going down.

Don't care either.

 

[Spanishstag]

Yes Mansfield are fucking cheats for doing that.

But meh we were shit and we're going down.

Don't care either.

Were not cheats your not shit we won well today going up

 

[Conker]

It was because it hit the referee, I missed it though.

Just a bit of a thing with Carlisle - I was at the game when Matty Blair got seriously injured at that ground and the home fans were frothing at the mouth still. Probably was a bit of ‘game management’ but nothing out the ordinary for this level, we were just better at it (the lead helps) but Carlisle is definitely one of those places in this division that the fans come across absolutely ridiculous more than usual, Mansfield did nothing out the ordinary today.

I can only recall a couple of head injury stoppages.

 

[shoddycollins]

It's an overused statement in football but we could still be playing now and we wouldn't have scored. Bringing more strikers onto the pitch towards the end didn't help because we couldn't break down Mansfield's defence. Doesn't matter how many strikers you have or how good they are if you can't beat the first man and create a chance you won't be scoring.

That's credit to Mansfield's defensive quality. First goal was a little against the run of play, and that changed things as being the lead for the first time this season might have been the pressure off they needed. The second goal pretty much killed the game as Mansfield were happy then to just see things out. Had McKirdy not blasted our one and only decent chance over the bar things would likely have been different.

We could complain about how lightweight we are in midfield but I don't think that would really have changed anything, second half there was no real midfield battle to speak of; the game was played almost entirely in Mansfield's half yet their keeper had pretty much nothing to do. Pretty much everyone in our team apart from Adam Collin had a go at beating the Mansfield defence and none of them got anywhere near.

 

[hellogregory]

Maybe only a couple of head injury stoppages but there were at least 2 more attempted head injury stoppages. I remember one in the first half near the dugouts and Pearce in the second half, he leaped up as soon as he realised play hadn’t been stopped.

Yeah I agree. I’ve never been in a stand where referees/officials/managers get abused as much as they do from the brunton park paddock.

 

[shoddycollins]

It was because it hit the referee, I missed it though.

Just a bit of a thing with Carlisle - I was at the game when Matty Blair got seriously injured at that ground and the home fans were frothing at the mouth still. Probably was a bit of ‘game management’ but nothing out the ordinary for this level, we were just better at it (the lead helps) but Carlisle is definitely one of those places in this division that the fans come across absolutely ridiculous more than usual, Mansfield did nothing out the ordinary today.

I can only recall a couple of head injury stoppages.

There only was a couple, but on both occasions the referee almost seemed to wait and see we had an attack building and then stop the game. I wouldn't say it was Mansfield's gameplan but it certainly halted two out of only a handful of occasions we started looking dangerous. The one where Danny Rose went down he didn't even indicate to his head, just rolled about clutching his chest until the ref made his own mind up to stop the game, and we were annoyed because he 'injured' himself in a lunge at our keeper that we thought was a foul.