Tuesday 22nd Feb

[YEO YEO YEO]

I think we’ve always kicked off at 8 at home midweek. Think it was some council regulation originally. Not 100% sure though.

Santos is a massive miss for us though. I’m suddenly a lot less confident

I honestly could not call how we will do. We've had to change over defence again after Walsh' red card last week. Rest of the line up pretty much as you were, a couple of players rotated.

 

[CTFCfan99]

Ipswich are gonna hammer us here

 

[Super_horns]

Hope the fan at Sunderland is ok ?

Very long stoppage .

 

[CTFCfan99]

How on earth are we still level? Working really hard off the ball but when we have it we literally haven't strung two passes together all game.

 

[thewwfc]

1-0 up at home to Wigan at the break.

It should be 1-1 but the Latics pinged one off the crossbar from short range.

Long way to go, but we're playing well.

Mind you, the Wigan routine of "keeper does short pass out to the CBs, they pass it back, then keeper does a long punt upfield anyway" is hilarious.

I mean sure, piss about if you're here to waste time, play for a point, whatever. But Wigan don't seem like they're doing that in terms of the rest of their play...in which case, why persist with such nonsense? Oh well, clearly it's what the manager wants, but...?

 

[stevowanderer]

First 15 mins or so we looked brilliant. Moving the ball really quickly. Literally had Lincoln camped in their own half then one dodgy back pass and they should have scored. We seemed to lose our confidence with that and started playing slower inviting Lincoln into the game. Theyve grown into it and had a few chances. If we score first I think it will settle us down again and we can relax. Could go either way.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

We are so bad it’s laughable I’ve know idea how we aren’t losing

 

[DearneValleyRover]

You shouldn’t allow the opposition to have 24 attempts on goal when you are at home and expect them not to score but that’s what happened tonight we then scored a deflected goal before a very good second. First home win this year and at last we’ve beaten Accrington, Wimbledon on Saturday a massive 6 pointer.

 

[thewwfc]

Fair result in the end, we were poor in the second half and allowed Wigan to come onto us too much - and we paid for it.

 

[CTFCfan99]

What a point that is with 10 players out injured. First half was one way traffic but second half Ipswich ran out of ideas, don't think they had a shot on target and we had a couple of half chances to nick it ourselves.

 

[stevowanderer]

Get in! Was very close for large parts of it but we seemed to step it up a gear once we conceded the equaliser. When we got our second Lincoln didn’t look like getting back into it. We looked ok in spells but not a great performance over 90.

Biggest game of the season so far for us now at the weekend. I’d probably take a point now.

 

[stevowanderer]

If Sunderland lose this to Burton we really are well in this playoff race, especially after Wycombe and Plymouth lost.

 

[masi51]

EIEIEIO

 

[DippyDon]

First half we weren’t anything remotely special yet we went in 1-0 up.

Second half was so much better. We are such a good away side now which is insane considering it wasn’t long ago we went a full year without an away win.

 

[GFC4EVA]

Wimbledon by far the worst side we have played this season and I have no doubt they will be playing league 2 football next season with ourselves.

It was a must win for us tonight, we did everything but score. Unfortunately just can't see us making up the gap now due to a lack of a goal scorer.

 

[GeneralLee]

We got lucky in truth against Crewe who look like the effort off the bar may have dropped over the line and bounced out? We let them into the game as the first half wore on which gave them confidence.

We got the win in the end, it wasn’t exactly convincing but at this stage of the season with playoff rivals dropping points it’s a big win despite the performance. Very happy.

 

[SVH]

Wow I didn’t see that coming tonight considering the amount of players out injured but we were fantastic. Our press and energy for 90 minutes was outstanding and we made Plymouth look very average.

It could have been four or five tonight and Plymouth would have had no complaints. They put a lot of balls into our box from wide positions but we looked in control all night.

Liam Bennett at 19 made his league debut tonight up against Ryan Broom. Bennett is a right back so played out of position and put in a man of the match performance and an assist to boot.

44 points now and we can start to have one eye on league one next season.

 

[K-Win]

Good three points at Shrewsbury. Didn't play particularly well but Shrewsbury went down to 10 men just after we equalised in the first half.

Looked like the Shrews would hold out valiantly for a point until Thompson's long range strike five minutes from the end. Slightly fortunate but we'll take it. Three wins on the bounce now.

Another winnable game Vs Fleetwood on Saturday but then we hit a tough run of fixtures. Our poor record against the better teams in this league doesn't give me confidence but we're still in the running at the moment.

 

[wessy]

A big night tonight results went well, thought Lincoln played some nice football and have some skillfull players but lacked that final ball, we won by 2 goals without playing well against a decent side so that's a very positive sign, just 5 points adrift now i think most will agree we are now in the mix.

 

[ShrimpsMeltdown]

Not sure how we haven't scored tonight, Vickers was superb for Rotherham. I thought we played well all things considered, we just fell asleep and conceded 2 poor goals in the first half. Ladapo's first was a brilliant finish though.

Rotherham are easily the best side we've played this season, they have real quality at this level. Rathbone is bloody good aswell, we couldn't get near him at times.

 

[Marked Ox]

Not at all bothered if you do, I’m on the MK/Oxford/Rotherham treble at 6/1.

Winner.

 

[Laker]

Was a great performance tonight, one of those games where everyone plays well. Brophy has come on so much as the season has gone on, Smith and May ran tirelessly all night and even O’Neil had a good game.

The centre back pairing reach deserve a hell of a lot of credit for how they’re playing at the moment. Okedina is probably 3rd choice if everyone is fit (but possibly slipped to 4th with Iredale’s form prior to his injury) yet he’s formed a great partnership with loanee Sherring who has only come in because we are so ludicrously short there. They stood so firm tonight and barely gave Plymouth a shot.

And as for Liam Bennett, what a performance. Out of position for his debut, played a superb ball through for the opener and did a stella job holding Plymouth’s right wing at bay. All in all very impressive.

What a lovely and heart warming evening. Reading sending the scum to the brink is just the icing on the cake.

 

[Millerbri]

Not sure how we haven't scored tonight, Vickers was superb for Rotherham. I thought we played well all things considered, we just fell asleep and conceded 2 poor goals in the first half. Ladapo's first was a brilliant finish though.

Rotherham are easily the best side we've played this season, they have real quality at this level. Rathbone is bloody good aswell, we couldn't get near him at times.

Although Ladapo got MOM, it was definitely Vickers who deserved it for 4 really good saves.
I've no idea how you are so low in the table, both games this season have been incredibly difficult games to win.

Good luck for the rest of the season you've been robbed of at least a point in last night's game.

We did hit the woodwork a couple of times but really struggled to get hold of the game, it was too much like a basketball match for my heart.

 

[Bobbin']

You’ll beat us because we’re simply not very good at all and have totally given up.

We still have no fit striker.

Not at all bothered if you do, I’m on the MK/Oxford/Rotherham treble at 6/1.

 

[SuffolkBlue]

Ipswich are gonna hammer us here

No idea how we didn’t score in that first half. Fair play to you lot though, looked a decent away side in that second half. Very frustrating for us in the end. Time wasting is very frustrating when you’re on the other end of it but we’d all want our side to do it

 

[Si Robin]

As I said on the other site - we could have been timewasting from minute 1 and I wouldn't have cared last night. It was all about getting what we could from a team with a great home record, with a team of backups (and Alfie May).

 

[longmover]

Great performance last night and a game that would have gone away from us earlier in the season, thought Pollack was immense and Evans played well. Quite surprised in the home support getting quite edgy around the 70 minute mark with lots of audible groans and moans as Ipswich couldn't get the break through, this transferred through the the players who pretty much stopped trying to score and spent more time crowding the ref as we saw the game out.

As for the time wasting I genuinely feel there were some very tired legs out there and we just used it to our advantage every team does it and I'm glad we've stepped up our game in this as for too long we've been too nice much to our disadvantage. Ipswich had 97 minutes to score and they couldn't.

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[gary]

Wimbledon by far the worst side we have played this season and I have no doubt they will be playing league 2 football next season with ourselves.

It was a must win for us tonight, we did everything but score. Unfortunately just can't see us making up the gap now due to a lack of a goal scorer.

Yeah from all accounts we were terrible last night.The problem we have is the debt on the stadium.Until that is paid off the playing budget won't increase.We have nothing up front which is our biggest problem.No win in 14.Home to Doncaster on Saturday is a must win.We will have 3 player's back so that might make a difference.I doubt it!!

 

[masi51]

Rishi Boys have made the difference since January. Dempsey and Sadlier coming off the bench to add that extra bit of quality with a goal and assist.....Morley pulling the strings in midfield with two more assists and Charles not giving defenders a second on the ball.
£5M for 8% of our club is the best bit of business our government done this year