Week ending 2nd April

[Conker]

Oh no mr kettle has lost the plot now he’s making it up as he goes along. I feel bad for sticking up for him other month now.

Oates through on goal and just wide! I must admit this does feel like a defeat incoming.

 

[chipmunx]

salford 2 creepy 0

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[Conker]

Chances are stacking up for Mansfield now but we are very wasteful

 

[chipmunx]

Rochdale 2 Carlisle on the beach 0

 

[AdamStag]

Oh no mr kettle has lost the plot now he’s making it up as he goes along. I feel bad for sticking up for him other month now.

Oates through on goal and just wide! I must admit this does feel like a defeat incoming.

That did look a penalty

 

[AdamStag]

Chances are stacking up for Mansfield now but we are very wasteful

will we get that winner

 

[BogDaddyO]

Speaking of refs, we've conceded 13 fouls to oldham's 2?

If I didn't want oldham to win I'd be livid.

 

[kieran_vale]

Crawley have a goal back. Suspect it’s too late though.

So which minute of stoppage time are Mansfield going for this time?

 

[chipmunx]

Crawley have a goal back. Suspect it’s too late though.

So which minute of stoppage time are Mansfield going for this time?

93rd - same as Orient

 

[EricSabin]

Kettle is having a good game IMO. A bastion of fairness I would describe him as.

 

[AdamStag]

Crawley have a goal back. Suspect it’s too late though.

So which minute of stoppage time are Mansfield going for this time?

Any would do.

 

[Chief Rocka]

We’ve just missed a one on one in the 92nd minute, sorry lads at the top!

 

[AdamStag]

We’ve had 6 out of the last 7 away (the home game being exeter’s only defeat in 15 or so)

In that run away we’ve had newport, bristol rovers, bradford, tranmere and port vale and hartlepool tonight.

To be level on points with sides in the playoffs from being in the relegation zone and with games in hand is a remarkable achievement.

Disappointing from 2-0 up but on the face of it we’d have taken the point before the game.

let’s look forward to saturday.

 

[Conker]

absolutely no idea how we’ve not won that, even after the first half bottle job we had loads of chances to win it in the second, that’s the sort of difference between auto and play-offs.

Got to add too, we decided to put it on a plate for Hartlepool in stoppage time to win it but luckily he messed it up big time.

 

[kieran_vale]

Well done Orient tonight. Very community spirited of you to take one for the team there. Football applauds you!!

Fourth to eighth all level on 63 points and a couple only two points back. What a league this is.

 

[AnotherStagsFan]

Hartlepool should have won that in the end after some more suicidal defending from us.

Would have taken that before kick off but feels like 2 points thrown away after the way we started.

 

[AdamStag]

let’s go for saturday.

Exeter, northampton and mansfield are the stand outs for 2nd and 3rd as it stands

 

[leedsvaliant]

All teams will drop points over the next 8 or 9 games. Plenty of football to be played.

 

[denzel ecfc]

let’s go for saturday.

Exeter, northampton and mansfield are the stand outs for 2nd and 3rd as it stands

I'm glad that you play Northampton on Saturday then.

 

[AdamStag]

I'm glad that you play Northampton on Saturday then.

cohld well be a complete sell out.

We did start with a full side to get the draw was fair enough

 

[BogDaddyO]

We've done our part for football there, resting everyone and pushing the keeper up for a corner at the death to help oldhams goal difference too.

 

[AdamStag]

We've done our part for football there, resting everyone and pushing the keeper up for a corner at the death to help oldhams goal difference too.

you boys deserve a nighthood if we send stevenage down

 

[valefan16]

Chance for us to break into the auto spots if Mansfield and Vale win at the weekend. Sets it up nicely.

Just need to keep up the levels we’ve been at the last few weeks and we’ve got a decent chance.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Got the time difference wrong so only tuned in around half hour in, 2-0 down. Clocks changed then?

Based on second half it was a fair result but Mansfield should've had a pen and Oates's finishing brought a grin, yeah it's life, go where the cash and ambition is etc but it amused me all the same. Likewise in stoppage time with Joe White showing his pedigree dancing through their defence but oh my word, proper head in the hands finish.

Not bothered Molyneux took a bad one there, more chance him signing a new deal.

 

[AdamStag]

Got the time difference wrong so only tuned in around half hour in, 2-0 down. Clocks changed then?

Based on second half it was a fair result but Mansfield should've had a pen and Oates's finishing brought a grin, yeah it's life, go where the cash and ambition is etc but it amused me all the same. Likewise in stoppage time with Joe White showing his pedigree dancing through their defence but oh my word, proper head in the hands finish.

Not bothered Molyneux took a bad one there, more chance him signing a new deal.

It was absolutely nailed on for a pen, yet another ref decision against us. jeez.

When you look at oates goals, he’s a delight to have, quality player leading the line for us.

Impressed/annoyed at your comeback as you had nothing to play for but was well worth the point.

 

[Optimistic Poolie]

Feel like we got away with that tonight, Mansfield were by far the better team and could’ve been 4 up. As soon as Molyneux went off we offered nothing at all going forward.

Happy to come away with a point, but it could’ve been 3 if white never missed that chance in the last minute, I have no idea how he got it so wrong after doing all the hard work.

 

[Soup Ladle]

It was absolutely nailed on for a pen, yet another ref decision against us. jeez.

When you look at oates goals, he’s a delight to have, quality player leading the line for us.

Impressed/annoyed at your comeback as you had nothing to play for but was well worth the point.

He is a quality player, I told you all in the summer he's more than good enough for L2, higher league sides would struggle with him on his day. He needed the move to the NL against weaker/slower defences to show what he can do.

His finishing tonight mind was prime Rhys Oates in his first spell, the one we all were happy to get rid of.

A point's a point but under Lee, except the Barra home game, I can't pick out a home game where you could say we've really played good football. All quite attritional, cat and mouse stuff. It's brought us points away but the approach to home games leaves me less than convinced.

 

[Optimistic Poolie]

Mansfield shlouldve had a penalty as well it looked stonewall from where I was, have to say the referee was really poor tonight for both sides, wasn’t biased just utter shite.

 

[Chief Rocka]

Personally I wanna see us go back to 352, Sterry and Ferguson are at their most effective in this formation, we barely had the wide men for it before Molyneux got injured tonight, White is a CM every day of the week and Grey despite showing loads of promise and I think he's gonna be a good player for us is still just a kid, gets pushed around too easy.

 

[AdamStag]

Mansfield shlouldve had a penalty as well it looked stonewall from where I was, have to say the referee was really poor tonight for both sides, wasn’t biased just utter shite.

That’s the problem though, it’s an endless catalogue of poor decisions we haven’t got from refs, it’s boring as.

Not that is the fault of hartlepool.

I think what you’ve achieved in your 1st season back up has been a belting effort, and with the loss of your manager halfway through.

With your crowds, theres much to look forward to at victoria park (or whatever it’s called)