Mansfield v FGR

[Chris FGR]

Against Barnet late on at 2-2 Collins was still taking ages to take goal kicks, so think it's more a case of him being crap at it rather then deliberate time wasting. Which isn't ideal. Could pick up a lot of bookings if he carries on like that.

 

[Luke Imp]

It's a strange one, sides like Bristol Rovers, Crawley and Fleetwood all did very well (I think one of them didn't gain automatic their first season) but for everyone of them you have sides that struggled.

The season we won it - I still maintain probably the hardest conference there was for some years- due to the sides in it - started well the season after then didn't win for 3 months - we were found out and didn't have a plan B - the issue was the plan A worked in the conference and we didn't need to change it.

As FI said earlier, there is no easy teams here, every team can literally beat each other or give it a damn good go - it's how sides do against those around them which makes the difference.

Average finish for a promoted side from the NL is 13th over the last 10, 11, 12 years or whatever it was.

 

[AdamStag]

I don't think the lad was deliberately time-wasting. His kicking was very poor in the our game v Barnet (and even then he was taking too long to kick the damn thing), so I think he knows it's a weakness and takes heaps of time trying to get it right and given his youth (he's 19 I think) he just didn't have to maturity and game sense not to piss off the ref.

It was due to the rest of the team playing up and time wasting from the off and the ref was presumably just waiting for the next player to do so - which happened to be the keeper.

Either way, it didn't pay off and left a very poor impression on the home fans.