Lincoln City V Chester FC MATCH THREAD

McCarthy with his weekly "you never asked these questions when we were unbeaten in 17 matches" line. He knows it's all going tits up for him and he is just living off that. His interviews are becoming a bit of a laugh. He's as defensive as Donald trump.

As soon as he mentions the good start he had I turn it off.

McCarthy out.

That was a waste of 14 minutes. Sometimes I wonder why Turner even bothers because JM says the same things every week, '' my players have worked extremely hard tonight'' ''it's my fault that we never got the result''. I hate to be a critic but he should accept what NT is asking him, instead of going on.

Bloody hell George at wing back? The bloke has no pace or stamina and can't run more than 10 yards without being knackered.

I thought a 1-0 defeat was a victory of a sort, but the negativity is really about the last 4 and a half months and the fact that the manager is not learning a thing from his mistakes and to start a season with 3 strikers is suicidal, when you consider that injuries happen and one of them rather than progress has regressed.

The minimum requirement from any footballer should be work rate and effort so over the top praise on getting this wears abit thin with me , I kind of get why he didn't go all out attack in the second half while it was 11 v 11, had we lost the game 3 or 4 nil it would have looked far worse. But I cannot defend not going for it as soon as they went down to 10 why did we carry on sitting back.

I think there is something in that. When Sharps took us on the good run, we played a much higher tempo game but lately we have brcime very slow and pedestrian - is it down to a lack of fitness with McCarthy spending too much time analysing games instead of getting them fit.

Surely most people's opinions are born out of frustration with an apparent inability to address , to us fans anyway , some basic positional and player choices. Also while it is admirable that the manager stands by his players to the nth degree surely at some point a couple of loan signings should have been brought in , and used , to freshen it up especially with some of the long term injuries the squad have suffered.
Mahon showed in 10 minutes against Tranmere what a loss he's been. Akintunde and Killock would surely have made a difference but at the end of the day for whatever reason they weren't replaced effectively in the short or long term.
We as fans don't know all the ins and outs but from the outside looking in there doesn't seem to be a lot changing to affect the slide , this could be and probably is harsh on the management but stop with the siege mentality , we are as a group all interested in the best for our club , all be it with many differing views and opinions , that's football , do well and you're loved , don't !! And you're vilified.
That's life in football I'm afraid Jon whether you're involved internationally or grassroots , but you don't need me to tell you that.

'Outstanding' first touch from Joyce. I can see why JM rates the lad.

It's disappointing to lose any game, but I think yesterday has to be seen as a step in the right direction after York. Lincoln have won 15 out of 21 home games and are easily the best team in this division I think - they would've won it already if the Cup run hadn't sidetracked them. You could complain that we only had a couple of shots and didn't 'go for it', but you need to keep the game tight when going to the league leaders, and while there's only a goal in it, there's a chance you can sneak an equaliser as we almost did. It didn't exactly sound like Lynch was overworked ether.

Forest Green's another one where we're probably just going down there looking to give a good account of ourselves, although they are a team capable of shooting themselves in the foot. Those last three games against Woking, Sutton and Boreham Wood are the ones where we really need to be picking up some points just to end the season with a bit of a boost. We do have a bit of a habit of winning our last few games of the season, so let's hope we can do it again.

Can I just post some comments from Lincoln fans after that game:

For the first 30 minutes Chester were by far the better team & played City at their own game of high intensity football,but with no real threat on our goal. Not the best from City overall & they looked nervous early on,needed the goal to settle them down. Chester will be ok this season & could be a surprise package next year if they can get some goal threat signings in the close season.

Durrell is the best opposition player I've seen at SB this season .... would love DC to snap him up this summer!

Chester were great last night. Well organised and gave it a damn good go.

Second half Chester gave it a real good go... Nothing to play for, but their players didn't act like that at all. Decent side.

Some sense thank you! People knock McCarthy for being overly supportive but on the other hand, some people on here are the opposite! I've not seen a SINGLE negative comment about us from Lincoln, they were very impressed with the way we set up. People complain we only had 2 or so shots on target; whilst ignoring the fact Lincoln had 2 or 3 themselves! Just goes to show how well we pressed and defended. There's times a loss should bring a lot of praise and last night was one of those games - we can come away happy with the improvement in performance and effort;the fact Lincoln fans tell you our team were fighting for a win we didn't really need (nothing to play for) tells you everything!

Goal threat was our biggest problem. Alabi looked injured and nobody got close enough to him.

We we're well orgnaised and sharp, Durrell did play well but his problem is consistency. 

Thought he was well off the pace on Saturday he was pushed off the ball far too easily not like him at all