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Agreed, but Dale stayed high from my POV and I’m on the right side of the East, so I focussed on what I saw as the better opportunity. Dale also rode his luck trying the same move again and again, Lincoln worked it out after about 35 minutes and he didn’t come up with anything new. Murphy...

@John Lennon - seems like I’m one of the few Oxford supporters who don’t know you, but from everything I’ve read on here it seems we are lucky to have you supporting the same club. I’ve absolutely loved the improvement in the atmosphere for the past couple of games, but please never prioritise...

Lincoln’s number one focus in that game was not leaving Murphy one-on-one. The answer has to be exploiting the spaces that the opposition give us, rather than trying to engineer something for our best player when Lincoln will do anything to stop it. Murphy created gaps and space behind Lincoln...

Murphy and Dale play too wide for the full back to overlap without leaving the pitch. Murphy is also our fastest player, so asking someone to run ahead of him means he has to slow down. The chance you refer to involves Leigh driving forwards inside, rather than overlapping. In the second...

Time on the training ground needed too.

Law 12 is pretty blunt in contradicting this: “If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick.”

Agree that Lincoln don’t need to attack from the off. They need to score one. They’ve probably watched our Barnsley defeat recently.

Think you’ve done Big Sam dirty with that comparison, he was generally accepted to be quite far ahead of his time on data.

Hell of a lot more than I’ve ever done for a game. And I bought my own balloons on Saturday 🤣

I’m sorry, but I can’t allow that. Apologies.

They were singing “3-0 up and you still don’t sing” when they got drowned out by the noise of our fourth too.

Agree with all of this, I’m on the right side of the East and the start of each half were such an improvement from a defensive perspective. In the first - everyone maintaining their shape, RR staying deep as an 8 on the right side to help with their overload, Dale and Stephens in constant...

This really isn’t true. Derby, Barnsley, Exeter, Bristol Rovers etc all comfortably won the battle of possession against us under Manning. We let the opposition have the ball for longer before we started closing them down than just about any other top ten side. We were a counter attacking...

I would hate to rely on goal difference when Blackpool play Reading - we all know how the last day of the season can turn up strange scores.

Mills and Edwards?

Great, will you cover the money they pay?

Pick of the bunch? Did they miss our second? Not enjoyed a goal that much since Vigoroux got an assist.

Must be missing something - you agree we should name an unchanged team because Peterborough named an unchanged team and it cost them dearly?

We can also make a pretty definitive statement about the best left wing at the club without having to include Leigh in the discusssion, which is beautiful symmetry.

I missed all five goals and thought they distracted the players too.