Originally Posted by
nw6pie
It’s interesting looking at Mansfield, because they’ve got strength in the key positions - centre half, centre midfield, on the wings, which let them play with two pretty lightweight forwards who could stretch our slow back four and also drop back to collect the ball. Bishop was never the quickest, but he didn’t need to be against our lightweights like Milsom and Vaughan.
We were hoofing the ball in the general direction of Stead and hoping for the best. We won more second balls in the first 45 minutes than in most games this season, but again completely disappeared n the second half when they went up a gear and we had no response. Perhaps the biggest worry all season is the repeated gulf in class that seems to exist between us and most other teams (even bloody Cheltenham Town).
And before we start plotting away games at Solihull Moors next season, just remember that they’re currently in a playoff position - even if their last home league game attracted a grand total of 794 spectators.