Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
You still here?

As I said...’largely irrelevant’.
Let him have his fun rA. Apart from the annual fight against relegation their season will be all but over in 10 weeks time. He posted the situation at 81 minutes. The fact that only Max Lowe was on the park when he took this snapshot won't matter. It's banter. Not very good banter at that but he deserves his little ray of sunshine, his straw to be clutched at as they have nothing else to cheer their boring days but a hiccough by our reserves.

The fact that the majority of that 2nd half team will be bench sitters at best and probably half of them out of the door by the closing of the window doesn't decrease their amusement. The 2 halves were chalk and cheese.

I thought Mansfield were far better organised than Notts had been. Still 2nd best for the first hour. Then they brought on a complete new team that had the right tactics for our reserves. They harassed and harried players into mistakes and took their chances.

These games are about fitness and, for a new manager, about who fits your preferred style of play. That 2nd half "performance" will have, or should have at the very least, told Lamps who is up for his first XI and the first couple of places on the bench. The rest are in for a long, hard season of benchwarming and standsitting unless they are lucky enough to get football elsewhere.

The only disappointing thing was the result. The clarity the 2 halves will have given Lampard is huge.