many thanks to the 105 Lifers who gave marks, apologies for not allowing marks for Ch uks and Matty as I miscalculated their time on th pitch by 1 minute - drrrr
Also please keep criticism of people's marks off the marks thread as it distracts me when inputting all these lovely high marks.
If ever there was a game where stats don't mean all that much this was it, and it's not what you have in possession, it's more how you deal with the play when you are out of possession, and that's where we won the game...🤔
If ever there was a game where stats don't mean all that much this was it, and it's not what you have in possession, it's more how you deal with the play when you are out of possession, and that's where we won the game...🤔
Lincoln on Saturday v Mansfield had 28% possession v Mansfield's 72% .. Lincoln won 4-1
Ref was appalling and that average mark is far too generous (IMO).
As for the players, it’s interesting that nobody really stood out for me - and that has been accurately reflected in the averages.
I would reword the above. Everyone did their Job and negated Bolton who despite 65% of possession couldn't unlock the Charlton defence resulting in a high average mark from the hard working forwards with the high press to solid closing down from the midfield and defence.
Possibly the best Performance out of possession I can remember resulting in two tame efforts on our goal.
And the icing on the cake was two excellent goals: The first from the high press and a great strike from Captain Doc and the 2nd the result of having twin strikers on the field and a sublime cross from Chuks to Matty who is a penalty area predator if he gets the service.
In terms of the ref, I was thinking what Jones said after Orient. We look at the game from a prism of bias. We are not best placed to judge the ref's overall performance because of that. However, there may be two or three big decisions in a game and it is best to judge the ref on how they do with those. I didn't see any glaring errors so I think it is wrong to be too critcical of him.
We have to appreciate that refs won't know for sure with a lot of decisions so there will be fouls that weren't and visa versa, throw ins that are given to the wrong side etc... We shouldn't be too critical of these decisions as they can be hard to see correctly and the ref often has to go on what he thinks it most likely was. They do have assistants and a general criticism of some refs is they don't use them, either that or the assistant doesn't feel comfortable calling against the ref. We saw an example, I think, against Orient where the assistant saw a foul the ref didn't. The ref changed his decision and Wellens got booked complaining about it but the final decision was correct.
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I would reword the above.
Everyone did their Job and negated Bolton who despite 65% of possession couldn't unlock the Charlton defence resulting in a high average mark from the hard working forwards with the high press to solid closing down from the midfield and defence.
Possibly the best Performance out of possession I can remember resulting in two tame efforts on our goal.
And the icing on the cake was two excellent goals:
The first from the high press and a great strike from Captain Doc and the 2nd the result of having twin strikers on the field and a sublime cross from Chuks to Matty who is a penalty area predator if he gets the service.
We have to appreciate that refs won't know for sure with a lot of decisions so there will be fouls that weren't and visa versa, throw ins that are given to the wrong side etc... We shouldn't be too critical of these decisions as they can be hard to see correctly and the ref often has to go on what he thinks it most likely was. They do have assistants and a general criticism of some refs is they don't use them, either that or the assistant doesn't feel comfortable calling against the ref. We saw an example, I think, against Orient where the assistant saw a foul the ref didn't. The ref changed his decision and Wellens got booked complaining about it but the final decision was correct.