Woeful Linnets fall out of play off places.

[m a hill]

First game back and had to watch this display of poor football we where not at the races today, my biggest Gripe is we had two good wingers on the bench this beggars belief and today was as though he picked a team not to lose it’s the first time ever that I left the ground before the end of the game

[Grissles Oleary]

Be my last game of the season,falling out of love with the team,may go and watch Heacham!

[happymondays]

The calling out of players publicly is poor from Lakeland.There is never any self reflection at all and any poor result never ends up at his door.The players are good enough for this level if they are allowed to play.The system seems to be caution first and not conceding and that's it.Full time status appears to have no advantage and most games have had zero entertainment value for the overpaying fans.

[Hello Kitty.]

The calling out of players publicly is poor from Lakeland.There is never any self reflection at all and any poor result never ends up at his door.

don't you think that's normal for club officials here?I didnt see a few regulars there today.I didn't see Cleve or Mr and Mrs Back or Johnny Allflat and a few other regulars..Do we read anything in to that.Are they keeping their heads down?

[Mallard]

Maybe some of those you mention Kitty are no longer with the Club. 

[macfleetwood1]

One or two seem to think if we had local players its a dead cert we would be back in the UCL. Well I think we could have a good mix of both, local and semi pro, look at the good local talent we have let go on the cheap, players like Joe Taylor, who scored for Huddersfield yesterday, comes to mind.
The biggest disapointment is that we are a full time club, and i for one have yet to see any benefit. As for the manager, well sorry he is nowhere the best in the league, as has been said we seem to set up not to lose, which doesnt work, two good attacking wide players on the bench?  Ive seen enough this season. The club needs a clear out from top to bottom.

[Mallard]

Not so sure about the bottom Mac.  There’s still a few around giving their time for nothing. Who should be appreciated.

[Blue_and_Gold]

One or two seem to think if we had local players its a dead cert we would be back in the UCL. Well I think we could have a good mix of both, local and semi pro, look at the good local talent we have let go on the cheap, players like Joe Taylor, who scored for Huddersfield yesterday, comes to mind.
The biggest disapointment is that we are a full time club, and i for one have yet to see any benefit. As for the manager, well sorry he is nowhere the best in the league, as has been said we seem to set up not to lose, which doesnt work, two good attacking wide players on the bench?  Ive seen enough this season. The club needs a clear out from top to bottom.

Just one point here that I believe to be important.

It's not Lakeland that claims he's the best Manager in the League. I've never actually seen anything where he has ever said that.

[rod]

One or two seem to think if we had local players its a dead cert we would be back in the UCL. Well I think we could have a good mix of both, local and semi pro, look at the good local talent we have let go on the cheap, players like Joe Taylor, who scored for Huddersfield yesterday, comes to mind.
The biggest disapointment is that we are a full time club, and i for one have yet to see any benefit. As for the manager, well sorry he is nowhere the best in the league, as has been said we seem to set up not to lose, which doesnt work, two good attacking wide players on the bench?  Ive seen enough this season. The club needs a clear out from top to bottom.

Just one point here that I believe to be important.

It's not Lakeland that claims he's the best Manager in the League. I've never actually seen anything where he has ever said that.

I think it was 'the best club owner' in the league who made that statement?

[Mallard]

Who also claimed we had the best Ass Manager in the League.  So does that mean yesterday’s result is 100% on the players?  In the owners eyes.

[John H]

I went yesterday for the first time since Warrington. Why would I want to go again anytime soon, it was so dire. Long ball all day long looking for Omotayo, who doesn’t jump, or if he does he fouls. The players and style of football is down to AL. The attendances make it difficult to fund full time football and I can’t see that continuing next season. It’s time for a new manager (Culverhouse back) who wants to play passing football instead of long ball.

[Jono]

I went yesterday for the first time since Warrington. Why would I want to go again anytime soon, it was so dire. Long ball all day long looking for Omotayo, who doesn’t jump, or if he does he fouls. The players and style of football is down to AL. The attendances make it difficult to fund full time football and I can’t see that continuing next season. It’s time for a new manager (Culverhouse back) who wants to play passing football instead of long ball.

Agree with that John. Cully made us play exciting football. Not sure how many would still be in the starting lineup if he should ever decide to come back - few I suspect, but then he made a decent side out of part-timers 

[Dazzarugby65]

I saw a piece on Boston United yesterday, and they have announced that they will indeed be going full time next season, what ever level they are playing at. I feel they are better equipped to succeed

[Quinn Upstone]

As I watched the first half play out, I thought we'd just carried on from the second half of Tuesday night. And it didn't get any better.

There was almost zero to get behind in terms of positive football throughout the match. We were extremely lucky not to have gone three or four down by half time. And it had more to do with them missing, than us defending.

Jones came out of his area twice inexplicably and I still don't understand his motivation at all. The ball was cleared off the line at least three times by others when Jones was in the "wrong" place.

Now I'm certainly not going to lay all of the blame at his feet. The back line should really shield him from most of the attacks. And there were often six of them.

If you want to play the sitting back and defending style of football, THE BACK LINE HAS TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO WARRANT THAT CHOICE !!!!!!!!! GUESS WHAT... IT'S NOT!!!!!

(sorry, I was channeling "Trump texting" for a moment 😏)

From my lofty seat at the back of the stand, I can tell people with a different view that a couple of times we had all 10 players defending and nowhere near the halfway line. If we got a quick break, there was nothing to do but wait for the next attack.

And I must defend Omatayo, I clearly saw him jump...once. It came to nothing, but I guess at least he tried 🙄

(Note to management...he was no ****ing good when he left. What possessed you to welcome him back ? Nothing has changed. Unless he's playing for free, he's overrated and overpaid.)

I deplore negative playing and defending, defending, defending. It's hideous and terrifying to watch, but I could put up with that if we're scoring too.

Whilst I defend people's right to boo, my personal view is that it doesn't help the players. They know they're having a mare and really don't need reminding. Simply unconstructive IMHO.

That said, I seriously considered leaving just after half time. It would have been only the second or third time in getting on for twenty years of watching Lynn.

My season ticket is looking ever more like a waste of money 🎫 🧻🚽

Perhaps by the time of the next home game, I might have forgotten how truly bad yesterday was. But without vast improvement, the gate will really struggle to reach the higher hundreds. And it doesn't bode well for our future.

[A Well Wisher]

Just imagine where we would be if we didn't play this rather dull style of football? We could very easily be occupying a top 3 position and that's not impossible with the majority of this squad that we have as they have shown on a few occasions what they're capable of. A few tweaks over the summer and a general change in philosophy by the manager and I have no doubt next season we will be up there. In my opinion I think it has been another poor league where if any team had something about them they would be walking away with it by now.

Oh well, let's just see the season out and see where we end up. I'll carry on turning up and supporting the club through thick and thin