Couldn't be there - so no idea of performance - but nice result!. When I left for Germany at the end of September it was all doom and gloom. Now I'm really looking forward to getting down there once back. Very pleased for Young.
Thought it was our best performance of the season. Unlike Newport like last week who looked our poorest League 2 visitors this season, Mansfield are a really good team and may have even been the best travellers so far. The way we grabbed hold of the game on the front foot at the start of both halves was exemplary in how you need to set the pace in games. Consensus in the bar was that it was a penalty but regardless the ref was strangely inconsistent. Lewis deserves particular credit for his subs and game management in the second half, apart from that one glorious chance in injury time they fluffed I thought we coped with their danger well.
The Lewis express speeds on and next stop Colchester will be interesting as he might have now some expectations on his shoulder given how bad they are currently. Then the Wagmi derby at Bradford which should be some game
It felt like we beat 12 men today. I was lòòking elsewhere for the pen but the guy next to me reckoned it was fair enough but a bit soft. Even so, I thought the ref was only booking Crawley players. I reckon there will always be games where you get less than half of the 50-50s, but it seemed like if a player decides to roll around, it caused the ref to reach for his pocket like one of Pavlov's dogs. I'm sure he was salivating. Can't accuse that one of being a homer. Mansfield were a bit more streetwise than us but got what they deserved.
That was the worst referee I've seen in a long time and that's saying something , and no way was that a penalty a mansfield player clearly pushed Nicholls into handling the ball , but at the end of the day in didn't matter and the best team won.
Lewis young has done some serious work with these boys morale was low and the results were awful. He really is the magic man he could turn us in to playoff contenders if this continues. The performance today was a very good one against a team that were well organised and didn’t panic being 2-0 down away from home. We can beat anyone with a performance like that we have beaten a team that be up there at the end of the season. Come on you reds
Lewis young has done some serious work with these boys morale was low and the results were awful. He really is the magic man he could turn us in to playoff contenders if this continues. The performance today was a very good one against a team that were well organised and didn’t panic being 2-0 down away from home. We can beat anyone with a performance like that we have beaten a team that be up there at the end of the season. Come on you reds
Lewis Young is the right man to take this football club forward. Class act today no panic self-belief, belief in his players, though the ones from Betsy were the under-performers today. I hope Nichols back isn't to sore or his shoulders after all the dirty fouls on him. As others have said that ref was a disaster, shocking how he gets paid to do that job, he would've struggled with a Sunday League game with that performance.