| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... 19:10 - Jan 2 with 1486 views | XYZ |
... TWTD melts down.
Suck it up. 63 points to play for. |  | | |  |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:30 - Jan 2 with 1420 views | GeoffSentence |
For context, we did play an entire half against 10 men. |  |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:34 - Jan 2 with 1402 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:30 - Jan 2 by GeoffSentence |
For context, we did play an entire half against 10 men. |
For even greater context. 10 men is just as hard to play against as 11 if they give up on attacking. |  |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:40 - Jan 2 with 1390 views | NeedhamChris |
It does seem to be beyond some of you that the frustration is about our current form being worse than play off form rather than one game.
I still think we'll kick on, but idiotic comments like this don't help anyone | |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:56 - Jan 2 with 1335 views | Trequartista |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:34 - Jan 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
For even greater context. 10 men is just as hard to play against as 11 if they give up on attacking. |
I don’t think that can possibly be true. |  |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:00 - Jan 2 with 1314 views | FrimleyBlue |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:56 - Jan 2 by Trequartista |
I don’t think that can possibly be true. |
It's not. It's just a handy excuse if you fail to win.
Regardless of how deep they sit you still have 1 more player so no its not as hard. If you're down to 10 you'll say it's harder to beat the team with 11. So no its not right. [Post edited 2 Jan 2023 21:01]
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:02 - Jan 2 with 1301 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:56 - Jan 2 by Trequartista |
I don’t think that can possibly be true. |
Of course it is. I’ve seen hundreds of sides fail to win against 10 men. Two organised banks of four, leave one up feeding on scraps. Means you have to sacrifice players to protect against a rapid counter. | |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:10 - Jan 2 with 1272 views | NeedhamChris |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:02 - Jan 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Of course it is. I’ve seen hundreds of sides fail to win against 10 men. Two organised banks of four, leave one up feeding on scraps. Means you have to sacrifice players to protect against a rapid counter. |
It's a lot less common when it's a whole half of football, and there's research on this too. Teams concede more on average after a red than before. | |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:36 - Jan 2 with 1224 views | DavoIPB |
Poor form at present that's the problem and sheff and Plymouth better sides. | | | |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:43 - Jan 2 with 1201 views | Sheffspecial |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:36 - Jan 2 by DavoIPB |
Poor form at present that's the problem and sheff and Plymouth better sides. |
We have the better squad.
They manage games far, far better.
We tend to open the door to Mr Cock-up and pop the kettle on… | | | |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 09:08 - Jan 3 with 1054 views | GeoffSentence |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 20:34 - Jan 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
For even greater context. 10 men is just as hard to play against as 11 if they give up on attacking. |
That's not contextual, it is an opinion. | |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 09:20 - Jan 3 with 1028 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 21:02 - Jan 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Of course it is. I’ve seen hundreds of sides fail to win against 10 men. Two organised banks of four, leave one up feeding on scraps. Means you have to sacrifice players to protect against a rapid counter. |
I’ve seen hundreds of sides fail to win against 11 men too, significantly more in fact
A few years old but some analysis here, confirming that teams playing with 11 men get twice as many points than those with 10…
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/documents/news/greenberg-2015-significanc |  |
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| ITFC fail to be first to beat Lincoln at home this season ... on 09:25 - Jan 3 with 1011 views | Dubtractor |
It's pretty simple in my opinion.
Did the sending off help us? No, as it meant that an already defensive team went ultra defensive and barely tried to attack for a whole half, leaving very little space to play in.
Should we still have won? Yes, a whole half of having the extra player should have been more than enough to pull them apart and get more than one goal.
I don't really understand people trying to excuse it as an acceptable result, given the context, tbh. It isn't the end of the world, there will be plenty more ups and downs over the next few months too, but as a standalone result it was pretty poor. |  |
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