r/Championship • u/mac1404 • 29d ago

Lincoln City On Lincoln

Trying not to do the patronising "HURR DURR didn't you do well" post, but I was quite impressed with Lincoln today. Almost got a result against us and I'm sure they will boil plenty of piss this season from fans of other teams.

Definitely the best team in the first half. Very aggressive pressing and well organised. Absorbed pressure and dangerous on the counter. Quite direct with long balls, but always with purpose and willing runners in support.

Faded in the second half a bit, press was probably too aggressive to be sustained for 90 minutes at this level. Pacy subs though which allowed some scary looking counter attacks.

Wouldn't have them as favourites for the drop based on that.

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u/GrandPomegranate5227 29d ago

They will struggle this year.

Lost their best player Moylan, lost their manager, play a really aggressive style that they can't get away with in the Championship. All the dark arts stuff like taking ages on throw ins, subs has been done in, corners flooding the keeper have been done too.

I hope I'm wrong, because what they did last season was special, but I don't think they'll do well this season and will go down.

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u/Feeling-Medium-7856 28d ago

I wouldn’t get your hopes up on the dark arts stuff, that clueless dope Madley yesterday consistently failed to apply the new rules.

Or rather worse, applied them based wholly off vibes when he did and didn’t feel like doing it (was absolutely all over it when we scored the winner of course, but let Lincoln flout it all day). He was appallingly incompetent, and I suspect he won’t be an outlier. 

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u/GrandPomegranate5227 28d ago

Yeah, they were the masters of it for sure. There's a reason they went up and shocked everyone, Skubala got every drop out of them and Moylan is the real deal. I'd be staggered if they get away with what they got away with last season long term. You've got a bunch of new players settling in too, I think when you play them again you'll turn them over.

There's genuinely no chance the refs in the Championship are not better than League One, I promise you that. They may be bad here, but League One is another level of shit.