Exeter City v Mansfield Town Matchday Thread

[David Treharne]

Very nervy last 10 minutes. I was amazed that the Manager hadn't made more than the one change- I thought Sweeney was off the pace, and nearly gifted Mansfield what would have been an undeserved equaliser. I think the word for him is 'ponderous' both in physical action, but also in thought - you can almost see the brain asking the body 'What next?'. Some promising performances from Martin, Bowman and Sparkes -though my MOM would also have been Moxey. No matter what Pete Martin says performances need to be more clinical, with an urgency that is game long, rather than appearing in spasms. I have no idea what you would have to do on the field of play to get the linesman on the IP Office side to actively participate in helping to regulate the game. He was abysmal. Mansfield were a shadow of last years team and the Big Bank cry of 'DNB's' seemed quite appropriate. Onwards!

 

[PeteUSA]

As an aside, Mansfield were lucky one of their players didnt get a straight red early on. It was one of those shameful fouls you see every once in a while. Two players go down in a heap near the corner flag (and linesman) and as their player gets to his feet he quite blatently stands on the City players ankle, where untold damage could be done. Its an old trick where the defender gobs off, directly at the linesman face, thus distracting him from what he's doing with his studs! The linesman didnt see it, since he was too close, but the referee might well have; He didnt miss much.

 

[grecIAN Harris]

Jesus Christ, what is the matter with some of you lot?. Moan, moan, moan. We are top of L2, undefeated so far. We have dropped 4 points in 6 games. Me and all the folk around me thoroughly enjoyed today's game and went away very happy. What does it take for you to stop being so grudging of any praise for the squad? It's League 2 FFS.

I don't see a problem in wanting to see the side do a job properly. We should have beaten Swindon last time out at home but they caught us on the hop because we didn't see them off properly. I could see the same happening today because, as then, we don't deliver enough service to our strike force.
We are top which, obviously, us good. We are winning games when we're not playing as well as we should, a sign of champions arguably, but we can only ride this train for so long before we get caught out.

 

[Dannyred]

Totally agree Pete, We beat a good team that will be challenging for automatic promotion this year and we remain undefeated.

Enjoyed the match plus the match day programme.

 

[exeter-loyal]

We are top of the league Say we are top the league!!

 

[manc grecian]

Totally agree Pete, We beat a good team that will be challenging for automatic promotion this year and we remain undefeated.

Enjoyed the match plus the match day programme.

Be very surprised if Mansfield were anywhere near the top 3 on that showing. Miles away from the team that hammered us last season.

 

[geoffwp]

Be very surprised if Mansfield were anywhere near the top 3 on that showing. Miles away from the team that hammered us last season.

They moved the ball well at times but looked slow in some areas and looked toothless up front.

 

[ecfc2000]

Who ever decided to award the MOM to anyone other than moxey needs shooting. He was utterly superb today.

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Who ever decided to award the MOM to anyone other than moxey needs shooting. He was utterly superb today.

Moxey was superb but so was Matt. I actually had him as my man of the match before the announcement.

 

[Billy The Fish]

We've made another Mansfield manager fume.....

John Dempster slams 'inept' Mansfield Town performance at Exeter City

Mansfield Town boss John Dempster says his side fell well short of expectations as they lost 1-0 at league leaders Exeter City on Saturday.

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