Imps have no shame in defeat to Nottingham Forest
By Nathan Jackson
July 30 2011
Lincoln City came out of the game with Nottingham Forest with no sense of shame, that despite a 1-0 defeat. The Imps more than held their own against Forest, a team who are three divisions higher than City, and it took one of Forest's few shots on goal to actually win the game.
The early kick was delayed slightly due to Forest's coach getting stuck in traffic on the ever popular A46, but it didn't appear to affect them early on as Reid came close to netting from 40 yards, seeing his effort only just caught by the outstretched arms of Joe Anyon
After that Forest threatened little and the Imps enjoyed spells of possession, but Taylor hitting the ball wide of the target when played through one-on-one was as close as the Imps got to a goal.
Just over ten minutes before the end the portly Reid ran at City's defence, that by now had plenty of trialists in it, he pulled the ball back to Majewski and the pole smashed it into the net from the edge of the area.
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None of the triallists stood out, but they didn't get a massive chance. Baraclough looked tricky with the couple of plays he was involved in when he first came on. Not too much to say about the others really.
Difficult to judge overall on friendlies really. I imagine Forest were keen to avoid injuries with their season starting next week so probably weren't giving it 100%.
A final 'hats off' to the chap in the co-op who religiously shouted 'You Fat @#$%&' every, EVERY, time Reid got the ball. I did laugh.
Hone has a lot to prove to me that he's the best we can get at this level.
Overall I thought the team played well, but agree with Tilson we still need a couple more players.
So shouting fat****** at least 40 times during the match made you laugh! thought it was the most boring chant I've heard at a match!
I'm a man of simple pleasures Skeggy, I'll laugh at the drop of a hat. I think I found the guys sheer persistence to be the funniest thing. He wasn't giving up!
Here we go again!
Will we ever get the right man?
At the moment my opinion on the team is very good, good season ahead for the imps, was chating to forest fan who said we played better then Northampton did few weeks ago against them.
If only we had this set of players/team last season in league two.