" All credit to Lincoln "

We didn't do enough today, deserved to lose. Won't be too critical because we're still in a good place to get promoted.

But I'm just going to say fair play to Lincoln, did a job on us.

They may well go on to win the league and well done to them if they do.

We will bounce back at Barnsley.

I'm not devastated by today but it is disappointing, do think sometimes you have to accept the opposition were very good.

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I agree. Alot of finger pointing at BBM and individuals; I don't think it'd made a difference today. They were better in defence and attack.

I agree. Alot of finger pointing at BBM and individuals; I don't think it'd made a difference today. They were better in defence and attack.

totally correct but osho is still shit

Was like they had an extra man on the pitch. Done a job on us today but that football won’t work in the championship over a full season.

Definitely started with the wrong team
Tanner on wrong side
Kellyman should have been 9
Ruben as sharp as a sausage slows us down offered nothing

Onc they went in front, we had no answers. No complaints, we were beaten on the day by the better team.

I agree credit to Lincoln but I don't think promotion is as certain yet. Work to do. That result at home is hurtful and a blue print to play against us. For all the praise BBM richly deserves we are conceding too many goals lately and have a lack guile when teams park the bus. This side would struggle in the Championship. Please rest Osho now too. Should have been Chambers today. Big shame to lose the title at home like this but promotion is still in our hands.

Imo we played a bottom half championship side and were well beaten. Made it easy for them with overpassing and no cutting edge upfront..they were content to wait for a mistake or half chance and game over. Still some work to do.

A Warnock like performance, defensively outstanding, direct with the ball.

Ollie Tanner turned the ball over twice deep in there half both lead to goals, apart from that the long throw was a weapon but honestly they are just a well drilled athletic team . We go again Tuesday.

Definitely started with the wrong team
Tanner on wrong side
Kellyman should have been 9
Ruben as sharp as a sausage slows us down offered nothing

Dont wabt to criticise BBM too much as he has been great. However, very surprised Kellyman wasn’t in the middle. Also I thought RC should have come off not his brother (who had a good game).
And without wanting to sound like an old fart repeating himself but …. please BBM never play Rubin and Robinson on the pitch together it takes pace and work ethic compleyely out of the team!

Tanner has an absolute mare responsible for both goals.
Trott looks a shadow of the player he was at start of season.
Osho is a walking disaster most games.
Zero plan B

Best team won on the day sometimes we look better than we actually are defensively Lincoln have got better system that suits the way they play anyway onwards and upwards

Tanner has an absolute mare responsible for both goals.
Trott looks a shadow of the player he was at start of season.
Osho is a walking disaster most games.
Zero plan B

Sums it up really and BBM and his one trick pony system which didn't work all game with sideways and backwards crap. Trott is awful except his shot stopping in some games I don't rate him tbh his distribution is doghshit and has no more nails on his boots which are stuck to his goal line on anything that comes in the six box but we go again

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God we need Salech back. We looked like schoolboys up against there players

Sometimes a team has your number and Lincoln are that team Very well organised and tough to breakdown. There style of play we struggled with and we have against other teams like them Really missed Salech today
Still i at start of the season i fid not even have us down as a play off team , so still very happy with where we are

When we played them in Lincoln, I couldn't believe that we lost. I couldn't understand how they held such a high position in the league. Today they showed us how good they are. They played us off the park as a team but also man for man. I thought that BBM picked a team today that was all over the place. When Kellyman has done so well in the middle and Tanner so well on the right, why would he change them. We miss Lawler at the back, and, as much as I like the defensive work of Fish, there are times when his distribution is poor. Scanlon must be wondering why he ever came here as he isn't getting a look in. Trott seems much less confident than he was. I think that, after that match, Lincoln will win the league and, I just hope, that we can get the number 2 automatic promotion spot.

They came with a plan and executed it perfectly Best team definitely won, I just hope we are not starting to run out of steam and still have enough left to get the points needed to finish second, big week coming up now with 2 away games

We have too much class for most teams in this division so I am not concerned but what wake up call.
They were a team that maximised what they had, we are determined to showboat our superior skills and trust the manager has.
Joel roughed them up as much they roughed us up but then he has other skills. Taking him off whilst the highly ineffective Robertson and Rubin remained was crazy. He has his favourites

Ollie Tanner turned the ball over twice deep in there half both lead to goals, apart from that the long throw was a weapon but honestly they are just a well drilled athletic team . We go again Tuesday.

Agree with Ned (OP) but Tanner gave the ball away too freely on a number of occasions and in the case of both goals

Put simply, Lincoln players the game we (should have) expected, our defence coped well overall, our midfield was excellent, but our top three looked confused and devoid of ideas to get the ball into dangerous positions

Not complaining, I’m just disappointed, as I thought a draw or a win would have seen us consolidate top place in League One

Hoping to see us bounce back against Barnsley on Tuesday night!

Just my opinion but Rubin coming back into the starting 11 has disrupted our rhythm. I can't fault his willingness to want the ball but our shape goes out of the window. Kellyman up top is a better option, with Tanner on the right.

I agree. Alot of finger pointing at BBM and individuals; I don't think it'd made a difference today. They were better in defence and attack.

Exactly. I'll always criticise when we're terrible but I don't think that was the case today.

We were below par but only because Lincoln made us be below par.

One of those days where the opposition were just very good.

Tanner was dreadful Kpakio offered nothing

We were so slow in possession and got what we deserved

I think this shows how we needed an extra body in the transfer window up front to give us options

No excuses, they did a job on us today. As Warnock has shown before, you can achieve a lot by putting together a group of experienced pros and playing simple, direct football: set pieces, long throws, getting it forward quickly. It’s a lot harder to play the way we do.

Congratulations to Lincoln, but there’s a much higher ceiling to our squad than theirs. I just hope fans keep the average age of both teams in mind when they’re quick to criticise.

Jefferies was always going to score against us after coming through our academy.

Two points gap is one swing of results, and it’s a great challenge for the squad for the remainder of the season.

Agree with the tag line here, definitely gotta credit Lincoln. They are very effective at what they do and we've won a promotion off the back of their style of play so hats off to them.

However, everything that all of us expected might happen today, happened. We were well and truely Warnock'd. BBM and the boys had a week to prepare for this to try and find a way through it but they failed massively in my eyes. Is that really all we had??? Bitterly disappointed coz we barely laid a glove on them.

We'll likely still win promotion so it's not the end of the world, but what an occasion that could have been today with 27000+ there...but we played right into their hands from the first whistle. The saying boys v's men comes to mind again.

Agree Lincoln was the better side but BBM got to take some of the blame where we were out played,muscled and what seemed out numbered.
Trying to score with a hundred passes just wasn’t happening today but still they tried again and again.
I’m sure will bounce back.

Firstly, we will bounce back, simply because we are better than most teams in this division.

However, a great team has to have a solid defence. This, we haven't got.
I'm sure we all see the quality in Lawlor. I assume he was not fit to start today, although he looked fine when he eventually came on.
Other than that, the rest of the defenders are quite average. Against a well organised decent team like Lincoln, they will always be exposed.
I never have had much faith in Osho and again today, he was poor at times.
Both him and Fish were dreadful during both Lincoln goals.
I expect us to be promoted because of the lead we have over third position.
But I hope we can attract better quality defenders in the summer, or we will struggle in the Championship again.

Finally, congratulations to Lincoln. At this moment in time, they deserve to win the league.
Your fans were magnificent today and ours were silenced!

I do agree that BBM’s selections today didn’t really make sense to me. It felt like he was trying to get both Kellyman and Ruban on the pitch together, but to do that he had to move Tanner to the left, which didn’t work at all. Kellyman was also far less effective out wide anyway. In the end, we just completely weakened our attacking threat and it really didn’t make much sense.

Surely the logical decision was Kellyman as the 9, with either Ruban or Joel as the 10. Then Tanner could play where he’s been most dangerous on the right, with Willock or Ashford on the left. Skubala must have been licking his lips when he saw that starting line-up.

We really played into their hands today. I back BBM and he’s done an amazing job, but going up against a counter-attacking team without any real threat or runners in behind was asking for trouble.

Having said that, it still took some horrible defending from Osho for them to open the scoring. That Street is pretty much your typical League One striker and he completely roughed Osho up today. First contact he basically punched him in the nose and then pretended it was a head injury, and from there he dominated him. Getting caught on the wrong side of the player was ugly, and then went to ground far too easily, which meant he couldn’t recover. I thought he did well against Doncaster, but against Plymouth and again today he’s looked rattled and not really up for the battle.

We have too much class for most teams in this division so I am not concerned but what wake up call.
They were a team that maximised what they had, we are determined to showboat our superior skills and trust the manager has.
Joel roughed them up as much they roughed us up but then he has other skills. Taking him off whilst the highly ineffective Robertson and Rubin remained was crazy. He has his favourites

Unable to see game as away, but concur re. Robertson and Rubin. None of our players in the middle are 100% consistent - Wintle is the closest - but I'd prefer Turnbull over Robertson every time. Robertson flatters to deceive, a little like Rubin. A big day in our season for the players, and more so for our manager.

Totally agree with the main post and we shouldn't criticise to much as we are still in a promotion spot .They wanted it more and played very well coached very well and some big players in there .The long throw caused us so many problems they defended well and took there chances and with all the possession we had they just snuffed out our play.
Sometimes when your beat your beat and thats what happened fair and square on to the next one now and lets not let Bolton get a sniff now still in our favour to get promotion but no more cock ups