Corpaboy wrote:

Staggo wrote:Funny how perceptions can be so different in football. Now, we all know Danny Rose likes to go down easy, but we honestly don't see ourselves as that kind of team. We moan about teams like Wycombe, who have come to Field Mill and employed 'the dark arts', but I remember talking to one of their fans about it and he couldn't see why teams said that about them.

From our perspective, we thought Newport were extremely dirty and looked to rough up our players and prevent the game from flowing, which would have suited our style of play. With your pitch (which looked better, but was still very bobbly) this tactic is responsible for a reputation that I expect you probably don't feel is justified either. Just saying, perceptions and bias are funny things.

Then again .... you were pretty much on your own watching the game from the away seats !
Plenty of leg room there

To say we looked to "prevent the game from flowing" , when so many times the game was stopped cos one of yours went down like a strike breaking porn star , is pushing it a bit ?
And you didn't bring any inflatable sheep ??
Shame on you !!!

Well there is the perfect example of opposing perspectives when watching. Newport fans when watching their team trying to gain the momentum will have seen Mansfield disrupting those efforts through perceived diving. Mansfield fans watching their team trying to gain the momentum will have seen Newport as disrupting that through fouling. What I'm getting at is that it isn't so black and white. On reflection I don't think you're necessarily as dirty a team as I did when I was screaming obscenities at your players during the match and I would like to think that you'll see that we aren't a 'dark arts' team that looks to con the ref. I've watched us home and away all season and it simply isn't the case.

As for inflatable sheep, we only get them our for Chesterfield

Percy plunkett wrote:

Staggo wrote:Funny how perceptions can be so different in football. Now, we all know Danny Rose likes to go down easy, but we honestly don't see ourselves as that kind of team. We moan about teams like Wycombe, who have come to Field Mill and employed 'the dark arts', but I remember talking to one of their fans about it and he couldn't see why teams said that about them.

From our perspective, we thought Newport were extremely dirty and looked to rough up our players and prevent the game from flowing, which would have suited our style of play. With your pitch (which looked better, but was still very bobbly) this tactic is responsible for a reputation that I expect you probably don't feel is justified either. Just saying, perceptions and bias are funny things.

At least Rose waits to be challenged before he goes down.What on earth was your LB thinking with that dive.

Need to see it back. I don't remember the challenge.

That's my point Staggo,there was no challenge,he just went down with no one near him.He then blames the Lino for not giving a free kick.

I thought we also matched Mansfield's cheating last night, but in a more subtle way (pushes in the back, going in forcefully for headers with arms flying everywhere), while Mansfield's tactic seemed restricted to tactical bluffs to stop us counter-attack ING and to quieten the home crowd, which worked in the first half.

Take away the players they've borrowed from Forest this year and they are just a mid-table fourth tier side.

DeePeeNCAFC wrote:I thought we also matched Mansfield's cheating last night, but in a more subtle way (pushes in the back, going in forcefully for headers with arms flying everywhere), while Mansfield's tactic seemed restricted to tactical bluffs to stop us counter-attack ING and to quieten the home crowd, which worked in the first half.

Take away the players they've borrowed from Forest this year and they are just a mid-table fourth tier side.

To be fair that's what most fourth division sides are. It's the ones who pick up the best loans that can make the difference.

Oh the Beautiful Game

I'm not sure what it is about Mansfield, maybe the fact that I find it a truly horrible place to visit as an away supporter making me biased but whatever league we are in, whatever manager they have, whatever players, I always see them as the worst team in the league for this kind of thing. A bit like Tamworth in the past.

Probably just me.

What a horrific team in terms of fair play all over Jamma(again!!!!!) and once again nothing happens the refs in League 2 are a f*****g disgrace!!!!!

NCFC_MAD wrote:What a horrific team in terms of fair play all over Jamma(again!!!!!) and once again nothing happens the refs in League 2 are a f*****g disgrace!!!!!

To be fair, the ref did pull them up a little after the first few went unnoticed.

I thought they were cynical and fouled at every opportunity (especially Matt shirt pulling at every set piece and pulling Amond back as he made a run past the last defender without the ball), though without being as physically strong and outright dirty as Lincoln, and of course they were hitting the deck at the slightest contact for most of the first half.

20 minutes in our biggest failing was that we weren't fouling them like they were fouling us and we weren't falling over all the time, because the ref was buying it every single occasion.

The general level of refereeing was appalling as well, illustrated by the two occasions the linesman let play go on and then later told the ref something had happened which caused bewildering play resets (one throw in that didn't get onto the pitch where they played on and the offside given after 30 seconds of the ball being out of play). I'm sure Mansfield weren't best impressed with O'Brien only being booked and the penalty, but seeing as O'Brien was already being fouled before he brought the player down and the ref let play go on, we can argue that too.

They are Blacklegs anyway fxxxum

Mansfield don't deserve to go up playing the way they did.

Horrible side and the penalty was indeed karma for their constant cheating.

I'll love it if we turn them over up there - just to hear Flitcrofts whinging and their cocky supporters melt down as to how their pit village Galactico's got done over by 'hoof merchants'.

It's written in the stars.

UPTHEPORT wrote:They are Blacklegs anyway fxxxum

You’l have your chance to shout that out loudly on Sunday - and I for one can’t wait.

Amberexile wrote:I'm not sure what it is about Mansfield, maybe the fact that I find it a truly horrible place to visit as an away supporter making me biased but whatever league we are in, whatever manager they have, whatever players, I always see them as the worst team in the league for this kind of thing. A bit like Tamworth in the past.

Probably just me.

No its not just you.

Typified by Rose's cheap-shot, cowardly challenge on Poole late in the game.