When I’m in a new town, or one I haven’t been to for a while
I generally go to have a look at the railway station and the football ground. I
know, I know, I probably should have dated more girls and got out a bit more in
my youth.
Anyway the point is, and I know you’re glad there is a
point, in times gone by the football ground was generally in better shape than
our own dear Sincil Bank, as it was, LNER Stadium now. Somehow other stadia, be
it Peterborough or even Grimsby seemed to look the part better than our home.
Obviously in the case of the latter I was in disguise.
So it was rather pleasing, for the Exeter game to look at
the freshly painted, titivated stadium and think, that’s more like it, the old girl
is looking more like a league one stadium now. It’s never going to win any
beauty contests but it does look as if it’s had a few quid spent on it. I’m
sure that is an understatement, you’ve only got to look at the pitch to see the
huge leap forward.
Yesterday, also, what with the weather, judging by the
titfers and some of the clothing, you certainly scrub up well and, sartorially
we might have been in Milan or Barcelona. All of which, thankfully I hear you
say, brings me to the match, or rather the season so far, not that there’s been
that much of it.
There’s two ways of looking at it, as has been reflected on
social media, which I must say I’m paying less and less attention to as it can
be really quite irritating, either City are undefeated in three or the Imps
can’t win for toffee. City’s three points could just have well been garnered
by a win and two defeats but whether those three draws represent a decent start only
time will tell. Until yesterday, Exeter were looking like world beaters and a
point at Portsmouth is never a bad thing. Are Forest Green Rovers a good side
or relegation fodder? On yesterdays evidence they didn’t look much cop and,
with a bit more conviction and, dare I say it, willingness to get beaten in the
process City could have been out of sight by the time FGR scored. Perhaps we
got a bit too used to three relatively easy points against the darlings of the
press with their vegan tendencies.
City sort of fell into a better line up due to Tashan
Oakley-Boothe being rather more eager to play than perhaps he should have been
and, by the sound of it he’s going to be hearing all about it from the manager
on Monday but the upshot was, after he was replaced, City looked much more
threatening with Jordon Garrick having an effective debut.
We had an opportunity to look again at our two rehabilitated
players, post Appleton, Max Sanders and Lasse Sorensen, both were good but
perhaps not quite as good as they were against Exeter, probably because the
team as a whole, I felt, were not as good but, chin up, City scored first and
another day will probably romp a game like that.
The Imps did of course show they could win a game in midweek,
albeit against a league two side but one who had previously prospered against
the Imps however they played, rather like City’s supremacy against FGR. Oh well.
Onwards and upwards.
