Mansfield 0 Blades 3 - summary/ratings

[Deadbat]

As I have said in here before, Deadbat's rating scores are not the same as the ratings we remember from The People and News of the World that we are used to.

4= stinker
5= poor
6 = below average
7 = average
8 = good
9 = excellent
10 = out of the world

I think Deadbat's rating of 5 is "average". He gives ratings of 0 quite often and him giving a 9 is as rare as a hen's teeth.

Not sure I have ever given 0/10?

5 is average as 5 is average out of 10 so kind of makes sense

Just never understood why on a rating system of 0-10, the papers never bothered with 0-3

 

[Deadbat]

Deadbat only gave Jack O’Connell a 9.5 when we beat Brentford 2-0 after Madine had been sent off.

there may be evidence to prove me wrong but as far as I am aware a rating of 10 has never been given and if the aforementioned O’Connell performance wasn’t deemed worthy of a 10 then I suspect nothing ever will!

Clarke 9.5 v Hull too

I have never given a 0 or a 10. Pathetic I know!

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

The corner thing is the only thing I saw from last season that concerns me. We look to be sticking to this zonal marking system that's been our undoing at set pieces for a few seasons.

Other than that, a very professional performance even if the opposition is a level below and put a poor showing in. These are the sort of games that fizzled out to a 0-0 last couple of seasons. More importantly, and I've not seen anyone else pick up on this, but the players kept going until the end - we don't score that third last season because the players are hanging out of their arse by that point.

Cannon is still absolutely shite and 3/10 is very generous. he could have been sent off in the first 5 and it wouldn't have made a difference to the result.

Like you, I was also very encouraged by the fact that the team seemed full of running to the final whistle - I thought the same about the game in Germany, where we finished very strongly. I can’t remember us ever doing that last season. Early days, and preliminary views based on a couple of fairly low octane games, but I’m hoping that the pre-season work might have reduced our problems of fading away after an hour.