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.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

'McGuiness 6/10 - Scored a well taken header and was solid with no mistakes I can think of.'

Surely if he made no mistakes, was solid AND weighed in with a goal that warrants at minimum a 7/10?

Oh and a 3/10 for Cannon kind of renders the scoring as ridiculous. If you're going to keep the reports coming then you have to shelve your bias otherwise you can dish out the scores before the game.

Oof.