Welcome once again to the Lemon Laces unbeaten streak of magnificence thread, here to take us through to our inevitable promotion and beyond. Glistening and gurning like Jurgen Klopp's jaw, here we go on the Lemon Lace tour. Today's thread is inspired by our own LincolnSaint, and his recent travails with the Vauxhall motor vehicles. Here at Lemon Laces towers, we decided to look at car choices for Lincoln moving forwards, and, by way of segue, we asked "What Ford?" So here are the top ten answers, should you be asking the question "what Ford"? 1. Ford GT40 - beauty, power, terrific torque. Probably going to break down. Ford's own Che Adams. 2. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth - manufactured at Genk, but you don't see them often. Paul Onuachu. 3. Ford Thunderbird - a glitzy, glam, pastel hued glimpse at a glorious past. Kyle Walker-Peters. 4. Shelby 427 Cobra - bit of a cheat here, because it's not badged as a Ford, so kind of super classy, but on loan. Taylor Harwood-Bellis 5. Ford Mustang - looks great, but most things can pretty easily get past it. Gavin Bazunu. 6. Ford Focus ST - incredibly quick, but you don't really see the point in it. Kamaldeen Sulemana. 7. Ford Capri 2.8 - handsome, getting on a bit, unlikely to last as long as you'd like. Stu Armstrong. 8. Ford SportKa - speedy, nippy, hardly any angles and certainly no shoulders on it. Adam Armstrong. 9. Ford F-150 Raptor - used to think it was big, rubbish and pointless. But growing in my affections now. Joe Aribo. 10. Ford Escort - unflashy workhorse. Everyone needs one. Flynn Downes. Thank you for reading my What Ford. I hope it helps, Lincs. On to the game, and in a shock to everyone, Russ picked a team against Coventry where the players who were picked were, by and large, picked in the positions they are best in. And we won. Who knew that was a thing? So what chance we do a similar thing against Watford? Well, Russ tells us he's always learning, so let's hope he's learned from the experience and does the same again, even if the personnel are different. I suspect he might rest Brooks at least for this, which will likely mean a start for either Edozie or Chaos. That's cool. Here's also hoping he realises that Shea Charles is capable of playing football, and is a useful unit to bring on if we're winning and want to tighten things up a bit in a tiring midfield. Prediction - well it's one of those awful ones where we should win, so we probably won't. 3-1 to Saints though, Chaos finally scores a football goal, and the frustration grows that were we a couple of points better off, we'd be genuinely in with a shout. Can't remember the names of the refs etc, but I did notice that we had Alas Smith and Jones in that team, which is a concern. They'll be rubbish though, whoever it is.
Here we go - courtesy of Osprey - Saturday 13th April 2024 Sky Bet Championship Southampton v Watford (15:00) Referee:- JOSH SMITH Assistants:- Matthew Jones and Sam Lewis Fourth Official : Sam Purkiss
I think Russ gave a balanced review of the last game and I'm hoping for similar this game I'd have prefered a better 2nd half obvs, but that partly reflected my paranoia from recent results “There was a lot of really, really good stuff. The resilience of the team, the togetherness, the character, the energy we played with – especially in the first half,” the manager reflected. “I think we should’ve had one or two more goals tonight, we should’ve come to a bit more in some of those moments, because it was really outstanding in some of the football we played. “Then they had a spell in the second half, 15 minutes or so, which hurts us, because they score. They’re a good team and you have to sometimes respect that the opposition will have a spell, but I felt we were too loose on the ball at that point. “They’re a good side with real attacking threat who we’ve limited to very little – I think two shots on target, which is not normal for them.” Martin admitted he had also questioned his players in the build-up to the game after going three without a win in a crucial period of the season, but was delighted with the response. “The team showed tonight what we were lacking on Saturday in terms of energy and willingness to run and double up and help your teammate,” he added. “I said to them before the game, it’s getting tiring hearing people question – which I can understand after the last few results – the mentality of the group and the togetherness. “I questioned on Saturday, and in the media yesterday, how willing we were to run, and we certainly answered that tonight, so I’m really delighted with that. “We have to build from that, and keep building. The results again tonight have shown how many twists and turns there are going to be, and it probably makes the last week even more frustrating, because to only have two points from the three previous games is crazy. “I think tonight will really help – that win just releasing a bit of tension with the players, and they ran free tonight and they ran wild in the final third, and we have to keep doing that.”
I'm starting to think that my misgivings about Charles are because he's been playing alongside Smallbone I'm thinking that the pairing of Charles & Downes is definitely the way forward Edozie Che Adarma Ar-i-bo! Downes Charles KWP Cap'n Jack THB Bree Baz
3 points guarantees us 5th or higher Then just a wait to confirm 4th I'm sure, but won't get higher now Really want play-off Semi 2nd leg to be at home
Love it! All about the public transport today. Going well, but then again I'm in London. We'll see how Greta Thurnburg I feel about trains by Friday
LTL, this is, as expected, simply outstanding. May I suggest that many of the regular contributors are probably more familiar with proper Fords, like the Ford Popular (called a puddlejumper, as I recall) This was an amazingly narrow car, that had front seats with space for two people, as long as they were both Size Zero models on a diet. Then there was the Ford Anglia, made (even more) famous by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, when they escaped from the spiders (OK, I should get out more). And for a real blast from the past, how about the Model 'T'? Any colour you like, as long as it's black. I would also give an honourable mention to Ford Prefect, just because of his role in helping Arthur Dent to Hitchhike around The Galaxy
Oh there were multiple options, but like Captain Jack, I needed to shoehorn in some poorly thought out references to our current players. I mean, we didn’t bring in the Lotus Cortina, the regular Cortina, the Orion, the Granada or even the Scorpio. I can imagine Russ driving a Scorpio, as it happens.
I feel that I should point out that I'm very much the Andrew Ridgely to LTL's George Michael in this particular duopoly. LTL does all the work, I sit back and rake in the royalties, then merge into the background...
I feel that your buying into the metaphor indicates you are happy to accept the status of Matchday thread George Michael I think your success may be getting the better of you Beware the feeling of Power, remember all power corrupts, previous incumbents have crashed and burnt when they thought they were invincible
