Imps travel to fruitless Brisbane Road


By Nathan Jackson
March 19 2004

It's fair to say the Imps haven't done well against Orient in recent times and the Imps go there in hopes of breaking the longest unbeaten home run in division.

  • INTRODUCTION
  • After 2 very different home games, the Imps travel to Brisbane Road which hasn't really been a good ground for the Imps over the last few years. Hopefully the game will be more interesting than the one that took place at Sincil Bank in September which was so incredibly boring, I didn't bother writting a match report for it.
  • THE IMPS
  • Something odd is going on at Lincoln, we've found the net quite a lot within the last 6 games scoring a very respectable 15 goals. The 2 most recent saving the Imps a point against lowly Southend on Tuesday night.
  • We will be without Mark Bailey again as he is still having problems with his calf but other than that, it's a pretty much full strength Imps squad. Simon Weaver is likely to come back into the squad having sat out his first league game this season on Tuesday and many saw this as the reason we conceeded both goals.
  • ORIENT
  • Orient have seriously turned things around in recent months under Martin Ling. When he took over from Paul Brush, he took a relegation threatened team to the brink of the playoffs although no wins in 6 have pretty much elimated their chances unless they "Do a Wrexham".
  • They have the longest unbeaten home run in the Division having not lost there in the league since 11th October. They have had impressive wins over Mansfield, Rochdale, Bury, Darlington, Oxford, Southend.
  • Recent results haven't particully gone their way and have practically wiped out their playoff chances. Losses at Hull, Swansea and Northampton coupled with draws against Bristol Rovers, Kidderminster and Bury have seen them slip to 11th and 12 points behind 7th placed Yeovil.
  • RECENT RESULTS BETWEEN THE 2 SIDES
  • IMPS 0 ORIENT 0
  • IMPS 1 ORIENT 1
  • ORIENT 1 IMPS 1
  • IMPS 2 ORIENT 0
  • ORIENT 5 IMPS 0
  • PREDICTIONS
  • As with Southend, I have a dodgy feeling about this game and feel we'll be lucky to win.
  • Orient 1 City 1