Marty
Well-Known Member
We were so comfortable first half, I thought we played very well, knocking it around with confidence, players creating space for themselves, you's hardly got a touch of the ball and were chasing shadows most of it. First half you were by far the worst team I've ever seen play at the Ricoh, you could hardly string 2 passes together, when we pressurized your defence they fell to pieces time after time. It could have and should have been 4 or 5 nil by half time. Second half we looked like a conference team, you's changed your team and it worked, we failed to react in time and when we did it was the wrong moves. You ended the game the better team and really should have won apart from your woeful front line missing sitter after sitter. In the championship we would have been punished and would have lost, just from these couple of games you can see the gulf in talent between the 2 divisions.
Once they got that first goal, we should have gone 4-4-2 with Jennings & Kilbane playing as defensive midfielders to just stifle the opposition, go in hard, leave there foot in challenges etc. We just needed to get hold of the ball just to stop the momentum they were building.
Just when I thought Thorn was learning (or reading my posts
) he goes and throws it away, I'd say the draw was as much his fault as it was the players. I do agree about Thorn, he hasn't learnt from his 14 months in the job and we still can't even do the basics.
