Murphy-7
Christie-3
Wood-3
Edge-7
Reckord-6
Bailey-5
Barton-5
Baker-4
Moussa-5
McSheffrey-4
McGoldrick-6
Cameron-6
Ball-5
Fleck-6
The worst thing for me was the utter failure of anyone other than McGoldrick to close down. He seemed visibly frustrated by it. At our worst we were backing off all the way to our area, when the inevitable Wood cock-up would ensue. By contrast, any time a City player had the ball there were two or three MK players closing him down-and usually nobody moving off the ball for him after the first 15 minutes. A lot of that comes down to hunger and desire, something we were sadly lacking.
The long balls were also totally counter-productive-and frustrating when Reckord (in particular) was demanding the ball of Murphy. And his kicks were aimless, just giving possession back to a team that was running us ragged with their passing and movement. But I won't be too harsh on Murphy, as he did make some decent saves (and even Westwood was guilty of hoofing it to the opposition constantly).
Somebody teach our players how to take a throw in!!! Cyrus in particular was guilty of blindly flinging it vaguely to the opposition. Again the lack of movement played a part. I think something Robins identified as when Cameron came on he conspicuously took up a position 10 yards behind Cyrus and in space and screamed for the ball from the first throw after his introduction. Given the utter chasm in possession and comfort on the ball, needlessly giving it back from every throw just made things even worse.
As a side note, I got a text tonight from a mate who used to work for the DSS saying in amazed response to hearing what money Wood is on: "My mates place of work issued the National Insurance numbers for Edge and Malaga and they are paid 7.5k per month".
So Wood gets more in a week what they get in a month? Going on tonight's showing alone, Wood is half the player Edge is. Can't be good for dressing room morale having such a disparity in wages-and such a disparity between salary and value is why we are where we are.
