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Played very well for the first 15 minutes and then in bursts thereafter. Burton were considerably less able than us a footballing unit but played to their strengths, saw out our early pressure then imposed their game of hassling, pressuring and crowding our men. A notable change in mood and flow...

Stockdale 8 - did nothing wrong as far as I could see. Looked unfit though! Sterling 7 - pretty good. Not to the forefront as much as recently. Willis 7 - didn't seem in any trouble but worried me a couple of times holding on to it for too long or making avaerage clearances Hyam 8 - seemed to...

They're maybe the most limited opponents I've seen, twice, though Plymouth and Wimbledon weren't far behind.

Abysmal - did no one predict that's what Blackpool would try to do?

and Bristol away

We've given up, like against Blackpool in August, Scunthorpe, Plymouth and many other teams recently

At best

He isn't good enough

This is small comfort, but in the first half Blackpool were the worst opposition I've seen this season - as they were in the away match. Looks like it'll be the same result though as we can't score and have no gumption.

Not sure about the top end of the league. But if we score more we should be fine - right?

An ifollow match for me, as usual. First thing: some terrific football and overall a good performance. We played really well, quite a lot. Plenty of chances created. The first half was excellent. Hiwula was really lively and Enobakhare looked in control in the midfield. Plymouth or Shrewsbury...

There's a school of thought that the small percentage of great stuff that leads to goals is all you can ask for from a tricky winger. Almost no one beats his man 7 or 8 times out of 10. Messi, maybe. Plus, couldn't you say about almost any outfield player that apart from the good things they...

Yeah, these aren't far off. I'd give Burge one more though (6) and Bayliss one more (7), plus perhaps a 6.5 for Kelly. He was relatively enterprising. Bright was all right and so he can have a 5 from me. Not clear to me yet what he'll offer us though. Chaplin largely anonymous.

In the first half, kicking towards their few dozen fans. It was a sort of low scissor kick that Roche parried from what looked like two yards away.

JCH had a point-blank shot stopped by a blinding save though

Yes we were limited and often outplayed but fought hard against a physical side and debatably deserved the point *what penalty?*

Yeah, had forgotten about the shock of having an unnecessarily rebuilt side foisted on us in that roiling heat against Scunthorpe

1) Blackpool away deffo 2) Cheltenham away 3) Bristol Rovers away 4) Shrewsbury away 5) Fleetwood away Didn't see the Oxford league cup match

I struggle to believe the off-field worries really affect the players. If they're any good they'll just go somewhere else, as about 10-12 of them will probably do anyway most summers. No, I put our slump down to two factors: a season-long problem - lack of good strikers; and a circumstantial...

Burge - 6 oh I dunno Grimmer - 6 better then recently Willis - 6 all right Davies - 6 all right Brown - 6.5 fine Thomas - 7 good though not as much as recently Kelly - 6 all right Bayliss - 5 only seems to be showing his faults at the moment...