Don't want to get on the players backs too much as it's been a long, tough season and we're quite clearly down to the bare bones, but the performance was poor overall tonight. Wilson obviously scores highly for the goal, and I thought Gyokeres worked as hard as ever but struggling to single many others out for too much praise. Sheaf was having a decent game before he went off, and Hamer was trying his best to drag us up the pitch, although was quite sloppy himself. Don't really think the two loanee wing-backs have worked ot so far. Was overly harshed in the heat of the moment towards Wilson-Esbrand in the match thread, but he's also just not showing enough and isn't using the ball well enough when we need him to. Norton-Cuffey was the better of the two but he is hopelessly slow and some of his decision making is incredibly questionable. I was a big fan of Eccles when he broke into the team, but he's been below standard recently. He either seems to take too long on the ball or moves it on too quickly and either way it breaks down the move. Centre backs were ok as ever, although again the distribution is qute poor and we go play it back to the opposition needlessly far too often. Godden was probably the most ineffective player on the pitch tonight. Him and Gyokeres as a pair just doesn't work for me at all, and when we're struggling to get a foothold on a game he offers very, very little. Walker didn't have many opportunities to impose himself on th game, but felt like he did a better job of winning the aerial balls and holding up play in his cameo than Godden did in 90 minutes. I'd personally give Walker a start on Saturday.
Overall, not a great performance and not what we needed tonight, but to come out of that game with a point given how we played and how unlikely it was looking for most of the game has to go down as some sort of an achievement. Not convinced we have it in us to get 6 points from Reading and Birmingham given how we've been playing since the international break, and how bare bones our squad is, but we're still in the conversation with 3 games to go which is way above expectations both at the start of the season, and especially 7 games in when we looked like shoe ins for relegation.
EDIT: Completely forgot to mention Kelly, who I thought did well, especially after so long out.
