RCC - 5: Should've done better with both, especially the second. Pissed about too much and isn't commanding enough.
Phillips - 3: Not good enough. Nervous, clumsy and cost us the game. Says a lot we played people out of position to take him off. Should've played Haynes at LB and Stokes at CB and Ricketts RB.
Ricketts - 6: Nothing terrible, nothing amazing.
Ramage - 6: some awful distribution first half. Some decent headers and a couple of decent balls once he had a target second half. Not quick, not good as passing, but better than Aaron Phillips.
Stokes - 6: fairly solid but not one of his better games. Would rather have seen him at CB again.
Fleck - 5: excellent first half, awful second.
Vincelot - 7: Did well in both positions, needed a few more with his balls today.
Lameiras - 6: the odd nice touch but too lightweight for this game.
Maddison - 6: half decent free kick, a couple of dribbles nowhere and our best chance. But offers nothing when we don't have the ball.
Murphy - 4: poor game didn't get involved at all, was reluctant to go for the run and drifted inside too much.
Armstrong - 6: no real service.
Subs
Bigi - 6: positioning is awful, makes some mistakes but was passing it forward at least.
Tudgay - 6: won his fair share of headers, stayed in the middle and gave us a focal point a bit. But no real service.
Cole - 6: decent delivery into the box, though nothing to aim at. Not on that long.
Harsh on RCC for the first goal. Don't think he could have done anything more than that. Second one, yep, he shouldn't really be beaten from that angle, but don't see how you have put some blame on RCC for the second goal and none on Ramage, who was much more culpable.
RCC 5
Phillips 2. Sorry, but that was a basic, basic error. Burton had hardly threatened at all until that point and that was a pure gift for them, wrapped and everything. He needs to go on loan asap.
Ricketts 6
Ramage 5. What on earth was he doing for that second goal? He seemed to be looking back over his shoulder as the striker was bearing down on goal.
Stokes 6. Poor going forwards, but got absolutely no help from anywhere.
Fleck 5. Excellent first half, but very poor in the second. Seemed determined to bag a yellow too in that incident where he did indeed receive one.
Vincelot 7. MOTM and by a country mile.
Murphy 4. Started terribly, but then had that little spell just before half-time where he moved inside and looked quite a bit more dangerous, but then second half he was very poor.
Murphy's beginning to worry me. I accept he can be inconsistent, but he's no use to us if that talent only comes to us once in every 5 games or so.
Lameiras 3. Sorry, but this game was not the game for him. Out-muscled, out-manouvered, crowded out. Tiny little bits of trickery, but also some of his distribution left is in big, big trouble.
Not sure his game is suited to the hustle and bustle of League One. Yes, I accept he has had the one good game here and there, but that's all it's been and that simply isn't good enough unfortunately.
Maddison 6. The best stuff we did came through him, but he was still relatively quiet all game.
Armstrong 5. Works hard but nothing came off for him and we just didn't get the ball to him in good situations.
Bigi 5
Cole 5
Tudgay 6
