Nice mate? Cheers for the lift.
Must admit I was underwhelmed. They are a team that like to pass it, and we were the ones just lumping it up to Carroll and praying Nolan would somehow burst through. I'd heard Guthrie's injury was questionable, but either way we still need more CM options than Butt Smith Nolan and Guthrie, we should seriously look at trying to nab Gibson on loan. I was saying to Dave I'd love to see us sign a young exciting player even on loan.
We lost all shape when Harewood came on and our bench was way too striker heavy.
Harper 7- Nothing he could of done with the goals really.
Taylor 6- Halfredsson got nothing off him first half, but second half he gave him a right run around.
Coloccini 7- Like Taylor he was calm enough and looks comfortable shame not many are like him
Taylor 7 - See above
Enrique 9 - Best player for me, runs his heart out and is way too good for this league.
Pancrate 6- Didn't get the ball and when he did he wasn't having much success
Butt 5- Just not up to it, he needs atheltic players around him which Smith and Nolan just aren't
Smith - 6 Quiet today, if were playing Butt he needs to attack more, we should be looking to play him in the role Butts at and sign an attacking midfielder in the mould of Taarabt at QPR
Nolan -7 scored, but then what? They pushed up which pretty much buggered his game as the space was too much ground for him to cover and is why he should have played Lovenkrands
Jonas 5- Not at the races today.
Carroll 8- Throws himself about and got absolutely nothing from a truly shocking ref who was all for the home team
Subs
Harewood- 7 see Nolan really, he scored, but what else did he even do, he can't hold up the ball much for a big fella.
Zurab 6- He did not look comfy at LB which just highlights how we lack depth.
Ranger 6- Aye he did well enough, not great, not horrendous better hold up than Harewood that's for sure.
Overall our lack of depth is highlighted by today, the fact we have 7 midfielders to fill 4 positions but 5 strikers to fill at most 2 positons just shows how unbalanced the squad is, I don't get why Simpson was dropped considering we didn't really benefit from Taylors delivery who's freekick at the end was woeful. We need to be able to shut games up like that, we were 5 minutes from another win, they were no attacking powerhouse.
Christ, did you two go on a date?
