krusty said:
Matty matty matty were where you imo Mrdja played better than Matty but a terrible game. Well done Danny hold your head up high.
Absolutely. Never thought I would see Mrdja do more in a game than Matty. Nik was just his usual total waste of space self, whereas Matty was god awful. Never, ever have I seen him play without heart before... sadly I have now... finally saw him control one ball in the last 15 minutes of the game... constantly caught on his heels and was literally so absent in the first half as to not even know he was on. Looks like playing 451 has caught up with him or he was unhappy at being wide. Whatever it is HE DIDN'T TURN UP.
All that said, at least we know he will almost certainly come good... Mrdja however looks like he will never do anything positive on the field ever again and for the good of the team should hang up his boots immediately popovitch style so we can sign someone else before we slip towards the spoon. Think we have till midnight monday lets get onto it CCM.
So much lack lustre dross all over the park. Heff had an ok game, but could have murdered him when he didn't feed that ball back to Travis in the latter stages at the top of the box.
Wilko's defense was ok, though he's going quiet again, but his distribution and speed of thought were poor.
Porter, offered very little, didn't stand out as bad, but need him to get forward to help provide another wave of attack or we are too easy to shut down.
I thought Kwassie actually tried to put in today but was so slow to make decisions, honestly if there were points for kicking the ball into the opposition today Kwassie would be lord! Lack of movement upfront contributes to this but it is also a Kwassie habit for mine.
Pedj tried but was off his best... but at least he turned up. Boogs mercifully was solid. Hutch made some good tackles and was one of the few players to keep possession, but of course didn't add anything going forward, as we all hopefully understand by now thats not really his job, but when your one down if he can't step up the I'd much rather see a DM go off than an AM being McGlinchey Lawrie. Maybe weemac could have actually done something with Travis nearby. As it was he struggled to get into the game, but how could he not - for as Travis fumed when he came on... wtf do you do with the ball when there is no movement or endeavour upfront? Our frontline should really hang their heads and it needs a serious shake up.
On Elrich... Meh, Elrich is an easy target but actually didn't do a lot wrong in his 20m odd on the park, just didn't add anything either, just like the bulk of the squad over an entire 90.
Make no mistake the blame for todays performance should be squarely shouldered by the starting squad and also Not Lawrie in all fairness. The biggest concern for mine was in keeping two DM's when your chasing a game, but then when the only thing your team is doing remotely ok is defending against a team that is dominating you, I can at least understand why you don't want to pull a screener off. But... risks need to be taken to win football games sometimes. Apart from that I don't think Lawrie could have done shit all with that team today...
The only shocking thing about his lineup was Mrdja, and if Dmac travelled Mrdja wouldn't have started.
Three positives... (just)
1) Danny was immense.
2) In no small regard being because of Danny, our defense is still pretty solid all in all and Doig should be back next week to wake everyone the f**k up again. One conceded goal from a set pieces with henrique pwning Heff all game is a pretty good result in a game we deserved to be absolutely hammered in.
3) Travis, who has struggled to get off the bench, did more with the ball in 30 minutes than our entire attacking third and looks to be all class.
The biggest negative, aside from a dreadful lack of heart from our players... is clearly our attacking line up. ZERO shots on goal, what an absolute embarrassment.
Travis and Mc Glinchey are must starts next game imo and Caceres certainly deserves another shot if thats the best we can muster going forward.
Don't know why Dylan isn't travelling, so assuming that he's the player it's looking like may be going. No excuse for putting Mrdja in the squad otherwise. I'd rather the youth league reserve keeper up front rather than Mrdja atm.
Big rant. Feel bit better now. Most who know my posts will know that I tend to try to stay positive, but people were whinging about last week, this weeks performance made us look like Arsenal last week in comparison.
