A poor performance, with us again lacking any real quality. There were some positives…
Button deserved his selection and demonstrated he is a worthy replacement for Johnno.
Clarke continues to impress and I hope we are able to secure him permanently. Potential Captain ?
O’Shea and AJ (who pressed forward well) complemented each other, albeit shabby defending to concede.
Carroll threatened and deserved his goal.
Matty Philips looked lively when he came on.
Reach pressed forward when he got the ball and whilst his crosses were loose, at least he did get the ball into the box most times and provided Carroll’s goal.
Furlong deserved his selection and his performance should keep his place
Clearly there was an incident with Robinson with the BRE giving him some stick ?
Overall a low quality game, typical of our recent form…but we won…Phew
There was initial positivity in view of the 5 or so changes. The formation seemed ‘same old’ but there was more progression upfield rather than the constant passing back of recent games. Molumby coming in for some stick, as he was the main perpetrator, following his continual turning to pass back. Bruce’s selection generated a better team spirit, despite the lack of quality, and pleasing to see the majority of the players taking time to walk around the ground saluting the fans at the end of the game.
It’s amazing what a win does…positive chanting as we left the ground! We’re a fickle lot !!
AJ and O'Shea were awful, O'Shea is not strong enough to play in the middle of a back 3 and AJ was lucky on more than 1 occasion not to give a goal away, i agree about Clarke but we do have a lot of contracted centre halves we need to move on before we offer him a deal, also not sure Button is a long term replacement for Johnstone and we should be looking for a younger replacement, Henderson from Man Utd? all in all we have a lot to do.