Originally Posted by
MancMagpie
Got back about 45 mins ago scratching my head in the car all the way back.
Our defence got totally bullied by their two forwards, Jamille Matt in particular...He was literally unplayable in that 1st half and was mostly drifting towards Rose (one of our smallest players) and out muscling him, very clever. Unfortunately our young defenders didn't know how to cope with him. Only Milsom had a reasonable game out of the back 4.
Jim O'Brien was probably MOM for me. It was strange they gave it to Hemmings, but I thought it was a bit crass to boo that decision by some members of the crowd.
Touching on the crowd, apart from the booing of Hemmings, they were fantastic and kept singing even when we were 1-4 down.
A strange off day for Doyle. Hope he doesn't have many more of those....ouch. Alessandra was also poor.
Gomis looked lively but was largely ineffective, although I believe he is still an improvement on Dennis.
CMS was making things happen when he came on and Boldewijn played pretty well too.
Strange really, because we weren't terrible overall by any means. Just got totally bullied for 50 minutes. Then Newport just saw the game out. We were much better 2nd half, but the game was already over by then.
Oh well. onwards and (hopefully) upwards!!