I thought we were excellent from 1 to 11, although we were helped by their defence collapsing like a pack of cards. Had Garratt not been in top shot-stopping form it could have finished 10-4 and that would have had Jeff Sterling scratching his head for his ‘that hasnt happened since’ statistics.
I was only saying on facebook last week that now we aren’t going up or down it would be good to see the regular young subs like Finney, Dale, Reilly etc get a few starts, so imagine my shock when one was a starter and the other had a good 20 minutes. Gazan said he has been unimpressed by Finney in the past but I don’t think you can properly judge a player until he starts a match (I think he’d started only one previously) or preferably several. I thought he was excellent and should have been MotM - Dave needs to get his contract extended toute suite! Bowery, too, was back to his best and the left side of what passed for Crawley’s defence couldn’t handle him and Perry - well, not as well as Perry handled for the equaliser! Reminded me of Akinfenwa’s Harlem Globetrotters moment, but I suspect the manager may not draw the referee’s attention to that one!
Good to see Dale having the confidence to take players on and have a go - and good that the crowd didn’t give him the Kirk boos when it didn’t come off - they both need our encouragement to try it again.... and again even if it doesn’t always work.
Not much to say about the others, all of whom played pretty much up to their best and long may it continue.
Just one other comment - Jamie who??!!



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