Most liked posts in thread: Away vs Stevenage

Hands up those that said ROD wasn't good enough...

 

He put in as many crosses from left back as he has playing left mid.

Get proper left winger driving teams back, have wood standing off ready for the lay off to whip those crosses in. His delivery is excellent

 

Connor Wood wasn't that far behind him for me.

 

What I liked about this performance was our willingness to roll our sleeves up and get stuck in, no waving arms or shouting at each other, just sheer hard work and covering for each other. We played as a team.

 

I watched him all last season. I watched him at preston and oldham this season and when he featured in pre-season. 0 improvement, 0 fight and 0 passion for someone his size. Same as Doyle the sooner he's on his way the better for all of us. What is he good at? As far as I'm concerned we'd get as much benefit playing someone from the youth team as playing Akpan.

In contrast just to prove I'm not negative for the sake of it, AOC (minus that pass) and O'Donnell for example have been great so far this season and have really turned it round in my eyes.

 

There is no better option in the squad??? ? I've said it before and I'll say it again, if we don't bring in a new defensive midfielder, I'd be tempted to move AOC into that role and stick Paudie in at the back. He's a better option than Akpan, no question.

 

I thought Wright's pointing was better than Akpan's.

 

Lovely evening for it!

 

Connor wood step forward young man. Its your time.

 

Really need a midfielder who can carry the ball, keep having it passed around us

 

Shame he's now back at left back. I think he'll do well in this league as a left midfielder. He's got a cracking cross on him.

 

Midfield is going to cost us over the course of the season. Just not enough about them. At all.

 

Good result, great desire to defend our penalty box, excellent performance from the keeper, centre backs and Connor Wood, but awful on anything like quality with the ball.

Our midfield is abysmal.

 

watching on i-pad, just 10 minutes to go, c'mon City....

 

Dear me. Wow. Proper hanging on for the last 15 mins.
I thought Akpan was useless, but my God Patrick is shocking. He was running in circles at one point - I guess that's where the rush of blood to the head came from to shoot instead of running down the clock. Facepalm.
Wood played well. Centre backs did a job. Keeper made two fantastic saves.
Vaughan a nuisance all game. Donaldson ran allnight. Devine found a second wind in the last twenty mins. Put himself about. Scannell was poor. Palmer a little bit anonymous.

Forget about Devitt. We need two midfielders, and then a striker.

 

Richards-Everton could turn out to win one of the end of season awards I reckon. He's a mountain at the back and loves to compete and get into the game.

 

I was shot down at weekend when I said Wood will become a good left back. Most think he would be better left midfield. I would love a good left midfielder in front of him, with them linking up like Meredith did with Reid

 

Will win you free kicks for fun when under pressure, Donaldson brings a lot more to the team that just a goal here and there. When i think of our strike force now to what it was last season.... on second thoughts its not worth thinking about.

 

O’Donnell - 9 - two unbelievable saves, punched well when needed to, also collected crosses well when under pressure
Mellor - 6 - average steady away performance. Didn’t do anything particularly well, but chipped away
BRE - 9 - machine. Absolute animal at the back, wins everything
AOC - 8 - good centre half, benefits playing alongside the machine. Reads the game well
Wood - 7 - very good crosses. They targeted his side most of the second half, but dealt with a lot of pressure
Devine - 6 - neat and tidy but not nasty or creative enough
Palmer - 6 - neat and tidy but not nasty or creative enough
Akpan - 5 - wouldn’t know he was playing. Struggle to see anything he offers apart from being good mates with scannell and BRE
Scannell - 6 - great work rate, still waiting for a bit more on the ball from him
Vaughan - 7 - some leader. Should have been sent off. Elbowed their Centre half twice in second half. What a guy
Don - 6 - great work rate, cut inside really well second half and should have scored but scuffed the shot

Average performance at best on the ball, but very determined off the ball. Didn’t really look like conceding apart from the header which OD pulled off a world class save for. Need another option in midfield. I’d also be tempted to keep wood left back and player a winger in front of him

 

It’ll be a comfortable win for us.