Home v Oldham August 17th

That midfield wont be good enough over a season.

 

Devine did much better second half.

I thought Wood and Mellor had good games too

 

got to agree with @Faithful Bantam , seemed like Oldham were cutting through us too easily, fortunately, defence did its job (didn't get to say that too often last season) and Vaughan and Donaldson, well what can you say, give them service and see what happens.
Almost sounds churlish after a 3-0 win but but some midfield steel is needed.

 

Surely Vaughan should be 11 if he wasn't far behind Donaldson?

 

Great result and a much needed 3 points which will hopefully give the lads a new shot of confidence.

Richards-Everton was my MOTM, he's such a clean tackler and wins everything in the air. So far he looks like a terrific addition.

That goal will do scannell a world of good too, he looked a little scared and lacking in confidence for the most part but hopefully that kick starts his season.

McCartan did ok when he came on too, got himself in some good areas but lacking the finish. Less said about Patrick the better.

Midfield is still weak and needs addressing. Devine was good in patches but he was too slow in releasing the ball and often his defensive work was down to rectifying his own mistakes. Palmer to me looks like he's got another gear to go up to but is being held back as the protection isn't there.

Front two absolutely class as everyone knows, give them chances and they'll score, simple.

 

Way too generous with some of those.

Second half Devine was an 8. First half he was a 3 or 4.

 

First home win on a Saturday since March 9th. One before that, December 22nd.

I could grow into this enjoying Saturday evenings.

 

Much better performance today.

But we look like some kind of customized Fifa 19 team with our forwards attributes dialed up to 100 and a big hole in our midfield because we have spent all of our points.

 

Lets hope we don't have to wait as long for the next one!

 

Any word on Vaughan's injury? It didn't look bad, I'm hoping we took him off as a precaution more than anything.

 

Bowyer said he took him off because he had a "cough". WTF.

 

He looked happy enough at full time when he came back on the pitch to applaud the fans.

 

ps Doyle scored for Swindon today.

 

Bowyer asked on radio hoe did doyle move come about.

Bowyer said swindon rang us we accepted

 

Yes very odd expected him to say hed got a knock not a cough

 

I watched on I follow and you could see him talking to the medic. You could lip read him and he said ‘I’m fecked’. Assume he was blowing out of his arris so came off.

 

My kinda radio

 

Felt pretty bad for Oldham, they looked like us last season - perhaps we have now handed over the baton for worst club in the entire football league to them?

Positives for Oldham: No 18 Fage. That is all. Defensively they were appalling, and their dominant twenty minutes saw them create very little. No key player ready to score goals from midfield or up front.

Positives for City: Both strikers off the mark in fine style, and Scannell is the other name I want to see on the score sheet regularly. Wood and Devine did very, very well for me, Devine or Mellor outsiders for MOTM though fine with Donaldson getting the nod despite looking like Bambi on ice quite a few times. The back four defended manfully, and corners never looked a threat.

Wasn't impressed with Scannell, the calls for him to come in were just about justified by the goal (good strike), but up until then he was poor. Henley & Wood could not deal with Fage at all for the first half hour, but then their manager had a GREAT IDEA and moved him, from where he then became totally anonymous - well done old chap!

Who is the poster on this thread who is clearly trying to flirt with Akpan? He deserves to start as much as Brunker, absolutely awful all last season except for the Burton game, and typical crap since. What did he do, he got booked, that was all.

Overall, pretty happy with that, beat a bad side who will need to address their over-reliance on poor foreign players and managers to stand any chance. Not sure many teams will be beaten as easily as that, and frankly didn't think the performance against Cambridge was too much worse, we just played a poor defence. Still, stick with the 4-4-2 for now, but need much more from the wingers.

Final negative: WTF, Palmer. He is poor.

 

And I believe that Hanson header was deflected, good game today I thought Oldham looked very dangerous going forward and just as bad defending, it could have been 5/6, young McCartan having two great chances within a couple of minutes of coming on, maybe with a few extra minutes on the field he would have put both away.
Patrick also looked lively when he came on, our two CD looked very commanding and I thought Mellor had his best game so far for us.
Midfield were over run at times first half but got more into it second half, Scannel can't do 90 minutes hope that's only a temporary thing, Wood had a decent game and his cross for Vaughan's goal was quality, our two front men were too much for Oldham, not forgetting O'Donnell who commanded his box very well.
Look who's scored for Swindon today in the 88th minute.

 

Their number 10 who hit the post had a very good first half.