David Perkins - player of the year

Jesus truly wept.

 

He was playing well up to his booking. After that we took over in midfield.

David Perkins is a good player at this level.

 

Busy as always. There's no way I'd pick him ahead of Brownhill or Hourihane though.

 

W4nk on a stick.

 

I thought he was going to get annihilated after 15 minutes. He was left really exposed against Wildschutt, their first goal came that way and it looked like we were going to really struggle down our right. Then he crunched into a challenge and after that never looked back, had a really strong game to the extent that Wigan then changed it at half time.

 

100% with this - he was struggling up until he nearly put him in't stand with a fierce but clean challenge. After that had his best game at full-back in my opinion.

 

He's won player of the year with Colchester , Barnsley and Wigan....it's not by accident.

 

I dont get why people try and make out Perkins was woeful for us and is a poor player. I think its really disrespectful, he's a good player and well thought about by a lot of pros and managers.

 

Agreed, he got better once he started pushing forwards giving Wildschutt something to think about. Those first 20 minutes I feared for Josh. His opponent was bigger, stronger, faster and had a trick or two. Christ knows why they took him off at half time.

 

And Blackpool

 

It was excellent. Perkins, Etuhu, Dawson and Mellis were on fire. I understand the lambasting of Mellis. He was a talented footballer he didnt want it enough. Etuhu is a player whos only just finding himself and could go either way. Dawson made the best of what he's got but was never Championship standard. Perkins is a very honest footballer who made it to the Championship late in his career and made a very good go of it. At 33 he's just helped his club get promoted and is going to get another crack at it.