Blimey, the first 80 or so minutes were the worst i've seen in a long time. We finally woke up in the last 10 and were unlucky not to get point, which we wouldnt have deserved if we'd have scored. I'll start with a plus, i hope David Preece can continue to play like he did today, had a few nervous moments early on, where he went missing on one occasion and had a poor kick not long after, but he made some excellent saves and kept us in the game. Iain Hume and Adam Hammill changed the game combined when they were both on, Humie looked full of life and it was great to see him playing well again, in fact he was nearly as impressive imho as he was before his injury. Hammill has got to start on tuesday for me, he was creating everything late on and Andy Gray didn't get into the game until Hammill provided for him. But theres a long list of players who were below par today, Kozluk, Odejayi, Anderson (who was ok for me in the first half, but was shocking in the 2nd), and Thompson looked poor until he was brought off early on. We must have given 15 corners away in the first half, and we just didn't seem to know what to do with the ball and in the end just lumped it out of play. Anderson and Thompson seemed to want an age on the ball and Halfredsson's passing was a little poor at times. Hopefully we'll improve on tuesday, but thats all im saying for now because i'm absolutly starving, bleeding services are a rip off.
Just read the official ***** version Gives a very different story to the ones from those of you who were there today (and that from the Barnsley World commentary). Anyone reading it would think we'd been hard done by the referee after a valiant display of total football. Pretty sure I know which version I believe!
RE: Aye, ref was a total Homer. Never booked them but pulled it out on us a few times nt Ref was poor but thats something we have to get used to. If the players show passion effort and run their blood to water for the cause each game then we will overcome poor officials. Unfortunately some of the players today need to take a good look at themselves because too many af them didn't seem bothered. There was a terrific amount of support for the team today from people who pay hard earned money to watch the reds week in week out and they deserve 100% effort from the players. Any Player not interested in the above needs to be shipped out and relaced by someone who will
