for those who went. Where we a one trick pony, yer know just give it to Hammill, cos when Harris played that's all we seemed to do give it him and hope for the best. If we were it waint tek oppos long to snub art his threat and then we will be left scratching us arses ageean. Was we more than just Hammill?
1st half especially young Ivan linked very well with Hourihane, Hammill and Isgrove - made us look fluid going forwards. Isgrove hit the bar, had a few good chances. Jackson put a right shift in too. We got knocked back by their goal - the free kick came from Mawson looking inside and playing square instead of using the space in front of him - wish Johnson would stop with that ******* tactic. Hammil gave us another option - we aren't now looking just to Hourihane to create.
I think Hammill gave us a spark which rubbed off on the other players.Apart from his very good performance he was encouraging his team mates all evening but then so was Hourahaine and Nyatanga.I also saw a different Sam Winnall when he came on.He looked for some reason to be fitter,faster and more determined.
Hammill was the star, but Isgrove caused plenty of problems down the other wing too, particularly as the game wore on. He really should have scored two. One from a Hammil cross that he somehow managed to skew wide when stood on the 6 yard box in the centre of goal, the other when he skipped past three defenders, ran in to the box and placed his precision shot just outside the ******* post, in exactly the same place where the previous one went. Every time one of the two wingers got the ball, we had three in the box, the two forwards and the other winger. Pearson played as a box to box type midfielder, so he was getting forward too and on the edge of the box when the crosses came in. Hourihane sat on the half way line and played the ball to either winger. If they double up on Hammill, Isgrove will have a lot more space. Having said all that, we're going to come up against a lot better teams than York.
Good to hear, two wingers firing, bodies int box, attacking intent, entertainment was had by the sarnds of it and two cracking goals to boot I hear. Radio York commentators reckoned Isgrove should `ve scored twice but said they missed a sitter in second haif anall which was fired straight at Davies.
It wasn't a sitter as such and I wouldn't describe it as a miss from the York forward. Cross in to the box, which Mawson did bugger all to cut out. He didn't have a good game that lad. Their forward receives it with his back to goal, brilliant turn and stabs it towards goal. He did everything right, but Davies had positioned himself well to stop it.
Toney was great in the first half, winning headers and dirving forward, tried an overhead what went straight to the keeper, was a yard or two away from a goal as well, him and Jackson linked up well to say they've only trained once or twice with each other. i'd go with the same team on saturday
Much more. We breached their defence and put balls into the box on numerous occasions, but the final ball or the plahyers in the middle were never quite there. Special mention to Simeon Jackson, espeially in the first 20 minutes, he was putting in lots of little runs beyond their defence. But, as the game wore on, for some reason, the ball was not getting played to him, so he kept coming back on side, repeating his run until I think he gave up through lack of service. His movement, some decent through balls from Hourhane, good wing play down both sides and decent if naive forward play from Toney gave us a real cutting edge. Despite us looking a bit crap at the back, most of that pressure was created by ourselves by playing the ball back or across rather than forwards, their goal came from this sort of situation with Mawson. But, to be fair, I think they only had 2 real chances on goal. Cut this negativity out and get the ball forward quicker and we have a chance of beating any team.
