Davies - 5 - Clearly low on confidence. Fryers - 6 - Not bad. Needs to improve defensively but some good corners. Lindsay - 6 - Nothing spectacular good or bad Pinnock - 8 - Another great performance topped off by a good goal. Yiadom - 6 - Decent going forward first half and not bad defensively for the most part Hammill - 7 - Some good attacking runs but not enough end product Williams - 6 - Nothing spectacular good or bad. Gardener - 6.5 - Nothing spectacular good or bad. Some half decent runs forward Barnes - 7- Some good attacking runs but not enough end product Bradshaw - 6 - Nothing spectacular good or bad Thiam - 7 - His best game in a red shirt for me. He will come good SUBS McCarthy - 6 Ugbo - 5 Isgrove - 5
Williams - who I happen not to rate as much as others do on here - was superb today. He was in my opinion man of the match by a street. An 8.5. I should be ashamed to say that I would not have picked him for today, after he was mightily doggo against Preston. I was wrong. Anyway to pick on the other obvious (to me) misratings, Fryers was 3, Barnes 5, and the forwards no more than 10 between them. There were balls going in their box that deserved at least a red challenging it. There was no fox in the box. Which is why we will be relegated. Unless we get others in.
Davies 5.5. Low on confidence, poor kicking but a great keeper who we should keep. Last man of defence, under constant pressure. Fryers 4. Not seeing much to inspire me. Only slightly better than Kpekawa Lindsay 6. Solid enough. Can see a pass. Pinnock 7.5, Great effort. Looks a prospect. Also looked a better forward in 15 min cameo than Ugbo has looked in half a season. Yids 6. Put a shift in, tried to get forward. Williams 7. Not spectacular, but always in the thick of it. Broke well. Gardner 6.5. Not a big fan but 2nd game on trot he has performed. Excellent first half. Hammill 6.5 Good first half, got under their skin. No longer a goalscoring threat but aye, he can still perform. Barnes 5.5 Scored some worldies, but not mature enough to read a 90 minute 2nd tier game. Goes missing far too often. Bradshaw 5.5. Knows where the net is but he ain't getting enough chances and not quick enough to create his own. Thiam 7 Average of something like a 3 first half and 10+ second. Looks like our latest foreign enigma. Loved his work 2nd half. Izzy 6.5 Great cross, couple of good runs. Macca 5.5 Better going forward than he was at the back. Would still prefer him to Fryers. Ugbo 2 Have not got a clue what he brings to the table. Chelsea must be loving the fact he is getting game time in a Misters league but we have our own free scoring academy product I'd rather see us putting time into. Terrible player. Throw in coach. 1. Nuff said Hecky 6. Looks as low on confidence as the players. Still fully behind him. Made up for wrong decision to sub Thiam by throwing Pinnock up top. Masterstroke. Reading were one of the best teams at Oakwell last year. This time they were dire. Could have, and should have, buried them before HT.
