Had a rewatch once I got back, from my seat we might have looked a bit better than we were, but I still think we did well tonight against a strong team, whilst making changes ourselves.
I thought a couple of their goals were soft as they get, Eastwood should have done better with all of them really, One goal Eastwood was just nowhere, he came out and stopped, he should have either gone for the ball or stayed in the net, 6 yards out he's not stopping bugger all, he's a bit more decisive than Blackman though that's neither here nor there if we're letting 4 goals in imo, but he made a couple of good saves too, and generally our defence was a bit all over the place in the second half so you can't blame just him, but first half wasn't too bad for me, outside of the odd error, but I'm not that worried because we've not been too bad at the back so far in the league.
Thought Jake Wright played really well, O'Connell made a couple of mistakes but nothing too bad, Freeman had a good game, Baldock looks class to me, Bash came on - high balls worry me when he's on, like against Boro, he just doesn't look like he knows where they're going.
I thought we were really positive with our possession though, but we really need to get our eye in and start scoring. 6 goals from 6 games in all competitions innit? Could do with getting a few in against Derby.
As I said though positive, up on the wings, around the box, some nice passing, we seemed to attack with a bit more speed (as much as we have anyway, though that's not a lot compared to Leicester - bloody quick) and I really enjoyed it even though we lost.
Lavery worked hard, I'd put him with Billy if we're playing 2 up front on Saturday, if we play one behind a striker, I think Brooks could do Billy's running for him, he can stay boglining haha, as long as he's onside. Keep Duffy in, though Samir had a good game tonight. Brooks and Duffy on from the start and a tighter defence and we'll do some damage if we can pissing score more of our chances.
We probably just missed Coutts and Fleck to be honest, Lundstram looked shagged out as I said earlier, maybe we wouldn't have let 4 in with them in midfield, who knows.
Anyway, overall I thought we played really well, didn't embarrass ourselves at all despite the scoreline, and I'm optimistic, as I was anyway.
They all looked like they were giving it full beans which is all you can ask for really, I was more pissed off at 0-2 at Cardiff because we just looked a bit meh.
We need another striker though, badly. If Hanson's off, we've got Leon, Billy, Caolan and Ched, unless I'm forgetting someone. Not much is it if we get a couple of injuries, especially as Ched is hit and miss at the moment, probably a while off starting in the league and I think only Billy is a double figures striker atm, unless Lavery hits a vein of form. Not Clarke bashing btw, like him, good target etc, Ched could be eventually but he's still an unknown for me.
Oh, and the referee and his assistants were shocking. AGAIN. Ref didn't know what handball was, linesman missed some obvious offsides and the one at the Kop end did not give two shits about the ball going out of play. He wouldn't have flagged if Brooks ran off the pitch with the ball and started doing kick ups in the South stand bogs.
