Pheasey_Saddler wrote:Totally agree that Sloppies were one of the poorest teams I've seen down there in a while. I also agree we really struggled against their direct style of play and were lucky just to concede 2. However we could have easily had 5 ourselves.
Impressed by McCarthy today and he showed real energy and passion down the right flank. Bakayoko also impressed too.
On the negative side, the defensive seemed increasing unsettled by Ethridge's indecisive decision making on whether to come for balls or not, and we looked all at sea at times in that 2nd half. A half decent team would have really punished us.
Sloppies will definitely be in the bottom 4 imo unless they sign 4 or 5 decent players in Jan to rescue their season. Would have been very disappointed not to have beaten a team of such poor quality.
Really don't understand how they're so poor....Jim O'Brien is a very good player at this level as he showed at Coventry yet he was only a sub for them today? Ebanks-Blake is fat but he had an excellent game at the Bescot last season for Chesterfield and scored a few yet he's only a sub. George Waring had a great game for Barnsley v Walsall a few seasons ago and I'd have been happy with signing Dodds and Leitch-Smith in the summer.
Can only conclude Micky Mellon didn't have a clue how to handle bigger names and now they're in flux until they get in a new manager...the league one Aston Villa if you like... :lol: :oops: