Its really this simple. Timlin should be the first player on the team sheet.. Cant believe the abuse Bolger has received on here today. We have scored 1 goal in 3 games and conceded 0, yet its a defender who gets rounded upon.
Agree with both these comments. We didn't miss Tims so much at Cambridge but we really did today. He needs to be back in the middle, whether that means dropping Lenny or Willo, Mr Brown will have to decide but there's not the space for all three of them. He is our lynch pin and is massively under-estimated by some.
Weston was the obvious one to put in in place of Hurst, but losing Worrall as well was a huge loss. Weston is a real enigma, he undoubtedly has skill and a decent shot on him but so often he ducks out of challenges or goes away from goal and there wasn't nearly enough running at goal today.
Huge approval for Coulthirst today, looked absolutely the nuts and can play off Corr in a way that Payne doesn't. on another day we'd have won that game easy, the Dagenham keeper pulled off some exceptional saves.
Bentley - 6, not much to do
White - 7, another solid performance and slotted into the middle effortlessly
Bolger - 5, gutted for him as he'd done so well at Cambridge and started so well but you just can't do that in the modern game
Prosser - 6, Lukey, my son, if they're continually grabbing your shirt then give them something to let them know you're not letting them get away with it..a Vinny squeeze or something!
Coker - 7, so good to have him back, can we stop the short corners though please
Worrall - 6, quiet game before having to be subbed
Leonard - 6, worked hard, couple of shots
Atkinson - 6, our attacking midfielder needs to do more than just lots of running, want to see some testing of the keeper
Weston - 6, some things were excellent, some (too many) weren't
Payne - 6, not his day today, should probably have been subbed earlier
Corr - 7, put in a real graft
Subs:
Coulthirst for Worrall - 7, really impressed today, lots of pace and ran at players
Timlin for Payne - 7, the man on for the boy, we've missed him
Williams J for Corr - 7, came on and put himself about
Officials:
Every time we have him, the game ends up being more about Gavin Ward. Dagenham's tactics were shocking and the officials let them get away with murder. Prosser rightly objected vociferously about the pulling of his shirt in their box during corners, their no 21, Partridge was practically mugging Weston or Corr every time a ball was hit long to them and some of the challenges (I'm thinking of a couple on White and Lenny in particular) went unpunished because an advantage was played. They got a couple of things badly wrong, especially slopey shoulders the Lino, our side.
