A cracking result in the circumstances. Obviously 10 men suits us. For those on a mission the Timlin thread has already started so maybe this thread may be a bit positive.
Roll on Saturday.
Roll on Saturday.
On the TZ coach heading home.
I'm going to open up with the truth.
Shrewsbury played us off the park. We were generally awful, the wing backs, especially hendrie were terrible. Shrewsbury over ran us over and over again. Half decent finishing and we would have taken a beating.
Bentley 7 made some vital saves first half
Hendrie 5 for the goal, otherwise complete gash
Barrett 6.5 threw his body in a lot.
Bolger 6.5 some vital defending in the box
Lenny 6 poor
Atkinson 5 lightweight...worked hard
Hunt....injured
Mooney 5.5
Payne 6.5 tried to play footy in amongst the mire
O Neil 6 done some defending
Loza 6.5 an assist done ok
Mcqueen 6 done ok.
I will say well done boys on the result a crucial 3 points
On the TZ coach heading home.
I'm going to open up with the truth.
Shrewsbury played us off the park. We were generally awful, the wing backs, especially hendrie were terrible. Shrewsbury over ran us over and over again. Half decent finishing and we would have taken a beating.
Bentley 7 made some vital saves first half
Hendrie 5 for the goal, otherwise complete gash
Barrett 6.5 threw his body in a lot.
Bolger 6.5 some vital defending in the box
Lenny 6 poor
Atkinson 5 lightweight...worked hard
Hunt....injured
Mooney 5.5
Payne 6.5 tried to play footy in amongst the mire
O Neil 6 done some defending
Loza 6.5 an assist done ok
Mcqueen 6 done ok.
I will say well done boys on the result a crucial 3 points
everyone was very average tonight then will those ratings eh?On the TZ coach heading home.
I'm going to open up with the truth.
Shrewsbury played us off the park. We were generally awful, the wing backs, especially hendrie were terrible. Shrewsbury over ran us over and over again. Half decent finishing and we would have taken a beating.
Bentley 7 made some vital saves first half
Hendrie 5 for the goal, otherwise complete gash
Barrett 6.5 threw his body in a lot.
Bolger 6.5 some vital defending in the box
Lenny 6 poor
Atkinson 5 lightweight...worked hard
Hunt....injured
Mooney 5.5
Payne 6.5 tried to play footy in amongst the mire
O Neil 6 done some defending
Loza 6.5 an assist done ok
Mcqueen 6 done ok.
I will say well done boys on the result a crucial 3 points
# | Team | Pl | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Last 6 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Burton Albion | 28 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 37 | 23 | 14 | 57 | |
2 | Walsall | 28 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 47 | 27 | 20 | 56 | |
3 | Gillingham | 29 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 55 | 36 | 19 | 54 | |
4 | Wigan Athletic | 29 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 48 | 29 | 19 | 52 | |
5 | Coventry City | 29 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 48 | 32 | 16 | 48 | |
6 | Millwall | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 38 | 6 | 44 | |
7 | Southend United | 28 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 38 | 35 | 3 | 44 |
On the TZ coach heading home.
I'm going to open up with the truth.
Shrewsbury played us off the park. We were generally awful, the wing backs, especially hendrie were terrible. Shrewsbury over ran us over and over again. Half decent finishing and we would have taken a beating.
Bentley 7 made some vital saves first half
Hendrie 5 for the goal, otherwise complete gash
Barrett 6.5 threw his body in a lot.
Bolger 6.5 some vital defending in the box
Lenny 6 poor
Atkinson 5 lightweight...worked hard
Hunt....injured
Mooney 5.5
Payne 6.5 tried to play footy in amongst the mire
O Neil 6 done some defending
Loza 6.5 an assist done ok
Mcqueen 6 done ok.
I will say well done boys on the result a crucial 3 points
Sorry forgot Thompson 6.5.
Bring on the inbreds saturday.
Can you give a 1-10 rating for your moistness?
Home in North Wales after a cracking result at Shrewsbury.I'm fortunate to be working in this area for a couple of days so tonight was a bit of a bonus away game for me, just got back to my hotel room so guess I should be the first to pen a report.
Make no mistake, this was a great result but NOT a good performance. The starting XI seemed a bit odd and the formation just didn't work as we were often overrun and did not press Shrewsbury as high as we did Peterborough or Coventry - it almost looked like we'd had a tough cup game at the weekend and they'd had 10 days off. We were reduced mainly to long range efforts (which tested their keeper) and it was one of those that flew in from the unlikely boot of Will Atkinson.. Had Shrewsbury taken their chances though, we'd have probably been behind at the break.
Shrewsbury levelled straight after half-time and to be fair it had been coming. Straight after this Brown took off the out of sorts Hunt (injured again?) and replaced him with Timlin, who was booked pretty soon after coming on - presumably for something he said to the ref following one of the (many) questionable decisions. Being on a yellow and with the Homer of all Homers of a referee it wasn't brightest decision by Timlin to slide in and scythe down their winger - it looked a certain yellow so the red that followed was one of the few decisions we couldn't argue with!
We were well under the cosh to be honest and Brown decided to haul off the other 2 of the starting front 3 as well and replaced Mooney with Loza and Payne with McQueen. Loza looked lively and it was he who broke into the box and squared a lovely ball which Hendrie drilled into the net from the edge of the 6-yard box. Shrewsbury huffed and puffed after that and the ref gave them all the 50:50 decisions, as well as the 60:40 and 70:30 ones that should have been in our favour. We hung on bravely and this is a great 3 points for us.
Ratings
Bentley 8 - made some good saves but still doesn't dominate his box
O'Neill 7 - not as dominant or impressive as in previous games
Bolger 8 - pick of the back 5
Barrett 7 - caught out of position a few times and lacks any pace to recover
Thompson 7 - not as good as previous games
Hendrie 7 - good goal but too often caught out doing his defensive duties
Leonard 6 - A couple of good long shots and mazy dribbles doesn't mask an ineffective midfield performance
Atkinson 7 - great strike for the goal and worked hard all night as usual in a midfield that was overrun
Payne 7 - the heartbeat of the side, but gets caught in possession too much
Hunt 6 - strangely out of sorts tonight
Mooney 6 - 4th choice striker now
Subs
Timlin 3 - undisciplined and unprofessional - let the team down
Loza 7 - good cross for the winner and worked really hard
McQueen 6 - looked off the pace to start with, but we only had 10 men...
Ref: 3 - absolutely shocking, not helped by the bald linesman who was equally shocking!
All in all a great 3 points!