Wow, so John White is the scapegoat for last night is he? :facepalm:
That match was played and won in midfield. Ours was absent last night, and really showed how we miss the endeavour of Atkinson and/or Timlin. Lenny had one of his poorest games for us, Clifford was easily the pick of midfield. I thought Hurst was better than Saturday though. Like someone else said, why did we start putting decent crosses into the box only once Corr had been subbed? And why do we keep on with short corners when we clearly haven't got the vaguest idea of how to use them to our benefit?!! Credit has to go to Wimbledon though, it was a fairly evenly matched game, and their attacking bursts were better than ours.
Bentley - 6, I also felt his positioning was poor for the free kick from which they scored
White 6 - nowhere near as bad as some are making out, two bad "passes" where he expected people to be running on (just a lack of understanding between players), and some good defensive headers
Bolger - 6, one header off the line late on, didn't cope with Akinfenwa as well as Prosser, which I think 'Bayo used to his advantage. Wasn't it him that gave away the free kick they scored from? Though, it looked a foul the other way to me!
Prosser - 7, impressive in his tussles with Akinfenwa, tried to use the ball sensibly
Coker - 6, not as much influence as on Saturday, the whole wing work wasn't anywhere near as good
Hurst - 6, worked hard defensively, couple of good crosses
Clifford - 7, industrious and kept calm!
Leonard - 6, shooting boots were off last night, looked to me as if he was possibly carrying a niggle
Coulthirst - 6, L2 is a physical game, he needs to learn this and work out how to deal with it
Weston - 8, easy choice for MOM, worked very hard both wide and centrally
Corr - 7, looked a bit tired, I think I'd have preferred Barney to start and Corr to come on
Subs:
Worrall for White - 7, didn't really understand this sub as Worrall went to RB, we should have gone 3 at the back at that time. Worrall's crosses were infinitely better to anything we'd had before he came on. He deserves to start next game
Barnard for Corr - 6, physically did ok, but didn't seem to have any influence
Payne for Coulthirst - 6, Jack looked a little out of his depth
Officials:
Oh my goodness, what a woeful performance from the ref! Wimbledon's 'keeper should have been booked in the first half for time wasting, and yet he got through the whole game without one! Akinfenwa was using his forearms across people's faces when challenging for the ball (and this was how I saw the incident with Bolger that gave them their free kick). He just didn't stamp his authority on the game at all.