Allsop - 7 - Did nothing wrong. Came out and caught well when needed.
Phillips - 6 - Looked ok going forward, caught out for both goals but was injured.
Clarke - 7 - Easily our best player in the 2nd half. Showed good intent to go foward, and linked up well with JOB until he disappeared.
Willis - 7 - Our most solid player, consistently.
Webster - 7 - Also very steady.
Hines - 7 - Ditto.
Pugh - 6 - Defended pretty well but didn't show enough going forward for me.
Fleck - 6 - Good first half but faded badly.
Thomas - 6 - The only one of our midfielders that was showing for the easy pass in the second half.
O'Brien - 5 - Needs to be smarter. Spent the second half charging up to join the strikers when we were short of passing options in midfield. At one point Thomas fired the ball 50 yards across to Clarke - who was the nearest Cov player to the ball. He's a good player but has to think more.
Jackson - 7 - Smart finish, showed decent understanding with McQuoid.
McQuoid - 8 - Worked hard, scored a poacher's goal, good assist for the second, and his hold up play was better than I expected.
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The second half was very irritating. Crawley pretty much just had 11 players on the pitch, in something resembling a 4-1-4-1. They didn't really do anything more. Their players would get involved if the ball came into their space, but there was nothing proactive going on. I've never seen a side have to do so little to come back from 2 down.
At one point we got the ball on half-way, they had all 11 behind the ball, we had only one ahead of the ball. It was like we were just kicking off. Just such a lack of ambition. It seemed like there was never an easy passing option for any of our players. Thomas was really the only one moving to receive the ball. Fleck hid behind defenders and O'Brien ran aimlessly forward. While we were certainly the dominant side in the game, we didn't really do anything at all with that dominance after half-time.
Coulibaly seemed to change it up a bit, more positive and willing to run at them rather than stop and pass it backwards.
I don't know what game the OP was watching. Fleck was dire and O Brian fared little better.
Only willis and mcqoid deserve anything over 6
Allsop - 7 - Did nothing wrong. Came out and caught well when needed.
Phillips - 6 - Looked ok going forward, caught out for both goals but was injured.
Clarke - 7 - Easily our best player in the 2nd half. Showed good intent to go foward, and linked up well with JOB until he disappeared.
Willis - 7 - Our most solid player, consistently.
Webster - 7 - Also very steady.
Hines - 7 - Ditto.
Pugh - 6 - Defended pretty well but didn't show enough going forward for me.
Fleck - 6 - Good first half but faded badly.
Thomas - 6 - The only one of our midfielders that was showing for the easy pass in the second half.
O'Brien - 5 - Needs to be smarter. Spent the second half charging up to join the strikers when we were short of passing options in midfield. At one point Thomas fired the ball 50 yards across to Clarke - who was the nearest Cov player to the ball. He's a good player but has to think more.
Jackson - 7 - Smart finish, showed decent understanding with McQuoid.
McQuoid - 8 - Worked hard, scored a poacher's goal, good assist for the second, and his hold up play was better than I expected.
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The second half was very irritating. Crawley pretty much just had 11 players on the pitch, in something resembling a 4-1-4-1. They didn't really do anything more. Their players would get involved if the ball came into their space, but there was nothing proactive going on. I've never seen a side have to do so little to come back from 2 down.
At one point we got the ball on half-way, they had all 11 behind the ball, we had only one ahead of the ball. It was like we were just kicking off. Just such a lack of ambition. It seemed like there was never an easy passing option for any of our players. Thomas was really the only one moving to receive the ball. Fleck hid behind defenders and O'Brien ran aimlessly forward. While we were certainly the dominant side in the game, we didn't really do anything at all with that dominance after half-time.
Would agree with most of that too, though would knock a point off for McQuoid, who I otherwise thought had a good game, felt his shooting in the 2nd half was very wayward and twice he took pot shots from distance when he should have taken the ball on much further. He had the space and time to do that but decided to take a punt on long snapshots.
Sorry, but I have no respect for anyone who marked Conor Thomas as a 1. Seems clear to me that, that person was not very observant in watching the game unfold and is incredibly biased.
I actually did an experiment today and put myself on Conor Thomas Watch and I think you'll find he wasn't that bad at all.
I'm not a big fan of his, so I think I was being very fair.
Everytime he did something decent I gave him a mark and everytime he made a bad pass, or lost the ball etc., I took a mark off.
If someone just passed the ball 5 yards to him and he just passed it back I didn't mark anything at all. So, only when he did something decent or poorly.
By the time he went off it was just about an even score, so 6 I think is just about spot on.
I knew people would focus on that one dreadful pass he made right at the start of the game. Knew that would stick long in the memory. The other really bad thing he did was to not be strong enough when tussling for a ball in the first half and losing possession.
Besides that he played some good passes and one or 2 wayward ones.
As I say, he came out even and that is with my slight bias of not particularly rating the guy that highly.
I too thought O'Brien was a bit of a liability in the 2nd half and on 2 occasions he lost the ball and enabled Crawely to breakaway and counter attack that could have been very costly.
Sutty's marks I would say are pretty accurate for sure.
MOTM for me was Willis. Just the one mistake I think and besides that he tackled well and looked very, very solid.
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Conor Thomas was good today?!
Go home matey you're drunk.
Would agree with most of that too, though would knock a point off for McQuoid, who I otherwise thought had a good game, but felt his shooting in the 2nd half was very wayward and twice he took pot shots from distance when he should have taken the ball on much further. He had the space and time to do that but decided to take a punt on long snapshots.
Sorry, but I have no respect for anyone who marked Conor Thomas as a 1. Seems clear to me that, that person was not very observant in watching the game unfold and is incredibly biased.
I actually did an experiment today and put myself on Conor Thomas Watch and I think you'll find he wasn't that bad at all.
I'm not a big fan of his, so I think I was being very fair.
Everytime he did something decent I gave him a mark and everytime he made a bad pass, or lost the ball etc., I took a mark off.
If someone just passed the ball 5 yards to him and he just passed it back I didn't mark anything at all. So, only when he did something decent or poorly.
By the time he went off it was just about an even score, so 6 I think is just about spot on.
I knew people would focus on that one dreadful pass he made right at the start of the game. Knew that would stick long in the memory. The other really bad thing he did was to not be strong enough when tussling for a ball in the first half and losing possession.
Besides that he played some good passes and one or 2 wayward ones.
As I say, he came out even and that is with my slight bias of not particularly rating the guy that highly.
I too thought O'Brien was a bit of a liability in the 2nd half and on 2 occasions he lost the ball and enabled Crawely to breakaway and counter attack that could have been very costly.
Sutty's marks I would say are pretty accurate for sure.
MOTM for me was Willis. Just the one mistake I think and besides that he tackled well and looked very, very solid.
You must be drunk, because nowhere have I said he was good.
I suggest you get the game tape and watch just Conor Thomas and you would then come up for a score of aaround 6 marks for sure.
You must be drunk, because nowhere have I said he was good.
I suggest you get the game tape and watch just Conor Thomas and you would then come up for a score of aaround 6 marks for sure.
No he wouldn't, he could score a hatrick, then go in goal for the injured keeper save a last minute penalty to win the game he still wouldn't give him any more than 2.
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He played several misplaced passes, attempted many a long diagonal ball that failed and was chasing Crawley shadows in midfield (especially first half). He didn't protect the back five or attempt to break up the play and he certainly offered nothing positive going forward. It was no surprise that when Coulibaly came on for him we livened up for the last ten. I would literally have any other central midfielder in this division over Thomas. Nothing personal against the boy as he puts in the effort, he's just a talentless waste of place. Never have I come away from a game thinking 'Thomas bossed it today'
Would agree with most of that too, though would knock a point off for McQuoid, who I otherwise thought had a good game, but felt his shooting in the 2nd half was very wayward and twice he took pot shots from distance when he should have taken the ball on much further. He had the space and time to do that but decided to take a punt on long snapshots.
Sorry, but I have no respect for anyone who marked Conor Thomas as a 1. Seems clear to me that, that person was not very observant in watching the game unfold and is incredibly biased.
I actually did an experiment today and put myself on Conor Thomas Watch and I think you'll find he wasn't that bad at all.
I'm not a big fan of his, so I think I was being very fair.
Everytime he did something decent I gave him a mark and everytime he made a bad pass, or lost the ball etc., I took a mark off.
If someone just passed the ball 5 yards to him and he just passed it back I didn't mark anything at all. So, only when he did something decent or poorly.
By the time he went off it was just about an even score, so 6 I think is just about spot on.
I knew people would focus on that one dreadful pass he made right at the start of the game. Knew that would stick long in the memory. The other really bad thing he did was to not be strong enough when tussling for a ball in the first half and losing possession.
Besides that he played some good passes and one or 2 wayward ones.
As I say, he came out even and that is with my slight bias of not particularly rating the guy that highly.
I too thought O'Brien was a bit of a liability in the 2nd half and on 2 occasions he lost the ball and enabled Crawely to breakaway and counter attack that could have been very costly.
Sutty's marks I would say are pretty accurate for sure.
MOTM for me was Willis. Just the one mistake I think and besides that he tackled well and looked very, very solid.
I wouldn't disagree with you on that part.
He did do some good stuff today though, amongst the poor stuff. You must surely have seen that mustn't you?
A score of 1 is for someone who has done nothing right all game long and he did a number of things right. Don't think anyone could deny that.
I think your method for marking the player is flawed, if you applied the same method to each one of our players today you'd probably come out with 9s, 10s and maybe even 10+ for half the the team which is obviously a load of bull.
Take Willis for example, start at say 6 at the beginning of the match. You said he made only one mistake so -1 for that, add on a point for everytime he did something good and your probably looking at 10+ using your marking method.
He wasn't a 1 but he was poor but so was the rest of the team imo
Obviously a 1 is a tad ridiculous, perhaps a 4 would be more appropriate. For me however once you deem a player to be a 5 or lower, the rating between 1 and 5 doesn't matter as they've performed well below par. I'm finding it hard to remember a stand out moment from him tbh, I suppose he played the ball left and right over 5 yards quite well.
Obviously a 1 is a tad ridiculous, perhaps a 4 would be more appropriate. For me however once you deem a player to be a 5 or lower, the rating between 1 and 5 doesn't matter as they've performed well below par. I'm finding it hard to remember a stand out moment from him tbh, I suppose he played the ball left and right over 5 yards quite well.
Well I remember at least 2 30-40 yard passes across the field that went directly to the man.
As I said, when someone passed it to him 5 yards and he just passed it on 5 yards I didn't count that as something good he had done, I just ignored it. If he played a longer pass that got us moving, then I marked that as a positive. When he lost possession, a negative.
Over the game it was just about equal. Much easier though the remember mistakes isn't it.
But players don't have to have a 'stand out moment' and if there was one it was the switch he played blind and on the turn in the first half to fleck.
And there's nothing wrong with passing 5 yards, it's called retaining possession, and that's the job Pressley obviously wants him to do. He wasn't a super star but was a solid 6 for me. His pass completion rate was no worse than flecks or o'brien's.
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Anyone would think fleck and o'brien don't pass it 5 yards.
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Anyone would think fleck and o'brien don't pass it 5 yards.
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