[Thurnscoe_OWL]

1st goal was Helan's fault. He was man marking Loovens instead of folowing the runner which left him with a free shot on goal (which westwood should have saved).

We seemed to want to rush eevrything. When we were playing the ball to feet we were controlling the game but too often we wanted to get the ball up quickly to Joao who became isolated. Lees was the worst for this. If nothing is on in front then play it back and build up again.

I like the way Hutch drops into CB when we have the ball allowing the FB to bomb on creating a 352, although Helan seemed reluctant yesterday and was always 2 seconds behind play IMO

McGugan is brilliant when we have the ball but invisible when we havnt. Yesterday he was invisible because we wanted to cut out midfield for some reason.

Joao will be brill and I think playing him from the start yesterday was a good desicion on the back of his midweek performance, however, it soon became clear that he was isolated so I'd have brought Sougou on for McGugan, dropped Matiss back behind the striker and sougou on the wing to provide a quicker, more effective outlet than the hit and hope we operated yesterday.

Westwood should have come off at HT as it was clear before that he was injured.

Wouldnt give anyone ratings there was no one particularly outstanding but will say Wildsmith looks like he'll be a very dependable keeper eventually

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Is that the total sum of your match report then??

T'was a long day and I was very frustrated. Didn't help being stuck in Bury St Edmunds station for 45 mins cos some twat kept pulling the emergency stop