Absolutely delighted with the victory today. Other than the goal, we didn't play a lot of football and were generally poor in possession, but defended superbly, particularly when down to ten men.
Notts looked a side low on confidence and lacked any real cutting edge, and as average as we were in the first half, I still fancied us to nick the victory. As the old cliche says, it is the sign of a good side that can put in a below par performance and still win fairly comfortably.
In terns of the indicidual performances, Goodison and Blanchard were superb at the back, Welsh battled hard again in the middle and Mendy had a decent game. Due to our tendency to launch the ball long every time, Enoch, ITM and Jennings weren't really in the game for long spells, but looked sharp when called in to action, notably for the goal.
My biggest concern today was the distribution of Cathalina who simply hoofed the ball downfield, even when under no pressure. Les, if he is incapable of playing the ball down the line to a white shirt, please instruct him to pass it five yards to a player who is.
As Ian says, we haven't had a run like this since the days of Ronnie, and I think a real feeling is growing that injuries permitting, this could turn out to be a decent season.
Great to see a large and vocal Rovers following there today: it seems some of the doubters are starting to be convinced.
The only real negative is the fact that both Labadie and Welsh will miss Tuesday night, which gives us a bit of a selection headache to put it mildly.
On the positive side, win on Tuesday and we could be talking about a push for the play-offs !
