Rockford's Love Child
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- Joined
- 15 Mar 2010
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- Player
- Jason Koumas / John Morrissey
- Manager
- John King
A poor performance. Rovers started the game sluggishly against a well organised Walsall side and did not really get going for the next 65 minutes: only a change of formation with Robinson moving into the hole and Bakayogo moving into the left midfield role saw us come to life and play some decent stuff in the closing stages of the game, but fail to force a winner which we wouldn't have deserved.
Tonight was a good demonstration of why RM has been reluctant to play Stockton and Cassidy together. They both worked hard, but there was no variation in our front play, no movement in behind and the whole performance was static and lifeless. Regardless of tactics, too many players just did not turn up and there were several below par showings.
On the positive side, I thought Holmes, Harrison and Palmer did alright and Zoum was really good when he moved further forward. Robinson was pretty anonymous until he moved into the middle, after which he caused them some real problems.
McGurk was awful in the first half, but getting lamped by one of his own players (Taylor) and jeered off by the crowd when he was substituted is not going to improve his performances. It was probably Adam's failure to track back in the first half, in addition to an awful throw out from Fonners, which led to 2 or 3 good oppportunities for their number 9 whose finishing was, thankfully, terrible.
Very disappointing crowd of below 5,000 considering it was a category C game.
The best part of the night was getting home to see that all of the top 6 failed to win and our lead is preserved. It's a funny old league.
Tonight was a good demonstration of why RM has been reluctant to play Stockton and Cassidy together. They both worked hard, but there was no variation in our front play, no movement in behind and the whole performance was static and lifeless. Regardless of tactics, too many players just did not turn up and there were several below par showings.
On the positive side, I thought Holmes, Harrison and Palmer did alright and Zoum was really good when he moved further forward. Robinson was pretty anonymous until he moved into the middle, after which he caused them some real problems.
McGurk was awful in the first half, but getting lamped by one of his own players (Taylor) and jeered off by the crowd when he was substituted is not going to improve his performances. It was probably Adam's failure to track back in the first half, in addition to an awful throw out from Fonners, which led to 2 or 3 good oppportunities for their number 9 whose finishing was, thankfully, terrible.
Very disappointing crowd of below 5,000 considering it was a category C game.
The best part of the night was getting home to see that all of the top 6 failed to win and our lead is preserved. It's a funny old league.