At half time we looked a well beaten team. Second best all over the park and tactically a shambles. I always thought that the benefit of playing three at the back with wing backs was to achieve a high press, but the way we play results in the opposite . Accy swarmed all over us. Their press resulted in the first goal. After that the body language of our players was dreadful, and as they trudged off at the break, for a moment I feared that they may have stopped playing for Micky. But as others have reported the changes in formation and personnel resulted in a much more competitive second half performance. Hawkes scored a brilliant goal to get us back in the game, before the excellent Lewis equalised at the death ( I actually thought it was Mumbongo at the time). There then followed some of the best penalties you are ever likely to witness - concluded by a terrific sudden death save from Hewelt. Really impressed by Hewelt and the young lads Bristow and Robinson. And with others such as Maclear, Hockenhull and Jones, as Ian alludes to, we need to remember that Rome was not built in a day. As for Mumbongo, hard to tell really. His first three contributions were to concede free kicks. But after that showed he can hold up the play and be a threat from crosses. So ultimately an enjoyable night, but hopefully what is not forgotten in the euphoria of a penalty shoot out win, away, against League 1 opponents, is to dump the 3-5-2 formation in the tactical bin - at least for the short term.
