Attendance was around 5865 with 280 ish from Carlisle. I looked it up after the game.
Probably a bit too early to judge if Wellens will have much influence on todays game.
Carlisle are hard to beat 0-1 defeat in front of 5,894 with 154 wannabe jocks there.
Some fans said I was being too negative, looks like I wasn't negative enough! close with the crowd though
Just back from my weekend jaunt to Swindon to see the grand daughter again and taking in th egame...unfortunately.
As for the game....
First 35 mins we were by far the better side, Woolf and JMG linking up well down the right, Iandolo well off the pace, Dunne settled in midfield, we could have scored 3 or 4 with a decent striker in there.
Then Iandolo got caught well out of position for the first, then misses a sitter, he had an awful game and I still don't think hes good enough to play for the first team, hes had metric shit ton of chances now (40ish) and hardly ever impresses.
Bayo is not a centre forward, he cant win headers or control balls hoofed up to him, he only ever looks at home when wide left cutting inside. He has not looked like a player for the last 4 or 5 matches TBF.
I like Alzate but he can't seem to work well with Anderson in midfield, he has such talent and he can hit the ball well from 20 yards out but he rarely does, he need to grab the ball and when 25 yards out let fly with a shot, he has done it twice this season and the results have been a great goal but he rarely does it.
Anderson always runs around, dribbles well but his final ball, pass or shot is almost always well off mark, sometimes woefully so.
I know not many will agree but Vigs is not good enough, he could have got closer to all the goals, he keeps his place despite McCormick keepng 5 clean sheets in his 7 matches conceding 10 goals, Vigs has 1 clean sheet in his 13 games conceding 22. He does not command his area like McCormick does either.
Of all the defence the only players I would keep are Knoyle and Nelson, the rest are not up to it, Woolf shows bits of promise but looks lost at times, not know which position he should be in, he wasn't awful Saturday but he was not very good, Conroy was caught out of position several times and one of them cost us a goal when he was dispossessed when attacking.
First half there was promise, 2nd half was almost as bad a performance as Luton home last season, the players should be embarressed and apologise to the fans for that, we need to find a settled side who know the tactics and where they should be at all times, thats a basic requirement and something almost every player failed to do on Saturday.
And boy do we miss Toums and Doughty in midfield. Taylor started well but faded badly after the first half an hour, and our corners were shit.
Onwards and hopefully upwards.
