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So many players doing well for 75+ minutes, but we should have been out of sight. The incidents and the subs put us off our game, we got sucked in and lost our composure. Embarrassing. Grr.

Everything good came via Williams, O'Brien was classy for 90 minutes but I think he lost his man that allowed the flick on for their goal.

Pox win 7-2, MK win (Bodin and Twine score) and fucking Shezza is about to take Oldham off the bottom :suicide:

[sorry guys, wrong thread].

Odimayo for me but a fair few contenders again, notably Iandolo and Williams.

A few contenders but for me I would go for Williams.

Stop press  Oldham v Rochdale :  neither side with a single  shot on target after 90 mins and Oldham at home with 38% possession :)

Honourable mention for Iandolo with the ball.  Unfortunately, the game requires playing without the ball as well and he nearly cost us twice with poor marking earlier in the game.  Stunning balls into the box though, could have had three assists today.

Iandolo for me

O'Brien followed by iWilliams & iandolo.

I was touch and go saying JOB too but I cant give it to a defender after letting in such a poor goal so late, Iandolo would have been a good shout if he hadn't made two fuck ups early on with shoddy marking that nearly cost us a goal and if he had a pop after breaking clear and clean through and picking a bad pass to McKirdy rather than shooting.

JOB is looking a very very good loan signings and a big step up from Crichlow.

to be fair if I knew JOB lost his man on the corner I'd probably go Williams

Edit : JOB didn't get to a header, Conroy watched his man

Iandolo was superb especially in the second half - Wish I could have voted for him off the back of winning the game!

Odimayo was very good. As was O'Brien. Conroy did well too, although I think he was the one who lost Akinde wasn't he?

McKirdy struggled a bit today. Didn't have an understanding with Davision

Davison tried hard, but looked a bit rusty. He can head the ball though.

Reed played well, but can't run the midfield on his own. When Lyden was there with him, we were in control.

Gladwin and JML didn't help us at all.

Williams and Iandolo together were a handful.

Ian probably would have got it had Town been eventual winners but in the main Williams was best.

Is it just me who when I see "J. Davison" written, all I can see is Joy Division...

I just can't unsee it, so in honour of that and Garner talking about "zones" have a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25t6YqxDOw

#...(Had to think, collect my senses now),
Are turned on to a knife edged view...#

Up to the last 10 minutes I thought there was 5 candidates, the entire back 3 plus Iandolo and Williams. Was edging toward OBrien but he was partly at fault for the goal I thought so Williams for me

Iandolo poor first half and decent second half.
The team lack talkers for sure.

Iandolo just to piss off JJ - he really doesn’t like him, does he  :D

Poor marking at the front post also.
O’Brien still learning and improving game by game. Spare players and Just couldn’t understand why Gladwin never went in-front of Akinde.

It’s over now, great to think we have a little more strength in depth.

O'Brien indeed lost him, but ran into an attacker trying to follow him.

otherwise had an excellent game

I quite like the look of Davison, ran for everything won much more than Simpson did and was an aggravating bastard all game. He will do us good this season.

I praise him when he deserves it but also see when he is at fault, many fans are blinkered to players faults and no player is immune to criticism. If he deserves praise then I will praise him, if he doesn't then I will say it as with every other player at the club.

Iandolo was pretty poor 1st half defensively but possibly our best attacker 2nd half, he just needs to mark his man better and actually jump for defensive crosses which he failed to do with 2 fairly early attacks when Colchester with better players would have surely punished us, he actively ducked from 1 of the crosses.

He also really should have shot with the one chance when he was pretty much clean through but chose to pass to the poorer positioned McKirdy. Take the risk, pull the trigger and make the keeper make a save.

TBF Iandolo is certainly by no means the only one who hasn't shot from a good position in recent games, Gladwin, Reed, Lyden and Hunt are also guilty of not being willing to shoot when they have the chance.

That could be that they are told by the coaches/manager not to risk a shot or they just don't have the confidence in their own ability to pull it off?

Iandolo is a limited defender but decent winger, play to his strengths and work on his weaknesses, such as his defending, he can defend and head the ball as he showed that when he played left CB last season in a couple of games before suffering injury so why when hes at fullback does he forget the basics of defending at times?

He knows how to put in a good cross so do that mor eoften, he did it twice yesterday with great success, you don't always need to beat your man sometimes play a Beckham style cross from deep which Iandolo obviously can do very well.

I certainly dont dislike him, I don't dislike any player at the club currently I just think that L2 is his level. Oh and learn to take a throw in :)

Every full time player(not loanee) at the club is with us in L2 because they have quality/consistancy/fitness/limited ability otherwise they wouldn't be in L2 they would be plying their trade higher up the leagues and gaining interest from teams higher up the ladder.

I went for Davison.

For someone in his first game I thought he linked up very well.
Won plenty of headers
And ran his heart out.

I also think he's a useful foil for McKirdy - "I've got the one with the poneytail" "no, I've got the one with the ponytail"

Spot on.
Iandolo in my opinion would be a better option left sided midfield but we can’t change what we have to accommodate. Offers far more than Hunt pressing forward but gets exposed as a left back.
KKH would have had a field day yesterday.
We created so much space through decent possession and patient football.
Wasteful in front of goal.

A little rusty but also liked what I so.
Definitely mobile and more aggressive. He also headed the ball more than 3 times.

Have to say I've not been a big admirer of Iandolo in his time here despite a natural inclination to favour young, "one of our own"* players.  For me, he is not a serious defender.  Offensively, he offers neither trickery nor pace out wide.  And yet it seems he faithfully gathers MOM votes every game.  Wtaf?

Unsurprisingly, even today I rated Odimayo and Williams ahead.  But I have been underrating his intrinsic quality and how far he has come by steady improvement.  Favoured by some, this Marmite player has also faced plentiful criticism and he deserves immense credit for the career he is developing.

He links very well as we saw yesterday with Williams.  He's been Mr Utility under wildly differing coaching styles at fullback, midfield and also wingback.  Although he'll need to work further on the defensive aspcts, I think the latter role helps showcase his best quality - crossing in open play.  With all due respect to Simpson, I'm hopeful he may start to find Davison offers him more interesting crossing options.

Onwards and upwards :pint:

* here since 17, anyway.