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Says a lot when you're disappointed you didn't win at the leaders. With proper coaching, we could compete in this league. Nice to have a few MoM choices - some unfamiliar names in the running tonight.

I went for Dom THompson.  He helped make us competitive both going forward and in defence.  I thought Odimayo also had a great first half, linking well with Garrick.  I can see why Garrick was chosen by several, a coolly taken goal and a regular threat.  Special mention for Payne too.  A team effort tonight.

Garrick, with shaft and Payne honourable mentions

Garrick.

Garrick for me. Seems we have a footballer after all. If he gets to play in that position on Sat hopefully he'll repeat the performance.

Good team performance tonight. Think I'd give it to Garrick for most improved player award. Today he showed a little bit of what he can do.

Palmer for me, thought he covered a massive amount of the pitch last night.  What an improvement from Garrick though, you can see he's a winger and not a fucking striker though

Didn't watch so can't vote but its pleasing to read how good Garrick was. Sounds like he's finally found his feet and is being played in his proper position. Hopefully he can help us in our fight against relegation.

I think Garrick has been getting a lot of undue criticism when played through the middle. He's clearly a winger, and looked very good there last night.

Thompson for me, especially given how down he seemed and how poor he was against Portsmouth 2 weeks ago. He seemed to play much further forward which suited him. Almost like a right winger?

Garrick was good too though and twine made a huge difference in midfield

At least he was written off by Swindon fans after a couple of games playing out of position rather than before he has actually played for us.

The matchday threads do make me laugh though. (I generally don't partake and read back after the event) I think it was 10 minutes into his debut and there were already a handful of posters that had stated that Garrick was 'shit', 'is not a footballer' etc. I know emotions get high during games and people are entitled to say what they like and provide opinions but I do agree that players are written off very quickly.

It’s funny how people see different things in a game, I thought Thompson was really poor last night and seemed to not really know where he was supposed to be.  Good cross for the goal aside.

What I did notice about the goal that Thompson setup was the number of blue shirts getting into the box seemed higher than previously. I do think we don't have enough support getting forward and players get isolated so I guess with Twine and Payne in the side, as well as Garrick and BP, we do have the opportunity to have numbers going forward. I do hope we utilise these players without shackles on at home to the Cobblers.

Lyden in for Palmer and the back 4 that finished will do nicely this weekend. The shape gave us so much more flexibility going forward and we looked better defensively too.

yup, that would be my change too.

but I bet he drops Twine. we'll see

I thought that about your post earlier to, I really don't see how you rated Palmer as MOTM, IMO he was our worst player on the pitch, and I voted Thompson :D.  I would have even preferred even an under performing Grant in place of Palmer all day long.  As others have said, Lyden should come in for Palmer but probably won't as he seems to be related to Sheridan or something..

Me too I though Palmer was our wekest link yesterday.

Although he put in some great corners which we were close to connecting with.

I voted Thompson as he was solid all game Garrick was close but he faded a lot in the 2nd half after dominating the first half up against what was a poor Lincoln defence on the night. Disappointed he didn't get a 2nd when clean through but his legs lost pace and his shot was charged down otherwise he would have got it from me.

Twine I thought had a very good game being used ina role that suited him for once rather than pushed into a defensive midfielder role which he had been by Shez up till then.

It's amazing what happens when you put round pegs in round holes

How long has it taken Sheridan to see this? :)

This, no reason to not take the game to the Cobblers, they very rarely score so can't be that creative. Got to start on the front foot surely.

Yeah I completely agree. Apart from the 3 they got at Franchise, but I think that was an anomoly. See also broken clock is correct twice a day.

Surely after our win at Crewe and last night's positive performance we have a bit of confidence in the side. We have to build on that and start putting points on the board consistently.