Charlton fans said McCormack lacked ability as a central midfielder in league One. That may well be true.
As you say that may well be true, but he's been fucking awesome in central defence.
As for yesterday, I thought that the last few mins apart we looked solid at the back & didn't look like conceding.
As for the Connell & Murray discussion.
I thought that Murray had one of his better games for us, but he doesn't really ever look like scoring, which for a striker is a bit shit.
Connell works his nuts off, and gets into good scoring positions but just misses too many of them (to be fair it he was taking that many of them he would be playing at a higher level than Div 4, so it's what we should expect.) But to be honest, yesterday was one of his poorer performances for Town. That said, I would pick him for the next game over everyone except Benson.
Ritchie was very good yesterday, and Devera was trying his hardest to get forward to offer him support (especially in the first half).
I thought that Holmes did well in the first hour, he was getting crosses into the box, the problem was that their two CH's were winning almost everything in the air (hardly a surprise against Connell & Murray to be fair, as size wise it was a bit of a no contest). However, when he switched to the right, he was very ineffective.
Rooney didn't really get into the game, tried a couple of mazy runs, but seemed to hold onto the ball too long.
Ferry was, well Ferry I guess. He's all over the park & just seems to love playing football.
Johnny Smith is less talented, but perhaps a more committed version. His passing sometimes lets him down but works so fucking hard for the team that you can't help but like him.
As others halve said, I thought McEveley had a much better game, but really tired towards the end. Still too early to judge him but a decent pre-season with PDC wouldn't do him any harm at all.
Wes, another clean sheet & the best keeper we have had for years.
Paolo seems to be coming in for a bit of a criticism regarding freezing players out, but I guess it's difficult to know what else to do. He can't send them off to the reserves (as we don't have a reserve team), and the last thing you need is them creating unrest in the dressing room.
The best thing to do with dead wood is to cut it adrift, which is what we have done.
