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Try not to concede a deflection against the best defensive side in the division I reckon.

FBT

Suspect there'll be vehement disagreement but I'm going Hutton, our main attacking threat and put in more than enough good balls that we should have done something with (and some bad ones, I agree, but nobody is 100%)

Can't help but think if we had a proper target man he'd be our most important player. As it is he feels a bit of a square peg.

Yep,that's a decent shout

Difficult one.

I went for FBT. The reason being that he was the only one who seemed to try anything different. Hutton and Shade both had plenty of time on the ball, but did the same thing every time.

Young had a bit of a stinker. Missing the ball several times, missing the 1 clear chance of the game, and then shooting and putting the ball out for a throw!

Mahoney made two very good saves.

Minturn was very good in parts but made 2 massive mistakes!

UGM did the same time and again. He was playing in midfield in parts, but isnt a great midfielder.

FBT, Dokes, Khan, Mahoney and Austin I thought all played fairly well.

Nobody on it in front of goal though.

Probably 4 very good chances to score, plus the should have been penalty on Kemp. I don’t really follow the stats but I imagine our xG to be fairly high for the second half.

Have gone with FBT, as Dokes was less effective second half.

Kemp off the boil a bit for me of late, and Youngs confidence looks shot, really needs a goal.

Good to see Clayton back for more minutes again. More fit defenders may allow us a bit more of a plan B in the near future.

I thought McEachran had a very good game. Spread the play well with some great passes. He was MOTM for me.

Help me out here as I’ve clearly missed the memo. Who the fuck is Dokes?

Udoke Godwin Malife

I think he said in his first interview “just call me Dokes”.

FBT.  By a country mile.

Funny, I thought he was average. I’ve noticed he quite often does brilliantly with the first bit of defensive work but then plays us right into trouble. Can’t wait to get him out to LWB.

He was instrumental in our late "rally" after moving out to the left to be sure

Certainly. 

Shade tried about one, poss. two left footed crosses and when he brought it back, predictably, on his right foot, instead of
1 an early diagonal into the box or
2 a horizontal low ball across for an advancing central midfielder to drive onto or
3 a deep crossfield pass to the other wing
he bumbled about and ended up giving a v. short pass to a teammate who came up to relieve him whilst the defence set itself even more solidly.

Over reliant on his right foot but could be coached into becoming a more decisive creator.

FBT reached Shade well.  He also carried forward well generally and put in a number of good tackles.

FBT for me followed by Dokes, McEachran did quite well.

Hutton headless chicken crossing, pointless high crosses against a huge massed towering defence showed he wasn't thinking just putting balls in rather than playing the better option, very very disappointing for me.

Young had his worst game for us by a country mile as did Kemp.

Minturn played well other than a few errors, the OG he at least attempted to get a block in but was unlucky that the ball went the wrong way for Mahoney to save, the penalty was silly and rash, shame as otherwise he did quite well. Luckily it was one of the shitest penalties I have seen ever.

Shade threatened a fair bit again but will always cut inside to use his right foot and almost always try a shot which will be weak or blocked, he rarely beats his player and gets a cross in, when he does though its often lower and harder than Huttons floated ones which caused the defence far more problems.

Khan ran around a lot but with little impact and 3 times I was shouting at him to shoot when all he did was pass sideways to Shade/Hutton/McEachran.

Austin contributed a fair bit 1st half and missed one good header chance but went missing 2nd half.

Mahoney I thought played well and could do little about the goal as he was totally wrong footed by the deflection by Minturn.

Over all just a frustrating evening against a side that packed the defence and had a defensive counter game plan and were very hard to break down, if Youngs early effort went in rather than being saved it would have been a different game.

FBT basically for his desire towards the end to try and get something to happen in the final third. Young appears to have totally lost his confidence and Shade always had 2 men on him and nobody overlapping to work with. I thought he did ok apart from pulling out of a header 50/50. Hutton was always the out ball but just wasn't consistent with his delivery. He did get one spot on in the second half but October Young couldn't convert. You can't help but think August/September Young would have scored.

Mahoney in goal continues to do nothing wrong at all and made a top save second half to keep us in the game. Also the RHM whisper to him before the penalty I'm sure helped contrive the worst penalty I've seen in quite some time.

Mahoney for me, followed by McEachran.
Baffled by the sponsors’ vote for Hutton - his crossing was generally poor in my view.
Before RHM whispered to Mahoney at the penalty, he was in conversation with Mildy who clearly told him to go to Mahoney (presumably to tell him which way to dive?).

Which in the end turned out to be totally irrelivant! luckily.

I think Mahoney is a significant upgrade on Brynn. Really rate him.

I agree, its a shame hes not a few inches taller and comes out to claim high crosses more but then if he was he would be in QPR's first team already I would think.

A great shot stopper.

True, but I can't really think of that costing us much this season... Brynn had height but lacked the physicality for the rough and tumble of a L2 penalty area and it cost us time and again.

Wrexham definately benefitted constantly putting high balls into our box near the end, which he could have dealt with better if he was taller, and IIRC Morecambe did similar. As a shot stopper though hes our best since Mark Travers, Loved BFG but he was nowhere near as good a shot stopper as Mahoney.

Someone break the tie please, not had a tie in 3 seasons and I'm not sure how to deal with it. Well, apart from the Salford game and I haven't decided what I'm doing about that yet  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: