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Best performance for a long while. Absolute League Two scenes at the end,

Austin!

Lots of contenders. Minturn good in between one absolute horror show and a few smaller errors, Kinsella best game for Swindon and freed up Khan to play really well, Young took his chances beautifully but has to be Kemp, who is just a Rolls Royce.

For me its Young because if he didnt score twice we didnt win, but the KKK in Khan. Kemp and Kinsella good, Austin more use coming off the bench near the end than starting. Minturn looked both great and dreadful in almost equal measure at times.

Happy with that though, nobody played great but nobody played poorly really either.

Khan. An absolute colossus . Obviously Kemp,Young very close

When Minturn was good. He was very good but when he was bad, he was very bad. Something you’d expect from someone with his level of experience.

Austin’s contribution was minimal but vital. Nothing against Young but it’s a shame that the header or shot from Austin wasn’t the one to go in.

Khan drove well with the ball. Kinsella went unnoticed doing the donkey work.

Decent play by Shade for the cross that eventually lead to the winner.


Only players that I thought were below par today were Mahoney based mostly on not having too much to do & McEachran who just looked well off it…

kahn

beast mode but composed as fuck

Minturn, Khan, Kinsella all brilliant. Kemp was at the heart of everything going forward but have to give it Young for the brace. Austin desperately unlucky not to score but thought he was used perfectly today so props to Flynn too for changing things.

That was a very good team performance.

Khan's performance was breathtaking at time. So he just edges it for me.
Kinsella enabled McEachran (and Khan) to express themselves. His best performance in red.
UGM and FBT were very solid and disciplined today
Minturn was VERY good but made some VERY bad mistakes. Difficult to believe he is only 19 after that performance.
Kemp was absolute class again today.
Young scored two goals and did very well as a target man in the second half. Tough on him not to get MotM

Kemp first half, Khan second.

My word we are going to miss Kemp and Young when they go back/move on in Jan.

Kahn - outstanding.

I think we saw the benefit of finally not pretending Khan is a DM today. Whilst Kinsella was probably no more than a solid 7 he allowed Khan to be a 9.

Minturn for me.

Everyone put a shift in but, Minturn made some very important, ball winning challenges to really break up the Mansfield play.

Yes, I know he had a bit of a howler towards the end but, it didn't cost us.

Voted Kemp... love Minturn though... he's only going to get better...

It’s interesting reading the comments here about Minturn, we were discussing him yesterday and my son asked whether he gets treated in a kinder way because of his age and being a local lad.

He had a good game yesterday, but there were several times where he put is in trouble because of mistakes (the one late on being the worst of all). Reminded me of a Conroy performance, generally really good but you were always wary of the mistakes that were coming.

Now at 19 you would like to think with game time & experience he will learn to minimise those mistakes, but it’s clear after the last couple of games he more than deserves his place in the first team squad, although like with most young players they do need breaks.

For me, the MOM was between Kemp & Khan

I definitely cut him some slack on his age, well maybe his experience would be a better term than age.

I’ve said time and time again but in a super ideal world Minturn would have been out on loan last season playing every week in the National League.
…or if we had a bigger squad he could be out on loan this season. The level and the playing every week being vital though. No point getting him out to play 3 games for Supermarine for example.

Hopefully with game time he’ll iron out the mistakes but obviously that’s not always a given (example Jerel Ifil he was the same player at 20 as he was at 25 and 30)

Minturn pressing Reed 1/2 way into their half leaving a 3 on 2 behind him led to their goal (But on several other occasions, his quick challenges were awesome and stopped attacks stone dead). Couple of times he dropped his shoulder (or got into space) to circumvent their press and then took too long to do something with the ball. Then there is the looking up to pass and mis-controlling the ball when under pressure. These are all mistakes that can be eradicated.

The hard to please critics in the Chicken Run probably thought that Bobby Moore had a mistake or two in him at 19.
Would be great to have a homegrown player as a regular in the heart of our defence.
No sentiment involved, he is good enough to make it & improve along the way.

Kemp was pivotal yesterday and popped up everywhere.

Good to see players running with the ball with not a little skill.
FBT did that very well at times but was blowing at the end.

But the douze points go to the very excellent Khan.

I see the only Town player to make the Football League Paper's team of the week is er... Murphy Mahoney. Who was about our tenth best player yesterday. Odd. The team also has Joe Tomlinson in central midfield so it may in fact be an elaborate hoax

Kemp shades it for me. Thought he was involved in everything good, and ran and ran until the end. Khan was also excellent and Young was superb as a target man the whole game. I thought Minturn was terrific first half but a bit shaky second when Mansfield put Akins on.

This will sound silly based on what happened at the end, but without Charlie I thought we looked a lot better. Clearly it was ultimately him being on the field that got us the points - fair play to Shade for the ammunition also - but we just seemed a bit more 'balanced' yesterday. Mansfield were clearly no mugs so hats off to the whole side for a generally positive performance. Mceachran possibly the only disappointment, but he didn't really do too much wrong, he was just a bit 'meh'

Let’s hope Flynn don’t use Shade as a wing back again as he clearly needs to play up front/wide and seems at his best when he comes on later in games.

it's not silly BO. Austin needed a rest. We needed a change as a team.

Good contribution at the end was invaluable.

Very unlucky with the header. He's got more to give, it doesn't have to be from a starting position. Rest, reset and we'll see

Need that extra midfielder, has to be on the bench for the foreseeable future.

Until January🤣

I'm convinced they don't watch the games. Sol Brynn didn't get in for I think it was Northampton away one of the greatest GK performances I've ever seen.

Austin definitely needs a rest. Its such a shame what could have been this season with a proper budget. Young in on perm, Wakeling replacement and another different style of striker. Properly managed minutes Austin could have been firing on all cylinders when playing.

Or all the other keepers this weekend were terrible? Mahoney kept a clean sheet, but I think had to make 2 or 3 saves that were absolutely in the category 'routine'. I think your right, not much effort is spent on watching any L2 action for these things.

Based on our performance you could surely make a good case for Khan, Kemp or Young to have been in the team.

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Didn't think we were playing rush keepers when they scored were we?

Oh god I am such a wally sometimes.

I have no idea why I thought that!!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Post beer wee break missed the equalizer? :D

He was knocking it back in the pub  ;)

slander!! :)