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Played on the back foot, but a decent team performance with several players sticking well to their jobs. Can't be too upset about that.

Broadbent . Easy

hes been brilliant since his return. a key figure in trying to stay up hope he stays fit

Payne

Broadbent defended really well again today. He makes us look so much more solid at the back. However, all of the quality moments again today came from Twine.

Two freekicks won and our only 2 shots in the first half. Slide rule pass to Hope for our best chance, burst into the box and shot cross that should have been tucked away at the back post and the wonder strike against the crossbar in the last seconds. Plus, he put in a decent defensive performance too. So has to be Twine for me.

P.S. Got to be an honourable mention for Trueman too

I voted for Rob Hunt.

Best wishes,

The Rob Hunt Appreciation Society.

I also voted for Rob Hunt cos we're a clique.

That one pass from Twine to Hope wins it single handedly for me. I made a very unusual noise, followed by a much more usual noise when it was saved.

But WHAT A CLIQUE.

Easily Broadbent for me, Trueman and Twine had good games, I thought Thompson harried them a lot and Conroy was solid.

Thats about where it ends though, nobody really had an awful awful game but Payne and Palmer are too weak and lightweight in the middle, Grounds was exposed a lot 1st half and they rightly identified him as the weak link in the defence.

The rest were average, Missilou is another like Joel Grant, I don't see the point in him, L2 at best.

Broady did well but ultimately cost us the game with his clumsy foul. It's not his fault, and these things happen, but for Hunt just sneaks it because of that.

McGeady has been on fire recently and barely had a kick. Hunt also had Garrick ahead of him, not Thompson, so less help.

The articulate chat from the Hunt clique is somewhat out of proportion to his place in the voting. This one's going to the wire, so make your vote count before Flashheart comes in and fucks it up.  :girlgiggle:

I think to blame Broadbent for the goal is very very harsh, I have watched the replay several times, at the start of the free kick Broadbent is blocked off and then pushed from behind slightly, the ball effectively flies past Thompson who should have done better and at least got a touch, Conroy and Grounds were also nowhere to be seen and Palmer made no attempt to even impede the runner or jump to head the ball but all he did was get in Broadbents way blocking him from getting near the header of the ball.

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I don't blame him.

Also, my point is that he gave away the FK because he was the wrong side. Nothing to do with how we defended the FK.

Think he was blaming him for the free kick he conceded, which is fair because it was a dumb challenge to make. As PP said though, it happens. Wasn't expecting us to get anything anyway but overall disappointed we didn't take it to a Sunderland side who really aren't very good given their position.

The more of the top sides I watch in this league the more I'm convinced that last seasons side could've been a top 8 side at least.

The I missread your statement for which I apologise but in the matchday thread a couple of people directly blamed him for the goal.

I can't blame him for the actual goal but maybe for the foul conceded leading to it, but if the other players had defended better than nobody would even consider Broadbent at fault for the goal at all, it would have just been yet another wasted free kick by the opponents.

Every Town player gave away free kicks all game but that one was unfortunate to have had their 1 decent delivery on it.

I think even the side we started the season with would be top 8 if we started the season with Baxter/Wollacott/Travers/Trueman in goal.

Not sure I agree with that, we were still way too leaky and looked pretty useless against some teams. At least we usually gave it a go though!

Conroy had a little moan at Broadbent for giving away the free kick that lead to the goal, I wasn't paying attention but sounds like it was justified. On balance I've gone for Twine, although I think Broadbent has been decent and it's really good to see him back.

There have been very very few teams that have looked way better than us this season, I think Kovar and fryer conservatively cost us a lot of points on their own, without checking back individual games I cant say how may. Yes Grounds/Baudry/Conroy/Caddis all cost us goals with mistakes but I do think with a better keeper behind them then they would have been more confident that if they fucked up then the keeper would get closer to the resulting shot.

Last season we fucked up several times defensively and Benda came to their rescue, I don't honestly remember Kovar or Fryer recovering once from a defensive slip up, all of them resulted in us conceding, and thats not entirly because this league is of a way better standard.

Yep, a minor for sure. Just knocks him from MOTM to an honorable mention.

Yep, we’d have done alright playing 10 outfield players and 4 goal keepers...

We still would concede every game. Just not the average of 2.

I voted BB but this was the closest game as far as choice of MOTM as Twine deserved it too. BB won for me as he was constantly in a game for 90 mins, whereas Twine would have got the vote for a few instances of indivdual brilliance. 

Twine won and took 2 free kicks in the first half, BB was in a battle for 45 mins constantly involved - Twine made that brilliant pass to Hope, had a few efforts and hit the bar in the 2nd half, BB was in a battle for 45 mins but made a silly foul which lead to the goal.

Thy both deserved it IMO but I went BB for the overall picture - could have gone either way

Basically the same for me too Berni, Broadbent won his battle, twine was a bit of icing on the cake, had Twine scored though it could easily have gone the other way.

I do think special mention for the keeper who did everything that was asked of him and he couldn't get anywhere near the goal, made 2 good saves and commanded the area quite well too.

BB?

BroadBent.

Not for being down with the kids btw, just lazy :D

BB will be distraught. Conversely, Hunt will be delighted with his (spoiler alert) 4.8% of the popular vote. He even gets to keep his deposit.

Hunt will be delighted with his first LSPOD official MOTM more importantly!

That surely can't be his first, given Rich's open adulation of the God RH?

Looking at the replay, the lino who was very close to the supposed foul didn’t raise his flag at all. The ref gave it from further away

In Fact, anyone but Kovar.  Dread to think how many points he cost us.  If we do go down I blame him not Sheridan. (But it doesn't matter, we're not going down).

I recall it was next to the linesman who didn’t give it as it looked like accidental contact in real time. I was surprised the referee gave it.