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Good energy today, much more urgency and moving the ball forward faster. Remains to be seen if this is a new approach, or a lineup designed for the bottom side. Several good performances, and I'd say one standout one.

Iandolo - not a spoilt ballot paper as some have done in the past

No disrespect to Town players today but honourary MoM is Grant for me. It's just the respect and send off he deserves.

Ian obviously is the Man today for Town

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Iandolo - For his beautiful balls!

Honourable mentions:
McKirdy for his energy. The bloke was everywhere
Tomlinson was MotM in the first half. Solid in the second
Aguilar grew in confidence as the match progressed (Gladwin was building momentum until injured)
Reed made a difference to us. His thundering challenge in the second half got the crowd behind the team
Wollacott with several good saves. One complete balls up so that he had to make 3 saves mind!
Davison. Awful performance until the ball hit him and went into the net! Good penalty and then looked more confident linking up!
Cooper and O'Brien looked good too.
Barry can only play if Williams isn't . Looks tricky but lightweight.

Iandolo.

Have we finally found his position, I hope so.

Reed and mckirdy runners up

hopefully people can move on from grant now!

Pretty much this. I see what you’re saying about Barry, however, the lad won’t likely be with us next season one way or another but while here he could be the become a juvenile Electric Squirrel on the opposite side of the field. Would work if we can switch play quickly enough and often enough during a game to terrorise the oppo defence. Does need a bit of weight on his bones though.

Iandolo poor first half.
How anyone couldn’t see the best player on the park Reed.
Superb, all over it at the back, mopping up, passing and preventing pressure on the back line.
Need Conroy and Reed back regularly and will start to create more chances like the first half of the season.
Granty struggled towards the end for them but looked their stand out player.
The number 6 for them unbelievably poor.

Others did well especially 2nd half but the win wouldn't have happened without Iandolo.  The pass to Mckirdy on its own deserved it, then followed up with another quality dribble and pass for the pen and a few crosses in between.

My god we needed Reed back. Twice as good as anyone else on the pitch.

Reed for me. That formation has to stay as well, the empathis isn't on the defenders to come out with the ball either so it works perfectly with the 2 we had in today

...also a call out to the referee.
Got the big decisions right. Good game 🙌

Guess who has the most MoMs so far this year.

Don't tell me, is it the player that dicates the pace and rythum of our play or is it Reed

I agree but the dude deserved his send off today :) Top class.

Always seemingly gave his all when in the shirt and fantastic with/to the fans. Decenter banter too. Not much more many would want. His "departure tweet" said it all and he had the final goodbye from the Town faithful. I'm glad he milked it with a lap of honour. Top man.

100% agree. Grant deserved today for everything he tried to do for us.

Ellis had his best game for a long time today and gets my vote.

The General comes a close second.

I thought at the time Iandolo or McKirdy but fuck we missed Reed. What a player.

Not sure about the spin, but how many would have put Ellis top of the MoM pile more than halfway through the season?

*Not just most MoMs, but most overall votes.

Ref must be in the top five. Didn’t think two pens were, third nailed on. Hardly noticed the ref which is how it should be. Special mention to the Scunny players. Considering their position they didn’t scrap like an inner city gang looking to take their opponents down with them, played some nice stuff all told.

REDBUCK must be a proud father

He wasn't even in the top 3 midfielders on the pitch

Great to see Iandolo starting to flourish.

Reed for me was the key. How he plays for the rest of the season will dictate where we end up in the table.

Iandolo for me. Was superb after a shaky start.