Great day out overall, shame about the result...
enjoyed the green man, the decision to have a Jerk BBQ on was inspired, 10 times better than some shite old burger. Ale on in the bar too, nice have a Doombar instead of that Tetleys piss for £4.50 in the stadium...Talking of ale...anyone had that Red Army stuff from arkells? seemed to be just 3B's with a different label on the pump to me....unless thats exactly what the Angel at Purton were actually doing...still, only good for a good clear out of the bowels the following morning.
As for the match, a 2-0 scoreline was completely deceiving. The fact that we had to put one in the back of the net for them before having to leave the arse end of the team hanging out at 90+3 speaks volumes. As a few others have said, if Risser hadn't of netted for them, it would probably have been 0-0 at 90 minutes. I don't think Chesterfield deserved to win as such but didn't deserve to lose, fair play to them for keeping us mostly shut out, they obviously did their homework on the wings defensively.
Surprised to see Holmes (I still prefer Homles..) getting quite a bit of stick for wasting chances and poor delivery. He wasn't great at all, but looked the only player that could create something after having the ball pinged to him (superbly in the first half) by Ferry.
If Connell's chance had been the other way round with Connell delivering the ball to Benson, I reckon we'd have gone 1-0 up at that moment. shame for Connell, definitely had more time than he realised, although can see why he went for the volley that he did, that ball seemed to take an age to drop.
Gutted for Risser and the OG, after the last few games evidently getting into some good form and confidence, for that to happen to him. I thought he played reasonably up until that point...didnt miss out on many headers lumped up by the chesterfield defence and midfield.
Evidently missed Caddis massively. Also a bit miffed at the praise for McEverly...i thought he was abject at best. Not sure if it was because i noticed him making a few mistakes in the second half which caused me to focus on him more, but he didn't get forward as much as Cibbo or Kennedy does and in the second half especially looked lazy and slow to me...the amount of times i saw him stood still watching the ball fly over his head behind him and then slowly turning and halfheartedly chasing the defender that got ahead of him annoyed me massively. Not sure if that was fatigue, poor reading of the ball or just laziness.
Final thought for Westcarr...what a little shite, didnt realise how brutal his attack on Devera was until i saw it this morning, definitely shouldn't have been on the pitch to score their second. Them down to 10 men for the final 10 minutes could've been crucial.
Oh well, as long as we go on and win the league now....Paolo definitely needs to get working on a plan B for situations like Sunday.