Interesting comments, especially from those with the power to read minds and know who was thinking what - we are truly blessed with a psychic fan base.
And on that note I’ll chuck my penny’s worth in. I reckon we have quite a few players who really rate themselves and feel they have a divine right to get selected and win games because they think they are better than the opposition - without putting in the performances required.
After our recent unconvincing form, I reckon Evatt has been handing out the bollockings and backed it up with the brave statements he made about expecting a busy January with big changes and players going out as well as coming in. Seems to me like he’s starting to lose patience with a few and last night was “play for your place and future at the club” night.
Vic worked his socks off and might have done better if Baxter’s distribution was better, but showed he was up for the fight despite his inability to score in a brothel.
The inverted wingbacks made sense attack-wise but the top teams that do it have a rock solid defence behind them and unfortunately the two GJ’s were a liability last night allowing crosses to rain in including the goal and the midfield were shoddy - GT and Demps are sorely missed. Sheehan was a passenger and Matete was trying too hard so was caught out of position a lot. Point is though that Evatt gave everyone a chance to stake their claim. Some did better than others.
The subs on the other hand seemed absolutely desperate to make an impact and they did.
So my take on it is that although we’re in a good position to push on, Evatt has had enough because the minimum requirement to play the way he wants is to be at least solid everywhere and some players struggled with the responsibility.
But I think they are starting to realise it’s shit or get off the pan time.
