Threadbare going into this one. I’d keep the same back 4, I thought Baptiste did ok at RB. I’m hoping Doyle is back (have we heard if he might be available?) God knows what IE does in centre mid. Might try Johnstone there again.

Dixon

Baptiste

Santos

Aimson

John

Johnstone

Thomason

Lee

Dapo

Isgrove

Doyle

 

13 hours ago, embankment said:

Great Result.

Well needed 3pts .

Evatt will be happy , but hope he remains humble .

Pleased for all the players. 

Decent turn out .

As for Doncaster-  time-wasting when 3-0 down.

Hope Izzy is OK. 

Saturday will not be as easy .

Dapo booking was a shocker .

Agree with every sentence except that bit - I thought it was a terrible turnout.  Huge gaps all round the North and West stands that I could see.  It wasn't even that cold.  Don't know if its the i-follow effect, looks like too many S/T holders choosing the at-home option. 

4 hours ago, tomski said:

I wouldn’t call it an experiment if it was the only option per se

Could have played Isgrove at right back again and either start Amaechi wide right or Delfouneso behind Doyle and shift Kachunga out wide.

2 hours ago, Big E said:

The rules are its a red. for me it was a red. 

 

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

Nah no intention to play the ball tackle from behind. Off you fuck

 

2 hours ago, Farrelli said:

Yep, there is no need to make the challenge but it is dangerous so he deserved to go. 

having watched it again on a big screen, I concur, I don't think it was dangerous, but he deserves a red for being fucking stupid, pointless tackle with at least 1 if not 2 others covering

3 minutes ago, Zico said:

 

 

having watched it again on a big screen, I concur, I don't think it was dangerous, but he deserves a red for being fucking stupid, pointless tackle with at least 1 if not 2 others covering

And on the half way line.

Raking studs down the back of a player’s calf without intention to play the ball; straight red. Even the linesman waived his flag and up until then had waited for the ref to indicate direction of throw almost every time the ball went out. He also missed a Doncaster player who was 6’ offside because he forgot the basics of being in-line with the last defender.

9 minutes ago, Francis Fogarty said:

And on the half way line.

aye, red all day long, never in doubt

Was Gordons best performance for us, was doing step overs and all. Maybe he should be a right back from now on.

 

1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Agree with every sentence except that bit - I thought it was a terrible turnout.  Huge gaps all round the North and West stands that I could see.  It wasn't even that cold.  Don't know if its the i-follow effect, looks like too many S/T holders choosing the at-home option. 

8pm KO...

27 minutes ago, Mantra said:

Was Gordons best performance for us, was doing step overs and all. Maybe he should be a right back from now on.

 

Shame the highlights don't show his run down the wing before the first goal. He single-handedly created that out of nothing really. Tremendous.

One thing about Gordon's excellent game was the donny players didn't seem to realise at any point he was a very left footed left back playing at right back. He cut inside with ease every single time.

1 hour ago, Cheese said:

Shame the highlights don't show his run down the wing before the first goal. He single-handedly created that out of nothing really. Tremendous.

When he knocked it past the defender with his first touch, I thought there was no way he was getting passed him and keeping possession but he turned the after burners on!

I think he just needs to believe in himself a bit more but hopefully that'll come with game time.  He also looked like the most one footed footballer I think I've ever seen last night but didn't prevent him being MotM for me.

1 hour ago, frank_spencer said:

One thing about Gordon's excellent game was the donny players didn't seem to realise at any point he was a very left footed left back playing at right back. He cut inside with ease every single time.

I noticed the same thing too. For in-game management it was really poor they didn’t react or change what they were doing. 

There was one occasion in the 2nd half when they got the ball on the inside of Gordon and he was completely wrong footed putting their player through one on one, fortunately Dixon was ready and out to stop him. Didn’t help that Amaechi wasn’t tracking back - as all his effective work was in the final third. Does worry me that against better teams they won’t be as slow/inept as Doncaster were

2 hours ago, frank_spencer said:

One thing about Gordon's excellent game was the donny players didn't seem to realise at any point he was a very left footed left back playing at right back. He cut inside with ease every single time.

It’s a nightmare for opposition full backs marking someone who cuts inside when he’s coming at you.

It’s something Dapo does well when he plays on the left, cuts inside on to his right foot.

30 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

When he knocked it past the defender with his first touch, I thought there was no way he was getting passed him and keeping possession but he turned the after burners on!

The best show of pace i’ve seen at the Unibol all season.

If he stays at RB, Gordon might have a problem when we play a decent side and he’s up against a good left footed player, but from what i’ve seen so far this season, they are few and far between in this division.

3 hours ago, Mantra said:

Was Gordons best performance for us, was doing step overs and all. Maybe he should be a right back from now on.

 

Looks like he might have to be, for a while.

3 hours ago, Traf said:

8pm KO...

Also weren't offering free upgrades either. Speaking to the guy who sits behind and they wanted £22 or something like that to upgrade a junior to an adult last night.

4 hours ago, MickyD said:

I really do hope this hasn’t passed under the radar but let me see if I’ve got this right:

You win a seat at the Chairperson’s table for the next home game, which happened to be last night, but the person making space on that table was the very person you’d won the opportunity to sit beside, chat to, swap BWFC anecdotes , etc., with wasn’t actually there? I’d say that was fairly poor form on Sharron’s part.

Yeah. "Sharron Out !!"

4 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Agree with every sentence except that bit - I thought it was a terrible turnout.  Huge gaps all round the North and West stands that I could see.  It wasn't even that cold.  Don't know if its the i-follow effect, looks like too many S/T holders choosing the at-home option. 

When you consider the villa semi final turnout it weren’t that bad. 

17 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

When you consider the villa semi final turnout it weren’t that bad. 

That and the Tranmere semi too.  It's hard to imagine such apathy for that kind of fixture now.

58 minutes ago, matty2094 said:

Also weren't offering free upgrades either. Speaking to the guy who sits behind and they wanted £22 or something like that to upgrade a junior to an adult last night.

 

57 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Yeah. "Sharron Out !!"

Got told by a steward last night,that the use of e-cigs is prohibited in the stadium from now on.

Betting shops have gone.

Buying matchday tickets in crazy corner has  gone.

Wonder what will go next - Beer? Heaven forbid - as if the matchday experience isn’t sanitised enough these days.

 

Edited November 24, 20214 yr by Burndens Bogs

2 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Got told by a steward last night,that the use of e-cigs is prohibited in the stadium from now on.

I thought it had been all along tbh as it makes it difficult for stewards to tell the difference from afar whether it’s a cig or an e-cig. I do think there should be some sort of provision made for smokers though as I’m sick of stinking of cigs whenever I go to the toilets. Could even smell it before the game last night which is just a bit ridiculous really. 

4 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I thought it had been all along tbh as it makes it difficult for stewards to tell the difference from afar whether it’s a cig or an e-cig. I do think there should be some sort of provision made for smokers though as I’m sick of stinking of cigs whenever I go to the toilets. Could even smell it before the game last night which is just a bit ridiculous really. 

Detectors should be put in the bogs that identify smokers, then by use of small storage tanks and aptly placed jets, squirt the culprit with piss.

38 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

When you consider the villa semi final turnout it weren’t that bad. 

Yeah but we all had to buy tickets for that!  And it was live on TV.  Last night, clearly a few thousand who had tickets chose not to go.  No criticism from me, just noticeable that it was the crowd was so much lower than normal.

26 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

That and the Tranmere semi too.  It's hard to imagine such apathy for that kind of fixture now.

In mitigation, we were on a terrible run, the mood was very unenthusiastic at the time, and it was on TV.  In the preceding few weeks we lost at home to both Stockport and Tranmere, got thrashed at Blackburn and lost 2-0 at Walsall.  We were pissed off.  Even our cup run didn't create a buzz, no stand out wins, with a low key Q-F win v Wimbledon in front of less than 10k.

A couple of other points I don't think that have been mentioned:

 - On freeze frame, is Doyle possibly about an inch off side for the 1st goal?  I've a feeling VAR would have found his finger nail offside, but I'll take it.  Possibly made up for the Burton disallowed one.  Just surprised Donny didn't make the effort to protest, like Burton did successfully.

 - Some of our long, diagonal passing was fantastic.  It possibly gets taken for granted a bit but the passing of Santos, Aimson and I think it was Lee for the 2nd goal is a pleasure to watch.  MJW great at that too.  Its years since we had players that could do that consistently, it was always frustrating watching the likes of Beevers, Matt Mills trying and failing with the long stuff.

Santos is the favourite for the long diagonal ball.

It's one of his three passes though, the other two being back to the keeper, and the short one to the fullback.