Well, that was disappointing. That’s the problem with playing almost a first team when they play kids - if we don’t win convincingly, it doesn’t look great. It didn’t seem like we were fully up for it at times. When the young players Sole and Lopes came on they lifted us - I think they should have started, inject that energy and desire into a flat performance.
Matt Taylor took his goal well and could have had more in a first half we dominated, and Dickie also scored a good goal and seemed a cut above, but pretty much everyone else was average at best, and a few players were very poor: Don’t know what’s happened to Shandon Baptiste but he was poor on Saturday and worse here, Robinson hooked him off and was furious with him at the time. Moore was also much worse than he has been recently. Ruffels tired maybe? And as had been mentioned Eastwood slow off his line for their second. Agyei looked absolutely shot of confidence and could barely do anything right.
Still, we could have scored more in that first half, especially Sykes who missed an absolutely golden opportunity when he was clean through.
On the plus side, could Sole be a player?? I’d like to see more of him