Thought would post my thoughts: We can’t play the press in this league, we were always half a second too slow. When we upped tempo in 2nd half we looked a lot more dangerous, downside was we give the ball away too as a result. Both teams were poor overall. There was a few odd referring decisions. Chaplin is not a target man!! Why didn’t we target their number 3 he was awful? Dougal looked a class apart generally always with space and time and if we sell in Jan, he would be the one I would envisage attracting bids.
I’d agree he wasn’t spectacular with the ball, what I saw was his work off the ball, he was always in space, showing for the ball, always seemed to have time and very rarely wasted much. Very much a performance that can go under the radar for me.
We abandoned the press last week, it didn’t return today. I’m a big fan of Dougall but he was awful today full stop.
Dougall was by his standards absolutely awful today. Misplaced more passes than all the other games he’s played added together, and whilst he found space to receive the ball continually he provided very little of the normal cover for the back line he normally does.