Such a frustrating player. His range of passing is sublime at times and often gets in some excellent attacking positions. But at other times looks like a pub player who accidentally wandered into a professional match.
Why does it still feel like we'll make 3 unnecessary changes early in the second half and lose 2-1. Sorry.
Would you make any changes at half time? Obvs I don’t know if there are any niggles, but I’m not expecting many changes at half time unless Cotter comes on for O’Keeffe. Maybe Phillips off he’s struggling for fitness.
According to the ref Phillips has 'fouled' a defender and the keeper by brushing against them. Also Earl was penalised for shoulder barging over the ball. That is NOT a foul.
A decent 45 that in fairness. We're still very edgy at the back, Phillips has been anonymous too. Plenty still to improve on, but a lead and a clean sheet at half time, I'd have snapped your hand off before the game!
Playing good going forward though still suspect at the other end. Good to see Russell and Gent having positive contributions.
Much better first half than I expected. Got to keep it going second half and not concede in the last 15 mins which has become a habit recently
Big improvement over recent games so far. Just the energy levels are 100% higher. Well it puts to bed any nonsense about Clarke losing the dressing room. Far from perfect with some sloppy passing at times but far less than last few games. COYR, don't give us a Jekyll and Hyde performance and revert back to that slow game in the 2nd.
Can’t really fault anybody for that first half performance. Good tackling, good passing and strong forward running. We all know that 1-0 is not enough but very impressive so far. Can we repeat that second half?
All in all take that.. a he'll of a lot better. Blackpool are decent with some tidy players.. Some of our passing a concern enough to say that if we want all 3 points, we'll need another goal.
Better than playing rubbish going forwards and still being suspect at the back which has been the case in recent games