Holmes_and_Watson

So good from KWP... right to the last moment. Next time...

Lovely from Fraser. he knows exactly what he's going to do, at every moment he had that ball. He tests on the outside with a gesture, then shifts it and delivers a lovely cross that with a touch falls to AA. Good work from KWP before that.

yeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More details to follow 🙂

Off the bar... for WBA. Gave them plenty of space and other than THB, we're not likely to outmuscle anyone, so Manning second to the header.

Our press not at all good there. We look disjointed and we're not on top here.

We tried to do one of our cut back goals. Che central though, whereas AA and Fraser would have been closer to the post, and tried from there.

Forgot to type "another" in front of the one. 🙂 I was paying attention! Honest! 🙂

I thought you said you were working. 🙂 Yeah, that's about it.

We need to start a thread to create a list of Motivational Speakers for Martin to bring in for half time. 🙂

Game stretching here. Fraser's chot blocked from outside the box. We have to get back sharpish to stop their attack. Stopped by Holgate.

Sule - Che Bree - Manning Downes - Charles

And sure enough. Bah! Before we could even bring on the subs.That had been coming a bit.

We passed it clear, which was good. But when it got to Alcaraz, there was no out ball. Not even for anything more direct. Just gives WBA more of a foothold, and raises the pressure on us.

A shot curls wide. Baz not in danger (nowhere near his wrists 🙂 )

Hm. Didn;t pass that one clear. Russ won;t be plaeased with that. We're dropping back. Without Smallbone, we've lost a lot of passing angles. Need to be using Sule and Fraser now to pin them back, with some of those incisive passes we know we can do.

Couldn;t quite create a chance form that, but great to see us switch down to the flanks after Smallbone has gone off, and set Fraser away on a run.

A rare mispass from us. I'm saying that's because Smallbone, the link up player is off. 🙂

Stu?

Yeah. They are subbing him. This will be interesting how we switch the style of play around.

Uh oh. An injury for Smallbone?

COYR!

And another shot, outside the box and comfortable in the end. WBA having a better spell. RM will hopefully give a team talk to get us that bit higher tempo and aticipate for the second half.

A few nearly things. Alcaraz does well, but just doesn;t pick out AA's run behind the defence. For his part, AA then doesn;t know that Sule would make a run and pass it into space for him to run onto. Smallbone, doing every job as usual, doesn;t quite have the power to get a ball into AA. When there's a chance to get it into the middle, we have to pause, as we've had to run from deep. Little things, that don;t quite click. Not that they all have to. Any one of these would give us every chance to go one up. Meanwhile, that was a decent chance for WBA.

Well now. That was two Baz passes on the riskier side. And Downes didn't get that second one and we nearly conceded. Baz hasn;t been shy in thumping it recently. When it doesn;t quite work out, we can expect pressure, and we were switched on enbough to stop that one (although had the WBA stayed on his feet, he might have had a shot away)

Lose it in the middle... boom.. Downes gets it back a second later. Often a gap in breaking up play/ getting possession and stopping attacks. Downes dowing well today, continuing his form.