I think some folk aren't giving the keeper the praise he deserves.
Some of the ones he saved weren't down to our players not having enough desire to score, but down to him being more than equal to his task.
As for the game, well I'm as disappointed as everyone we didn't win, a neutral would say we were the better side, but desperate defending and an inspired keeper display foiled nearly every effort.
I'm fecked off that not only wasn't Morrison playing, but that he wasn't even on the bench. He's better than Hobbs imo and definitely a better player than Kisnorbo. Though I don't think he was as bad as some on here thought today, first half I thought Hobbs was worse than him. The winger down that side was tearing him and Gilbert apart all first half( looked a bit nasty with Gilbert at halftime,radio said it might be a re-occurance of dislocated shoulder that he's had before??)
Their first goal was down to bad positioning by the keeper and both central defenders, but also bad marking on Kavanagh who had the foresight to look up and spot the opportunity to loft the ball over for the striker to have his chance. Kavanagh was their best player, a player who I wouldn't have minded seeing play for us in previous seasons tbh.
Oakley took his goal well but he was poor again imo, I think the last 6 weeks the midfield has been our weakness, not having a tackling midfielder is doing us more damage than anything else. We look so lightweight in the middle, King whilst being a goal-scoring threat is a powder-puff player who shows hardly any inclination to put his foot in and next season this needs to be addressed, whether it be a five man midfield to have that tackling player with them, or one of them and AN Other to play alongside, it needs looking at, and imo should be the priority once the season is over.
When Fryatt scored I looked straight at the clock and just hoped we could hang on, but yet again we couldn't.
Personally I thought it was handball, I thought he controlled it with his hand, turned and got the cross in, from which they scored. Perhaps the goalie should've done better, perhaps the defence were a bit slack waiting for a whistle that should've come, but sometimes when you have a ref standing in a position to see something so clearly, you are already half- expecting to get the free kick and the natural reaction is to stop.
It cost us, it might have cost us dearly in the title race, who knows, momentum is certainly with Peterborough now, despite us still sitting two points clear of them. But it would still mean a monumental feck up for us not to go up(even if at the turn of the year I was hoping that issue would've been sorted by the end of March!)
I don't like making a match to be about a referee's performance, but the standard of the officiating the last few weeks has been utter wank imo. Are refs not allowed to give handball decisions our way any more? Are refs to allow defenders to climb all over our players and give then the free kicks instead of us, whilst our players only have to breath at an oppo to give away a free kick?? Are refs to blatantly ignore players feigning injury as though they had been elbowed in a clear attempt to get another player booked or sent off ,allowing them to carry on in the game and not to be punished as they should be for unsporting behaviour?
I'm a bit pissed off about it all tbh, 6 weeks ago we looked in darn good shapes to have this League all sewn up by Easter, now we are hanging onto top spot by our fingernails and instead of crossing the finish line at a canter are looking more lilely to crawl across it wheezing and dying of thirst!
