Morning all.
A few thoughts about last night.
I was pretty confident about this game until i heard the news about Forde, that was a blow, and then when the team news came out
i`m gonna admit i was even less confident, the idea of playing both Barker and Shodipo in front of a midfield that has not been dominating
games worried me, Barker has been improving but was still a way off where he needed to be and Shodipo has been pretty inconsistent.
It seemed like a gamble that had more chance of backfiring than it had of paying off. I was wrong.
Massive credit to KR, he said a while back that you have to win the right games and this was one of them, the tactics were spot on and i
was really happy to hear during the build up on radox that he was noticeably more chipper for this game than he had been for a while, KR
mentioned in the post game interview that he had made an effort to be more positive and that effort was rewarded, people are going to
say thats part of his job but when you are knackered and under pressure with limited options, trying to be Mr Positive in a convincing way
is not easy. Well played sir !
All the players turned up last night but 2 that need a special mention that are going to be so important going forward are Barker and Taylor,
Barker was excellent, the guy still can`t tackle to save his life but his reading of the game was very good, on numerous occasions he broke
up Doncasters attacks by intercepting passes and setting up our own counters, it was really pleasing to see him as the instigator of our
attacks and not just the beneficiary, more of this please !
Taylor, well, well, someone has his mojo back, how good was that to see ! If KR is the driver of the positive train, then Taylor is the conductor,
after that first goal went in you could see the confidence in him grow, he wanted the ball, encouraged those around him and was involved in
a lot of decent moves, when Taylor plays at this level and is fit he needs to start, no doubt about that.
10/10 to KR and the squad for last night, i think we made Donny look worse than they are.