I’m off out - but wow. Just wow! Those scenes after our goal were utter madness. Definitely wasn’t a penalty, doesn’t look like a corner from the replays - just looks like a dreadful miss. Neither ref or linesman signal any issue with Eastwood’s kick as it was taken...to then even think about hauling it back on a non-VAR assisted game seemed madness.
As others (and Jerome on RO) have said, I can’t remember too many times at the Kassam where there have been scenes like after that Mackie goal. Absolute pandemonium! My shins are already coming up in bruises, my throat is raw and my shoulder is hurting from waving my arms about like a madman. Wouldn’t change it for anything.
As for the performance, I was lukewarm on it. 26 shots to 4 tells both the story of our control of the game...and also our complete, hopeless ineptitude in and around the box.
Jordan Graham’s performance was maddening. What is the point of being able to beat your fullback 74,000 times if all you do afterwards is shank it off the pitch or pump it into the first centre half? I bloody love Gavin Whyte - but the chances he missed this week could well have (and may still) relegate us. And that (offside) miss from Sinclair was just horrific.
Positives - Kashi was outstanding. I thought he was very good against Rochdale on Tuesday too (having not been at Gillingham - but plenty have been complimentary about his performance there too). As someone else on this thread said, he showed a lot of the same qualities as Mous - but also a far greater range of passes, and a welcome ability to move the ball a lot more bloody quickly.
Dickie - superb today. The howling wind, his bambi on ice running style. I thought the game was set up for a Dickie howler, but he was excellent. Managed their forwards and the conditions with composure, put his head on everything.
Mackie - not just the goal. But he was excellent when he came on. He organised young pros like Whyte, Browne and Sinclair, he was an absolute shithouse to their defenders, got ridiculously booked for pointing out the officials had pathetically not called a corner correctly. And that finish! After 38 shots into the car park from the rest of the team that strike was a revelation...
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