I REALLY enjoyed that win. Few thoughts...
Brown deserved his MoM. A busy night and did nearly everything well. I especially loved the moments where he was fractionally out of position or off balance but didn't panic or overthink and just got a toe or glancing head onto the ball to relieve pressure. Old school basics.
Taylor a close second for me despite the bad miss. Outstanding work rate and clever running. Was let down by team mates delaying the final ball *much* too often though. Both his annoying offsides tonight were down to hesitant passing.
On that, Holland and Whyte's decision making in the final third was just not good enough tonight.
Cameron Brannagan is a manic, majestic ball of energy and a joy to watch.
Credit to the noisy MK away support (despite that drummer). I'm of a generation that'll never forgive or forget the history but there's clearly a few hundred folk in MK who are at least trying to create something from scratch that most of us at proper, historic, legitimate football clubs take for granted. Hate the sin, love (or patronise) the sinners.
It's silly to have a player of Herbie Kane's quality pretending to be a disruptive defensive midfielder. Sam Long is a dependable but very limited lower-lower league right back. Kieran Brown would do all the good things he does but more effectively in his real position. There are glaring gaps in our squad. I'm a fully fledged passenger on the positive bus but those on here who ask questions about mentality and squad balance are right and should be respected. Just a few tiny tweaks to the squad shape would have us sitting pretty by now.
Marcus Browne glides. Rusty but quite obviously a class above.
Mark Sykes confuses me. That's ok. That he seems to confuse his teammates is more concerning. Constantly running into spaces noone else is even looking at. Skillful player and can sometimes change games but frustrating as hell. Also feeble in the air and on 50:50s
Liam Manning is impressive and his summary of the game fair.
However things pan out over the next couple of games we've really really missed Alexander Rodriquez Gorrin. Half a dozen goals from the edge of our area and at least 6 dropped points wouldn't have happened with A Rod in the side.
Credit to the young kids with the flags and banners in the East Stand. And for what you're doing at away games too. It's easy to moan and find fault but appreciate it