Just back

Agree with previous comments. Rose is an important player for us. The work he does to stop attacks is immense. Plus today he had more options up front and out wide and played some good passes . Good debut from Woolford, given he has not played much for a couple years. Did a good interview after the match. Clearly has much to offer and is likely to get a few goals when he is up to speed and settles in. I can see him and Dixon making a good partnership on the left. Also and excellent debut by Osbourne almost faultless display and my MOM. Dembele again did well with some trickery and is definately more of a threat out wide. Having Vernon up front was a good outlet and brought the best out of Hooper who was everywhere today. After all the criticism well done JJ you have raised the bar.

Hope their player is ok. It looked serious at the time but the officials and medics responded well. Their physio was giving him mouth to mouth until the oxygen arrived.

What a difference to last Saturday, thoroughly deserved win against a side unbeaten until today.
We made them look ordinary with our pace and workrate.
The back four played as a unit with Clarke and Osborne missing nothing, and the latter has surely done enough to keep his place next game. Berrett and Woolford didn't make any mistakes of note and Rose and Dembele were at times, almost unplayable.
Up front Vernon and Hooper were onto everything and looked dangerous.
Even the three subs were straight at it when then came on, especially Jaiyesimi and Matt who both look to be full of pace.
My MOM would be Rose I think followed closely by Macca who had one of his best games for a long while.
One other thing of note, I thought that's the best refereeing performance we've seen for a long time.

UTM

One little thing for me is the way we sat back in the last ten minutes inviting pressure when we didn't need to. We jjust retreated to our own box.

Other than that we played well with two upfront.

Quoted from oldun

Hope their player is ok. It looked serious at the time but the officials and medics responded well. Their physio was giving him mouth to mouth until the oxygen arrived.

One of the stewards said after the game that their lad went straight to hospital, regaining full consciousness in the ambulance. It did look very bad. Their physio was on almost before the ref. had stopped blowing his whistle.

Quoted from oldun

Hope their player is ok. It looked serious at the time but the officials and medics responded well. Their physio was giving him mouth to mouth until the oxygen arrived.

Mouth to mouth without chest compressions? He was more likely talking into his ear as you keep your sense of hearing longest when unconcious.

Quoted from mimma

One little thing for me is the way we sat back in the last ten minutes inviting pressure when we didn't need to. We jjust retreated to our own box.

Other than that we played well with two upfront.

I think that's a natural thing to happen when you've been on a bad run of form. If you're only up by one goal, you probably don't have the confidence to go looking for a second goal and would rather sit on what you have. If we can get a bit of form and confidence then hopefully that will improve.

Some really interesting comments on here tonight. It would be good to hear from some of those who were very worried in the build up as to whether the performance suggests the team is heading in the right direction.

Deserved the win as Crewe were poor. First goal is vital at this level and we were well worth the lead and then were well organised defensively with Osbourne being the standout while still threatening on the break.

Hooper and Vernon are much better in a two as well, best to judge them like that than up front on their own with nobody near them, especially when they're not out and out goalscorers.

I can finally take a peek at the league table now