Just back

Decent game and I agree with Ginny in that we were better team 1 st period and they were after h-t.
Mitch Rose was outstanding and Whitmore, Collins and Hendry not far behind.

One area of criticism and that is Hooper. The level of abuse he gets for a guy wearing a black n white shirt is out of order imo. One guy behind me was bellowing to get him off in the first few minutes, ( despite it being Thomas who lost the ball!). He isn’t a world beater but one thing we have with Hooper is balance, and we tend to pick up points when he starts!

On to Tuesday and hopefully 3 points to keep the run going.

UTM

Call me old fashioned but I don’t want any Town player being audibly criticised by ‘fans’ during a game.

Biggest problem for me is our lack of goals. Only 9 scored in 13 is not good enough and we are the only team in Div 2 not to reach double figures yet. Doesn't matter how well you play if you can't score, because you will always be one chance or bad bit of defending away from a defeat. I think Thomas is excellent at this level, but we need someone who can stick the ball in the net regularly up there with him. Hopefully, Vernam will be that man eventually, or we need to invest in a goalscorer in Jan.

Quoted from ginnywings

Biggest problem for me is our lack of goals. Only 9 scored in 13 is not good enough and we are the only team in Div 2 not to reach double figures yet. Doesn't matter how well you play if you can't score, because you will always be one chance or bad bit of defending away from a defeat. I think Thomas is excellent at this level, but we need someone who can stick the ball in the net regularly up there with him. Hopefully, Vernam will be that man eventually, or we need to invest in a goalscorer in Jan.

Careful Ginny saying invest might give our non chairman a heart flutter,

Big positive for me was that we weren’t turning the ball over when not under pressure nearly as much as we have been - even in the recent wins.
For me that was a decent game between two evenly matched sides neither of which got that little bit of luck to finish the other off.
Some really good football played, much more like I was hoping to see from a Michael Jolley team.
Only disappointment was (according to BBC site) no shots on target, and I certainly can’t remember any but then again they only had 2 and one of those was the pen.
I’m pretty confident that we’re heading in the right direction and those chances will start being taken.
And yes, I agree get off Hooper’s back. He’s one of ours, still young, and any shortcomings are not from a lack of effort

Only just back myself (via the off licence). Christ I enjoyed that game.

given our league pos, we've only been losing at half time once this season. it's the second half we seemed to fade, but it looks as our fitness levels are creeping up. we have missed hall Johnson at the back due to injury and we look so much better with him there, his got a bit of pace so get us out as well and Whitmore looks solid atm. we are a team in transition another 3-4 solid signings and offload some others and we will be ok.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned McKeown's penalty save.

It wasn't really a poor penalty and McKeown did superb to get down and save it.

That in itself really won us the point.

Quoted from Les Brechin

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned McKeown's penalty save.

It wasn't really a poor penalty and McKeown did superb to get down and save it.

That in itself really won us the point.

I enjoyed McKeown’s mind games just before it was taken. Worked beautifully.

I’m a big fan of Mitch Rose but it thought he was better in the first half today than he’s ever been for us before. He did all the physical stuff but I thought he did some great things with the ball as well. I also thought Harry Clifton complimented him perfectly, he’s strung 3 good performances together in the middle and adds great energy. Clifton will develop into a fine box to box midfielder as he grows in confidence, experience and gets stronger. He just seems to be getting his foot or his head in all over the place and then moves the ball on.