Reflections on that and some other stuff from last night ...

Neil Sullivan must be about a million years old by now.

Formation for the first 30 minutesish was a good experiment, but one that failed badly. Looked like 4-1-4-1 to me, with Crofts (really impressed) ahead of the centrebacks. Then Smith and Hooligan in the middleish, Macnamee wide right, and most bizarrely Chris Martin wide left. Holt up top on his own was getting no service, and looked stroppy and truculent.

End result was the team wasn't able to defend from the front - something I think Chris Martin does really really well. The middle of midfield - the most important area of the pitch - was Doncaster's to do with as they pleased.

But then when they changed it about, put Smith on the right, Macnamee on the left and Martin up top to give Horses a cuddle and hug we started to look much better.

Second half we really should have won it before they got their third (which looked like an absolute beauty of a free kick to me). Unfortunately the league's new ruling about employing blind retarded match officials didn't help, and our two stonewall, even Alan Hansen would have called them blatent pelanty claims fell on unsympathetic ears. But really, that ref wanted blood on the pitch before he was prepared to give a foul.

Umm, other stuff. Laughed like a loon at "You'll never ball-boy again!".

Hopefully Lambert's all he needs to know about C Martin on the left wing (Dont!).

Apart from that, not too downbeat.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Sep 15, 09:05:58