Player Ratings - Exeter Away

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Casper - 7 One or 2 dodgy dribbles otherwise sound
Taricco - 7 wound up opposition fans, got stronger and more involved as game went on
Greer - 8
El Abd - 8
Painter - 7 see Taricco
Bridcutt - 9 Broke up play and turned attack into defence very well (MOM)
Bennett - 8 some silky touches, played many positions today
Dicker - 6 a bit wasteful in position, obvious sub for wood
Noone - 7 good debut, some great touches, appeared to tire
Murray - 9 dominent display, well taken goal, could have had us one up in 1st min
Sparrow - 7 covered a lot of ground
Wood and Barnes - 8 each, worked well with Murray, Exeter struggled to cope with extra forwards

Gus - 10 451, 442,433,451 changes in formation and personnel spot on

What he said, for me Bridcutt was awesome and we need to get him signed on a long term deal.

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not wasting time. How many times does this need to be explained? Gus has explained this - many people on NSC have done so - why is it so hard to follow?

If an attacker is forced to come forward to make Caspar play the ball then we are one man up in the outfield. It opens up spaces for us. So sometimes Caspar will keep the ball at his feet to force an attacker to come forward - thus creating space and a man advantage. It's not time wasting - it's GENIUS.

Against Charlton, Caspar did this so well at one point, and with such nerve, that he got a standing ovation from C block and others. Please try to understand this - it's been a critical part of our approach all season.

But what's the point when all he does is hoof it. I'm not arguing that when we pass it back to him it's a bad thing, it's when he waits for an attacker to come for the ball when he is allowed to pick it up, does so and then proceeds to hit it as hard as he can down the field anyway that annoys me.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

Against Charlton, Caspar did this so well at one point, and with such nerve, that he got a standing ovation from C block and others. Please try to understand this - it's been a critical part of our approach all season.

i thought it was because the movement from all of our players was non existant, and was waiting for someone to make a run.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Ankergren - 7
Taricco - 7
Greer - 7
El-Abd - 7
Painter - 6
Noone - 7
Bridcutt - 8
Dicker - 6
Sparrow - 7
Bennett - 7
Murray - 8

Subs:, Kishishev - 7, Barnes - 8, Wood - 7.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

All the Bridcutt comments are based on the last half an hour. If this thread had been done at half-time he'd have got a 5 and been lucky to get that.

but it isn't.

so what's your point?

 

[imissworthing2]

Just back from the game,

Agree with most of been just said, apart from TCB obviously. From the 1st minute Bridcutt was showing for the ball especially impressive against a decent cm 3. Just wasnt Dickers game and to be honest the change won us the game altho Wood wasnt that impressive( IMHO he looks like a guy desparately short on confidence and if he had a run of 20 games and afew goals he'd be a real handful.

Greer definately shaded it in comparison to El Abd although the composure they both showed at times was unreal and indicative of the confidence that runs through the team(alot of tidy triangles in tight spaces).

And finally Noone, all things considered it was a decent debut, confident lad with lots of skill and a cracking delivery (was corner taker straight away), an exeter fan said to me that he'll be your fans favourite in about a months time...we shall see.

 

[Springal]

Am I Missing something? Bridcutt is the black player, that does not wear number 7 isn't he ? He played in the middle yesterday? If so, how can anyone defend his first half performance, he only completed a handful of passes? Second half yes he was great, but everyone around me agreed he was poor in the first half

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Is anyone defending his first half performance? I based my rating on 93 minutes not 45.

 

[Mellotron]

Just back from the game,

Which route did you take?

 

[robbie c]

maybe we need Kish for Dicker on difficult away trips when we know we will be up against it like 'muff coming up; battling first half then Dicker to come on against a tiring midfield and open the oppo defence up?

 

[Sam Ovett]

maybe we need Kish for Dicker on difficult away trips when we know we will be up against it like 'muff coming up; battling first half then Dicker to come on against a tiring midfield and open the oppo defence up?

Worked against Brentford. Brought Dicker and Murray on which completely changed the game