Player Ratings

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Shaaban 7

Harding 7
Butters 7
Hinshelwood 7
Reid 8

Knight 8
Carpenter 7.5
Nicolas 7
Hart 7

McCammon 7.5
McPhee 6

Subs: Mayo 6, Oatway 6.


Hard to pick a MOM out of that; not a great performance, but Reid was excellent at full-back and Knight threatened consistently on the left, plus setting up the goal. Pity he couldn't have stuck away the one at the end.

McPhee clearly wasn't fit & McGhee, to his credit, recognised this and replaced him - it was a blow to lose McCammon though, who was playing well up to his injury.

 

[Beach Hut]

Shaaban 8

Harding 7
Butters 6
Hinshelwood 7
Reid 8

Knight 9
Carpenter 8
Nicolas 8
Hart 8

McCammon 6
McPhee 3

Subs: Mayo 7, Oatway 7

 

[Braders]

Shaaban 7

Harding 7
Butters 7
Hinshelwood 7
Reid 6

Knight 8
Carpenter 7
Nicolas 7
Hart 7

McCammon 5
McPhee 5

Subs: Mayo , Oatway .

 

[dougdeep]

Shabaan----8
Harding------7
Butters------8
Hinsh--------7
Reid----------8
Knight-------8
Chippy-------7
Nicolas-------7
Hart----------8
MacG---------7
McPhee------6

Wendy 10

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

Shabaan----8
Harding------7
Butters------8
Hinsh--------7
Reid----------8
Knight-------8
Chippy-------7
Nicolas-------7
Hart----------8
MacG---------7
McPhee------6

Wendy 10

Wendy?

I didn't know that Deano had come on as sub. I must have missed the fact that he was in the sixteen. There's only one Wendy and that's our Mr Wilkins!

 

[Albion Edd]

Shaaban 7

Harding 7
Butters 7
Hinshelwood 7
Reid 7

Knight 8
Carpenter 7
Nicolas 8
Hart 8

McCammon 7
McPhee 6

Subs: Mayo 6, Oatway 6.

 

[ShorehamGull]

Shaaban 7

Reid 7
Hinshelwood 7
Butters 8
Harding 7

Knight 9
Carpenter 7
Nicolas 8
Hart 8

McCammon 8
McPhee 7

Subs:
Mayo 6,
Oatway 6.

 

[London Irish]

Shaaban 7 Couple of good moments, caught out by one cross. Distribution ironically not as good as Yelldell's.

Reid 7 Calm presence and confident with the ball at his feet.
Butters 6 Some passes a bit astray today but his usual reliable self.
Hinsh 7 Timely interventions
Harding 8 Another excellent game from Dan, getting forward more and one brilliant tackle in the same spot that Akinbiyi embarrased him.

Nicolas 7 Good all-round game
Chippy 6 Passing not quite 100% but fine battling presence
OGH 6.5 Some good touches and his workrate earned him the goal
Leon 8 My MOTM just, on a low-key day for the team. Excellent work on the touchlines, where he'll probably now stay, he's the natural replacement for Currie as our most skilful player. Fantastic cross for the winner. But that last chance!, poor old Leon struggling to score in a brothel there, good job that wasn't for the game

Big Mac 7 Competed well enough to make his point to Millwall he belongs at this level.
McPhee 5.5 Not great but good enough for a player coming back from a long lay-off, his inclusion allowed McGhee to leave the Sunderland shape untouched.

Mayo 8 Excellent contribution, lots of possession used wisely in the Millwall half.
Oatway 6 Made a good impact and improved our fluency in midfield.

McGhee 8 I liked the McPhee idea, didn't quite come off but kept the same players who did well together last week, which was good thinking. Both substitutions had a good impact.

 

[Yoda]

Everyone 6 apart from Knight, 7. No one played really well today.

 

[Silent Bob]

Why you all giving out 7 and 8s, we weren't good.

6 everyone, 7 Knight as he set up the goal. Shame he didn't score (although might help for contract negotiations that he didn't).

 

[London Irish]

Why you all giving out 7 and 8s, we weren't good.

I think the reason is because we defended well and showed good attitude. We defended poorly in both the Cardiff and Derby games.

I know there will be many who think we played better against Derby than today, but I don't agree. Millwall played very conservatively today and also defended well.

 

[Silent Bob]

Millwall put out two banks of four and we weren't good enough to break it down (until injury time ).

 

[London Irish]

....and they weren't good enough to break us down either, despite being play-off contenders, hence the good marks for players who made sure that happened.

 

[Silent Bob]

But they're a very low scoring team anyway.

Although I was harsh giving Hinsh a 6 he was very composed, Reid and Harding were good as well. Butters solid but not his best performance.

 

[Taylors Dummy]

Shaaban 7

Harding 7
Butters 8
Hinshelwood 8
Reid 8

Knight 5
Carpenter 6
Nicolas 8
Hart 7

McCammon 7
McPhee 6

Subs: Mayo 5, Oatway 4.

My MOM was probably Nicholas with Hinsh a close second.

 

[BatterSeagull]

Shaaban 7
Reid 7
Hinshelwood 6
Butters 5
Harding 6
Knight 6
Carpenter 6
Nicholas 7
Hart 5
McCammon 6
McPhee 4


Mayo 6
Oatway 5


No obvious MOM but agree with decision on Hart if only for his appearances milestone. and goal.

 

[Jim D]

LI - if you think that Yelldell is in the same league as Shabaan then I don't know what you're watching. Just by his presence on the pitch Shabaan gives our defence an air of confidence that they never had with Yelldell. In fact, I'd say they haven't had it since Roberts was last playing.

He didn't have much to do today, but I'm convinced our defence played better knowing he was behind them. They knew that any mistakes could be covered by him and, as a result, they didn't panic and make any. We'll be comfortably mid-table if, as expected, he signs on Monday.

 

[GUNTER]

Fit or not, McPhee is not up to this level.

He should try his luck elesewhere like Crawley.

 

[Knightsworld]

Shaaban 6
Reid 7
Harding 7
Butters 6
Hinshelwood 6
Knight 7
Carpenter 6
Nicholas 8
Hart 7
McPhee 4
McCammon 6

Oatway 6
Mayo 6

Ref 7

 

[Theatre of Trees]

LI - if you think that Yelldell is in the same league as Shabaan then I don't know what you're watching. Just by his presence on the pitch Shabaan gives our defence an air of confidence that they never had with Yelldell. In fact, I'd say they haven't had it since Roberts was last playing.

He didn't have much to do today, but I'm convinced our defence played better knowing he was behind them. They knew that any mistakes could be covered by him and, as a result, they didn't panic and make any. We'll be comfortably mid-table if, as expected, he signs on Monday.

What he said, plus his distribution is very good, can kick with both feet and is fairly accurate with his drop kicks despite hitting a few orbiting satellites on its way to the opposition's penalty box.