Well that was a decent enough game to kick off this campaign. 2-1 was ok, had we not had Paulsen in goal we could have been looking at a loss, he was massive in goal, two extremely good double saves! Defensively we were ok, though Surman did a great job, Sutton was his usual self, good on attack, ok defensively. Boxall led the line well. Bindon did ok at RB. I really dont see why we bothered with Bell though, he looked off the pace early on, with passes going to noone and some really unnecessary cynical tackles in the middle of the park. Singh was everywhere, noted multiple times for his work-rate. I still think he is still a little gun-shy in the physicality side of the game. Overall we did what was necessary and got the win.
Not sure what the officials were doing with adding 6 mins in the first and 11 in the second! Seemed excessive.
Then we have the Nice pitch, which was wither over watered or just very unstable, payers slipping over everywhere and pieces of turf ripping up at every slide or slip - just awful).
