Posted 27 December 2011 - 10:57 PM
We were brilliant yesterday, I thought. Haven't read through many posts on this thread so these points may already have been covered.
I heard murmours afterwards having a bit of a whinge about Green but I thought he was solid. The instruction was obviously to get the ball out wide to Ward to attack, so in terms of having the ball going forward, he didn't get too much opportunity but I thought he did well.
The work rate and tempo is the best I've seen all season - forest comes close but that was in a totally different set of circumstances.
I was impressed with Ball who since coming on against Bristol City (and, in my opinion, playing really poorly), has steadily improved and he puts himself about for the team. The pace of Tyson and graft of Ball worked well I thought.
Bryson and Bailey make such a big difference - when they play well, the whole team tend to and although I didn't think Bailey was our best player, he did have a good game.
Roberts struggled against Snodgrass in the first half but the ref didn't help, or the linos - really poor performance from them. I sit in East, and a couple of the decisions were absolutely ridiculous. Also, I though Snodgrass could have talked himself in to a red card - he went back for 5 or 6 rants.
Delighted to win and put on such a performance infront of such a big crowd, and most importantly I think this demonstrates that when we have a fit squad, and Clough can pick a team he actually wants to pick, we're a good team. Hopefully some of the supporters who bought an individual ticket for yesterday will do so more often on the back of that performance. I thought yesterday addressed most of the issues mentioned in the 'I want an atmosphere' thread - it was electric, as good as I can remember for a game that wasn't forest, at the BBG or Pride Park.