Capitulation: Walsall 0 Bristol Rovers 5
Easily the worst result and performance of the season as the Saddlers crashed five without reply at home, with Bristol Rovers dominating from start to finish. Rovers could have easily doubled the margin with the chances they created.
Too much to reflect on, but Caldy has kicked things off with this assessment on the message board:
That was dreadful. Nobody can take credit for their performance today but at least Smith and Deeney tried. I thought Mattis tried to get something going but his midfield partner Hughes was just awful. I said on last week’s match thread and have said before that Weston has cost us goals this season. What was he doing today? He seems to have inherited a bit of Gerrard’s attitude problem and was just too casual. Gerrard was terrible. I hate to say it but I wonder what the score would have been with Palmer in defence with Weston at centre half? Jabo on that display should be looking for a new club next season because for a striker his goal awareness is shocking. Shroot tried to get something going but no end product. The tactics fell well short of what was required. We were toothless in attack, they passed their way through the midfield and the defence just ball watched. When we did get the ball it seemed as though they didn’t know what to do. Zaaboub kept cutting in field leaving Botes on his own with 2 attacking players and when we got the ball there was no left winger because boob was still infield. I would drop Hughes Tuesday and play Taundry, at least he puts himself about. I can’t actually remember Bradley touching the ball when he came on. In short that was a bad Mullenesque performance and CH and MoC need to stop the rot. I stll think they are the right men for us but the personnel or lack of them means they are limited. Roll on next season.



