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Big Miss today & need him back in for Wednesday

Bad day for his haters. Showed how much he does for this team

Very apparent today that he is the teams glue guy.

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 3:05 pm Bad day for his haters. Showed how much he does for this team

Just needed another CM in there rather than Donley, but with Pratley out and Ball not fancied for whatever reason case of square pegs in round holes

Needed a ball winner today, instead of abdulai

Abdulai was a waste of space today
Wonder how long Brown is out for, could do with him for Wednesday
Have Currie & James got 75 mins or so in them?
Wonder if RW will start with a ‘weakened’ team & bring on Currie/James/O’Neill after 60 mins, when, hopefully, we are still in it.

Clare got overrun today, while cooper couldn’t cope with their rw. Don’t think either played badly just got exposed. Some obvious things we can hopefully improve on for Wednesday.

I thought Donley was poor today but others were no better.

Brown is such an underrated part of our team. Not outstanding at anything but is generally reliable on the ball, can do the ugly stuff well and works incredibly hard. Need him back for Wednesday, as good as Galbraith is in the middle, we saw the limitations of James playing the right back role in terms of progressing the ball forwards.

Donley is fine deeper agains the weaker teams but not against good sides, needs to be in the other half of the pitch where he is best, spraying balls, shooting etc

Hopefully he is back next week or at least Pratley or Ball

We so need Pratley on Wednesday night.

Pratley is not the answer we’re looking for