Saturday 30 August 2008

Ratings: Vs Wolves [A]


Smith – 5 – made several good saves to keep the score down, but his powderpuff punch caused the second goal.

Chambers – 2 – struggled terribly, as he has done in every game. Everything Wolves did was channelled down the left, and this was a deliberate reaction to Chambers getting absolutely everything wrong. At one point one of their men cut inside, only for Chambers to carry on running toward the corner flag for several paces without noticing. To a neutral, his performance was probably hilarious.

Breckin – 4 – very adept at handling height as he’s strong in the air and a clever defender. Alas, faced with Wolves’ pace and power he was fairly useless. Why on earth was Kelvin left watching from the bench?

Morgan – 5 – poor performance, although he propped up the defence in the second half. Throughout the first half he was out-muscled several times – I felt a bit like a child realising for the first time that his or her Dad isn’t a superhero.

Bennett – 5 – not the worst player on the pitch, but he did little to stop the rot.

Perch – 4.5 – careless, clumsy, wasteful and powerless before the ruthless Wolves attack.

Moussi – 4.5 – cut out of the game completely, by far and away his weakest display in English football. Apologised to the supporters after the game and threw in his shirt to apologise.

Cohen – 5 – ran out of legs and formed part of the anonymous midfield.

Martin – 4.5 – sulked, gestured and hid for 90 minutes. Two man of the match performances show his talent, today showed his fairweather tendencies.

Earnshaw – 5 – busy though he was, he achieved little.

Tyson – 6 – the only player in our side that ever looked likely to do anything of note, and even he wasn’t very good at all.