The Man of the match vote on the coach was a close run thing between Ludwig Francillette, James Tilley and Tony Craig - in the end it finished in that order with Ludwig getting the final vote. It was a complete team effort and they deserved the win.
On the match yesterday it wasn't until the evening that we realised that neither teams physio/medical teams actually came on the pitch for the entire 90 minutes - which was a credit to both teams who didn't go down under tackles and feign injuries - the added minutes were for the goal celebration and substitutions - and credit to the referee and his assistant's who were excellent - to the fact that we didn't notice them all game and they kept the game flowing.
Our small but vocal support at the game was brilliant for the whole game - out sung the 3000 home support.
Seems that the referees performance in the Stockport vs Bolton game earlier in the week wasn't a one off, very pleasing to hear. It shows that it's not an impossible task and that the general incompetence of referees at this level could be challenged.
Probably a few other players who could also potentially benefit from a short-term loan spell as Tilley has, Rodari and Khaleel spring to mind but that’s just my opinion from a distance. The playing side staff will know best on this
Rodari potentially depending on if we sign a striker in January, Khaleel sadly I feel we probably need to move on from as I think he would be in first team squads regularly now if he was going to break into the first team.
Ashford's loan spell last season did work for him and he was playing quite well at the start of the season I thought before Appiah hit his hot streak. Tilley's one made no sense, and he got injured a few days after it happened anyway so there wasn't really any benefit at all from it. The reason why I don't think Yems made that decision was because I'd sincerely doubt he would name a player in a squad and bring him on as a sub in a game if he knew that he was being sent off on loan the same evening. You could tell in his post match interview that day he was really annoyed about what was going on around the club at that time
Khaleel now out on loan at Kings Langley, sensible move for an 18 year old to get more experience of men’s football