Enjoyable match mostly I thought, first 15 and last 15 Blackpool had their best parts of the game, a match I thought was a good tussle, end to end at times. But Blackpool are not as good as I expected they might be.
Big Luke had two cracking saves in the first half.
Sawyer was working well but seemed to struggle through the first 45 ??
Ossie, great defensive block in first half, a decent cross into the 6yd box around 47 minute (which was his first) apart from the, nothing like the guy some fans on here claim, was run ragged at times by the big No.23, didn't cross the line much at all at RB and if he did, it wasn't with the ball? Looked knacked before being moved to CM.
Thought Smith put in a good shift, nothing special just a journeyman like shift.
Bradley did well first half, was knackered later in the game which was why I thing Blackpool came into it, we had put so much in but couldn't kill the game with a second.
Bulvitus, Sailed through, not much to complain about, commanded the box for his header.
Jake at time is it that he's unsure? or lazy? or both? Lad has potential and prob needs a bit more belief, made some good runs down their left in the latter spells of the 2nd half I thought?
Carey, for me fell in and out of the match, but not moaning too much, some of his passing was a joy, especially a long ball to the corner near the end, we maybe could have done better getting it into the box??
Donaldson also a decent shift on a hot day, tried to take men on, I think/hope as the season goes on he comes on to a game and more into himself.
Big Yann, I thought was a possible man of the match? at times. As a poster said, lot of good tackles and headers, some tackles he may need to watch in future, but his attempts to run out of a defensive position with the ball are a tad worrying.
Spencer, thought he ran his guts out, for me was a standout, lost count of the times he was fouled and got nothing, if he wasn't kicked he was pulled. Some fans got a bit annoyed at the amount of times he was on the ground? but he was n't getting any protection from the ref. Also the lack of support he received from the midfield didn't help, he was always trying to hold onto the ball and hold up play (which is part of a forwards game).
Purington did well enough as a replacement, but seemed like a lot of Blackpool's attack came down their right-side the final ten, so did enough.
Miller came on the last twenty, made a few solid tackles especially onre where we lost the ball further up the park to THREE Blackpool players, think he won two of those before being fouled, not seen a replay of his block on the line, but it looked Roy of the Rovers stuff, ball over big Luke and I dunno how much he actually read the situation but it a genius clearance and certainly saved the 3 pts, other than that not a lot of time to do much.
Finally, the Green Army..............AMAZING from start to finish, I haven't seen highlights yet but we sounded loud as h3ll at our end, even the Cops and Security were impressed, one Cop videoing it on his fone.
ps. What was the Handbags way up the back??