My positives: I didn't use the M11
, it was a nice sunny day
, the snake and pygmy pie was good
, heard some Ultras melodies from the historic songbook
, met Matt and Emma
, and got my supporters' club badge
. Then there was the football.....
I didn't think we lacked for effort, just execution, especially underhit passes. If Shay had scored his one-on-one after 15 minutes it could have been totally different. Their opener from the corner was so easy, and once we gave away the second thanks to that dreadful
after-you-Claude moment at the start of the second half (Jones and Winnard I think?) the writing was well and truly on the wall. The third was a cracking free-kick, have to admit, and the fourth was probably down to over-committing to attack to try to make us happy.
Disagree with Exile about Joyce - thought more than anyone he tried to keep things together and keep us pushing forward when he could.
Nobody blaming the ref for once?
I enjoyed that mad moment when he played advantage as we scythed down two of their players in 10 seconds without getting the ball off them, then didn't give what looked a stonewall penalty when they finally got into our box, and didn't go back to the scythers with retrospective yellows either. Can't really say he was agin us ....
I just hope the boys give the home support the same kind of last home game fun next week as they did for the Daggers fans today
A special mention for the Daggers fans who came up as I was getting into the car to come home and just said "50 quid you paid to see that?"
