Not seen any of this as I’m currently in The Orkney Islands with patchy signal so no idea if this is a good result or not.* Select your top three, in order. * I shall assume that an injury time McBurnie winner renders it so.
Could be most of the squad tbf Giles - Not sure whose been pretending to be him during the last 2-3 years, but I like this version! Palmer - Thought he was excellent (mostly first half) McBurnie - Been starving for a player like him, goal scorer, physical prescense, gets physical....lovely
McBeastie Lundstram Gertrude. Palmer & Giles top efforts too. Hughes’ lack of a card was disappointing.
Gelhardt by a country mile - what energy and skill Giles - a player reborn, set up the winner and a constant threat with his crosses McBurnie - did little all game, except score the vitally important winner (**EDIT actually looking back at the highlights he had two excellent assists as well, so what do I know?) Ndala played really well, as did Drameh (save for being horribly beaten in the air for one of their goals and the unnecessary corner). Thought we looked shaky in our box with aerial balls ping ponging around. Lundstram did well in midfield. Palmer was energetic but too many stray final passes.
Hard to pick only 3, as several people had a great game, especially in the first half McBurnie Giles Gelhardt
McBurnie, a physical presence we've not had for years AND he can play. Giles, rising like a phoenix, from universally berated to a genuinely top 6 left back, put about 6 glorious crosses in today...excellent. Lundstram. So much goes through him, rarely loses ball and eye for a pass.
1. Giles - Outstanding performance, can’t believe he’s the same player as the seemingly disinterested player we had since he’s been here. Great going forward, did some decent defending too. 2. Gelhardt - Missed the first goal, making something to eat, but his ability to create chances out of nothing was brilliant. 3. Palmer - Again, outstanding going forward, a lot seemed to go through him today. I could add McB, Drameh, Crooks pretty much every player involved, no, actually every player involved. It’s not often I can say that, I think Sheff Utd away last year was the only time recently I can think of being able to say that.
I always enjoy the MotM thread, but I am utterly gobsmacked that anyone can not have Gelhardt at least in their top 3 after that display. For me, he was heads above as MotM, but to not even register in peoples' top threes amazes me.
Gelhart McBurnie Crooks (for first half perfomance) Lots of people mentioning Palmer but to me he has too many passes in him that go astray.
Lundstram- especially first half his distribution was outstanding Drameh - excellent game both going forward and defending. Gelhardt - little.box of tricks and so direct, lovely to watch Kudos to all of them today though, again they played for the shirt, we do need to sort out this problem with high balls into the box but given what he's achieved in such a short time I have no worries that Serj will get it sorted. Lovely to see the passion shown by Giles too at the end, and also every team and squad member were in on the celebrations for McBurnie's winner, the lad is already a leader and popular in the dressing room by the looks.
Lundstram the range, quality, and quantity of quality passes was superb Giles Palmer difficult to leave out Gelhardt and McBurnie
