Yeah, this felt like a missed opportunity for a deep cup run. Fair play to Maidstone though, they came with a gameplan, got a bit lucky, and pulled off a historic win. Hope they get another plum tie next round.
Silver linings for us is that we’ve got no distractions (or a mid-week replay, had we got the equaliser), allowing us to focus purely on the league. It also further demonstrated what many of us thought - we don’t have that good a squad depth. Players like Walton, Humphreys, Taylor, Ball, and Broadhead have been struggling in our first team for a number of weeks now. Aluko clearly past it too. Tuanzebe also struggled today.
We are crying out for two centre-forwards. I really hope Ashton and the team are doing everything they can to bring in some strikers, because what we’ve got beyond Hirst clearly isn’t good enough.
Also agreed McKenna got the starting line up wrong. Not sure why he took off both Hutchinson and Sarmiento - our brightest players out there today.