70 minutes of absolute crap....20 minutes of real effort... Clucas....Mr.Reliabilty..always giving it his best Dawson...some great last ditch tackles ...welcome back Captain Diomande...gave us some muscle and movement up front for last 20 minutes...showed what might have been
Clucas #1, thought the move to LB could negatively impact him. I was wrong. Dawson #2 couple of good blocks good to have him back. Hernandez #3, why the **** is he not starting, his movement is a different class up top, he anticipates well and his link up play is good too. Special mention for Keane, put himself about and ran his nuts off, sadly was at best 50 yards from any team mates with 4 Stoke players on him at any one time...... Special needs mention for Elmo, that was **** once more, a really ****ing worry that our only other option there is Meyler, who is limited but effective in his natural CM position, but bit fish out of water when he's on the wing like today.
Clucas .. gave it a real go as he always does. Dawson .. Solid return. Diamonde or Hernandez ... made a difference but nowt to show.
Cluclas Hernadez - first two touches were shots, that's what strikers do. Diomande - good effort again when too late.
Nobody did enough for Man of the Match. Stoke are not a good team but they made us look like amateurs. MOM for Stoke was either Joe Allan or Shaquiri.
The stewards in the stand - more movement from them than our players in 1st half. Burnsey for post match interview with MP, direct and aggressive, not heard him like that before with SB! Caller Craig on RH, said it as it was. Dawson, for at least coming out and fronting up after match.
Clucas Dawson Hernandez Diomande did well when he came on and, until Mbokani is fit again, the front two should be an automatic selection.
Got to agree. The rest were piss poor today Couldn't believe that Hernandez and diamonde were on the bench
Tough one this... 1. Clucas...A couple of excellent crosses that deserved a better end product. 2......Dawson 3...........God knows..
