As I said, a good team is like a machine, and that takes time to achieve. Those senior players will function better with other experienced players around them.
The young lads did well enough, mostly, but the gap between that line-up and our preferred one is quite obvious. They're there for the future, which is why they're being used sparingly atm. Similar to the senior players, they would probably be better with better around them. They need to be introduced into the senior team one or two at a time, and learn that way.
Did we really expect more of them? The only one I was disappointed in was Brewster, but we need to give him more than one chance.
It wouldn't have shocked me if we'd lost, tbh. The thing about lower league teams is that they can be organised and efficient and do the basics of football rather well - it's in the area of creativity where they are left wanting. They also make more frequent mistakes than top-level teams, but that might not show in a one-off game. It's why we get some cup upsets most years.
It's all very well commentators banging on about us being 50-odd places above them, but that's not the team we put out last night.
