One positive for me was Thompson. The one player in our team that would make their first eleven. He is going to punish mediocre National League teams.
The biggest negative for me was that their main threat to us was obvious in the first 5 minutes but for the next 85 minutes we did nothing to address it.
Their right winger had Leake on toast all day. We dropped deep into a shape to try and make life difficult for them but 90% of their free possession either side of the half way line ended up with an easy pass to the feet of their most dangerous player who spent the whole game without Leake (or any other Iron player) within 10 yards of him. He then either took Leake on directly very much his own terms or played a simple ball through to his full back or midfield runner who were invariably not tracked leading to an unchallenged cross.
Net result was a steady stream of quality balls across the box from their right hand side that produced 4 goals and could easily have produced 4 more.
Common sense says if you are a full back and your winger is beasting you 1 to 1 then you mark the fecker so tightly that his team stop trying to pass to him. Takes you out of the game but also takes him out of it.
Someone on or off the field should have been screaming instructions to the young lad from the 7th minute at least to get tight and stay tight.
They would probably still have beaten us because they are a very good football team but at least we would have made them work for it.
