Thought the whole team played well today, no weak links. The midfield performed well again, and the trio of Dougall, Carey and Dembele look to have developed into quite an effective combination. The pick of the players though were probably Beesley, Lyons and Pennington who were all superb. Beesley made numerous intelligent runs, has decent strength and a good first touch, and won headers all afternoon. He's definitely looking better for having a run of games in the team, and his place is fully justified at the moment. Pennington looked calm, assured and showed his class when a lesser player would've struggled with the conditions. Lyons is just a great signing, exactly the kind we should be making. He has good judgement of when to push forward and when to hold back, and he has that final ball quality. He certainly knows how to finish for a full back/wing back.
I think what is most promising for us is that we can bring on five players from the bench of the quality of Joseph, Gabriel, Norburn, Dale, and Morgan. That's incredible depth of quality for this league. All five would get in Carlisle's starting eleven imo. And we didn't even have Lavery, Ekpiteta or Virtue in the squad.
We've won 3 out of the last 4, and I remain convinced the players we have are good enough to go up. I honestly don't think the auto spots are out of the question. I saw nothing from Bolton or Portsmouth to suggest we shouldn't be aiming for that.
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. Loved the Critch hopping mad - playing that through my head made me giggle on a wet Sunday morning 
