TOPIC: York player ratings

2 points spectacularly peed up the walls of Bootham Crescent's crumbling urinals.

Gillespie 7 - one great save from a free kick to preserve a point

Miller 7 - took goal well, otherwise ok

Grainger 6 - Edited to absolve blame for penalty. Good first half, second less so.

Raynes 6 - ok

TAH - 7 ok and scored despite massive appendage apparently tucked in socks

Joyce 6 - few good interceptions

Kennedy 5 - anonymous again

Sweeney 5 - almost broke through once but mostly anonymous

Dicker 6 - ok

Gilliead 7 - a bit green to begin with but ran at defenders, set up first goal and involved in second. Pity he couldn't have replaced himself instead of Balanta

Ibehre - 7 heavily marked, plenty of effort in target man role, not enough support

Subs:

Balanta 3 - awful, negative impact. Go forward you idiot.

Osei 4 - not much chance to do anything but didn't

No surprise the goals we conceded came down our left, I've lost count at how many there has been this season alone.

Not surprising really, given that we draw the left wing back out of a tombola every week.

heilkmoon wrote:
It wasn't Grainger who fouled for the penalty and it wasn't on the bye-line. Also whilst the cross should have been cut out on the left by either Grainger or Raynes, TAH's role in the equaliser was the major factor, far to slow to react.

heilkmoon wrote:
Think you`ll find it was Balanta responsible for the pen - get off his back why don`t ya

franksidebottom wrote:
But your forgetting that TAH never has a bad game and is immune from all criticism.

People seem to think he's really good, but fron what I've seen of him he's just big, slow and always injured.

We looked in total control until we gave the penalty away then the inevitable panic set in.

Gillespie 7 outstanding save from Berrett free kick at end, didn't have much else to do.
Miller 8 has bright future. Took goal well, crunching tackles, long throw danger.
Troy 6 classy but missed a tackle in first half that nearly cost us a goal and question mark over his role in second
Raynes 7 reminiscent of Alan Hansen when he strokes the ball around at back!
Grainger 6 solid
Sweeney 6 did little first half, better second, almost scored brilliant goal
Joyce 7 ran midfield with Dicker
Dicker 7 calming influence
Kennedy 6 still not reproducing last season's quality
Jabo 6 usual powerful performance but ball didn't fall kindly for him
Gilliead 7 impressive debut, likes to run with ball, we weren't same when he went off

Subs:
Balanta 3, looks like he's on cream cake diet. Stupid tackle for pen
Osei 5 not a cameo to remember

Taking Gilliead off changed the game for me. If he was going to be replaced, it should have been for Asamoah.

Agree, but as Asamoah wasn't even on the bench that probably wasn't an option!

heilkmoon wrote: Dicker 6 and ok?You must have been watching a different game to me.He was by far the best player on the pitch.

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hiveblue wrote:
Thanks for that, Billy.

Champions95 wrote:
Fair enough, wasn't sure who was on the bench. Maybe Osei then.

heilkmoon wrote: Billy?Lost on me that one....

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Osei did come on Deano. Did you miss him as well as me ( when I shouted across the main road to you after the match)? ha ha. But I do agree, the young Newcastle lad did well, but I would have started with Asamoah. And if not I'd have selected him as sub and brought him for Gilliead.

Would have taken a point before Kick off and very happy with overall start to season but formation was all over the place and tactics at two up and York down to ten we're inviting trouble
Gillespie 6 steady performance no fault for either goals
Miller 7 great signing 100 per cent every week and eye for goal
Troy 6 big Troy fan but he was bit off pace today , defence better with him in
Raynes 6 decent but there is a time to send ball forward
Dicker 7 best of midfield trio Step ahead in his thinking at times
Sweeney 5 not helped by a strange role gave it all
Granger 6 great first half , left exposed so much by formation
Ibehre 6. Well marked gave his all
Gilliead 7 some great running looking forward to his loan period
Bolamta 4 poor didn't contribute and gave ball away too much
Osei 4 again little contribution

hiveblue wrote:
He is calling you Billy Painter, it isn't that hard to work out

Now if I called you Yoda would you understand why ?

Alwaysblue17 wrote:
Agree with most of those, I'd give Osei a 5, made some great runs but our midfield too often seem intent on finding the next 5 yard sideways pass than playing somebody in behind, so eventually they stop wasting their time making the runs at all.
Also give Sweeney a 6, he put in a shift down the left in an odd role, helped out in both attack and defence.
Also add in
Joyce - 6 made a couple of decent interceptions, drops far too deep for my liking and almost plays as a 4th centre back (although more than likely told to)
Kennedy - 5, largely anonymous, forward runs/movement seem to consist of ambling around at a pace similar to Peter Kay's 'dad run'. Shadow of the player he was last year, would drop him for Hery for the next few games.

Curle 5 - initial team selection confused me, but worked quite well. Couldn't really have argued with the substitutions when they were made, Gilliead looked knackered as did Sweeney, but unfortunately played subs awful. Would also have brought Hery on for one of Joyce/Kennedy to give us a bit more going forward towards the end.
Extra gutted we couldn't hold on as I also had £2.50 on Miller to score anytime and us to win 2-1 for £150!

flumeblue wrote:
I realise Osei came on, but he came on at the wrong time. Taking Gilliead off and not replacing him with a player in a similar role cost us dearly imo. Gilliead was working well with Ibehre. When he went off, Ibehre had nobody feeding off him. It allowed York to come at us when we should have been looking to kill the game off with a 3rd goal.

Having seen the highlights this morning, I'm not 100% convinced it was s penalty. Looks like a dive to me.

Archibald-Henville runs like he has lead boots on, and was massively at fault for their second goal.

crunchblue wrote:
Think that's clutching at straws to be honest. The bloke may flounce a bit on the way down but Balanta pretty much barges him in the back. Not convinced I could stay on my feet in that situation - could you? If we want a grumble we might have more mileage in whether or not it was in the area!

Champions95 wrote:
Maybe, I'm just not 100% convinced. There may have been a foul that I can't see but it looks like 2 players going for the ball and both falling over at the same time. His fall being more theatrical and in the box = penalty.

Thought Dicker was the best player on the pitch yesterday, stood out all day, the ball back to the young lad before our 2nd was incredible.

In reality 2 poor teams i though, not many chances either end, but when you are 2-0 you cant give them a sniff, which Balanta did.

Thought last 10 mins was begging for Mcqueen on our left, if Sweeney had some success against their right back Mcqueen would have torn him apart.

2 points dropped but from where we were last year and how we are playing now its hard to criticise Curle and the team too much

Gillespie 7 - Looked better than in the last few games. An excellent save from a free kick and was very brave a couple of times diving at feet of strikers.

Miller 6 - Great goal... he looks a threat going forward. BUT he needs to improve defensively as he got absiolutely skinned a few times by their wide man. He seems to be avoiding a lot of the blame for the defense so far this year but is very easily beaten by a quick winger at times and needs to do more to hold them up and block crosses.

Grainger 6 - Looked fairly solid until the last 30 mins.

Raynes 7 - I thought he had a good game. He was dominant in the air. Excellent leadership for most of the game organising the back line well... this all fell apart when we decided to sit back after the substitutions, but that tactical switch wasn't his fault so I'm not going to blame him for it.

TAH - 6 Probably the poorest of our defenders on the day. He was solid but didn't look very mobile. He didn't look anywhere near fit to be honest.

Joyce 6 - A few good blocks and interceptions. Doesn't offer an awful lot more.

Kennedy 5 - Poor game. Couldn't seem to get involved

Sweeney 6 - Worked hard and looked solid enough. The goals came from his side but I don't think they were his fault. I'm not going to hammer the bloke as he filled in quite well in a role he doesn't know how to play.

Dicker 7 - He is class. Uses the ball well and has excellent positional sense. It's just a shame he has no pace. We look a much better passing team with him in the middle though.

Gilliead 8 (MOTM) - Yes he over played at times and did look a bit green at times... but he was by far our most dangerous player on the day. I love the way his first though is to turn and run straight at the defence. he has pace, got stuck in and isn't frightened to have a shot. He had a big contribution to both goals and considering it was his debut and he is normally a winger I thought he was excellent.

Ibehre - 6 One of his poorer performances and he was bullied a bit by there big lump of a centre back. But he still managed to hold the ball up well and link play.

Subs:

Balanta 3 - After a good display in the last home match I was expecting better. Awful challenge for the penalty and generally everything went wrong for him.

Osei 4 - Poor. Step over, step over, fall over pretty much sums him up at times.

Curle - 5 Set the team up well... even though Sweeney at Left wing back is a strange one. Fair play for giving Gilliead a start. Terrible substitutions and clearly sent on instructions with Balanta to sit a bit deeper and try to keep the ball. This simply resulted in handing York the initiative, even with 10 men. Poor management and tactics.

Overall, an entertaining game and over the 90 mins 2-2 was probably a fair result... however, we really should be closing the game out from that position. York looked a decent passing team at times... as did we at times. The game overall was a vast improvement on the fixture last year... both teams and the pitch have improved in the last year.

I worked it out when I read the thread back on Sunday morning, had one too many on Saturday.

Either way I stand by my original post that Dicker was the best player on the pitch.
bluealf wrote:

It was the first time I'd actually noticed Sweeney on the pitch. I suppose as I'm normally sitting in the away end behind the goal with him in the middle in the games he's played in previously, he will be hard spot. I thought he did alright. A bit more game time and he could be very useful.

I think Curle is trying to find a midfielder who can play left side. We have had Kennedy out there, now Sweeney, don't understand why he doesn't try McQueen, he is 2 footed