Billy can do it, why can't the others?

Last updated : 28 March 2004 By Site Staff
Dario looked on as Marlon King was allowed to by pass Stephen Foster with ease to open the scoring after 8 minutes and then King again was totally umarked when the ball was crossed to the far post for him to nod into the net.

They were two mistakes that bought the only goals of the game and Dario isn't pleased: "I said to Neil (Baker) after 10 minutes that it looks like West Ham again. Woeful defending, just panic stricken from the start. Particularly the two centre halfs, they made enough mistakes to have lost us the game... again.

"They let us have the ball in the second half and we made some chances, might have even pulled the two goals back, without ever playing really well. You wouldn't say anyone was outstanding, Vaughany was outstanding on Tuesday but wasn't today, Kenny wasn't getting the passes through and Jonah never really looked as if he meant it.

"We worked hard but in the end I said 'If you're going to play like schoolboys for the first ten minutes of every game then it's going to be hard to win a game'.

"Foz, he did well after the first ten minutes, wobbled abit at the end but then he did well, while Chris McCready was bringing the ball out but they've got to do that from the start. That's the sign of a good player, Billy doesn't faulter very much does he? So, why can Billy do it and they can't? You tell me.

"They coped well during the week with Akinbiyi and I thought they'd got over the West Ham game but today straight away.... Foz missed the ball all together and in training he wouldn't do that. The question all the time is, do I replace him?

"Adie (Moses), when he went on, was sound. So Adie will start the next game and it's just a question of who starts with him."