Neither keeper had much to do today, perhaps that explains the time wasting antics of the Hanwell keeper, he just wanted to maintain a touch of the ball for as long as possible as he was not having much to do during the game.
I personally feel it was an abject performance from both sides and if our management duo have any aspirations regarding the playoff`s, then get somebody in who knows where the goal is, otherwise it will be mid table mediocrity for us, when the season started to show signs of promise before Christmas.
It says it all, in my opinion when it is a defender who is man of the match, although in my opinion Antonio, who I felt did not put a foot wrong, was better, with Daryl coming a close second, not that I am saying that Sol was poor , but he made a couple of mistakes when he nearly played one of the opposition in.

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As nil nils go, I didn't think it was that bad, the lack of goalmouth action would have all been forgotten if the chance of the game with a few minutes remaining, hadn't been hit straight at the goalie, unfortunately I think it fell to the wrong player.
Who the right player would have been I'm not sure, as has been said already our strikers seem totally ineffective. Danny Basset in particular, doesn't give the opposition defenders any problems and seems to shy away from any physical contact at all. "He plays like a girl " was one comment I heard after the game, probably a bit strong, but I know what he meant.
 In contrast, I thought the Hanwell forwards put themselves about and showed more industry and desire than we did, but without quite having the quality to put our goal under any real pressure.
How hard it is to get a goalscorer at this level, I don't know, maybe the playing budget doesn't allow for it, hopefully its not a case of a stubborn manager persevering with what he has, as that is what got us relegated last season.

Thought the game was entertaining of sorts but tempered throughout by the underlying belief that if we are to pursue play off places we should be beating teams like this that are inferior to our players on individual skill levels. I suppose we had our chances and if one of these had been converted .....but the sparsity of direct attempts on goal from 'open play'  is concerning. At least the ref was competent in stark comparison to last weeks officials