Changing lavs for Norburn big mistake. As someone else has said we dropped back 5 or ten yards and took away a key part of our energetic defensive work on their defensive line. The understanding we seemed to have in the midfield suddenly disappeared as well. Byers was looking tired on 70 minutes, but lavs looked fresh as a dew encrusted daisy and seemed to be enjoying himself. Coulson was struggling from about 65 minutes, a knock, cramp, a slight muscle pull ? But needed to come off, I suppose it could be said a difficult decision when he's having such a good game.
When virtue came on, the midfield had already been overrun to some extent, and the organisation and understanding that had been present was no longer there. If we were going to go a bit more defensive and needed to solidify (tin hat on) it was probably a game for Connolly, who can defend, who can break up play, is decent in the air and doesnt mooch around pretending to be an effing generalisimo. But truthfully I'm not sure we needed to go defensive. If anything we needed to go to the slightly dull possession football which we've played quite a lot this season to no effect.
