I don't rate Bartley at all but if you think he's bad you haven't seen Howkens play. The word donkey should have a picture of him underneath it in any good dictionary.
A good dictionary doesn't have pictures
Another ugly win and one that takes us top so hard to be too critical. However, we look a shadow of ourselves away. Apart from the 2nd half at Norwich we've not looked comfortable at all and even then we gave away 2 stupid goals.
We missed Phillips yesterday and Mears wasn't the right solution, he's a defender and obviously wasn't comfortable getting forward in the first half. 2nd half I thought he was better but we missed the pace and creativity that Phillips brings.
Good assist from Livermore for the Rodriguez goal but I thought he was quite poor generally as was Barry.
We have to start being more cohesive away from home, whether that's a change of shape to a flat back 4 or different personnel within the back 3 I'm not sure but we can't continue being so sloppy. We'll certainly need to be a lot stronger against Wednesday on Wednesday.