Thought it worth taking a little time to reflect on his performance yesterday
The early impetus we had was largely down to him. Comments around me were "What a difference he makes", and that's unsurprising, given his most recent career experience
The most important thing was, he was busting a gut in the Dale cause. Varying position between helping out deep in midfield, to venturing forward and knitting together some good passing movement, he ran his socks off for 60 minutes. It's appreciated
He also could be seen pointing things out to his team-mates. I wonder if this had a slightly intimidating effect on Gilmour (the captain) and inhibited his performance
In posting at half time that i'd love to see Allen and Hendo have a full 45 minutes together, i wasn't really expecting Allen to last the entire second half given the effort he'd put in. What i really wanted to see was them both on the pitch for a significant period, and i hope (expect) we'll see that in the games ahead
It must've been a strange, bittersweet experience for him. As his game time improves, the quality of his passing and ability to spot an opportunity for a throughball (Brown needs to start anticipating them better) we should see the benefit. The free range he was given is something that the manager (whoever it is during his short spell) needs to build the rest of the midfield around [Post edited 15 Nov 18:14]
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