Originally Posted by
Pedro de la Rosa
Colwill was OK, first 20 mins I thought he was doing well. There's definitely something there. Harris made an impact, if you combined their best bits you'd have a good player. Colwill needs to get in the gym, he is too lightweight. Not sure where he will end up playing.
Taking Brennan Johnson off was very odd but Jonny made a big impact. Looked like the only player who got to grips with the pitch. Makes some things look so easy, it is odd he hasn't made an impact at club level.
The back 4 were absolutely horrendous today. It is odd Page didn't use his third sub, with Lockyer, Smith and Levitt on the bench. Morrell and Allen were clearly flagging and Lawrence is not good enough.
Positives, we've gone away to the middle of Russia and we've got a point with 11 players out. Bale has got the monkey off his back and we've got another late goal. Need to find a half way house between being too attacking or too defensive. It's been either really safe or really open under Page, nothing in between.
Bale also needs to get to the back stick when James has the ball on the left. James and Colwill put good balls in, and there was nobody there as Bale was picking the ball up off the centre halves.