Listening to Jason Lee's interview after the game, he said he thought our front four of Newsham, Jones, Fairclough and Weir-Daley were all off the pace today. I wouldn't disagree with that and, when you consider our lack of goals from the rest of the team, we were always going to be struggling to get anything out of the game. Still, if Kallum Smith had put his chance away just before they scored, I'm pretty sure we would have somehow stolen all three points.
What I don't understand about Jason Lee today though is his non-use of the substitutes. Last week we were forced into using 17-year-old Charley Sanders from the bench and Lee admitted he did well in his short appearance against Altrincham. He followed that up with a hat-trick for the youth team and deserved his place on the bench today. But with Lee then admitting that all of our strikers were out of sorts today, surely that was the time to give Sanders another chance? Particularly in the final five minutes when we were 2-1 down?
We can't blame the officials for the result, but the one criticism I would raise of the referee relates to the amount of time he added to the end of the second half (only one minute). Ever since the boards were introduced, I can't remember so little time ever being added to the end of a game. As I understand it refs are supposed to allow 30 seconds for each goal scored and 30 seconds for each substitution, so the Worcester winner and the introduction of Kallum Smith would have accounted for that minute on their own. Were there no throw-ins, free kicks or corners throughout the entire rest of the second half? Did the ball not go out the ground on at least a couple of occasions? It's a good job we're managed by Jason Lee and not by Alex Ferguson.
