Good performance. What I was most surprised and pleased about was how well the team appears to have come together and gel as a team so quickly, Mills the only outfield player that started that was here last season so a team that are new to each other. I guess that's a benefit of the hybrid model with more training time that we can see on the pitch already. Successful teams have a good balance, particularly in the midfield area, which we look to have in our midfield with the experience of Woods with the energy of Richards alongside him covers the pitch and reads the game well, South Sheilds who looked to want to play football and have some quality these 2 did a good job of mostly stopping them with Martin have a slightly more advanced creative role (with a good assist to pick out Ward and what a volley that was) with Ward joining the front 2 a doing an excellent pressing job which worked to prevent South Sheilds when they wanted to play out from the back. Mills and Leak stood out, Mills getting forward in the first half which we need the full backs to do when using the diamond formation and Leak very solid at the back, Bostwick the big name signing but Leak was just as good on Saturday.
