Player Ratings: Bristol Rovers vs Bath City

I will go alone with what Eastville1966 has voted and said

He certainly caused their defence problems. Sadly not their goalkeeper.

Spiess 4 - Looked very dodgy

Leadbitter 4 - Poor, not a great defender
Trotman 5 -
Parkes 5
Brown 4

Balanta 4
Clarke 3
Sinclair 6
Martin 3

Taylor 5
Blissett 4

Subs: Wall 4
Gosling 3
Goldberg 4

DC 4
Ref 7
Bath 10

Spiess 4 Felt he could have done slightly better on both goals, though I'm not sure how much blame to attribute to him.

Leadbitter 3.5 Bad backpass for the second goal. Has pace on the ball down the wing but needed to take his man on more. Always looked for the ball back inside, but I felt he should have got to the byline more often.
Trotman 5.5 Solid enough
Parkes 6 Had a couple of dodgy moments but looked to put a foot on the ball and take a touch unlike most of the others.
Brown 5 A below par performance from him but nothing too wrong. A lot of our play in the first half went through him.

Balanta 2.5 I didn't see anything from him and he clearly struggled more as the game went on. Spent the last 10 minutes limping around looking sad for himself.
Clarke 3 Didn't seem up for the game and was bossed around by the big no. 6 of Bath. Showed that he can't play with Sinclair without Mansell to conduct play.
Sinclair 4.5 Scrapped a lot and worth a 10 for effort as the rest of the game petered out but offered no real quality or time on the ball.
Martin 2 A shadow of the player I last saw in September.

Taylor 5 Fed on scraps but put himself about physically. I've read a lot on this forum about his striking deficiencies but he got given nothing yesterday. 
Blissett 3.5 Given as much as Taylor but won less despite his physical advantage.

Subs: Wall 3 He may have a good shot and be big, but I saw nothing of much technical ability.
Gosling 4.5 Added a bit of zip but not enough to effect the game.
Goldberg 4 Half the team had given up by the time he came on so all he did was try to close down the Bath defence on his own.

DC 6 The team he put out should have won the game for him. He tried 4-4-2, 4-3-3 and then 3-5-2 to try to find a way to energise the play. The players let him down with the perceived lack of effort. You could also blame this on Clarke but on the day, he can't take too much blame.
Ref 7 Linesman next to the dugouts wasn't great, but the ref didn't to much I disagreed with.
Bath 6 A solid team who were hungry for every ball especially the no. 9 up front who chased everything. Looked better than a few other teams we've played this season.

So I've averaged the player ratings from what was the worst performance of the season according to these threads. The starting XI averaged 3.7. which was the lowest score of the season. (3.8 at Altrincham and 3.9 at Braintree were the previous worst.)

In contrast, Bath's performance was rated as one of the top this season and the best team to visit the Mem, with a score of 7.8. Only away to Barnet (8.5) did we face a tougher opponent according to this forum.

Ollie Clarke came close to recording the worst score of the season. His score of 1.71 was only better than McChrystal's and Parkes' scores at Altrincham of 1.67 each.

Stuart Sinclair got Man of the Match with the lowest winning score of the season, 5.2. Taylor at Barnet (6.0) had been the worst MotM up until Saturday.

Spiess 4.1

Leadbitter 3.6
Trotman 4.4
Parkes 4.5
Brown 4.1

Balanta 2.9
Clarke 1.7
Sinclair 5.2
Martin 2.3

Taylor 3.9
Blissett 3.6

Subs: Wall 2.7
Gosling 2.6
Goldberg 2.3

DC 4.4
Ref 5.7
Bath 7.8