Gas vs AFC Wimbledon EFL Trophy Matchday Thread

We were playing Wimbledon not MK Dons my lover 

Pointless exercise by Tisdale. If you are going to play a game of football you try to win it whatever the trophy. It was Wimbledon first team v our reserves with most of the reserves not much above non league standard.As regards the squad personally wouldnt be worried to see the back of Kelly, Hargreaves, Barrett, Koiki, Harries, Ogogo, Upson to start with. We need to sign a couple of attackers and quick. To be honest if the League isn't going to get completed would prefer it to be curtailed now than leave it till after our next four games as I see very few points in those games and at the moment we would stay up easily on points per game.

I read a post about the Radio Bristol commentary the other day so I was paying closer attention today and I tend to agree a lot with the poster from last week. Brookman is dull and birthday wishes have no place during football commentary. The other bloke (was it Hoskins?) sounds like he doesn't want to be there. He seems to get more excited when the other team nearly score and barely raises his voice when we come close. I was watching on iFollow and that chance from the corner in the last minute was extremely close, it could have brushed the side netting. Granted, there wasn't much power in the header but it's the last minute of the game and we came very close to scoring, didn't get excited at all, the commentator almost sighed it out - not good listening.

You hear the halftime commentary feed from the Sheffield Utd game when they got the penalty and that's more what you'd expect to hear on the radio. Energy and excited that something is happening in the game. Do we really have to have subpar, unprofessional commentary just because we're in a lower league?

... Poor game, players who came in didn't make a good account for themselves. Focus on the league. UTG. 

He did well tonight and I think is better than koki who again was poor

Ogogo wasn’t great but Did better than Upson and Grant and I think we should retain him for the rest of the season.

Kilgour was solid again in good form.

Day played well and got to know his defenders more .

Barrett is embarrassing and needs to be taken out of training and put on a long distance running / weight losing training regime for a couple of months.

It was a terrible game of football but I think Tisdale learned an awful lot tonight about our fringe players so in that respect it’s been a very productive night for our new manager.

Surprised people thought Ogogo had a bad game he was more or less the only player getting stuck in and showing a bit of determination.

He hasn’t been with the squad and been playing at a lower level so he’s not going to be super sharp tonight.

I thought he was better than grant tonight and is a better defensive midfielder.
Wimbledon hardly had any chances , when it’s Upson and Grant in the defensive positions they don’t protect our defence at all.
Wimbledon only had one half chance and they scored with a lucky deflection.
Ogogo did ok.

Situations change.
Many on here, me included, said it was a risk playing Anssi in the last round.
Perhaps PT now thinks the same about other key players.
He has also had a bit more time since the last round to assess what is what and so he quite rightly imho took this opportunity just before a really tough run of games, to rest a few key players and see what a number of the squad players could (or couldn't) do. 

It’s never nice when we lose, but league 1 survival is what’s important and the likes of ehmer, sammy and hanlon all got a well deserved break before a very winnable game against Charlton Saturday.

Plus nothing like a free game for PT to evaluate who isn’t up to the standard.

Agree it was ok  there were a few ok's - Just expected more sue to his position in the squad