Moving away from Baldock, I thought McCartney was excellent yesterday. Zaha got very little change out of him, and all of Zaha's good stuff came when he ran straight through the middle (mostly at Reid).

I blame Allardyce for yesterday - we looked knackered and given that he was writing in the Standard the day before about the dangers of fatigue, he should (and has) acknowledge(d) that some of the team needed to be rested. I can't wait to see Nolan back in the middle next week. We've missed him.