Southend Player ratings.

[Hullfox]

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Martin 7.5 (Two excellent saves and reliable all round).

Gilbert 6.5 (Looked rusty to start with but improved to give a solid display. Glad he's back).

Hobbs 7 (Looked a lot more comfortable in central defence but he wasnt't asked many questions).

Tunchev 6.5 (Careless mistake almost gave a goal away but for Martin's alert save but alongside his couple of errors were some timely clearances and his typically intellgent reading of the game).

Powell 6.25 (First he deserves congratulations on his 750th game because that sort of record deserves respect from anyone. Frustrated me first half by constantly floating 25 yard passes into the inside-left position which were almost all intercepted. Did better later and offered reasonable support to Dyer).

Oakley 7 (Decent return. Made the first goal and stayed constantly involved).

Berner 5.5 (Understandably taken off. Nothing seemed to come off for him and his control looked poor at times.)

King 7.5 (Mr Reliable as our fulcrum in midfield. So often available when needed. Passed quickly and mostly on target. Covered with discipline and broke up so many Southend moves before helping to launch what were sometimes encouragingly rapid counter attacks that sometimes ended in goals).

Dyer 6.5 (Found it hard to produce an accurate final pass but his pace still caused Southend problems.)

Fryatt 10 (Successive hat-tricks two days running, 22 goals for the season, City 4 points clear, you run out of superlatives to describe the value of his contribution. Made two of his goals look mujch easier than they were. Terrific).

Howard 8 (Fryatt might have been the star but Howard was a worthy labourer. Apart from his flick-on assist for the second he played the textbook holding role and was so important to City's performance).

Subs

Morrison 6 (Sound enough)

Davies 6 (Might have scored but fitted in fine)

[Thracian]

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Martin 7.5 (Two excellent saves and reliable all round).

Gilbert 6.5 (Looked rusty to start with but improved to give a solid display. Glad he's back).

Hobbs 7 (Looked a lot more comfortable in central defence but he wasnt't asked many questions).

Tunchev 6.5 (Careless mistake almost gave a goal away but for Martin's alert save but alongside his couple of errors were some timely clearances and his typically intellgent reading of the game).

Powell 6.25 (First he deserves congratulations on his 750th game because that sort of record deserves respect from anyone. Frustrated me first half by constantly floating 25 yard passes into the inside-left position which were almost all intercepted. Did better later and offered reasonable support to Dyer).

Oakley 7 (Decent return. Made the first goal and stayed constantly involved).

Berner 5.5 (Understandably taken off. Nothing seemed to come off for him and his control looked poor at times.)

King 7.5 (Mr Reliable as our fulcrum in midfield. So often available when needed. Passed quickly and mostly on target. Covered with discipline and broke up so many Southend moves before helping to launch what were sometimes encouragingly rapid counter attacks that sometimes ended in goals).

Dyer 6.5 (Found it hard to produce an accurate final pass but his pace still caused Southend problems.)

Fryatt 10 (Successive hat-tricks two days running, 22 goals for the season, City 4 points clear, you run out of superlatives to describe the value of his contribution. Made two of his goals look mujch easier than they were. Terrific).

Howard 8 (Fryatt might have been the star but Howard was a worthy labourer. Apart from his flick-on assist for the second he played the textbook holding role and was so important to City's performance).

Subs

Morrison 6 (Sound enough)

Davies 6 (Might have scored but fitted in fine)

Marking an ex-Academy player better than mediocre? I knew straight away they weren't your ratings!

[Fez of Mahrez]

Dyer wasn't great by his standards but he threatens so much and helps Fryatt and Howard to be more effective.

Thought Hobbs was outstanding and I am just loving watching Fryatt play at the moment. Not in the mood to criticise anyone, excellent performance.

[The People's Hero]

Dyer wasn't great by his standards but he threatens so much and helps Fryatt and Howard to be more effective.

Thought Hobbs was outstanding and I am just loving watching Fryatt play at the moment. Not in the mood to criticise anyone, excellent performance.

[loverofinsanefox]

Dyer wasn't great by his standards but he threatens so much and helps Fryatt and Howard to be more effective.

Thought Hobbs was outstanding and I am just loving watching Fryatt play at the moment. Not in the mood to criticise anyone, excellent performance.

Maybe it was just me, but the only problem I had with Hobbs with the necessity to keep shoving Revell so blatently in the back. If there were decent officials in this division, he would have given away plenty of free kicks in dangerous areas. Other than that, once he got going was solid.

[skinnydipper]

Looking at the ratings I think I'm alone here but Hobbs just didn't fill me with confidence at all yesterday.

[loverofinsanefox]

Looking at the ratings I think I'm alone here but Hobbs just didn't fill me with confidence at all yesterday.

I certainly dont think he started off great, but he improved as the game went on. Assuming Tunch is injured for the next game, I'm not wholly convinced in the CB pairing of Morrison and Hobbs, hopefully they will prove my doubts wrong though!

[Joe.]

Not going to bother with ratings now, just going to say that Fryatt and Oakley were immense, and Berner (after the first 20 minutes or so) and Dyer were shocking.

I like the look of Mark Davies, he looks like he's got that something about him.