John William
Very well known Exeweb poster
Not fair or accurate. My recollection is very different, so in an idle moment I've looked up the stats.Tillson played every minute at the start of the season when we kept losing and was rightly dropped.
He played two and a half league games (Pompey, 1/2 Argyle, Burton) and the Capital One cup game in August, and came on as a sub after JMT broke his foot at Coventry in the JPT in October.
In all those games he did OK. IIRC Pompey's goal came from a deflection; he was sacrificed along with Butterfield at half time v. Argyle when we were already 2-0 down having had both full backs run ragged but wasn't by any means the worst defender (right side free kick at near post, ball over the top for Reid to run onto); v. Burton I didn't go to that game so don't know if he was at fault for their goal but the stats show he was subbed just before the end to bring on another attacker. Bournemouth were too good in every position and scored from a Bennett OG and a Gosling tap-in.
If anyone was "rightly dropped" after those games it should IMO have been Bennett or Butterfield or both.