Marriott Dropped to Bench After Arriving Late - Ipswich Town News

Woking boss Garry Hill has revealed on-loan Blues striker Jack Marriott was dropped to the bench for Tuesday’s 5-1 thrashing at Dartford having been one of five players to arrive late for the match.

Hill said the 19-year-old, who has scored 10 goals in 12 starts and one sub appearance for the Cards, arrived at Princes Park latest of all, more than an hour after his 6pm deadline.

Woking briefly went ahead early on but were always up against it once they were reduced to 10 men when Joey Jones was sent off in the 34th minute, but Hill felt his players’ poor pre-match preparation had also contributed. Marriott was introduced as a sub in the 55th minute.

"I don't think the sending off helped but it started wrong from the off tonight,” he told Get Surrey.

"I'm not the sort of person as a rule who puts my dirty washing out on the line but when you have a situation where five players are late in respect of the meeting time to go to work, you can't defend it.

"We've not helped ourselves in terms of preparation. I'm aware of situations and things do go on in respect of travelling to games, but we haven't respected the time enough to get here and prepare properly."

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