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Right, first off, due to geographical and family reasons, I don't get to many games. My old man still goes to every home game and I get a lot of my knowledge from him. He is extremely positive about how we are playing this season - the best team we've had for a fair while apparently.
What has struck me from afar is that for the past few months, we have been fairly lucky on the injury front. We don't seem to have had to make too many team changes over the past few months. Sheehan has obviously been unlucky, but:
Lucas, Manky, Cuthbert, Greer, Lesc, McG, Douglas, Ferry, Ward, Austin, Paynter
is a very settled line-up that has not had to be changed much - this hasn't been the case for us as a club much over the past few years, this must be a factor in our success this season.
Am I right at all, or just talking bollocks?
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 22:27:19 » |
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Indeed, we were saying that yesterday, last 15 games it's been more or less the same side, and they are all familiar with what they have to do. No coincidence.
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« Reply #2 on: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 22:27:56 » |
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i think you are right.
our first 11 are a match for anyone in the division and is why we are doing so well.some of those on the fringes not so imo.
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« Reply #3 on: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 22:42:45 » |
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If we were to lose 3 players for a match through injuries and suspesions we'd look a lot weaker.
And as you say, there must be benefits to having a fairly consistent starting XI
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 22:59:28 » |
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We've got 9 players that have made 25 or more league appearances this season which is pretty incredible. Its also pretty incredible we've got a first team that pretty much everyone is happy with and we don't have the continual  ? is fucking shit and needs to be replaced which we had last season. It is kind of on a knife edge though as we don't have much decent cover for injuries and suspensions - Pericard and Morrison are probably the only ones that could go straight in to the first team without worry. Though I guess if the worst did happen, Wilson would be on the phone pretty sharpish to get cover in. |
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 23:54:21 » |
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To highlight the mess our first 'eleven' was in last season... Player followed by games(subs).
GK P. Smith 28, Brezovan 23(1)
RB J. Smith 39(4), Amankwaah 28(4)
LB Vincent 18, Casal 5(1), Lescinel 2(3), Kennedy 3(1), plus Timlin played a fair few games at left back!
CB Ifil 30(2), Aljofree 19(1)
CB Morrison 21(2), Greer 19, Kanyuka 19
RM McGovern 26(5), Robson-Kanu 20, Macklin 0(2)
LM McNamee 33(14), Marshall 1(14)
CM Timlin 43(3), Easton 17(10), Pook 13(3), Allen 2(3), Plus Kanyuka had a run in the side in centre mid!
CM Peacock 20(11), Nalis 20(7), Tudor-Jones 11
FOR Cox 50, Corr 3(11), Joyce 1
FOR Paynter 45(2), Sturrock 2(9), Razak (3)
Just about the only place we had an stability was up front thank god!
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, February 15, 2010, 07:21:38 » |
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Nalis got 20 starts?
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, February 19, 2010, 10:55:06 » |
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