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Were they injured on Saturday or just dropped.  Saw them both walking outside the ground about 5 minutes before kick off just having a chat.

So were they dropped?

Apologies for my lack of knowledge of the goings on in the treatment room.

just dropped i think, didnt hear any injury news either.

They were involved in the 'warm down' after the match according to the radio, so I assume they were just deemed not good enough to warrant even a place on the bench. :nuts:

Fucks sake, if that's true that's a terrible call.  Shakes looks very dangerous when coming on as sub, can't believe he wasn't on the bench.  

Who was on the bench - Roberts - Cureton - Bullman - Mc Dermott and ???

and heath (came on for whalley).

i dont see the point in having a sub keeper anymore, especially when its someone like bulman. bradford didnt bother on saturday & a lot of teams dont. worth the risk I'd say.

Oh yeah heath.  So we had two strikers and two midfielders.  No wide men at all.

On a different note I thought Nicho played alright on Saturday by the way.

Indeed, both games Nicho has played this season he has looked much better than he did last season.

Excuse my stupidity, so was Nicho LB and Jack Smith RB? How did that look?

That's right Ed.  Looked OK, but Smith on the left seems dangerous as he seems to cut inside very easily and often gets a decent shot in - didn't get a good cross in really.

Nicho put the cross in for Rory's first, and layed it back to Pook for him to tee up Rory's second.

Some notes of promise then? Hopefully the new manager can strengthen our defence which has been a shambles for ages! Do we still leave players unmarked at the back post?

Ricky shakes and all his family and also Nicolau were sat a couple of rows behind me 8)

just dropped for reasons unknown....

the way i saw it, smith was LB, ifil CB and collins RB, with nicho LW in a 5-man midfield...

Nah, deffo a 3-5-2 with Smith and Nicho as the wing backs.

oh fuck yea i forgot about seano  :oops:

The part when you said Smith was on the left confused me the most. :roll:

Lets leave our 2 wingers in the stands, we needed some balance to the team which is why they both should start.

For the first time in a very, very long while I'm geniunely stumped as to what our best XI would be. I'd like to see 4-4-2 with the pacy Nicolau and Shakes given a run and Migs and Whally pulling the strings in a ball-playing midfield. That said, I'd also like to see Thorpe and Cureton given a proper run WITH Fallon in a front three. Then there's the debate at the back. Who do you choose?!

With Kingy gone, the slate is clean! Although we're still a tough midfielder short.

Indeed Mark - with the players we have there are many, many options in terms of formations.

I think we should choose one and stick with it, for my money a straight forward 4-4-2 is the way to go, we have the wingers to go with it, and a variety of players that can be stuck in the middle.

I think King was absoultely desparate for a three of Pook, Migz and Whalley to work, but ultimately none of the three were willing to commit to getting forward enough, so it failed.

I think it's a given that Fallon's name is the first on the sheet and needs someone to play off him, at the start of the season a possible 3 of him Curo and Thorpe sounded fantastic, but we'd be ever-so narrow and would be taken to pieces.

Yep, 4-4-2 for me.

i was just thinking, when iffy was playing here most of his success came while playing up front with ndah & with walters & gooden out wide.

does this mean we'll see a return of the big man/fast man pairing (ie. fallon & roberts), with 2 decent wingers out wide to get crosses in? maybe with roberts dropping off a bit into the "number 10" role like ndah did.

just a thought....

Here's hoping lgc!

Shakes was walking towards the Burger King at about 1440 on Saterday

Perhaps Brian Howard was visiting.

Or he was collecting an application form for King?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Well he was walking into the north stand at 1455 (ish).

with a BK bag?