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Alex Smith, Tijane Reis & Ryan Harley.

Ok.....so basing this on the squad being fully fit when these players return....

Who (from the Notts County game bench) would you replace to accomodate them?

Branco for Smith, personally...but the rest are hard to choose from.

Mason will (naturally) be in the starting 11, probably in place of Byrne (who looked dangerous on Friday), with Pritchard switching back out to the wing..

Dany N'Guessan is our top goalscorer, so surely would start most games, right?

Can't drop Belford...Ajose, L.Thompson, El Gabas & Barthram all look decent too.

Good headache to have, nice to have a squad bulging with so much talent..

Suspect L Thompson will make way as he is still developmental so will probably be in and out

Dont know about anyone else but I still get confused when watching the game remembering who is ours and who is on loan

We have 4 players on loan. 3 from Spurs, 1 from Peterborough.

Mason, Hall, Pritchard and Ajose are on loan....the rest are ours..

Yep, it is just the split second someone says to you are they ours ? I have to stop and think

But those 4 are the ones we'd all like to keep

Pritchard and Mason would be huge to keep hold of permanently, the other two are replaceable.

Don't know what Spurs will want for Pritchard, but I think Mason may well be out of our reach.  Interestingly I hear that Les Ferdinand and Tim Sherwood are fairly regular visitors to the CG, even to the extent that they have been seen to jump up and cheer when we score!!

Not sure you have that the right way round, Mason's Injury record isnt good, and he's 2 years Older, we'd have a better chance of getting him Imo. But probably both out of our transfer clout in all honesty. I'm just glad we have them for a year tbh.

Town played a development team v cheltenham reserves today and won 5 - 2
Goals from Ajose 2, Harley, Waldon and El Gabbas

Town team ( subs in brackets )

Belford, Barthram(Jones), Branco, Kisitu, Cox, Thompson(Ferguson), Harley(Agombar), Jackson(Marshall), Waldon, Ajose(Matthews) + El Gabbas

See also here

http://www.ctfc.com/news/article/reserves-report-5.11.13-1157312.aspx

Nice to see a few long term injuries getting a run out there and perhaps Agombar does actually exist after all

Interesting that the report singles out Ajose and to a lesser extent Jackson. 

Midfield battle will be a very good one with Harley back. I'd argue that Luongo, Mason and Pritchard are undroppable with Pritchard perhaps as part of the front three leaving one space in the midfield - surely Kasim? Harley will have something to say about that I am sure.

Not bad options at all.

Who's Kisitu?

Youth squad I believe

Salvyn Kisitu - Second Year Scholar in the Youth Team. A central defender I believe.

Currently on loan at Banbury United. Interesting that Kisitu, Waldon (on loan at Gloucester City) and Jackson (on loan at Oxford City) can still play for STFC Development side during the week. Not a bad arrangement, more games the better!

Kisitu also playing for town away to Exeter tomorrow in the FA youth cup

That Kitsu lad was involved a lot in pre-season. I reckon they must rate him.