Swindon Town FC v Colchester United pre match chat and match day thread

[Peter Venkman]

3 centre backs and one wingback and 3 defensive midfielders, 1 winger and 2 strikers, interesting.

[McGurk's Missus]

Woolf at LB instead of Hokey Koiki? I'll howl at the moon and eat my carp if that works.

Seems like a PB type of team sheet. Unbalanced. Looking at that I'd say we're hoping to play like the away side and invite Colchester to attack us. Then us getting something on the subsequent counter. Hmmm.

[Peter Venkman]

It could be 3 centre backs with Knoyle pushing into a wide midfield position on the right and Bennett/Woolery wide left with Woolery or Bennett sat behind Robinson.

                    Vigs

        Woolf Conroy Broadbent

Knoyle  McCourt  Carroll  Dunne  Bennett

               Woolery

                         Robinson

[Nijholts Nuts]

Was Anderson toss at the more central No. 10 position? It would make more sense to drop one of those 3 DMs in favour of having him in there and Bennett out wide

[Peter Venkman]

Was Anderson toss at the more central No. 10 position? It would make more sense to drop one of those 3 DMs in favour of having him in there and Bennett out wide

I agree unless Anderson is carrying a bit of a knock?

[Peter Venkman]

No leading scorer Szmodics today, Nouble starts Norris and Esia on the bench.

[Audrey]

That’s one cruddy looking midfield

[Processed Beats]

Weird line-up. No idea what Bennett’s done to justify starting again.

[Peter Venkman]

Like him or loathe him every time I hear Lee Power speak on the radio he always talks a lot of sense to me.

[McGurk's Missus]

That formation you suggest makes a little more sense JJ

Knoyle is better advanced and yes Woolery/Bennet wide left would seem right. Hmmm still think we may try to invite them on to us but with not Smodicz and Nouble not being that type of forward, would they want to? Could be quite the stalemate with the game settled via a pen, free kick or one break away counter. Having said that, if they don't attack, we have to draw them out somehow and could potentially go on a rout. By rout, I mean 2-0 or 3-0 

[Flashheart]

Like him or loathe him every time I hear Lee Power speak on the radio he always talks a lot of sense to me.

Did he say anything of note?

[Peter Venkman]

Yeah in the away game Nouble was quick but wanted the ball played to his feet or just behind the fullbacks to get behind us, Szmodicxz(sp) was by far their best player and looked a threat all game.

They have a quite defensive side apparently today with 2 or 3 expereinced midfielders missing as well.

[Peter Venkman]

Did he say anything of note?

Not really mate just that with whats going on at other clubs maybe hes not the "devil incarnate" that a lot of fans on social media say about him. The talks with the council going well and spoke about the budget again being quite large which Brown wasted but Wellens hasn't so far.

[Nijholts Nuts]

The only thing Lee Power has done has been to appoint shit managers. I know it's rather a costly fuck up but I still feel he is much maligned. He's probably done a lot of good that had and will go unnoticed by those not ITK.

[Peter Venkman]

The only thing Lee Power has done has been to appoint shit managers. I know it's rather a costly fuck up but I still feel he is much maligned. He's probably done a lot of good that had and will go unnoticed by those not ITK.

He did admit he had made some mistakes in choosing the wrong manager, I think hes done OK but many will shout that down and only see the negative things he has done.

I think hes done OK, the biggest mistake for me was giving Williams the job when he didn't really want it, he wasn't ready for it and was very unsuccessful in the role. The rest of his appointments made sense on paper. And lets face it, hes not here to make shitloads of money from us, nobody could do that!