Swindon Town vs Colchester Utd FA cup 1st round MDT

[DV]

No idea how you line that up. 3 strikers, suggests 3-4-3 maybe, with Cox and Sobowale wide, Clarke and Kilkenny sitting in the middle.

On one hand it’s ‘different’
On the other hand it’s STILL 3 at the back.

[adje]

Flabbergasted at that line up. Ah well we'll see

[Peter Venkman]

No idea how you line that up. 3 strikers, suggests 3-4-3 maybe, with Cox and Sobowale wide, Clarke and Kilkenny sitting in the middle.

Surely it has to be this.

                Bycroft
      Minturn   Wright    Freckleton
Sobowale    Clarke  Kilkenny         Cox
        Drinan   Smith   Tshimanga

[Nemo]

Not a lot of running in that side.

Let's see how it goes.

[Riddick]

Yeah it's 343.

Seems a really bad line up to me. If it's 343 why is sobowale starting ahead of mcgregor?

Having Minturn and Freckleton in the back 3 .makes us weak in my opinion.

All the guile, creativity and talent are on the bench.

[DV]

Honestly - I’m just happy it’s something different & let’s be honest.

It’s the FA Cup. A competition we aren’t going to win & have a terrible record in. Anything other than letting Colchester put 7 past us is an improvement on last year right?

Free hit in essence.

[Quagmire]

If this was a Kennedy line up everyone would be losing their shit.

[DV]

I’d have welcomed any change of formation under Kennedy - even if it was firmly in the ‘just trying something different’ category.

I imagine our style of play might be a bit more agricultural with Smith up top & 2 other strikers around him.

[Frigby Daser]

With that personnel, it could quickly morph into 5-2-3, with the two both being defensively minded players. We’re crying out for creativity in the middle, and width. Go on Holloway, surprise us.

[Nemo]

I suppose you don't need creativity in the middle if you bypass the middle, just ask Lou Macari...

[Steak supper]

 I don't really understand the yearning for a back 4 .


It's as bad at lamenting the lack of 6 foot 4 inch defenders . Look how that went  .

[Frigby Daser]

Play four at the back, and it promotes width in the team further forward, and the potential for overlapping full backs. As we don’t have a natural creator in the middle, we need service from somewhere. That’s my thinking anyway.

[Bob1978]

It could be a 4 with Cox in a midfield 3 so 4-3-3

[Bob1978]

                   Bycroft
 Sobowale Minturn   Wright   Freckleton     
          Clarke  Kilkenny  Cox
        Drinan   Smith   Tshimanga

[Nemo]

We'll find out in 25 minutes. It's certainly not an obviously coherent line up, so it'll be interesting to see how it does. Three out and out forwards feels very old school.