Midfield dilemma

[Hempstead Gaz]

May be a very diffrent looking midfield on Tuesday - I presume Johnson will be serving a one match ban - Drury looked to have 2 separate ankle knocks and was hobbling for the last 5 minutes.

Any advances on Fuller/Hodgson/Bowry/Slatter across the middle?

[StuThompson]

Jacko back into left mid with the Fulham bloke as left back?

[Hempstead Gaz]

Not sure, Stuart, Jacko was flawless last night. Why change the defence as well as midfield?

So long as Luke and Charlie start up front!

[Harry J Allstars]

Saunders will hopefully be back Tuesday. Not too sure of where his is fitness wise (I know he has a back injury) so I'm not sure when he'll be back.

 

Ideally I'd have Jacko, Slatts, Bowry and Saunders with Drury as the advanced midfielder and three, R Smith, McCarthy and Watkins, at the back and put Charlie Mac and Luke Moore up front. You have to hit Grays with pace.

[jc]

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Harry J Allstars said:Ideally I'd have Jacko, Slatts, Bowry and Saunders with Drury as the advanced midfielder and three, R Smith, McCarthy and Watkins, at the back and put Charlie Mac and Luke Moore up front. You have to hit Grays with pace.

Fiddling with the defence after a clean sheet? Controversial!

[Harry J Allstars]

Have we kept two clean sheets in a row this season? Morecambe and Burton (and then Thurrock) but Morecambe were never going to score and Holloway was superman the day we played Burton.

 

We shouldn't sit back and invite Grays onto us when we played them it took them about 35-40 minutes before they scored in that time we had three chances to score. Grays take a long time to start up lets put three past them before they even get out of the changing rooms.

[Hempstead Gaz]

I'm not convinced that a new loan defender, regardles of his pedigree, is ideal to debut against a team with Grays pace up front (Kightly,Oli,Slabber, McClean spring to mind).

If we are lacking in pace, it is with MacCarthy, who obviates this with his positional play and reading of the game. It may be he just has to sit a little deeper on Tuesday to give himself a bit more time.

I would go 4-4-2 still - the time for experimenting with formations is not during important league games against free scoring local rivals in front of potentially the biggest game of the season so far, especially on the back of a really good all round performance.

[Alan W (GNFC)]

Hopefully the only change will be Fuller or Hodgson for Johnson with the new guy filling the space on the bench.

[Harry J Allstars]

I think if it is going to be 4-4-2 then we (or maybe Daish) should think about McCarthys lack of pace. With the new guy or maybe James Smith pushing him for a place it will be interesting to see who he plays.

[Slartibartfast]

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Harry J Allstars said:
I think if it is going to be 4-4-2 then we (or maybe Daish) should think about McCarthys lack of pace. With the new guy or maybe James Smith pushing him for a place it will be interesting to see who he plays.

Drop the captain after a clean sheet eh....even more controversial.