Team v Birmingham

I think there should be wholesale changes in the team after the very poor showing in the last 4 games.
Tonight I thought we out-footballed them for 20 minutes and then we became predictable, east to west, slow, blunt up top, no incisiveness not aggressive enough by far.
It needs to change:
4231

Killip (outstanding tonight)
O'Keefe Roberts Earl Gent
Benson Nwakali
Cotter Jalo Lofthouse
Humphreys

Take a risk because at the moment on the pitch is clearly just not good enough.

 

That’s a shocking line up

 

Agree I’d put Nwakali in and Cotter ( although it’s sounds like he’s being frozen out ) . Thought tonight’s game was ideal to take a few risks and go for it but I’m not sure Clarke is capable of thinking like that

 

Opinions eh ?

 

It's mentality the worst thing that can happen is a gas main going bang whilst your stood on top of it.

 

That's what we need in goal.

 

Watters should be back. If injury free he at least can finish chances that our current players need 15000 chances to miss.

 

Killip

Cotter
MDG
Roberts
Earl
Gent

Russell
Nwakali
Phillips

Watters
Humphrys

Smith, McCarthy, Lofthouse, Benson, Connell, Keillor-Dunn, Jalo.

 

I hope they're up for it this weekend. Dog sitting Roxy and Pipper. So hope that's only 5hit I see.

 

Need a win on Saturday, down to 8th with two teams above us with a game in hand , could start to lose touch with play-off spots

 

No need to make drastic changes formation wise, just drop a couple of players who are underperforming or who are just crap.

Connell & Phillips need dropping
Cotter deserves another chance, O Keefe is crap.
Killip is better than Slonina but is too small, so get Smith in goal.

 

Killip has done little wrong and Smith if anything is shorter than him - Killip is listed as 6’2”.

Slonina is bigger at 6’4” but he’s crap.

Killip is no midget; he’s taller than Brad Collins, bigger than Steele, much bigger than Watson and Baker.

Why on earth would you drop him?

 

Killip 1.88m Smith 1.87m

 

Maybe I’m off my hinges but here we go. Let’s face it, they can’t do any worse;
Killip
Cotter
McCarthy
Roberts
Earl
Gent
Nwakali
Phillips
DKD
Watters
Jalo

We can’t go to a back 4, we just don’t have the personnel. It’d be kind of a front 3 with DKD playing as a 10 and Watters and Jalo stretching the game up top. I like Humps but he looks knackered.

Subs: Smith Lofthouse Pines Craig Yoganathan Humps S74 Red (I’m an overweight 43 year old with **** ankles who wasn’t much of a player but I’m a better footballer than O’Keeffe, Captain Marvel and Bambi On Ice ever will be).

 

Because as Sam said on the day Kilip signed, despite never watching him, because he's come from hartlepool and they're crap, Kilip is automatically crap. So instead of just accepting you may have been 'slightly' unfair, and not praising him when he actually performs well enough, just wait until he has a bad game and then give the inevitable ' i told you so ' comment. Its usually what happens on here.

 

He didn't look good when we saw him last season, but full credit to him as he has been very good since he replaced Slonina. Only criticism is his kicking, but that seems to be a modern thing of keepers not able to kick accurately!

 

No Watters according to Clarke this morning sounds like he’s had another set back again unfortunately.

 

It sounds like Watters has had another injury setback. Shame as I think he’s been pretty good this season, when he’s played.

I would probably bring Cotter in for O’Keeffe and Jalo in for DKD.

Jalo and Humphrys up front with Phillips just behind them. Russell and Connell sitting in midfield.

 

Dropping connell from.the squad. Bold move.