Team v Burton

Roberts
DeGevigney Cundy McCart
O'Keefe Kane Connell Phillips Williams
Mcatee Cosgrove

Subs
Killip
Earl
Cotter
Benson
Grant
Cole
Russell

 

Think most of our "key" players are either already on the beach already or looking to pastures new ,. something isn't right at our club.

 

Don't see point in dropping Cadden completely, especially just to move Williams there. He wasn't great but has been nowhere near as bad as others to completely be dropped. May as well give Grant/Benson/Cotter cameo appearances to see if they spark some life into us. I always thought that Nathan James looked really good when he played.

 

You'd drop Earl but keep in MDG who made a basic mistake of kicking the ball back to the keeper within the frame of the goal?

 

Earl has been awful now for a number of weeks
De Gevigney was awful today but has been performing a bit better than Earl lately IMO

 

To be fair to you nobody in our defence are playing well at the moment and we can't drop them all.

 

Earl previous to Cheltenham made 5 big mistakes in 4 games leading to 5 goals, if he include his penalty give away. He was flawless pretty much when he first joined but has really really struggling since.

 

Shake it up put some youngsters in and treat it like a league cup game

 

Just keep putting the best 11 out there,

 

McCart’s the worst first teamer we’ve got. We can’t be dropping Earl & leaving him in. There’s nothing worse than a poor player who thinks he can play. You want your poor footballers at the back to keep it simple & give it to the better players but this lad thinks he’s a left footed John Stones trying to play killer balls & keeps giving it away

 

Roberts

Williams
De gevigney
Cundy
Earl

Connell
Kane
Phillips

Cotter
Cole
Okeefe

**** it 4 3 3

 

Sorry, I couldn't be having Cotter in any football team above level 8.

 

How about trying 4-4-2 instead of being reluctant to change anything, it’s been the same from game 1 it’s consistently boring playing backwards or sideways from the last 3rd.
In the very unlikely event he gets us promoted you could argue he deserves a chance but he needs to be gone straight after Northampton/ the play offs.

 

To be fair, our 5-3-2/3-5-2 formation works well away from home where we can counter teams so I wouldn’t necessarily change it for Burton on Monday.

I would absolutely be changing it for our last 2 home games though. Let’s try something different and get extra bodies in the box.

 

He's the only one getting the ball forward from the back. Doesn't matter anyway, we're stuck with what we have!

 

It doesn't take long for us to knock the smooth edges off new players!

 

Roberts
O’Keefe
Earl
Mael DGV
Cundy
Connell
Benson
Grant
Phillips
Cosgrove
McAtee

subs
Killip
McCart
Russell
Jalo
Watters
Cotter
Marsh

Kane, Cole, Williams in reserves

 

Roberts

Williams James MdG Earl Cadden

Yonganathan Connell
Phillips

Cosgrove McAtee

 

Not sure we'll see Cundy anywhere near the 1st team between now and the end of the season, largely because I fear they consider him to be surplus to requirements. I agree he might offer something different to the usual back three but they'll play Williams as centre-back before give Cundy a start.

 

We've dragged Earl down to our level. Looked great first few games after he signed.