Can we actually win games with our squad now?

Yes.

GK. Haven't seen enough of Kean to write him off but Macca will be back in as soon as fit I'm sure.

For me we play our best back four. Mills, Collins, Clarke, Davies.

A midfield three of Summerfield, Jones, and Mccallister (Rose mayebe)

A pair of wingers in Dembele and DJ

Lone strike in Matt. I haven't seen Vernam play so not sure where he would fit.

We sit deep due to lack of pace. Get the midfield to press and break with the running power of Jones,  DJ and Siriki.  

Use matt as the big man. Almost in the same way we played at Chesterfield first day of the season then abandoned straight away after!!

The fact that slade won't try such a formation exposes weakness in the teams abilities more often than not.


Just shows how blinkered he is I think.

Yes but not with Slade in charge He is clueless and the players don't want to perform for him. There is enough in the squad (names mentioned in a post above) to finish comfortable mid table but not with the baldy teacher in charge

Give it to Dave Moore NOW for the remaining games (we are more than halfway through the season) Don't spend any money in the transfer window - save it for the new guy in August. Don't play Kelly Woolford etc. Get Macca back asap (please!) and give them all a kick up the bottom

or give it Lowerfindus - I like his team!

We need to win 4 or 5 more games out of 18, maybe less with draws, clearly within our grasp. We're priced between 20/1 and 50/1 to go down (although some idiot on Betfair took the 5/1 I offered this morning).

Quoted from Ipswin

Yes but not with Slade in charge He is clueless and the players don't want to perform for him. There is enough in the squad (names mentioned in a post above) to finish comfortable mid table but not with the baldy teacher in charge

Give it to Dave Moore NOW for the remaining games (we are more than halfway through the season) Don't spend any money in the transfer window - save it for the new guy in August. Don't play Kelly Woolford etc. Get Macca back asap (please!) and give them all a kick up the bottom

Macca will be out for some time Swin - he was limping really badly yesterday

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Macca will be out for some time Swin - he was limping really badly yesterday

How can you get that injured just stood waiting for something to happen?

No...as Russ said yesterday...it lacks craft and it lacks a goal scorer.....

it seemed lost on him that he assessed the squad last season, recruited in the summer and can now recruit again ....but he is already talking about the summer recruitment again.

Goals win games....i think JT said pre match yesterday that there was only 8 goals in the starting 11 selected......and didnt it show !?!?

Quoted from lowerfindus

Yes.

GK. Haven't seen enough of Kean to write him off but Macca will be back in as soon as fit I'm sure.

For me we play our best back four. Mills, Collins, Clarke, Davies.

A midfield three of Summerfield, Jones, and Mccallister (Rose mayebe)

A pair of wingers in Dembele and DJ

Lone strike in Matt. I haven't seen Vernam play so not sure where he would fit.

We sit deep due to lack of pace. Get the midfield to press and break with the running power of Jones,  DJ and Siriki.  

Use matt as the big man. Almost in the same way we played at Chesterfield first day of the season then abandoned straight away after!!

The fact that slade won't try such a formation exposes weakness in the teams abilities more often than not.


Just shows how blinkered he is I think.

I'm not as convinced as some that the players we have are good enough to stay up.

With McKeown out I really worry that the other two are not good enough to prevent us conceding.

I also worry about the central defence partnership, we leak too many goals in and around the 6 yard box.

As regards the midfield, the choice of McAllister is surely a joke, does anyone seriously think he will play again for us? I don't rate either Berrett or Rose but I think we have to play both Dembele and DJ as Woolford is a waste of space. Summerfield has to start because of his battling qualities, I would agree that we should try Jones in there as he cannot do any worse than he has been doing up front.

If there are no additions then the new lad has to start but seeing as Matt is likely to be out for 3 games then we need another striker in this week, the rest  are not simply good enough. I think the times Matt has played up front on his own he has not looked good enough.

With a new half-decent manager and the folllwing team we should comfortably get 50 points.

                        McKeown (New goalkeeper needed whilst he’s injured)

Mills             Clarke      Collins         Davies


                  Rose         Summerfield


Dembele               Jones              DJ


                          Matt
                

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With a new half-decent manager and the folllwing team we should comfortably get 50 points.

                        McKeown (New goalkeeper needed whilst he’s injured)

Mills             Clarke      Collins         Davies


                  Rose         Summerfield


Dembele               Jones              DJ


                          Matt
                

For me,

                  Macca/Keane

    Davis   Clarke  Osborne  Mills  
  
   Demblle  Summers  Jones   DJ

                  Verman                  
                              Matt