Team for Southend

Quoted from Humbercod

Pearson also played left centre for Wrexham among other positions, one of the best defenders in the league and the Wrexham player of the year. Towler and Waterfall as good as they are need to know if their levels slip Pearson is in.

not last year he wasnt, he barely played

the Centre backs do not- at this moment in time- need replacing

Get our strongest team in there (without Mcatee) and attack them.....

                       McKeown

Efete   Longe-King     Towler   Crookes

                     Hunt        Fox

   Sousa           Bapaga           Clifton

                          Taylor

Get Crookes and Longe-King back in the defence and let Bapaga play the role he did against Bromsgrove

Quoted from Hagrid

not last year he wasnt, he barely played

the Centre backs do not- at this moment in time- need replacing

Stockport v Wrexham 28/12/2020

Agree with your second point although I would not be surprised if Hurst did make changes he was over critical of the defence especially the heading which is mainly done by the centre backs.

Quoted from Bigdog

Since Maidenhead away I'd beg to differ.. a bit hit and miss at best..

Maidenhead away, poor marking for equaliser
Bromley away, defence collapsed when down to ten men
Dover home, troubled for 20 mins
Altrincham away, conceded two and lucky not to concede more
Woking away, very good but Woking had plenty of chances
Yeovil home, ok
Wealdstone away, shocking
Notts County home, good but late goalscorer unmarked
Kidderminster away, penalty conceded unnecesaarily
Aldershot, chaotic at times against poor forwards

Sometimes lesser problems slip under the radar while looking at bigger problems elsewhere..

Were you at Wealdstone? I thought Towler and Waterfall were very good. Not sure who was at fault for not closing down on the goal, but even if it was down to either of them then chalk that off and it's still 0-0 because we created nothing. The defence has been good for the vast majority of the season, people are nitpicking here firstly because we've stopped scoring/creating which highlights any mistakes being made at the back and secondly because CB is the only area of the pitch we have 4 players who are all in with a strong claim to be starting every match so people are calling for a re-shuffle when in reality, Waterfall and Towler have probably been two of our most consistent performers, along with Clifton. Your criticism of the defence against Woking doesn't stack up really either, the midfield and full backs are more at fault for allowing chances to be created against us than the centre backs. Bromley as well, I'd say it was the defence and the midfield that collapsed in the second half we just got completely overran in the middle of the park.

Quoted from Maringer

Have to say, on the few occasions I've seen Longe-King play, I've yet to be overly impressed. Very clunky with the ball at his feet. I'd expect the Waterfall/Towler partnership to continue if both are fit.

Play your best defence, try to play your best available players.

Assuming the currently unavailable players don't become available, I'd go for the following:

               McKeown
Efete  Waterfall  Towler  Crookes
           Fox  Hunt  Clifton
            Sousa  Bapaga
                  Taylor

Please cut and paste this formation and send it direct to PH's inbox - marked with a big red urgent flag!

Macca
Effete
Towler
Waterfall
Crookes
Fox
Hunt
Clifton
Sousa
Morgan
Taylor

Bench: Bapaga, Revan, Longe-King, Coke, John-Lews

Quoted from TinklerMan

Morgan

Do you know something nobody else does?

Quoted from Son of Cod

Do you know something nobody else does?

Well I used to rate Willie Morgan in the 70's.., CSDAJATL? (if he's still with us)  

Quoted from toontown

Errr... yeah every game where mcatee played fir a start, he was the 1 in a 4 4 1 1

I would suggest McAtee is by far and away the best striker we have at the club

Lets have a look at the team selection so far, plenty of switches due to injuries and suspensions

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