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Quoted from lukeo

Hunt with Clifton and Mcatee infront. With the same front 3 as yesterday 🔥

Hunt isn’t a holding midfielder. Nor is Harry. You need either Fox or Coke for balance.

I know we finished the game without either but I can’t see how you could play 90 minutes like that.

Quoted from Heisenberg

Yep, a bit like the World Cup playoffs nowadays too. For example, if Wales and Scotland win their respective one-leg semis, Wales play a home one-legger against Scotland for a place in the finals. No away goals rule or aggregate scores. At this stage I quite like the idea but if we finish 7th I might whine a bit more I reckon!

No whinging from me if we finished 7th, under the old system we would have zero chance of promotion

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Hunt isn’t a holding midfielder. Nor is Harry. You need either Fox or Coke for balance.

I know we finished the game without either but I can’t see how you could play 90 minutes like that.

The next 2 games are against Halifax and Altrincham. Both are good, organised teams so I think McAtee will be on the bench as we will probably opt for 3 in the middle.

I certainly think some of McAtees attributes would have helped yesterday but I also think having him in the team would have been at the expense of some other things we did well.

We've lost 9 of the last 11 games and I get that McAtee has missed a very large proportion of those but I think he will be on the bench as Hurst will see that it's important to still be in the game defensively.

The last minute equaliser has got fans off his back for 10 days because although we deserved to not lose against Chesterfield, certain fans were baying for blood after that game.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Hunt isn’t a holding midfielder. Nor is Harry. You need either Fox or Coke for balance.

I know we finished the game without either but I can’t see how you could play 90 minutes like that.

I hear this ‘balance’ thing that Coke offers us a lot but yesterday disproves that. We often look slow and disjointed with Coke in midfield, you don’t need a defensive minded midfielder to be balanced in midfield. Yesterday proved that with Fox, Clifton and Hunt all doing both parts of the job which made us far more balanced as an attacking threat.

McAtee ran Altrincham ragged at their place (despite missing 3 great chances), would be very surprised if he's on the bench against them.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I hear this ‘balance’ thing that Coke offers us a lot but yesterday disproves that. We often look slow and disjointed with Coke in midfield, you don’t need a defensive minded midfielder to be balanced in midfield. Yesterday proved that with Fox, Clifton and Hunt all doing both parts of the job which made us far more balanced as an attacking threat.

Yep. I wasn't advocating Coke at all, just that we need one of that type in a midfield three.

Quoted from pontoonlew

I hear this ‘balance’ thing that Coke offers us a lot but yesterday disproves that. We often look slow and disjointed with Coke in midfield, you don’t need a defensive minded midfielder to be balanced in midfield. Yesterday proved that with Fox, Clifton and Hunt all doing both parts of the job which made us far more balanced as an attacking threat.

Halifax could have done with keeping Coke on the pitch yesterday. Clifton and Fox have a lot more energy as they are 12 years younger whilst Hunt looks to do something useful with the ball every time.