Time to Push On....

Quoted from Mariner_09

If you have Green and Holohan in your team, plus someone else like Morris or Hunt, you won’t be getting out run or overpowered in midfield very often, regardless of the opposition. Harry’s chances are the ones I see suffering the most. Green was his top target, Holohan has been in tremendous form this year and you don’t pay 50-100k and give Hunt a 3 year deal to keep the bench warm. Orsi has looked good in the fits and starts that I’ve seen him in and Bim is an interesting prospect.

Equally, I still don’t see Taylor missing many games. His hold up and link play are fundamental to our game, especially when McAtee is fit again

Quoted from Mariner_09

If you have Green and Holohan in your team, plus someone else like Morris or Hunt, you won’t be getting out run or overpowered in midfield very often, regardless of the opposition. Harry’s chances are the ones I see suffering the most. Green was his top target, Holohan has been in tremendous form this year and you don’t pay 50-100k and give Hunt a 3 year deal to keep the bench warm. Orsi has looked good in the fits and starts that I’ve seen him in and Bim is an interesting prospect.

Equally, I still don’t see Taylor missing many games. His hold up and link play are fundamental to our game, especially when McAtee is fit again

Quoted from Maringer

I expect to mostly see 4-2-3-1, especially away from home, where it can quickly become 4-5-1 if you're under the cosh. Hopefully the new forwards will add a bit of pace to the squad as that is something we're lacking and having them come off the bench could add a lot against tiring defences. You'd expect them to both have the sort of a work rate Hurst looks for in players.

When Maher returns, the option of 3 at the back might be worth a try on occasion, but I'm not convinced that we've got the defenders to play wing-back. I think either Amos or Glennon up the left could do a decent job, but Cropper doesn't strike me as a likely wing-back and Efete is hardly one able to bomb up and down the line all game.

Seems odd to be welcoming new players and anticipating what they will do when three of the main pre-season signings have barely kicked a ball between them so far!

Quoted from Corkyefes

Now the transfer window has shut, I'm happy with the business Hurst has done in the end.

Don't get me wrong, I would of been delighted to take a punt on someone who's scored a few goals in the league below, ie Dallas, but sometimes that's not always possible due to various reasons.
However I am happy that Hurst has brought in a few younger players, with a decent youth pedigree, who may want to prove a point.

I would like to see Hurst be abit more positive, especially at home, by playing two up front.

Pepple in the last few appearances has shown some promise, especially in his movement and hold up play and if he works on that more, he could become a good asset to us.
Unfortunately for me that pushes Taylor down the pecking line. Taylor does well for his capabilities, but his energy and movement up top, for me has been one of our issues, especially when he plays.

I would expect/like to see a couple going out on loan, such as Khouri, Essel, Braithwaite etc and potentially even players like JMD, as I cannot see him getting much game time personally.

Newport will be a tough game and I appreciate we may play slightly defensive, however for our next home game against Crewe, I would like to see the below line up:

I cannot get to the Newport game on Saturday which I'm gutted about, but I will be at the next nine league games.
All we can do is get behind the team and hopefully we can push for a potential play off spot... Its certainly not out our reach!

UTM! .... ATAW!

Quoted from Tommy

Can't see us going 352 as a regular formation, personally. We've got a stack load of attacking wide midfielders now who would basically be wasted if we went with that formation. Having 3 good centre backs isn't reason enough on its own to switch to such a formation IMO, I'd happily just have that competition for places and have the two in-form guys in the starting eleven.

Also, I don't particularly think it's a given that Glennon/Efete would be great wing-backs. I'm not saying they wouldn't do ok in that role, but being a full-back that gets forward and joins in with the attacks is a totally different game to being the sole player providing width on that side. You go from receiving the ball with everything (and often space) in front of you, to receiving the ball higher up the pitch facing our own goal with the oppo fullback up your bottom. You go from bombing forward on the overlap, sometimes untracked, for our winger to play them in, to having no-one ahead of you to pass to as there's not a winger there.

Not saying it'd be guaranteed to fail, just saying it's not as simple as saying an attacking full back automatically makes a good wingback (or wide midfielder for that matter).

Quoted from Tommy

Can't see us going 352 as a regular formation, personally. We've got a stack load of attacking wide midfielders now who would basically be wasted if we went with that formation. Having 3 good centre backs isn't reason enough on its own to switch to such a formation IMO, I'd happily just have that competition for places and have the two in-form guys in the starting eleven.

Also, I don't particularly think it's a given that Glennon/Efete would be great wing-backs. I'm not saying they wouldn't do ok in that role, but being a full-back that gets forward and joins in with the attacks is a totally different game to being the sole player providing width on that side. You go from receiving the ball with everything (and often space) in front of you, to receiving the ball higher up the pitch facing our own goal with the oppo fullback up your bottom. You go from bombing forward on the overlap, sometimes untracked, for our winger to play them in, to having no-one ahead of you to pass to as there's not a winger there.

Not saying it'd be guaranteed to fail, just saying it's not as simple as saying an attacking full back automatically makes a good wingback (or wide midfielder for that matter).