McAtee

With McAtee I think we're better without him at the moment.

There's no denying his obvious technical talent and is why Luton have paid to secure his services. They also see that he still has some work to do for his development and if the reports are accurate then he'll be loaned out again next season to continue that.

The reason I think we're better off without him is he seems to take everything so personally on the pitch. In one sense that is what endears him to fans, we can see that he cares and we can see the effort and hard work he puts in, I'd like to think no fan would dispute that.

But the downside to that is he makes rash decisions and he loses his head when things don't go right, which hasn't been uncommon this season. He plays as though he's shouldering the burden of success and that he has a standard to uphold following last season.

The step up has made games more challenging and it hasn't been as easy for him to hit the heights he did last year, not helped by an injury to himself and then to Taylor who he links well with. I wonder how much he wants to justify the faith that has been place in him by Luton, to repeat the personal feats of last season for us and maybe even feels the pressure of his younger brother playing at the level he does. Whichever of those might apply (if any at all) I think it stems from caring greatly about his profession which is highly commendable.

I don't for one second think JM is a poor player who should be sitting out because he isn't talented enough, he's our most talented player by far on an individual level. But if he seems to be feeling some pressure or whatever it is that seems to be affecting his play - as PH seems to have alluded to in recent press conferences - then it's better for both him and the team to take a spell out and get some stability after a very busy period.

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Not a bad option off the bench is he ?
Wouldnt be suprised if 9 and 10 are when hes bagged one or two at Mansfield or against Walsall

Play Lloyd and Orsi for 45
Just say go all out
Then bring Taylor and Mcatee on for the second 45

To be brutally honest, I wouldn't have Orsi near the starting line-up. He's put in one or two decent performances all season, didn't kick on after his good showing against Luton, and I just don't think he's the answer. I'd be surprised if he was with us next season.

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To be brutally honest, I wouldn't have Orsi near the starting line-up. He's put in one or two decent performances all season, didn't kick on after his good showing against Luton, and I just don't think he's the answer. I'd be surprised if he was with us next season.

Similar thoughts here, was surprised he started with him if I'm honest.

Overall I enjoyed the day, the trip down and back, wandering around the stadium, the atmosphere, I was sitting in their main stand and the Town fans sounded great to me.

I wasn't surprised by the way Paul Hurst set the team up to try to stop them scoring, I didn't expect him to start with Orsi and Khan as they really aren't the best for trying to hold the ball up.

I didn't expect anything other than quite a heavy defeat but was disappointed with the goals we conceded as most of them came from poor defending with the first from a poor save by Crocombe and God knows what Waterfall was doing for their 5th trying to play the ball out.

Still I'm glad to say I was there.

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To be brutally honest, I wouldn't have Orsi near the starting line-up. He's put in one or two decent performances all season, didn't kick on after his good showing against Luton, and I just don't think he's the answer. I'd be surprised if he was with us next season.

To be fair to Orsi, after the Luton replay he came off the bench at half-time against Colchester when everyone was crap, got 14 minutes in the defeat at Gillingham and got hauled off at half-time away at Northampton when he wasn't the only one who didn't do much in a drab first half where we didn't seem to suit the system we played.  

That's the league anyway, next round of the cup he absolutely ran his heart out at Southampton.    He was ineffective against Brighton but he was totally isolated up there against very good players, there's chasing shadows and there's that.  

I thought he was bought as a fox-in-the-box type and Hurst described him as the most natural finisher we've got at the club.  Yet every time I've seen him played it's as either a No 9. or he's sent out to make a nuisance of himself.  

Truth be told, I don't think he'll make it here.  He just doesn't fit into our system and style, especially with the way Hurst likes to approach games.  But the lad has been thrown crumbs of opportunities, he's only managed more than 60 minutes once for us (Salford at home, where he did brilliantly to set McAtee away for Khan's goal)

The Brighton game identified which of our players showed glimpses of being able to cope physically or mentally with a step up in class, not Brighton's class, but a step up. There were five of them, maybe six, and McAtee was definitely one of them..

The others..

Maher
Smith
Efete
Clifton
Glennon

Green's presence was also missed second half..

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To be brutally honest, I wouldn't have Orsi near the starting line-up. He's put in one or two decent performances all season, didn't kick on after his good showing against Luton, and I just don't think he's the answer. I'd be surprised if he was with us next season.

He works incredibly hard, in the same way George Lloyd does, but I’m afraid to say he’s miles away from Lloyd in terms of football ability.

I would have him here next season as 5th choice striker rather than one of these kids on loan from a team higher up eho isnt physically ready  ,at least we know what we get from Orsi

Lloyd ,Taylor ,Orsi and then 2 other quality players up top would be a decent set .