Barnsley (H)

[desperado]

15 minutes ago, gonzo said:

PMT at its 7am.

Stressful this football lark.

You sorted with tickets? looks like I'll have a couple of spares ESL 

[desperado]

                  Baxter

      Toal.    Taylor.  Iredale

Cogley.    Sheehan.  Ashworth

        Maghoma.  Dempsey

              Charles. Vic

Mentioned on other thread, the bench from week to week is going to be very hard to select and some are going to feel very hard done to not being in the squad. Need to be ready for some Coleman less sub benches, starting today I reckon.

Forrester, Ogbete, Ramsay, Morley, CMG, Bod, Collins

[BOWTUN BAKED]

Need to win today, put a stamp on the league & push for the title.

Can't see it being a pretty affair & will take a nervy 1-0 win if offered now.

[W.cramp]

6 minutes ago, desperado said:

                  Baxter

      Toal.    Taylor.  Iredale

Cogley.    Sheehan.  Ashworth

        Maghoma.  Dempsey

              Charles. Vic

Mentioned on other thread, the bench from week to week is going to be very hard to select and some are going to feel very hard done to not being in the squad. Need to be ready for some Coleman less sub benches, starting today I reckon.

Forrester, Ogbete, Ramsay, Morley, CMG, Bod, Collins

Difficult starting xi to predict today and suppose it will be a horses for courses with a Tuesday Saturday coming up,  add thomason and geth (if returning fit) into the fold from Tuesday and it becomes very interesting.

Roll on 2.00

[gonzo]

1 hour ago, desperado said:

You sorted with tickets? looks like I'll have a couple of spares ESL 

I did pal thanks though 👍 

[Biggish Dave]

Foot to the floor now and knock teams out of it 1 by 1.

Can see Derby falling by the wayside. It'll be us, posh and pompey all the way

[Rizlar]

Early goal and we will smash them!

[Whitesince63]

22 minutes ago, Biggish Dave said:

Foot to the floor now and knock teams out of it 1 by 1.

Can see Derby falling by the wayside. It'll be us, posh and pompey all the way

Really? I actually think it could be Pompey who fall off and Derby and Posh who are our main challengers but as long as we’re in the top two I don’t really care who the others are.

[noxid]

Looked at a few of the proposed line ups suggested on here for today's game and don't agree as I think that Collins will start. He's match ready and cost 3/4 of a million quid. You don't pay that kind of cash to sit someone on the bench. He doesn't need time to adapt and probably already faced Barnsley this season, so I think and hope he slots right in immediately with Dion with Vic on the bench 

[Johnnyrotten]

17 minutes ago, noxid said:

Looked at a few of the proposed line ups suggested on here for today's game and don't agree as I think that Collins will start. He's match ready and cost 3/4 of a million quid. You don't pay that kind of cash to sit someone on the bench. He doesn't need time to adapt and probably already faced Barnsley this season, so I think and hope he slots right in immediately with Dion with Vic on the bench 

I get what you're saying but we paid £500k for Vic and turned down a bid which presumably wasn't lower, and nobody would take less than £750k for Charles would they?  So for me Collins is just another of the strikers, IE rates them all, if he didn't they wouldn't be here.

Usual front two to start I expect.  Vic was still settling in to the style of football months after his move so I think its asking a lot for anyone to sign on Thursday and be familiar with the style of play/what his role is after 2 days. He won't know half the players names yet!

[Farrelli]

1 hour ago, desperado said:

                  Baxter

      Toal.    Taylor.  Iredale

Cogley.    Sheehan.  Ashworth

        Maghoma.  Dempsey

              Charles. Vic

Mentioned on other thread, the bench from week to week is going to be very hard to select and some are going to feel very hard done to not being in the squad. Need to be ready for some Coleman less sub benches, starting today I reckon.

Forrester, Ogbete, Ramsay, Morley, CMG, Bod, Collins

Yeah I’d go with that and we have some great options on the bench

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

1 hour ago, desperado said:

                  Baxter

      Toal.    Taylor.  Iredale

Cogley.    Sheehan.  Ashworth

        Maghoma.  Dempsey

              Charles. Vic

Mentioned on other thread, the bench from week to week is going to be very hard to select and some are going to feel very hard done to not being in the squad. Need to be ready for some Coleman less sub benches, starting today I reckon.

Forrester, Ogbete, Ramsay, Morley, CMG, Bod, Collins

I'm wondering if we might see Coleman today given the opposition

[Jol_BWFC]

13 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I get what you're saying but we paid £500k for Vic and turned down a bid which presumably wasn't lower, and nobody would take less than £750k for Charles would they?  So for me Collins is just another of the strikers, IE rates them all, if he didn't they wouldn't be here.

Usual front two to start I expect.  Vic was still settling in to the style of football months after his move so I think its asking a lot for anyone to sign on Thursday and be familiar with the style of play/what his role is after 2 days. He won't know half the players names yet!

If we turned down a bid of more than £500k for him, it was a bad decision. 

[Whitesince63]

30 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I get what you're saying but we paid £500k for Vic and turned down a bid which presumably wasn't lower, and nobody would take less than £750k for Charles would they?  So for me Collins is just another of the strikers, IE rates them all, if he didn't they wouldn't be here.

Usual front two to start I expect.  Vic was still settling in to the style of football months after his move so I think its asking a lot for anyone to sign on Thursday and be familiar with the style of play/what his role is after 2 days. He won't know half the players names yet!

I agree on keeping Dion and Vic but how about starting Collins in the No10 role and leaving out Maghoma who although good on the eye creates little.

[W.cramp]

7 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

I agree on keeping Dion and Vic but how about starting Collins in the No10 role and leaving out Maghoma who although good on the eye creates little.

You mean like an elmander experiment ?

[Dr. Feelgood]

27 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

If we turned down a bid of more than £500k for him, it was a bad decision. 

We have this season to complete. Unless we had a good one lined-up as replacement he was going nowhere, (almost) whatever the price.

[captainmed]

Big game.

Beat them and they won’t catch us up IMO. 

For them to do that we would then have to go on a run that would mean no automatics anyway. 

Lose and they’re bang in it.

A draw wouldn’t be a disaster. 
 

Edited February 3, 2024 by captainmed

[deeane Koontz]

11 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

You mean like an elmander experiment ?

Didn't Coyle try to play him more as a box to box midfielder?

[Leyther_Matt]

Wouldn’t be starting any of the new ones yet, especially Taylor as there’s so much to learn from each other in training when playing in a defensive unit. I do genuinely think we’ll win though and so do the bookies, which surprised me a little.

                    Baxter

    Forrester Toal Iredale

Cogley                              Ashworth

                    Sheehan

    Dempsey               Thomason

             Vic               Charles

Edited February 3, 2024 by Leyther_Matt

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Just now, Leyther_Matt said:

Wouldn’t be starting any of the new ones yet, especially Taylor as there’s so much to learn from each other in training when playing in a defensive unit. I do genuinely think we’ll win though and so do the bookies, which surprised me a little.

                    Baxter

    Forrester Cogley Toal

Cogley                               Ashworth

                    Sheehan

    Dempsey               Thomason

             Vic               Charles

I like Cogley but I'm not sure he's good enough to play wing-back and centre-half 😃

[Leyther_Matt]

Just now, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I like Cogley but I'm not sure he's good enough to play wing-back and centre-half 😃

I was concentrating too much on putting the spaces in the right place 😂😂

[Dr. Feelgood]

1 hour ago, noxid said:

Collins .... probably already faced Barnsley this season, so I think and hope he slots right in immediately with Dion with Vic on the bench 

He has, twice ... sort of.

2-1 to Barnsley at Oakwell 13 Jan. He was sub. Came on at 80m. Didn't score.

12 August, home. 1-1. He played 89m. Had one shot. Didn't score.

I'd be astonished if he started him.

[Johnnyrotten]

3 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

I was concentrating too much on putting the spaces in the right place 😂😂

I'm always surprised when anyone can be arsed to list the team as it looks on the pitch 😀

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

9 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

He has, twice ... sort of.

2-1 to Barnsley at Oakwell 13 Jan. He was sub. Came on at 80m. Didn't score.

12 August, home. 1-1. He played 89m. Had one shot. Didn't score.

I'd be astonished if he started him.

I pretty condifent we'll start with Dion and Vic but I wouldn't be astonished if Collins starts

We've not signed him to sit on the bench

[globaldiver]

3 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I pretty condifent we'll start with Dion and Vic but I wouldn't be astonished if Collins starts

We've not signed him to sit on the bench

And he’s our player, rather than a loanee.

He hasn’t been brought in as decoration.