First home match for SS and his team.

It will be interesting to see what if any changes are made by SS after he has had a week to work with the players.

Crawley gave Wrexham a game on Saturday and were only beaten by a 95th minute winner. Although they are in the bottom four it won’t be as easy as some folk think or hope it will be.

A scrappy 3-2 victory 

8-0 otherwise the bedsheets and boos shall ring

Thrap 'em.

No excuses. 

After 1 adult 1 kid esl if anyone has any.

Fanx

No excuses for this one. We'll see what we've got seeing as we really can't afford to drop any more points if we seriously want to get into the playoffs.

In Glasgow for a gig. Couldn't have cared less about missing it when I checked fixtures a few months ago. Gutted now.

Any win please 

The new seat map on the ticketing website is fucking bobbins

Ticket Office OUT

Nothing less than a win will do when you see the game in hand fixtures the following Tuesday

3-1

Get one early. Crowd up.

5-0 with some time left, and Zico's arse twitching.

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Get one early. Crowd up.

5-0 with some time left, and Zico's arse twitching.

In an ideal world....

An early goal would be great but I have to admit that I can never relax until we have a two goal lead and even then my arse is twitchy.

That said, our recent defensive performances are about as much as we can ask for this season and worryingly, I'm starting to feel more confident that we can defend a lead barring a worldy or a nasty deflection which can always happen.

Above all, I'll be looking out for a better performance and signs that Schuey's influence is having a positive effect - but we do need a positive result.

a nervy 2-1 victory 

ESL adult spare lads. Don't make me deal with the ticket office

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

ESL adult spare lads. Don't make me deal with the ticket office

ask 

Jimmy 

there is always a couple of the Vulcan lads dont go 

Back on form Saturday. Us 4 - 0 at a canter.

5-0 

33/1

I may have to revise my scorecast moving forward depending on what scorelines SS's football promises 

I'm curious as to what lineup and formation we see.

After a week or so with them, what will his observations have led to?

I don’t think we’ll see much change personally. With the players we have we don’t really have the option of doing much different and SS said himself that his system wouldn’t be much different to that of IE. Hopefully we just cut out the passing around the back and move it forward quicker. I actually thought we were pretty good last week and if AC had had his shooting boots on it would have been very different. No Thommo this week so probably a choice between Matete and Lolos and I’d expect it to be Matete to start. With George the only one missing and not injured it’s going to mean a couple missing out on even the bench again, which could be quite telling?

28 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I'm curious as to what lineup and formation we see.

After a week or so with them, what will his observations have led to?

Me too. He said he wouldn't rip up the script for the Reading game - it was too early for change - but does that imply he intends to change things now considering the result and having had the time?

Doubt there will be any massive changes to start off with but you never know....

He'll be as desperate as us to get a result so hopefully he won't totally dismantle the recently tight defence completely in an attempt to emulate Evatt's attacking style which he says he is an admirer of. Should be interesting.

5 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

With George the only one missing and not injured it’s going to mean a couple missing out on even the bench again, which could be quite telling?

Haven't done the numbers since Arfield and Williams left the building, but the squad size will always be bigger than the X1 + bench so it's inevitable some don't make it and that always has been the case. 

It would be difficult to read much into omissions until a few games in until we work out if omissions mean a preferred starting X1 or rotation or horses for courses.

The Schumacher revolution begins. Fully expecting our best performance of the season. 

Statement of intent, 4-0

must say, i'm looking forward to a midfield without thomasson for a couple of games

3 hours ago, Wanderlust said:

Haven't done the numbers since Arfield and Williams left the building, but the squad size will always be bigger than the X1 + bench so it's inevitable some don't make it and that always has been the case. 

It would be difficult to read much into omissions until a few games in until we work out if omissions mean a preferred starting X1 or rotation or horses for courses.

I think you might be missing my point lusty. Of course the 18 starters and bench will always be below the 22 squad number but of course it doesn’t include keepers or U21’s. If we include Baxter and Murphy alone in the match day squad it still leaves 6 others who might have expected to play some part. If we hadn’t moved out Williams and Arfield it would have been even worse. I suspect this may have been one reason why SS didn’t push for signings because his jobs going to be difficult enough. I know you have to cater for injuries, suspensions and loss of form but when everybody’s fit it can become a bit of a concern keeping everybody happy.

3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I'm curious as to what lineup and formation we see.

After a week or so with them, what will his observations have led to?

Yeh I’m looking forward excitedly and curiously.

I think at some point soon we’ll see a 4 at the back, although I think this game is too soon. Then again if he has success with 5 he might just stick with it.

Maybe a bit further down the line or in the EFL trophy we’ll see him experiment. Would love it if he did as I reckon Schon and Tutu would make better wide midfielders than WB’s.

And we’d be fine at FB with Cogley, Jones and Murphy.

But this week I’m thinking he might go with this:

                  Southwood

          Toal.  Forrester. Johnston 

Cogley.    Sheehan Morley.    Schon

                          Lolos

                 Collins.   Mcatee

Reasoning behind Schon, Morley, Lolos and Mcatee is that none of them started last week, so while he’s in part experimentation mode, it’s a good way to demonstrate to the players that they are all going to be given their chance to show what they can do starting a game