4 hours ago, desperado said:

Granted, it’s a strange “first game of the season”

And I get it’s not as important as next Saturday.

But surely we are not at the stage of dismissing the league cup as a glorified friendly?

It would be great to have some sort of cup run alongside the main show of the Championship.

I’m looking forward to it.

Beers in Sheffield, a chance to see us play some proper competitive football since our famous Wembley win, an opportunity for our squad to step up and hopefully seeing us progress into the next round.

Bring on the Sheffield sun!

This is what Saturday afternoons are all about. 👏

Correct. No pizza cup this season, so would be nice to win a couple of league cup / FA Cup games.

For me i just wanna see what we look like as team with the new boys in a competitive game. Back 4 should be better. Would like to see what Dong looks like against a decent league 1 team to gage if he's up to it in the championship.

Was hoping to watch this on my Wanderers TV subscription tonight after I get back from a kickabout here for a couple of foreign teams, Inter something and Juvie or someart.

I don't think it's on wanderers tv is it??

56 minutes ago, Arrested development said:

For me i just wanna see what we look like as team with the new boys in a competitive game. Back 4 should be better. Would like to see what Dong looks like against a decent league 1 team to gage if he's up to it in the championship.

I still wouldn't write Dong off even if he does struggle today. An established Bundesliga team wouldn't have signed him for nowt. We're basically chucking him in at the deep end whilst waiting for the cavalry.

Edited August 8Aug 8 by jmjhb

9 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

I don't think it's on wanderers tv is it??

No, it’s on Sky+ and Now TV.

I'm guessing the team mostly picks itself

Bonham, Stephenson, Forino, Davies, Famewo, Dong, Sheehan, Rodrrigues, Simons, Gale, Dalby

Maybe it wouldn't be a massive shock to see Ritchie (or McAtee) start ahead of Dong given that's what we went with last week

I don't think we'll go with this at all, but I wonder if SS has given any thought to a wildcard option of Conway at RW

2 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I don't think we'll go with this at all, but I wonder if SS has given any thought to a wildcard option of Conway at RW

The day will come when Conway plays on midfield.

When it does I'm coming asking for the apologies. It takes a big man not to say "I told you so" and I'm not that fckg big.

3 hours ago, tshape said:

Acceptable on anything full stop

The business on cheese on toast 👌

19 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

The day will come when Conway plays on midfield.

When it does I'm coming asking for the apologies. It takes a big man not to say "I told you so" and I'm not that fckg big.

Next week and until we get reinforcements in I wouldn't be bothered if we played Conway in front of Famewo and Larry in front of Stephenson, keep it solid and structured. Any points we get, by hook or by crook are gold dust this month

I didn't think Larry would've been fit enough but I'm looking forward to seeing how he gets on

Burstow starts and Santos on bench for them.

15 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Think we all had a suspicion Larrazabal would play right wing given we have 2 other right backs and SS is just keeping the pressure on Fergal to get more attackers by referring to him as a right back. Interested to see how a right footer on the right gets on

Think Dalby will benefit from a right footed right winger....Get down the line and get it across

17 minutes ago, ianofcleveleys said:

Next week and until we get reinforcements in I wouldn't be bothered if we played Conway in front of Famewo and Larry in front of Stephenson, keep it solid and structured. Any points we get, by hook or by crook are gold dust this m

10 minutes ago, Stig said:

Think we all had a suspicion Larrazabal would play right wing given we have 2 other right backs and SS is just keeping the pressure on Fergal to get more attackers by referring to him as a right back. Interested to see how a right footer on the right gets on

He seemed very attacking from his casa pia highlights. I think he's gonna work well with Stevenson.

Edited August 8Aug 8 by Arrested development

I absolutely hate this graphic style.

I'd have seen Forino as captain tbh.

No Randall at all.

Otherwise, it's what we have so far really.

12 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

I absolutely hate this graphic style.

The infamous 2 , 4, 4 formation

5 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I'd never heard of it until now. Just had a look- sounds ok, but it is vegan friendly. Is this acceptable on anything with meat in?

Is it acceptable to put salt on your meat ?

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

The day will come when Conway plays on midfield.

When it does I'm coming asking for the apologies. It takes a big man not to say "I told you so" and I'm not that fckg big.

SS was specifically asked that question in midweek and he said he only sees Conway as a left back or wingback..

25 minutes ago, Stig said:

Think we all had a suspicion Larrazabal would play right wing given we have 2 other right backs and SS is just keeping the pressure on Fergal to get more attackers by referring to him as a right back. Interested to see how a right footer on the right gets on

The problem (if there is one) is he’s not inverted and we have two right footed wingers on the pitch.

5 minutes ago, Rival Son said:

The problem (if there is one) is he’s not inverted and we have two right footed wingers on the pitch.

You mean he might actually cross the ball towards Dalby's head? That would be refreshing

2 hours ago, only1swanny said:

I don't think it's on wanderers tv is it??

Thread seems to say no but this is what I'm seeing on the site

just subscribed to nowtv for a day.

15 quid.

You might as well pay the extra 12 quid for the month.