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Reckon Osho will be out for a while just the way he has been in and out the last couple of weeks - they won't want to risk him again until sorted 100%. I reckon start Berry - he can tackle okay - Clark is good creatively but always a bit off the pace when we are not in possession
With Osho out, I assume Hashioka will start or will have to go with a back four.
I believe that means the amount missing has reached double figures for first time this season, so there will likely be a new under 21 featuring on bench.
Given that Woodrow scored on Saturday, I’d be tempted to put him in from the start. He’s also pretty fresh (a lot of the team look knackered) and the same thing can be said of Townsend. RE will have all the fitness data of course but given the importance of Saturdays game we need to be a little careful. Great news that Mengi is fit
I'd be tempted to start with Townsend for this one. Ask him to run himself into the ground for 65 mins and bring Ogbene or Chong on from the bench
But we are physically struggling. I'd take a point right now if offered it and then hope to have more bodies available for Saturday
Just got to hope Adebayo and Lokonga are back for Forest. Kind of wish Forest or us had made it to the last 8 of the Cup so that fixture would have been pushed back
Agree entirely. If you could make a deal where we lose tomorrow but win Saturday, I'd take it.
Good news is we have two weeks off after Forest, plus realistically not many points coming from Spurs and Arsenal away, no matter who we play. So there's scope to use those three weeks to get Lokonga, Adebayo, Osho, etc. all fit and firing for the final seven games.
Nearly all the under 21 squad are now out on loan! I wonder if we have looked at recalling one of Francis-Clarke, Bateson or Tompkins from their loans as centre-back cover. I believe you can do that outside the window when they are at a non league club.
Francis-Clarke looked decent the couple of times I’ve seen him in the Academy. He could be worth a recall, maybe. Tbh, fcuk knows, really. So desperately unlucky with injuries rn in defence.
I fear Odell-Bature has a long-term injury as not played for ages. He apparently looked good in the second game against VfL Bochum in pre-season.
Francis-Clarke has played for Dagenham & Redbridge and St Albans this season, so wouldn’t actually be allowed to play for us if the two clubs per season limit included National League level.
I’d say shortsighted/optimistic/blinkered/un-ambitious/arrogant
Tom was taken ill nearly three months ago. Mads well before that I think. Potts was never enough and is never fit anyway. Bell has played two seasons without a break. Burke is VERY injury prone.
We should all have been able to foresee that we’d lose half a dozen central defenders, and should have got sufficient cover in to cope - I clearly remember you saying exactly this in January and being laughed at.
You were also right in your assertion that we should have got at least two central midfielders in as cover, a spare left back, another right back and a minimum of two new strikers.
We are lucky to have you Cuba. You come from a different angle to most and i can see a career in management for you. The cream always rises to the top.
“We’re not going to let anything faze us. We’re not going to let anything derail us. There’s no point in moping about it, moaning about it. We’re working hard behind the scenes, the players are and the staff are to try and get people back.
“We’re not going to be able to get many back before the end of the season, I don’t think, so we’ve got to be able to deal with it.
“If we moan about it, feel sorry for ourselves, we all know what will happen, so we’ve got to deal with it.
“There’s going to be opportunities for other people and people will have to step up. That happened at the weekend, so we need everyone to stick together, supporters to get behind us.”
And??? I was at Selhurst Park, I won’t stop supporting the team.
Odd statement, people are sticking together but some with insight are alarmed at the list of long term injuries and a squad of 24, of which 6 or 7 won’t play again this season.
is there a word for someone who will argue their point to the death, even though they are demonstrably wrong, and have been proved to be wrong, but lots of people, hang on, and who no one else agrees with?
apart from cunt, dickhead, egomaniac, unwell, having a unlimited reservor of pride, an unwell man or woman? is there another word for that?
ive tried to be nice to you and give you some advice but you just can't can you!
im conclusion is that you are more than a bit of a cunt, you are a very big one surpassed only by you astronomical ego. I feel sorry for you.
We are playing a high press brand of football against the best teams in the world and that will always mean players are playing at their limits and when the human body is pushed it is more vulnerable to injury and illness.
So it’s not UNLUCKY, it’s likely and we should have planned better for these outcomes.
The dice are loaded against the smaller clubs full stop. You need to play with high intensity to compete but simply cannot afford to run such depth in a squad, so it does come down to luck.
What has struck me is the 5 sub rule. It absolutely saved Manchester United against us in a way that would simply not be applicable to the smallest 6 teams in the league.
Then against villa, just as we were level and on top, it allowed them to freshen up with c£100m of signings in one go and, low and behold, a £50m reserve winger crosses the ball to a £25m second choice left back and they’ve won the game.
So our players run themselves into the ground in a way that those that can afford (or can’t afford, in villas case, but that will out if they don’t get in the champions league) don’t need to, and low and behold we’re playing on the edge and get more injuries.
Chris wilder has said some daft things in his time but I remember him calling this out during covid when old Kloppy mcteeth face was banging on on and on and on about it being “to protect the players”. That was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now. It was to give himself an advantage.
Nobody is cheating, but there is luck involved and were more likely to be unlucky than everyone else due to resources.
I actually agree somewhat. Our style of play puts too much strain on the body for our defenders in particular. Knowing that this was going to be our tactics maybe we could have prioritised more defensive cover in january. But then again maybe we tried but were unsuccessful in our attempts?
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