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Good fora few minutes leading up to our goal. Then made the triple sub and looked a bit shaky for a while, before finally regaining some control.

At least he shoots. I wish others on the team would too

Sibley and Mendez-Laing the best of a bad bunch IMO. At least theyre both making an effort to drive forward when on the ball. Absolutely garbage performance by everyone though.

Which would be a problem if we could pass that far up the pitch

Played 68 mins in the last U21 game. Based on the warm-ups, the tactics for today are: pass to Hourihane, get it out to the right, cross to Collins. In positive news, Barkhuizen's finishing looked sharp.

Mendez-Laing CF. What's Weston got to do to get on the bench? 4 CMs and no wingers or CFs on there 🤔

Correction: it's Khace Gordon. 2-1 down - McAndrew assisted by Gordon

Team news: Price IGordon Banks Osayande Gill Eames McAndrew Osong Allen Gough Oguntolu Subs: Hardy, Canoville, Tola, Green, Augustien

Expect March at the earliest. Waghorn and Washington mid to late Feb. Brown loaned out for the season (but can be recalled in Feb if needed). We'll be a bit light up top for a while.

A tiny bit of insight into what kind ofthreat Cheltenham pose.... Only 4 of their current squad members have scored for them in the league this season. Only one of those has more than 2 goals. Their most likely front 2 to start have scored just 4 goals between them. In other areas of play... The ball will be in the air a lot as they're won of the most aerially diminant sides in the league, and they'll press quickly to force mistakes.

I thought it was this: Vickers Nelson Bradley Cashin Ward Sibley Bird Elder Mendez-Laing Blackett-Taylor

It was closer to a 4231 with Tommo furthest forward

Bardell is still injured. The U21 defenders who started the last game were Oduroh, Bartley, KRobinson and Moloney. If we were to pick one, I expect it would be Bartley

He's joint 3rd central mid (DM, CM or AM) in the league for open play key passes - Peterborough's Randall and Charlton's Dobson are top 2. Shooting is his biggest weakness, but he's still joint 16 for open play shots (only 7 shots behind 4th)

433 with the ball? Be more adventurous and go 235. With the same personell listed above: Wildsmith Nelson Cashin Bird Hourihane Thompson Wilson Mendez-Laing Collins Blackett-Taylor Elder

Xavi would typically make 80% sideways or backwards passes - and that's not tongue in cheek. 50% of Carrick's would go sideways or backwards

If I had to guess, Canoville is a CB and Mintus is an AM

Rio Canoville was at Notts County 6 years ago. He's in the U16s now, but don't know if he's just on tiral at our club our joined us at some point permanently. I think it's his dad (Former Torquay and Notts County defender Lee Canoville) who runs a coaching academy called Canonville Coaching, based in Nottingham

Of Bird's 35 passes agaisnt Reading, 20 (57%) went forwards, 8 (23%) went sideways or didn't go far enough forward for it to be worthwhile callign forwards, with just 7 (20%) going backwards. Hourihane's pasing figures will be similar, if not slightly better due to playing slightly deeper and taking free-kicks.

Dropped from the entire squad and not named on a bench which had spaces?

People need to get over it. He will have made mistakes, but it's clear to me he also has regrets. Despite that, and still getting abused by fans, he has stuck by the club to make amends. Quantuma felt he was worth keeping around. Clowes has made the decision to keep him as his CEO. Move on.

More likely confirmination of a return to a back 3. Mostly played on the right of a back 3 for Aberdeen last season. It's most liekly BS anyway

Whittaker's advantage was his brain and technical ability. It was his lack of physicality that meant he struggled with the step up, just as he had done stepping up from the U18s to the U21s. The biggest problem he had was having a manager who didn't understand what type of player he was and ddin't have the patience to develop him. With Brown, it's not a case of him being a stronger/faster playing at youth level and now he's coming up against strogner/faster defenders... He's just not mentally ready to play for our first team. It's sort of a mental block of beliving that he is capable of playing in League 1 at this moment in time. Cashin has talked about similar issues when he was thrown in the first team - he didn't think he deserved to be in the team and was just there becuase we had no one else. Luke Thomas went over to the wrong wing on his debut becasue of nerves.

The same Ipswich who made 7 signings in the summer and another 2 so far this month?