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49 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:
Team news:
Price
IGordon Banks Osayande Gill
Eames McAndrew
Osong Allen Gough
Oguntolu
Subs: Hardy, Canoville, Tola, Green, Augustien
Correction: it's Khace Gordon.
2-1 down - McAndrew assisted by Gordon
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2 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:
John-Jules has a severe hamstring tear according to Warne’s pre match interview, will need to see a specialist and may need surgery (suggested in a post on X by Leigh Curtis) so suspect he’s out for months not weeks
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.
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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.
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3 minutes ago, sage said:
433 isn't a change in formation.
It's what we started with in our last game
It was closer to a 4231 with Tommo furthest forward
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26 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:
Sure I saw somewhere that Cash and Elder are struggling. If that's the case, we'll be looking at:
Vickers
Wilson Bradley Nelson Sibley
Bird Hourihane Thompson
NML Collins CBT
Subs: Wildsmith Ward Barkhuizen Robinson Bardell Weston Fapetu
which is very thin on the ground. I'd much rather Wildsmith back in the sticks.
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
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5 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:
he has 2 goals and 5 assists in 23 matches playing as a CDM most of the time. That's basically a 1 in 3 goal contribution. Bear in mind he doesn't take set pieces either to help boost those stats. What more do you want?
If your after more goals from midfield, surely it's whoever is playing as the no.10 s responsibility more than it is the CDM.
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)
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4 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:
Pretty much what I’d go for, 4-5-1 without the ball looking to be solid (even though it’s “only lowly Cheltenham”) and 4-3-3 with the ball looking to get players forward and into the opposition box
433 with the ball? Be more adventurous and go 235. With the same personell listed above:
Wildsmith
Nelson Cashin
Bird Hourihane Thompson
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19 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:
43% of passes going backwards or sidewards then. Obviously my previous post was tongue in cheek, didn’t expect it to be this bad though.
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
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7 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
Cheers, @Gary Teale.
Any idea what position(s) they play?
If I had to guess, Canoville is a CB and Mintus is an AM
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29 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
Anybody know anythung about Marley Mintus and Rio Canoville who featured for Derby U18s v Middlesbrough earlier this month?
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/fixtures/results/2024/01/13/u18-v-middlesbrough
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
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On 24/01/2024 at 07:31, G STAR RAM said:
I did make it up, its probably closer to 95%.
There were numerous times last night when simple passes were put straight out of play, nothing to do with fast forward play, just a lack of care with the ball, thats not on the manager.
Which of our players are not capable of playing fast football in your opinion?
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.
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7 minutes ago, Eoghan1884 said:
Dom has said Nyambe isn’t injured and was just dropped.
Dropped from the entire squad and not named on a bench which had spaces?
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2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:
Slightly OTT
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.
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9 minutes ago, Steve How Hard? said:
I don't want to be a doom merchant but if there is any truth in that, does it mean Cashin is being sold? It's not a position that essentially needs strengthening atm.
More likely confirmination of a return to a back 3. Mostly played on the right of a back 3 for Aberdeen last season.
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4 hours ago, Rich84 said:
Amazing how everyone knows how he's performing in training better than the coaching staff, because thats what they will be making their decisions on, yes he looks decent in the age group levels because of his physicality, just as we've had in the past, Ball anyone?!? Or Whittaker more recently where his physical advantage was pace at youth level, what did most do to him when he was thrown in?
But without that edge he's looked like he's been struggling whenever he had an opportunity, didn't he start in one of the cup games and had a shocker? And that's not even against regular L1 players....
I've also wanted to see us bring thru the academy lads, but maybe this opportunity to play against men regularly for a month may be just what he needs to be a viable option for our run in where we can recall him in 4 weeks...
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.
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50 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:
Ipswich ?
The same Ipswich who made 7 signings in the summer and another 2 so far this month?
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Just now, jimtastic56 said:
Could it be that DCFC do not yet feel ready to go up to the Championship ? NML has a contract now until he is 34 . Are players like him and the ones we are looking at we are looking at - going to be good enough for the Championship ? Hull have just taken Ryan Giles from Luton , with an option to buy for £5 million . That’s what we would be up against .
The club have stated the aim is to get promoted. No L1 club has a ready made squad for the Championship, but we have a summer transfer window to prepare.
Hull are chasing promotion, so what they're spending is of insignificance to our first season back in the Championship. What are mid-table sides spending? What about those battling relegation?- Carnero and Tamworthram
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2 hours ago, Archied said:
You see this is my problem ( not you alone but the many fronted attacks ) , we have people saying that with the players / squad we have ,ie much better than other clubs , we should be smashing the division , jeez even any fan off this forum could have them top 6 at least ,,,,, then warne warne signs absolute dross is the cry ,
surely you can see why any fans who are ok with seeing how warne pans out can be frustrated at the amount of sticks chosen to beat him with 🤷🏻♂️
They can be good players (in the right system) and bad players (in Warne's system). For example, you could get Huddlestone and Ledley to bomb up and down the pitch and they'll tire quickly, get caught out of position defensively and leave large gaps in the middle of the field (sound familiar?), or you could have them sitting deep, leave very little gap between themselves and the defence and they'll look very good.
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13 minutes ago, LeedsCityRam said:
Where do you see Fapetu & Wheeldon at this stage? Fapetu really impressed me in his one EFL Trophy start & sure he's made a first team matchday squad since. Wheeldon looks a big, quick lad and was very dangerous against (an admittedly already well beaten) Wolves u23s.
Good points in your later post about young players being useful sporadically in first team games. Even Evan Ferguson gets that treatment at Brighton. Of course 21/22 proves that some can actually flourish when given extended playing time. Im sure Cashin would never have made it had he been 4 years older & emerged during Rowett/Lampard reigns.
Wheeldon only just stepped up to U21 football a few games before Christmas. Give him 12 months at that level before judging where to send him on loan. I don't think he's ready for first team game time.
Fapetu also only stepped up to U21 football his season. He's been a regular starter (helped by the occasional absence of DRobinson and Radcliffe being out for several months). He was regular contributor of goals and assists for the U18s last season, but has so far failed to contribute to a goal this season. Just like Wheeldon, he'll need another year or so at U21 level before he's loaned out. I wouldn't expect him to be involved in first team games until next season.
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For the last few games I've tried to guess what lineup Warne would pick. Just in case Warne has been looking at my team to help him with his own selection, this time I'm going with my own team...
Wildsmith
Wilson Nelson Cashin Elder
Bird
Thompson Sibley
Mendez-Laing Blackett-Taylor
Collins
Subs: Vickers, Bradley, Ward, Hourihane, DRobinson, Barkhuizen, Weston
433 because it gives us the control in midfield we need (and we havent got another senior striker to play alongside Collins). The front 3 ince chosen are our biggest goal threats available.
Wilson starts at RB but gets moved to RW when Mendez-Laing and Blackett-Taylor have tired - Ward on at RB and Barkhuizen LW.
Wildsmith in goal will instill more confidence in the defence and the crowd.
A youthful midfield 3 to provide energy, with Bird at the base to actually link our defence and midfield together. Hourihane to find a new role as super-sub... coming on late to shut games down or to provide something different from set-pieces. Meanwhile, DRobinson is eased into L1 football.
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1 minute ago, Jourdan said:
I think the problem is that our fans expect players to come in and perform straight away.
Players are rarely signed on three-month contracts, yet they probably should be because that is the grace period players get before being written off and deemed poor recruitment or a failure.
Just because Ward, Bradley, Washington and others haven’t yet met expectations, it doesn’t mean that they can’t come to the fore in their second or third seasons with the club.
It always reminds me of Vydra. He really struggled in his first season but then was our best and most valuable player the following season.
In the example you give it was because Pearson signed him for his 442. We then sacked him and hired McClaren who wanted to play 433 - Vydra is neither a lone forward or a winger. The following season was under Rowett who played him with a strike partner.
What's the excuse for Warne when he's made these signings himself?
Derby v Cheltenham Town - Match Day Thread
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Mendez-Laing CF. What's Weston got to do to get on the bench? 4 CMs and no wingers or CFs on there 🤔