DCFC1388

For those who've not seen the lineup in full:
 

Allsop - McDonald Stearman Forsyth Williams - Hutchinson Bird - Sibley Morrison Ebosele - Lawrence
Roos, Byrne, Davies, Shinnie, Jozwiak, Watson, Stretton
So, Williams is a scholar so wont count to the 23 so likely to start with Buchanan potentially back for the weekend. Rooney already confirmed Allsop & Morrison will start and after his comments after the game it would make no sense for him then to play Ebosele at RB. Davies probably wont be risked & I cant see Lawrence not playing with him being captain so maybe play as a 'false 9' to preserve CKR for Saturday knowing Stretton can come off the bench at some point tonight.

Allsop - McDonald Stearman Forsyth Williams - Hutchinson Bird - Sibley Morrison Ebosele - Lawrence
Roos, Byrne, Davies, Shinnie, Jozwiak, Watson, Stretton
So, Williams is a scholar so wont count to the 23 so likely to start with Buchanan potentially back for the weekend. Rooney already confirmed Allsop & Morrison will start and after his comments after the game it would make no sense for him then to play Ebosele at RB. Davies probably wont be risked & I cant see Lawrence not playing with him being captain so maybe play as a 'false 9' to preserve CKR for Saturday knowing Stretton can come off the bench at some point tonight.

Allsop - McDonald Stearman Forsyth Williams - Hutchinson Bird - Sibley Morrison Ebosele - Lawrence
Roos, Byrne, Davies, Shinnie, Jozwiak, Watson, Stretton
So, Williams is a scholar so wont count to the 23 so likely to start with Buchanan potentially back for the weekend. Rooney already confirmed Allsop & Morrison will start and after his comments after the game it would make no sense for him then to play Ebosele at RB. Davies probably wont be risked & I cant see Lawrence not playing with him being captain so maybe play as a 'false 9' to preserve CKR for Saturday knowing Stretton can come off the bench at some point tonight.

I think we're 3 signings away from where we want to be, as shown below:

CB, CF and a winger missing
Jagielka obviously fills the CB slot
Aluko would have been the winger, but as he's gone/going to Ipswich we'll be looking elsewhere (Grosicki?).
We were obviously after Baldock for the CF spot, but I hope we can get someone better in on loan - someone who is easily a starter, rather than competition for Kazim and Stretton. We can only dream of that player being Delap.
With Knight out for 2.5 months and Bielik until Christmas, short term cover (Carroll/Garner) would be ideal but not essential.
Those signings would leave Cashin as the only unproven 2nd choice player (but 4th choice CB)... I'd be more than happy with that.
That squad looks pretty decent to me - certainly midtable.
To put another perspective on things, we were potentially 6 players away from our 'first 11' vs Huddersfield.

In this instance, if what Nixon states is true, then we cant really blame the EFL for not letting us sign anymore if Morris refuses to show his commitment to pay these additional players if we dont get a new owner. 

In this instance, if what Nixon states is true, then we cant really blame the EFL for not letting us sign anymore if Morris refuses to show his commitment to pay these additional players if we dont get a new owner. 

Yeah I saw it last night on Twitter but wasn't sure if it had been Photoshopped.

I really want him to do well if he stays but if we can make a profit on him then its a no brainer. Hopefully we have a replacement lined up if we do sell, id love us to bring Elanga in on loan, but it shouldnt be too difficult to replace Jozwiak's 1 goal & 3 assists from last season

Sort of agree but if it could be towards elements that are keeping us in the quicksand, the tax bill for example and help set us free it might be worth it….

I really want him to do well if he stays but if we can make a profit on him then its a no brainer. Hopefully we have a replacement lined up if we do sell, id love us to bring Elanga in on loan, but it shouldnt be too difficult to replace Jozwiak's 1 goal & 3 assists from last season

Sell him if we can get our money back and a decent loanee as a replacement (Elanga?)

@RoyMac5  @Ramslad1992
 

When we sold Bogle & Lowe the EFL removed the embargo so we could spend someof their money on Jozwiak & Byrne.
Maybe if we did sell him the EFL would allow us to do the same and bring in another player with some of the money?

No way would a top keeper have thrown himself into that crowd of incoming players at a whipped ball delivered at pace. You want the keeper to be about where Sarr is? 

Could change with the additions of Mengi, Jagielka & Carroll. I do hope Bird will step up & play a key part this season.

When we sold Bogle & Lowe the EFL removed the embargo so we could spend someof their money on Jozwiak & Byrne.
Maybe if we did sell him the EFL would allow us to do the same and bring in another player with some of the money?

Great football post. You know the game.
100% agree on everything that you say. Would love our games to look like that is our playing style.

Could be a difference maker in the final third.
Dont think Lawrence should play as a 10, he is better coming in from the left wing.
If we can get our wingers coming in and making runs off CKR & the fullbacks making runs wide & around I think Morrison has the quality to play the pass to find these runs. Similar to Birds pass through to Watson first half

Could change with the additions of Mengi, Jagielka & Carroll. I do hope Bird will step up & play a key part this season.

Could be a difference maker in the final third.
Dont think Lawrence should play as a 10, he is better coming in from the left wing.
If we can get our wingers coming in and making runs off CKR & the fullbacks making runs wide & around I think Morrison has the quality to play the pass to find these runs. Similar to Birds pass through to Watson first half

I dont think we ever had enough control of the ball today to really see our new style of play, Huddersfields formation stifled us.
He wants our fullbacks high and our cms split to cover the space left by the fullbacks, the 10 then drops into the space vacated by the 2 cms splitting. 
Forsyth managed to get forward ok but Byrne didnt get forward as much because their lwb had a brilliant game.

Looked and sounded great on RamsTV. Just remembered there was one shot were the whole of the stand was bouncing, think just after we scored - that was great to see. Wish I could have been there. Makes you proper proud, of all the lads and the crowd. #COYR

I thought exactly the same about shinnie today 
first half every second touch was a tackle … he seemed well off the pace in possession first half 
improved second half in that respect but totally agree with you 

There's free highlights on RamsTV. But its as @DCFC1388 says.