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Slightly odd line up seems perhaps a touch unbalanced.

Hard to say if its (1)

     Chester  Davies  Cashin

NML Knight Bird Hourihane Barks

            Collins Dobbin 

 

(2)

      Chester Davies Cashin

Knight  Bird Hourihane  Barks 

         NML  Collins  Dobbin

(Or some variant on that front 3)

Or something like 

(3) 

Knight Chester Davies Cashin

NML   Bird Hourihane Barks 

            Collins Dobbin

So it's somewhere in the range of a  very attacking 352 to a kinda  negative 442. Interesting that he's potentially for two players who've said they don't want to play wingback there.

Also a bit surprised to see Dobbin in something that seems on paper as kinda a basic approach of pick a big un and pick a little quick one and stick up both up top. No matter who you have available.

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36 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

A casualty of the new athlete mindset ?  You can work some players to a higher level of fitness the right side of 30.  You only get so much extra from a bloke who's going to be retiring in 18 months.  We have a few of them and no replacements.  

I was thinking similar after warne's comments about athletes, giving it everything. How will the injuries stack up? 

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If it’s a 3-5-2 variation then I think it’s more of a square pegs in square holes in the the central areas than we are used too, as long as Hourihane is playing higher and not occupying the same areas as Bird. 

Where we may have weakened ourselves is out wide. We are really strong out there and if they are playing as wingbacks then it is a bit restrictive on two very attacking players.

 

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3 minutes ago, OohMartWright said:

Disappointing to see two blocks of seating left empty, one at each end of the away stand. That’s a few hundred Rams fans who have missed out unnecessarily. And lost revenue for Cambridge, who could probably do with it.

Doubt it’s by choice. Very small ground capacity may be stipulated be EFL? 

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