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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP THREAD
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I sort of understood why Mowbray picked the team he did at Millwall. Its a difficult and intimidating place to go and they will bully you, so filling the spine of the team with big guys with presence (Ajayi, Heggem, Diakite and Lankshear) I get.If you’re going to go with that formation then the two central midfielders who can get around the pits as they are most likely to be outnumbered . They also need to be able to pass the ball accurately.
Oxford at home is a completely different scenario though. They are not great. I want to see Armstrong and Lankshear through the middle and the two wingers restored. There's no reason we shouldn't be having a right go at these and be beating them. I'd bring in Griffiths if I had my way but I don't think Mowbray will, I can just about live with that:
Griffiths
Furlong Ajayi Heggem Styles
Molumby Mowatt
Fellows Johnston
Lankshear Armstrong
I could live with Diakite or Price ahead of Mowatt if Mowbray decides on that but if he doesn't put out a formation like this I'll be concerned and if we then fail to win the game he (Mowbray) is going to get his first serious criticism from me. Armstrong is a 20 goal striker who likes playing off a partner (Che Adams example), I don't want him stuck out on the left wing. It's hard to be a fox in the box if you're never in there.
But the club would have had some idea about the extent of their injuries and the timing of their return to the first team I would have thought.Maybe but they probably wouldn’t be expecting Bartley to get sent off having just come back from injury !
I would love to know what the club was thinking by recalling him and then immediately sending him back to the same club. Very strange.He couldn’t go anywhere else other than non league as you can only play for two teams in one season. He was called back as both Bartley and Ajayi were injured
How can that be right . The axis of Corberan attack was Maja , he hasn’t been available to Mowbray yet .
I don't think you've got it right, i'm saying Mowbray attacks in the same way CC did and encounters the same problems CC did when it's not working.
I personally would have opted for Johnstone and Mowatt to be withdrawnI said during the game Mowatt and Fellows . What I wasn’t expecting was Diangana on the right and Wallace central .That made no sense to me especially with Lankshear on as well we needed to get the ball in from wide areas something Wallace is more capable of or feed little balls through which Diangana is more suited to. I would like to see Fellows and Johnston swap wings occasionally say for ten minutes just let the defenders look at something different
That being said - Fellows once did not even attempt to beat his man. Just a strange obsession with cutting in and running into trouble.
Anyone of that 11 could have been dragged off to be honest.
We were awful before Swift and Wallace came on tonight, as I have said on numerous occasions the squad is as bad as it’s been in over twenty years.This is the truth of the matter. Corberan defensive organisation meant we could keep our heads above water in the play off battle but anything more adventurous is going to give us a few more games like last night.
Quite impressed with the standard shown by our boys who looked better all round than Newcastle. Think several could make the step up in due course. The winger Higgins talented on the ball and the left back, think it was Jamal Mohammed, strong going forward. Can't find any league table for PL2.The LB was a lad called Parker , Mohammed was playing CB alongside Semi
We got what we deserved in the end - those last three minutes we're just beautiful really. Every single emotion was experienced within those three minutes.We had 3 big chances in the first half , two for Grant and one for Armstrong as well as a couple of shots from around the edge of the box we probably should have done better with
I thought we were the better team in the first half but never made it count. We never really created that opening and the loss of Fellows and Johnstone looked noticeable.