| Team today 07:12 - Sep 5 with 32279 views | itfcjoe |
Apparently team today is
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Chambers–Toto–Woolf–Ward
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Edwards–––Judge––Sears
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| Team today on 10:52 - Sep 5 with 6051 views | solemio |
Chambers slow? Come on. Linford Christie won the Olympic 100m at the age of 32, and Chambers must be nearly as fast as him, although he is three years older. |  | | |
| Team today on 10:52 - Sep 5 with 6053 views | SomethingBlue |
| Team today on 10:42 - Sep 5 by pointofblue |
Is Wilson not match fit either? I’d pick him ahead of Nsiala. Didn’t Bishop and Dozzell play together and West Ham and do well? The latter should be there instead of Judge; why is he being rewarded with more game time after his abysmal attempts at football last season? Would have been tempted to go with a front three of Lankester, El Mizouni and Hawkins.
So that means the midweek line up might look something like: Cornell, Cotter, Kenlock, Wilson, Ndaba, Dozzell, Nolan, El Mizouni, Lankester, Dobra, Hawkins
Bearing in mind I have lost track of who is injured! |
Think Dobra will still be with Albania, which is a shame. We need to get him in our team. Obviously it's a challenging timeframe for all clubs at the moment but we really are a million miles off where we should be. Why can't we ever keep players fit? | |
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| Team today on 10:53 - Sep 5 with 6040 views | King_ding_a_lin_g |
| Team today on 08:15 - Sep 5 by Bluefish |
On what basis is toto deserving to be ahead of Chambers...
...apart from being Mick's man? |
Based on performances in pre-season. |  | | |
| Skuse is not our future on 10:58 - Sep 5 with 6022 views | unstableblue |
Based on West Ham that central 3 is key... and that is Downes grabbing a game and being athletic
With Huws and Dozzell sitting in front of the defence and distributing
Skuse can only do one
Disappointing Downs not right for today
And as stated our season relies on The Wolf, KVY, Downes and Norwood
Only one starting today [Post edited 5 Sep 2020 11:06]
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| Team today on 11:29 - Sep 5 with 5944 views | N2_Blue |
Jeeze, if we score today with that line up, will be amazed. Has 0-1 or 0-2 written all over it.
We are an absolute mess, think how bad we were last season with Jackson, Norwood and Downes in the team and none of them playing. We have no goals at all, and Norwood and Jackson have both been linked with moves. WHat is the point of buying Hawkins and not getting him bedded in. How many mins has he played pre-season? This is all very odd |  |
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| Team today on 11:34 - Sep 5 with 5930 views | Harry_Palmer |
| Team today on 10:42 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
How old is Ward? If we are basing this solely on age why has he not had the same scrutiny?
Edwards is far quicker than both why not play him there and ignore the fact he tackles like George Santos? Why does it suddenly make sense to play anybody out of position let alone the one player worth developing now Downes is off? |
I'm not basing it solely on age, it is also his lack of pace and mobility as stated.
Ward is and has for a long time been a specialist full back so despite his age i'm not sure why we would be questioning his position in the team at this stage.
I would not be averse to Edwards at right back today either, just not Chambers which would be the worst choice of those realistically available.
This is Lambert we are talking about though so I will not be at all surprised. |  | | |
| Team today on 11:38 - Sep 5 with 5929 views | Chrisd |
| Team today on 10:41 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
Show me one post I've made where I've said anything of the sort. I've not made a single argument that suggests Chambers is as good as last week let alone historically. You're inventing stuff to suit your argument. |
I’m making things up now? Chambers isn’t 35 and slowing down, Woolfenden hasn't played In the first team at RB before and done a very decent job? Nsiala wouldn’t be better paired with an experience head alongside him as he is having his own challenges in a Town shirt, than an inexperienced one? Yeah, I can see your point now. 🙄 | |
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| Team today on 11:39 - Sep 5 with 5926 views | King_ding_a_lin_g |
| Team today on 08:59 - Sep 5 by itfcjoe |
Are you blaming the defence or attack for this? |
A team full of goals with a shocking defence will get many more points over a season than one with the best defence in the world but no goals. | | | |
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| Team today on 11:44 - Sep 5 with 5910 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Team today on 10:02 - Sep 5 by Herbivore |
Need someone in that role that can actually make the ball stick. Drinan is a better bet for that than Sears. |
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| Team today on 11:50 - Sep 5 with 5894 views | WarkTheWarkITFC |
Marvellous.
A striker that’s never scored a goal for us.
Judge who has been absolutely woeful. Skuse and Chambers who should really have been replaced by now and Toto is riddled with mistakes.
The only slight positive could be if Toto was immense you’d like to think that might work when KVY is back but he’d shoehorn Chambers in some where.
Chamber at right back is going to be an absolute disaster. Every time he’s anywhere near the touch line he gets absolutely skinned.
Still it is at least close to what Lambert thinks is a strongest team. So that’s at least something. | |
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| Team today on 11:51 - Sep 5 with 5889 views | DanTheMan |
| Team today on 09:24 - Sep 5 by Herbivore |
I'm only counting three? |
Proper barin fart moment there, for some reason counting ward as a centre back.
So that's 25% better I guess. |  |
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| Team today on 12:09 - Sep 5 with 5835 views | Mullet |
| Team today on 11:38 - Sep 5 by Chrisd |
I’m making things up now? Chambers isn’t 35 and slowing down, Woolfenden hasn't played In the first team at RB before and done a very decent job? Nsiala wouldn’t be better paired with an experience head alongside him as he is having his own challenges in a Town shirt, than an inexperienced one? Yeah, I can see your point now. 🙄 |
A simple "No I couldn't sorry I misunderstood because I was so caught up in my own ideas" would have sufficed. Again you're attributing things to me I haven't said which tells its own story. |  |
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| Team today on 12:14 - Sep 5 with 5816 views | Mullet |
| Team today on 11:34 - Sep 5 by Harry_Palmer |
I'm not basing it solely on age, it is also his lack of pace and mobility as stated.
Ward is and has for a long time been a specialist full back so despite his age i'm not sure why we would be questioning his position in the team at this stage.
I would not be averse to Edwards at right back today either, just not Chambers which would be the worst choice of those realistically available.
This is Lambert we are talking about though so I will not be at all surprised. |
Ward has had more position switches than Chambers in his career and admitted he's slowed down too this week. The logic just doesn't stack up, it's clearly more personal when it comes to Chambers when really the focus should be on Lambert yet again.
How could he possibly be a worse choice than Woolfenden or Nsiala et al? Let alone moving a midfielder back there whether that's Skuse or Edwards? It's just nonsense to call him the worst option possible when the game hasn't been played yet and all evidence contradicts that sort of idea. | |
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| Stuart Watson saying Dozzell a nailed on starter (n/t) on 12:17 - Sep 5 with 5805 views | unstableblue |
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| Team today on 12:44 - Sep 5 with 5733 views | pointofblue |
| Team today on 10:48 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
I assume Nsiala has come back and been given a fresh chance by Lambert or is seen as more willing to abide by his wishes than others.
Maybe it's a shop window exercise?
Judge is Lambert's big signing so he is going to give him the leeway to play himself into repaying that a bit. If you put Dozzell and Bishop in front of Toto and Woolf you may as well kick off with a goal or two already chalked up to Rovers.
Tuesday will make much more sense of today's line up I reckon. |
Fair point with Nsiala - he certainly did well enough for Shrewsbury so there is an upper League One central defender in there somewhere if we can just tap into it.
Can't see why a midfield of Skuse - Dozzell - Bishop is any worse then Skuse - Bishop - Judge, quite frankly! I did forget Huws in my second line up though he's probably injured too. | |
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| Stuart Watson saying Dozzell a nailed on starter (n/t) on 12:46 - Sep 5 with 5726 views | pointofblue |
| Stuart Watson saying Dozzell a nailed on starter (n/t) on 12:17 - Sep 5 by unstableblue |
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For Edwards, as Joe reported he had a knock earlier in the thread, with Judge moving out to the right? | |
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| Team today on 12:47 - Sep 5 with 5722 views | Mullet |
| Team today on 12:44 - Sep 5 by pointofblue |
Fair point with Nsiala - he certainly did well enough for Shrewsbury so there is an upper League One central defender in there somewhere if we can just tap into it.
Can't see why a midfield of Skuse - Dozzell - Bishop is any worse then Skuse - Bishop - Judge, quite frankly! I did forget Huws in my second line up though he's probably injured too. |
Really it's either or for Skuse and Dozzell in my opinion. Putting AD in a two (and in fairness I assumed you meant without Skuse there) you get a Lincoln away type paucity of defence.
This looks like another friendly lineup to me and Lambert is treating this week as such. I'm OK with that, because he has such a small margin for error in the league anyway. | |
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| Team today on 12:53 - Sep 5 with 5693 views | pointofblue |
| Team today on 12:47 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
Really it's either or for Skuse and Dozzell in my opinion. Putting AD in a two (and in fairness I assumed you meant without Skuse there) you get a Lincoln away type paucity of defence.
This looks like another friendly lineup to me and Lambert is treating this week as such. I'm OK with that, because he has such a small margin for error in the league anyway. |
No, my apologies, I meant Skuse - Dozzell - Bishop as a three in the middle; Skuse is for Downes but otherwise the same midfield which played in the first half against West Ham.
I'm not sure if he has much choice, other than playing some of the youngsters, due to the number of knocks our players have. I'm astonished how many issues we seem to have though am not sure if this is replicated across the league due to the five month break between matches. | |
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| Team today on 13:07 - Sep 5 with 5659 views | Harry_Palmer |
| Team today on 12:14 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
Ward has had more position switches than Chambers in his career and admitted he's slowed down too this week. The logic just doesn't stack up, it's clearly more personal when it comes to Chambers when really the focus should be on Lambert yet again.
How could he possibly be a worse choice than Woolfenden or Nsiala et al? Let alone moving a midfielder back there whether that's Skuse or Edwards? It's just nonsense to call him the worst option possible when the game hasn't been played yet and all evidence contradicts that sort of idea. |
My word, you don't half go off on some weird tangents!
Ok, we are talking about Chambers potentially playing at right back today, this has nothing to do with Ward. We have just signed Ward specifically to play left back and he has not even played a competitive game for us yet, so I'm not sure why we need to debate his merits at this stage. As for Nsiala, I never even mentioned him.
How on earth have you concluded I have a personal issue with Chambers because I think he is no longer a good choice at right back? Very odd. The focus IS very much on Lambert for a bad choice, as I have stated in my posts.
In my opinion Woolf is a better choice because he is a) more mobile b) more athletic c) better at passing, d) has more energy to get up and down e) suits the system better than Chambers as a full back f) we have plenty of other options for centre half for this game. etc, etc
It's my opinion, that is all, hell he might not even be at right back today, Joe could be wrong. If you disagree with my opinion then fine, but please stop making up guff out of nowhere as it just looks like you are being argumentative for the sake of it. [Post edited 5 Sep 2020 13:11]
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| Team today on 13:17 - Sep 5 with 5615 views | J2BLUE |
I am a big fan of Sears but this line up looks pretty weak. I'd have gone 442 with the injury problems we have and stuck Sears up front with Drinan.
Midfield of Edwards - Bishop - Huws - one of the kids. |  |
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| Team today on 13:18 - Sep 5 with 5604 views | judespiveyg |
| Team today on 12:14 - Sep 5 by Mullet |
Ward has had more position switches than Chambers in his career and admitted he's slowed down too this week. The logic just doesn't stack up, it's clearly more personal when it comes to Chambers when really the focus should be on Lambert yet again.
How could he possibly be a worse choice than Woolfenden or Nsiala et al? Let alone moving a midfielder back there whether that's Skuse or Edwards? It's just nonsense to call him the worst option possible when the game hasn't been played yet and all evidence contradicts that sort of idea. |
Woolfenden is a better player than Chambers. He was also right back at Swindon not long ago whereas Chambers hasn't started a game for us at right back since 2016/17 (if memory serves) around the time we signed Spence, and in my opinion hadn't looked comfortable there since the play off season.
Also Ward is a specialist full back and in his prime was a much better full back (and probably player) than Chambers ever was.
I didn't think Edwards was too bad as an attacking full back but appreciate not all agree.
I do agree that Chambers is a much better option than Nsiala or Skuse at right back though. |  |
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| so It’s this: on 13:20 - Sep 5 with 5602 views | unstableblue |
| Stuart Watson saying Dozzell a nailed on starter (n/t) on 12:46 - Sep 5 by pointofblue |
For Edwards, as Joe reported he had a knock earlier in the thread, with Judge moving out to the right? |
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Chambo-Toto-Wolfenden-Ward
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Lacks pace and width
But good chance for bishop and dozzell to shine | |
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| Team today on 13:24 - Sep 5 with 5593 views | JDB23 |
A 4 pager for a lineup that hasn't even been released yet in a first round league cup game. "Deary me".
It's been a long 6 months without football! | | | |
| Team today on 13:37 - Sep 5 with 5548 views | AlanRetentive |
| Team today on 11:34 - Sep 5 by Harry_Palmer |
I'm not basing it solely on age, it is also his lack of pace and mobility as stated.
Ward is and has for a long time been a specialist full back so despite his age i'm not sure why we would be questioning his position in the team at this stage.
I would not be averse to Edwards at right back today either, just not Chambers which would be the worst choice of those realistically available.
This is Lambert we are talking about though so I will not be at all surprised. |
I would like to thank you for your correct usage of the word 'averse' in the phrase 'I would not be averse to ...'.
Many people these days seem to be using 'adverse', which is not the correct word in this context.
Thanks again, Alan. [Post edited 5 Sep 2020 13:38]
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