Town boss Mick McCarthy has named an attacking line-up for this afternoon’s game at Burton featuring all four of his frontline strikers, David McGoldrick, Joe Garner, Martyn Waghorn and Freddie Sears.

The Blues could line-up in the 4-4-2 system which saw them to victory in a number of their early season games or in a 4-2-3-1 formation with McGoldrick, Sears and Waghorn behind Garner.

Tom Adeyemi, who has suffered with a recurrence of his hamstring injury, is the man to drop out of the team for Sears, while Kevin Bru is on the bench for only the third time this season.

For Burton, former Blues striker Luke Varney and ex-loan keeper Stephen Bywater are among the subs.

Burton: Ripley, Warnock, Allen, McFadzean, Buxton (c), Turner, Murphy, Lund, Akins, Dyer, Sordell. Subs: Bywater, Flanagan, Naylor, Varney, Palmer, Akpan, Barker.

Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Webster, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Skuse, Nydam, Sears, Waghorn, McGoldrick, Garner. Subs: Gerken, Iorfa, Celina, Connolly, Ward, Downes, Bru. Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire).

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Edmundo added 15:32 - Oct 28 Not a frigging shot all the first half hour. Get into em boys!!
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Surco72 added 15:57 - Oct 28 Great discussion earlier by Sky Sports panel about Pulis and his negative tactics , Baggies fans same as us bored of watching defensive midfielders and work horses rather than any flair players . Both managers on borrowed time
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itfcserbia added 15:57 - Oct 28 I am starting to see 4 strikers as MM's way of appeasing the fans with no apparent plan behind it (or them). What happens - we let Burton have 12 shots in the first half time alone.
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Spanishblueblood added 16:04 - Oct 28 Playing 4 strikers, which means at least 2 are playing out of position, whilst you have natural wingers like Celina on the bench. Fecking ridiculous i tell ya, who the feck is gonna create the chances for all these strikers. Just FLICK OFF MM
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patthegimp added 16:14 - Oct 28 WTF! 1 down and Bru coming on. Mick has finally lost it completely
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Spanishblueblood added 16:20 - Oct 28 CLUELESS!!!!!!!
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Chondzoresk added 16:24 - Oct 28 You couldn't make it up....
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joepublic added 16:46 - Oct 28 Get in Celina!!!!!
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Spanishblueblood added 16:50 - Oct 28 Bert, Muccletonjoe, You were saying?
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