Our third chance to get our first win of the season comes on Tuesday night as we make the long trip up to Yorkshire for the second consecutive away game, this one at FC Halifax Town.
The Shaymen finished a creditable 4th last season and we were comprehensively beaten there 3-1 in September last year, but got a narrow 1-0 win in the return fixture at Roots Hall in April.
Halifax have lost a few key players since then Niall Maher (no relation to King Kev as far as I’m aware), Tom Bradbury and Matty Waters have all moved on as has, perhaps most, manager Peter Wild who has gone to Barrow. His assistant, Chris Millington, replaced him but it hasn’t been the best of starts with defeats to Barnet and Torquay and no goals scored.
Obviously we haven’t had the greatest of starts either but there were enough promising signs against Solihull that things are moving in the right direction. Young Jaden Crowhurst made a promising debut and with Gus Scott-Morris yet to be fully fit, Harry Taylor now injured and Demi sitting out the last of his three match suspension seems set to keep his place. Tom Clifford broke his nose and with Lomas getting more minutes under his belt he seems set to come into the back 3 with captain Nathan Ralph switching to the wing back role.
Whether Kev tinkers with the more attacking players remains to be seen, but with injuries and the lack of new signings he doesn’t have a lot of options other than to switch those on the bench on Saturday into the starting line up.
So, who would you pick to start on Tuesday evening and what do you predict the result will be?
The Shaymen finished a creditable 4th last season and we were comprehensively beaten there 3-1 in September last year, but got a narrow 1-0 win in the return fixture at Roots Hall in April.
Halifax have lost a few key players since then Niall Maher (no relation to King Kev as far as I’m aware), Tom Bradbury and Matty Waters have all moved on as has, perhaps most, manager Peter Wild who has gone to Barrow. His assistant, Chris Millington, replaced him but it hasn’t been the best of starts with defeats to Barnet and Torquay and no goals scored.
Obviously we haven’t had the greatest of starts either but there were enough promising signs against Solihull that things are moving in the right direction. Young Jaden Crowhurst made a promising debut and with Gus Scott-Morris yet to be fully fit, Harry Taylor now injured and Demi sitting out the last of his three match suspension seems set to keep his place. Tom Clifford broke his nose and with Lomas getting more minutes under his belt he seems set to come into the back 3 with captain Nathan Ralph switching to the wing back role.
Whether Kev tinkers with the more attacking players remains to be seen, but with injuries and the lack of new signings he doesn’t have a lot of options other than to switch those on the bench on Saturday into the starting line up.
So, who would you pick to start on Tuesday evening and what do you predict the result will be?
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