Pre-Match Thread Fleetwood Town vs Southend Utd 6th April 2019 15:00 ko

[WESTY_SUFC]

Not Bunn anyone but Bunn he offers nothing in any capacity....he needs to be sent back to Bury end of season

Totally agree. He doesn't work hard enough or is fit enough. He offers the full back no protection and his movement off the ball is minimal.

 

[Shrimper44]

Oxley

Moore White Lennon Turner Hart
Kightly Yearwood Dieng Kiernan

Kelman


I'm Going 5;4;1 with kelman up top on his own!!!!
This is because I want free kicks with him with his trickery getting them, Kightly's delivery
and 5 up from the back in the box, hoping to get a set piece goal..
lets face it , its the only way we are going to score...............

Please excuse the pun...but what's wrong with your COX

 

[Shrimper44]

My choice would be

Ox
Moore Kiernan Lennon Hart
Demi Hyam Dru Mantom
Cox Humphrys (if available) if not Bunn

and play the ball on the deck!!

 

[Member]

Looking forward to this one. Think I'll be able to make the last 3 away games this season. UTBs

 

[Napster]

Looking forward to this one. Think I'll be able to make the last 3 away games this season. UTBs

Looks like Im doing Rochdale.

 

[Pak Power]

Hang on, so you would retain Dieng and drop Cox? Have you seen us play recently?

Yes I have unfortunately ! I'm going for height, with a bit of trickery to win free kicks.
Cox can come on as sub if he is fit enough.

Lets face it we are never going to score from open play, so the only thing the new manager can work with is set pieces, so I have gone for Kightly to provide the set pieces, and height
from all our centre backs in both boxes

 

[RHB]

Yes I have unfortunately ! I'm going for height, with a bit of trickery to win free kicks.
Cox can come on as sub if he is fit enough.

Lets face it we are never going to score from open play, so the only thing the new manager can work with is set pieces, so I have gone for Kightly to provide the set pieces, and height
from all our centre backs in both boxes

Interesting bit about set pieces. On Saturday our set piece free kicks were bordering on pathetic and that was with Kightly on the pitch. I'm amazed that we don't let Sam Hart take them, he does have a more educated left peg than most in the team.

 

[kentblues]

Have no idea what Kevin Bond's preferred system is now- doubt Tottenham or Portsmouth played too much 442. But..

When I saw the line up last week I thought that was 442 but apparently it was somehow 4231. Doesn't work. Square pegs sound holes. Bunn and Kightly need to be wide/wingers- it's what they do, where there are effective. Playing narrower doesn't work and is easier to defend against. As we also saw.

I want 442 but the problem is our CM. End of last year we had 442 with Kightly & MacLaughlin wide but had Yearwood and Timlin in the middle (then Mantom on form when available). Point is to play 442 you need 2 high energy midfielders box to box and who put their foot in. Creativity comes from wide- plenty of ball in the box and 2 strikers.

Two problems- need Cox plus someone who can head the ball? Well not necessarily - get the ball in quickly, dont delay, mix high and low crosses but get the ball in the box- if forwards and midfielders know its coming they will gamble.

Which two CMs at the moment can we test to keep it together? Dru plus one I would suggest- Mantom if fit and on form (he worked with Dru last year). Or at least Hyam puts it about.

Wide men pick themselves- we only have 2- Kightly & Bunn

I fear because we are in dog fight we set up defensively but truly we are at our worst when camped in our own last third..

 

[Zeuss]

Why with one mention of being back training are people assuming Humphrys will or can play??? Mental!

No,just desperate .
A young cf -Marah-came on for the last 5mins at Stevenage this afternoon.I await a rush of demands that he starts for the first team.

 

[Grapevine]

Have no idea what Kevin Bond's preferred system is now- doubt Tottenham or Portsmouth played too much 442. But..

When I saw the line up last week I thought that was 442 but apparently it was somehow 4231. Doesn't work. Square pegs sound holes. Bunn and Kightly need to be wide/wingers- it's what they do, where there are effective. Playing narrower doesn't work and is easier to defend against

4231 is exactly the formation to suit what we have and is in no way sq pegs in round holes.

Assuming we are all happy with a back four and gk roles....

We have an abundance of holding CMs (despite who thinks who is good or not!) do you play two of them to protect the back four becomes this allows full backs to get forward which again we’d all agree is probably Demi and Harts assets?

Cox isn’t a CF.....agreed? He’s best deeper creating and being involved in the build ups....so he plays as the central player of the 3

Bunn and Kightly then play as high wide forwards (not narrow at all) supporting the one up front who needs to have a physical presence much like Emile offers (again whether we agree on how good or not is irrelevant, they are his attributes)

We don’t have two CFs good enough to play 442 and we do t have two CMs good enough to only play two in there and Bunn and Kightly dont defend well enough to be wide in a 4.

 

[HypoTypo]

Have no idea what Kevin Bond's preferred system is now.

He is actually a keen supporter of 4-4-2.

That in it's self gives me a little more confidence.

 

[Grapevine]

He is actually a keen supporter of 4-4-2.

That in it's self gives me a little more confidence.

Yeah cos that’s been so successful!!! When was the last time we played that and won?

 

[Pak Power]

Yeah cos that’s been so successful!!! When was the last time we played that and won?

edited for accuracy

 

[HypoTypo]

Yeah cos that’s been so successful!!! When was the last time we played that and won?

Sorry my point was sticking to a system, not the system itself. Poorly worded on my behalf

 

[Grapevine]

Yeah I agree with that 100%

 

[HypoTypo]

Consistency is something we have dearly missed this season to be fair

 

[Floval Flyer]

Consistency is something we have dearly missed this season to be fair

You could argue that we’ve been consistently cr@p !

 

[HypoTypo]

You could argue that we’ve been consistently cr@p !

I have no argument there mate.

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

Bishop

Demi Kiernan Lennon Hendrie*

Bunn Yearwood Hyam Hart*

Cox Aquah


*Hart to play left back and Kightly to play left wing if it's too soon for Hendrie after today's game.

I think the team above gives us the most bite we're ever going to get with the players available in midfield. Hart has probably been the best down the flanks in recent weeks, which isn't hard!

Slim pickings, but I gave it my best. Yet, people wonder why Pep hasn't begged for the job!

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Will MacL be fit? If so he starts rather than Bunn or Kites.
Is Humphreys okay to play? If so he starts with Cox.
Ox rather than ish, I rate Bish but Ox has something g to prove.
Demi, Kiernon, Lennon, Hart.

And that leaves the 3 midfield p,aces which have been a major problem for many months; Dru and Hyem seem best opposites to work without getting roles confused and so for last place it is between who is left and Sam needs a start IMO.

Ox
DEMI, Kienon, Lennon, Hart.
MacL, Dru, Hyem, Mantom.
Cox Hump