Now versus then

[SouthUpperShrimper]

I've just looked at the squad from the game against Crewe two years ago and it's amazing how much it has changed in such a short space of time:

Smith
Clohessy
Straker
Cresswell
Prosser
Barker
Mohsni
Mkandawire
Hurst
Assombalonga
Tomlin

Bentley
Phillips
Reeves
Eastwood
Corr

Only three of the starters are still with us, although they do not play regularly, and two of the subs.

 

[Steven Dalley]

I remember hearing that team line-up being announced at Wembley 2 years ago, after a fantastic session at the Green Man, and thinking that was the end of all the fun for the day. Big disappointment. Still can't believe they chose to play Bilel at CM alongside Mkandawire.

 

[Supernaut]

I remember hearing that team line-up being announced at Wembley 2 years ago, after a fantastic session at the Green Man, and thinking that was the end of all the fun for the day. Big disappointment. Still can't believe they chose to play Bilel at CM alongside Mkandawire.

In all honesty, I think I'd have played Bil as well if I'd been in Brown's position. It was certainly a gamble, and one I believed was going to pay off.

 

[Bkdside]

I think our current team whether 4-5-1, 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 would smash that team. Moshni was just a poor mans Deegan.

Only players I would get near that our current starting 11 from that 11 is Assombalonga or Cresswell (even though he wouldn't make the starting line-up in front of Magic AB or BBCB

 

[Leoblue]

In all honesty, I think I'd have played Bil as well if I'd been in Brown's position. It was certainly a gamble, and one I believed was going to pay off.

I'd rather play Bill (Bil) Oddie than that bloke in our team again........


This squad does seem much stronger......

 

[Little Blue Rooster]

Britt Assombalonga, Reeves, Cresswell and Clohessy are the only four that I would have back in the squad out of all of them (excluding the ones still in the squad)

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Britt Assombalonga, Reeves, Cresswell and Clohessy are the only four that I would have back in the squad out of all of them (excluding the ones still in the squad)

Na, you're alright

 

[Little Blue Rooster]

Na, you're alright

In the squad not starting line up, they can carry and clean Whites and Barretts boots :smile:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I've just looked at the squad from the game against Crewe two years ago and it's amazing how much it has changed in such a short space of time:

Smith
Clohessy
Straker
Cresswell
Prosser
Barker
Mohsni
Mkandawire
Hurst
Assombalonga
Tomlin

Bentley
Phillips
Reeves
Eastwood
Corr

Only three of the starters are still with us, although they do not play regularly, and two of the subs.

Not as much amazement as I looked at it on the day! In fact even now I struggle to work out what formation that's supposed to be.

I also felt so sorry for players like Leonard and Corr, who both scored in the semi-finals, plus the likes of Timlin and Phillips who put their bodies on the lines and got injured in the semi-finals (at least Barker was back), only to miss out on the big day.

In all honesty, I think I'd have played Bil as well if I'd been in Brown's position. It was certainly a gamble, and one I believed was going to pay off.

It's not so much playing Bilel as playing him in a position he'd never played before!

And God knows where the creativity was supposed to come from in central a midfield of Mkandawire and Mohsni. Hopefully Brown's learnt his lesson and we won't get Atkinson and Deegan in central midfield.