OldBlueLady
Junior Blues Coordinator⭐⭐
Lenny played pre-season at right back while on trial, scored 3 awesome goals from there. Don't think he ever played RB "proper" although he has covered during a match.
He seems defensive with his tactics and that is passed on to the team. They should go go for it and if we lose a few we will be no worse than we are at the moment and maybe we may even go on a winning run.:smile: We seem to be playing good football but we are not offensive enough in my opinion.
White goes to left back with Auger going right back is what I want to see.
Auger thoroughly deserves to start but he wont. He wasnt even in the squad on saturday + if Brown calls his team children i very much doubt he would follow this by giving another youth team player his debut, despite the fact he clearly has earnt it.
i'd definitely put Ryan Leonard back in the right back birth where he is best. Although Leonard has done ok i still disagree he is a central midfielder.... whereas he is potentially the best right back in the lower divisions. White to left back where he has played most of his career. IMHO Thompson is not strong enough to play centre back at Div2 but reads a game well + is quick, therefore will protect our back 4 allowing the full backs to rampage forward.
.....................................................BENTLEY..............................................
LEONARD.................PHILLIPS............................PROSSER................WHITE
..................................................THOMPSON...........................................
..........HURST................................TIMLIN........................ATKINSON.........
............................EASTWOOD......................CORR....................................
WOODROW,AUGER,STRAKER,SMITH,PAYNE,CLIFFORD,REID
I am excited by our new Taiwanese prospect playing in centre midfield.
I am excited by our new Taiwanese prospect playing in centre midfield.
Out of interest when have you seen Leonard at right-back in order to judge that that is his best position?
If Brown names that line-up Friday he deserves to be sacked on the spot.
Asolutely this except I would put Seedy Njie on the bench in place of Straker thus keeping him as far away from the team as poss. He had me fooled up until the Morecambe game but not any more.Auger thoroughly deserves to start but he wont. He wasnt even in the squad on saturday + if Brown calls his team children i very much doubt he would follow this by giving another youth team player his debut, despite the fact he clearly has earnt it.
i'd definitely put Ryan Leonard back in the right back birth where he is best. Although Leonard has done ok i still disagree he is a central midfielder.... whereas he is potentially the best right back in the lower divisions. White to left back where he has played most of his career. IMHO Thompson is not strong enough to play centre back at Div2 but reads a game well + is quick, therefore will protect our back 4 allowing the full backs to rampage forward.
.....................................................BENTLEY..............................................
LEONARD.................PHILLIPS............................PROSSER................WHITE
..................................................THOMPSON...........................................
..........HURST................................TIMLIN........................ATKINSON.........
............................EASTWOOD......................CORR....................................
WOODROW,AUGER,STRAKER,SMITH,PAYNE,CLIFFORD,REID
Leonard played all his football at right back until he came to Blues + was unlucky we had Sean Clohessey at that time. The half a dozen matches ive seen Leonard play right back he was head + shoulders above everyone else and as OBL says scored some absolute crackers when played in his natural position. His pace gets him up + down the flank and is a superb crosser of the ball. White has played probably 80% of his career as left back + Thompson plays holding midfield role for the Irish U-21's.
So why should Brown be sacked on the spot ?
Yorkshire Blue , you are always quick to slag off everyone else - who would your team be that would be so damn perfect ???
This is what CP has perdicted on twiiter, god help us with straker at the back again.
I haven't seen the away game defeats and draw & have only seen the home games; I don't know what to expect from Bristol Rovers team and how they play but Ward/Wark (whatever his name is!) does have a reputation for being long ballish and favouring early play and big bruising strikers.
I would be tempted to play 3 5 2.
With White, MP and Luke (or Thompson)
wing backs of Hurst and Straker
Centre midfield of Atkinson, Leonard and Timlin
Barry and Fred
Again, the subs are important and Mr Brown needs to use them to improve the team, get his plays working and have a clear simple message(s) of what he expects each player to be doing; especially at set pieces.
My team would be
Bentley
White Phillips Prosser Straker
Hurst Leonard Atkinson Timlin
Corr Eastwood
Not perfect, but not disruptive either and with a central midfield that would be competitive rather than swamped. It is madness making that many positional changes to cover a one match suspension.
Leonard has been head and shoulders above everyone else this season - which has been in central midfield.
What are the half dozen games you've seen him play at right-back?
Where did you hear that Thompson played midfield for Northern Ireland, because the reports I saw described him as a defender eg http://www1.skysports.com/news/12040/8870276/
Straker to left back...... more like left back in the dressing room!!
I'm not a massive fan of Straker, didnt really get the love given out earlier in the season either.
That said he is a decent replacement to cover a suspension and dont see the logic in leaving him out. Coker doesnt get the same criticism yet cost us the game against Scunthorpe and then got sent off.