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Reply | Injuries......
at 17:20 15 Aug 2025
Varane will be available to start tomorrow |
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Reply | Crèche’s brave resistance beaten back by Plymouth’s bigger boys – Report
at 09:00 14 Aug 2025
We’ve started the season with a squad glaringly lacking in a few key areas, and a treatment room bursting at the seams.
On Sat we put out a patchwork team (and gave up points to a bottom six rival). There were half a dozen positions-players that wouldn’t have been our strongest 11 all things being equal.
Out injured or not fit we had Dunne, JCS, Varane, take your pick up front from Frey and Burrell. Before a ball was even kicked it was glaringly obvious the squad was still light in key positions - LB, CM and a centre forward.
Our cover on the bench was made up of players that we might expect to see in and around the first team but as back up (Burrell excepted), and in a cup game week for them to make an appearance for rotation.
Sure enough in come Nardi, Bennie, Kolli, Vale, Burrell and Sutton.
That’s arguably a reasonable core of a weakened side for a cup outing, but it needs to be supplemented with 4 or 5 remaining of your strongest squad, who let’s face it and we keep being reminded, are gonna have to put in a 3-game week shift. Then give the rest some exposure.
Its not a great look, and it gives all of the corporate speak more than a whiff of the BS that’s annoying the fan base of late.
If part of the strategy is to get the youngsters exposure (which is an idea we can all get on board with), the approach should have been better considered than the extreme we saw last night. They had their night out, are they all going to wait now another 12 months for our next Carabao cup outing?
(edit: obviously the Kone signing, very good piece of business, addresses the CF situation. But just when we’re allowed nice things the Larkeche news comes out to temper that) |
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Reply | Injuries......
at 17:16 11 Aug 2025
Morgan unavailable for tomorrow, but hopefully back for the weekend. |
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Reply | Injuries......
at 12:22 11 Aug 2025
injured in a tackle with Smith, flared up and bruised later x-ray to confirm if anything worse. fingers crossed its a quick recovery one |
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Reply | Injuries......
at 12:02 11 Aug 2025
Morgan having an x ray today on his injured right peg |
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Reply | Couple of early StephanBall observations/musings/kneejerks
at 15:53 10 Aug 2025
Excellent summary and good points made.
Home game against a team who we'll be competing with in the bottom six and we could only put out a patch work team up to playing for 50 mins.
That's poor preparation and planning and two points dropped. |
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Reply | 50 not out
at 15:00 9 Aug 2025
Well done E17. You deserve a medal
Pinned on a straight jacket  |
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Reply | Back on the horse – Preview
at 14:26 9 Aug 2025
A fair and independent summation Clive.
What rankles most is that from all of the word salads we hear a out strategy, process and needing to gain competitive advantage, it doesn't stack up against what's actually happening, or not happening.
It's not even open to debate that this squad is lacking in at least 3 key positions- LB, CM and a striker. Add to that we're going into the first game with Dunne, Varane and JCS all unavailable that's half a dozen positions we're short in.
When in June the Football Fixtures Gods give you a run of games that you must capitalise on to not be ready for that just smacks of arrogance, incompetence or both.
We're also hearing a lot about collective responsibility and accountability. Let's see how that pans out 10 games in if things haven't gone to plan.
I'll be very happy to be proven wrong about all of that if it doesn't come about because the team will be doing well and be competitive, and as fans that's what we all want to see. |
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Reply | Squad numbers out
at 17:20 8 Aug 2025
missed Kolli the first time [Post edited 8 Aug 17:21]
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Reply | All our season previews, written and audio, in one place
at 11:41 8 Aug 2025
Brilliant Clive. Getting through all this stuff this week as a reader – listener has been a full-time occupation, let alone producing it.
Take the rest of the day off. No wait, the PNE preview…. |
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