The Scottish Zidane

He signed a pre contract with Lazio, was supposed to join at the end of the season. I'm assuming the termination will mean he'll go sooner.

I wonder what Johnson would be like playing up top. That way he wouldn't have to worry about defence.

6 clean sheets with him in the team, just 1 in 10 since his injury.

Good point, you can't really argue with those stats.

However, it would still be incredibly harsh.

Would like to see Elokobi back as soon as possible.

Why? I think Dieng has been fine whilst Elokobi has been out. I can't remember him putting a foot wrong yesterday.

I certainly wouldn't put him straight back into the team given the way we are playing at the minute.

Ibhere was immense today

Agreed, how he was not catching at Colchester is beyond me.

He also looked like he'd had his eyebrows done, he just does not help himself.

He got the :censored: kicked out of him today didn't he?

 

Yep I thought it was hilarious, the little shin padded bugger.

MOTD2 have just shown him being floored 5/6 times for villa today and started to take the mick out of his shinnies.

This thread makes me laugh considering the reaction on here when he first signed.

Baxter played his 50th game for Sheff U yesterday, doesn't seem like 2 minutes ago that he left.

Charlie McDonald scores for Barnet.

Got a double now

Rachubka

Wilson Wilson Dieng Mills

Winc Jones Kelly Dayton

Forte JCH

That's what I would go with, Kelly only keeping his place because he is captain. I was also very tempted to replace JCH with Gros.

I notice a lot of people still playing Elokobi. I thought he was quite poor on Tuesday. Yeah hes an organiser and vocal, but he seemed to lump it up the pitch more often than not. A couple of times when switching from right to left he slowed his pass right down allowing Boro to get men back into position effectively snuffing out the attack. I think Dieng is a better option who at least looked to hit a player with his long balls, possibly Kusunga given a second chance.

Agree with most of the posts. They looked good but my god were we poor.

It's the first time I have seen us play the 3-5-2 and I didn't like it, their full backs had way too much space.

I thought we were poor in cm especially second half, both Dieng and Kelly were terrible. As was Clarke-Harris, who looked disinterested.

I would have taken him off at half time instead of Gros. I know Clarke-Harris has the potential to do something special, but at least Gros was putting himself about and making an effort.

The only players, in my opinion, to come out of that game with any credit were Winchester and Dayton. Both were very direct and at least gave the Boro players something to think about.

All in all, a dire game on a dire evening.

You want to make the bench out of the best cheapest possible players. They rarely play and it gives you more money to make a better quality 11.

Does it really matter who made the call? At the end of the day I couldn't care less as long as we won the game.

For me 27 was the most impressive trialist, very comfortable on the ball.

Hope we sign him, he must be good he has his own thread!

Can anyone who is there tell who the two starting trialists are?

Is it not free to park at the ground? They've a pretty big car park.

 

The problem is, you could say that every year. And more often than not you'd be wrong.

I suppose, nothing wrong with being optimistic though

 

If you're that confident of registering at least 23 wins, lump on automatic promotion with any normal bookmaker.

I didn't mean that we will win 23, just that there is no one in the league who we should be scared of.

I'll give you odds of 900000/1 for us to finish top 10

I'd take that! Can definitely see us finishing top ten (maybe it's blind optimism) but there is no one in the league this year who I couldn't see us beating

Akpa-Akpro signed for Shrewsbury

"A very good one. I used him as the one in a 4-1-4-1 formation, but there is a lot more to his game.

"He has a great engine, runs all day long and is probably better suited to a box-to-box role.

So he was told to play in the holding role, I don't see why Wes couldn't have done it and Korey pushed further up.

 

Since I started that "do we need wingers?" thread this definitely seems to have been his thinking

Wouldn't there be wingers in the forward 3? Or would it be 3 strikers

anyone else read the conversation between harkins and clarke harris on twitter?

Don't have twitter can you link/paste it?