OTD was Dennis Wise I believe

Unless it's someone on AAH's level I'm not sure how you can score regular goals without 2 up front - in fact didn't we prove that when we rang Davison into the ground and broke him when we didn't have any other strikers?

That's good to hear, nug. I think we've always fared better with two up front.

the fact he wants to play 2 up front is good news - our best chance of scoring has to be with more than one person to occupy the opposition. And the 4 options we have all offer something to that.

That’s interesting. Fingers crossed it keeps working out.

I spoke with JJ after the meeting the manager last year. I spoke with him and asked why he'd played the 352 at Charlton and why he'd moved away from it. He told me it wasn't the 352 he liked more that he believed in 2 up front and that his preferred for.ation would always have a front 2. No one plays a flat 2 in CM anymore so to get his 2 up front the logical way is to play 352 and you get both

Defensively, taking yesterday as the example, we’ve varied from 3-5 (def-mid) to 5-3 to 3-3 to 4-4 depending on what is happening and where. There’s also been variations to how the 2 wider Cams have played defensively, including as a 2 with Bugiel as the centre pint of a shallow pyramid. So possibly 3-5-2 as the notional paper formation might be giving us more flexibility to respond.

After Bromley we brought in two players in to the starting XI. Harbottle who is a better CB than Ogundere atm and Hipplolyte who gives us more movement than Ball. Ball is a decent enough player but is most comfortable sitting. As Reeves already does that having a more roaming midfielder has helped us.

Wdn85 possibly the players are getting more used to it. Also as said before I don’t think we’re playing a rigid formation. It seems to be designed to allow flexing to suit whether we have the ball or not.

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Indeed Bromley

Do you mean the Bromley gme?

After the Sutton game we all collectively said the 3-5-2 wasn’t working. Do we think it is now and why would it suddenly start working?

Braz - BBC says it’s on Tuesday, so it most definitely isn’t 👍

Even if they change a load of players, they’ll still have a much stronger side than Ipswich did - we should probably get tonked, but the occasion will be good, and the Franchise game is more important….

SILK, the very fact it is on the OS means that it is likely to be incorrect.

Newcastle play on Sunday 15th Sept at Wolves so our game more likely to be Weds 18th Sept if it’s that week

Newcastle are not in Europe and are specifically targeting one of the two domestic trophies this season. The CC is the only competition they are in, apart from the PL, this side of the new year.

Carabao Cup must be Newcastle's best chance of a Trophy. They'll certainly have the key players on the bench if not in the starting 11.

*sure (obv)

Egg - I’m sore he’s got a hat trick of them in him, maybe saving it for our game 😂

Having watched the match against spuds this pm, got me wondering how much Newcastle will go for it and what sort of squad they may put out 🤔

Maybe wrong but I think Ipswich’s squad is nearer our level (overall). I don’t think Newcastle’s squad is. Will take some performance to get something against them. But it’s been a month of good performances so at least we’ve earned some money from the 2 home games.

Dan Burn’s finish was sublime

After watching Newcastle beating Spurs today, I think they are there for the taking, just as long as we can get Burn to score a couple of own goals… 🤪😬👏