Personally I think Stewart seems like obviously not the answer if he hasn’t even been mentioned since we signed him. I do agree about the balls to Hackford - we weren’t exactly playing to his strengths yesterday and it showed. Maybe invite them on a bit and then hit balls over the top for him and Nkeng to hunt down. No point asking anyone other than Bugiel to compete for aerial balls up against defenders. Not built for it and not what they do.

One thing we do need to change if we play Hackford is the long balls need to be diagonals so they drop behind the defenders. Maybe Stewart is fit enough to play. He was a big goal scorer in youth football and being from an EPL academy he should be a L1 standard.

Agreed both surbs and lurker - the challenge with either go for it or park the bus is what personnel JJ has available.

We have Sutcliffe and Horan out on loan so maybe options? Worry about Hutchinson playing 90.

Can see why Hackford is a super sub type. I actually like the idea of going for it and getting it done asap.

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Of course the other option for Saturday is to go all out and try and get the three points in one attempt - making us most likely safe from the drop. I actually prefer that option psychologically but would it work in practice? Burton have won 3 of their last 6 home games. They’ve only scored 8 goals in that time but only conceded 5. So we’ll be up against a mean defence using a tepid attack.

Definately RK

Ogundere being right WB that should read.

To be fair we seemed to be playing more as a back 4 anyway. It’s being right WB seemed like a wing back/full back. Nkeng on the left seemed to be playing far more as a wide midfielder with Seddon playing more behind him than inside him. And we seemed to have Maycock more fixed to the right of a midfield rather than a midfield 3. Front 2 were definitely playing flatter. Obviously it became fill how you can when both main CBs went off.

Keefy. Good let's leave the hate in the USA

Ha no it’s ok Nick W I was just surprised to see someone agreeing ;)

Trigger - in fairness I should have acknowledged that you had this idea first. To me it makes sense, as we don't seem to have anyone who we can reply upon to score but keeping a clean sheet against poor sides like Burton, and Wigan (and Huddersfield, who will probably having nothing to play for by then) should be somewhat easier to manage (though made much more tricky by having so many defenders out). Either way, it's a time to dig a metaphorical trench and defend for our lives - no worrying about trying to play entertaining free-flowing football, just "don't lose" at all costs

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Lurker - spot on about their first goal. Reeves got skinned in the build up

AfE - might be wrong but I think we have a terrible reckon away to Burton

Just read that a match official who was due to run the line at Sutton v Southend on Monday, had travelled to Sutton Coldfield in the midlands by mistake. 🤣

I do think not being able to score from the 2/3 really solid chances in their area early on made that result as well. They really didn’t have to fear us. They’d done their homework. They crowded Nkeng and Bugiel. And they were able to crowd anyone in the box. On the flip side they ran players into our box easily. Couldn’t score but could just keep going believing they would. Whereas we looked like we never would.

What pissed me off on what you said Trigger was Reeves, who has no pace, kept shooting out onto their passes that he was never getting to and they ran into the gap he left. But the stood off when they were lining up shots. The difference between what we had with Smith, Hippo and Maycock is huge. Their first goal came directly from their player being able to hit the ball down the line and skin him. And not in a direct race. They ran the long way and he tried to run the shorter route that a defender should run and they still got their easily first. Hutchinson got caught a few times later on like that as well. The legs we don’t have in the squad were an issue.

Tilley clear.y went over chasing a ball off the pitch. Browne was a contact injury in their area. Hippolyte looked like he just went down but actually he’d had an issue since a couple of challenges about 10-15 minutes earlier. Lewis was a contact injury. Bauer looked like a contact injury. Bugiel was the only one you could say was strain from the way he plays chasing everything. Not sure we can just throw this lot at the training ground/methods like Cope brought up a couple of years back.

Said similar yesterday Nick W - two banks of 4 and just keep the ball away from our box. Two forward players there to chase scraps from clearances and try to hold the ball up for as long as possible.

Laurence in our case I’d say there’s a lot of this from how we’re having to play to make up for difference in quality and depth. I looked at Lewis’ heat map. And pretty much the entire pitch between our penalty area and half way is at least yellow and most is shades of red. He covers a huge amount of ground chasing through balls and breaks in that. Plus when he comes back we have to try and get him playing again. He’s just one example. But also depends on the type of injury. You absolutely can say that contact injuries are bad luck.

Laurence- you may be right- you probably know better than me, but whether by bad luck or incompetence the glut of injuries is killing us, especially as the squad was so thin to start with.

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A4e I think we could sign several unemployed players now as we should have registration slots. But I’m not 100% sure. What we can’t do is any kind of transfer.