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O'Hare?

I think its important for his own mental health that his team mates and the club rally round him and help keep his spirits up. It must be quite testing for a young athlete in a foreign country, under instruction to just stay still for 8 weeks. It would be nice if our supporters can also...

Friday was awful, but for the real doom and gloom merchants please go and view the CCFC 10 years from now thread to get some proper perspective, rather than coming to knee jerk conclusions.

Didn't the Maidstone supporter (NWS) that's been on here say they had returned 350 or something? If not I must have misread! edit - post 722 in this thread - returned 75 so partially correct :)

If we draw one of the big boys then fine we enjoy the occasion and get on with it, but if we get to the quarter finals my first preference is a winnable home game.

I thought Maidstone hadn't sold out!

Because our available players leave us with little other option! Unfortunately, stumbling across playing Sakamoto in a more advanced role was the key to the change of system and our improved form this season. Most of our Summer signings were made with a view to playing 5 at the back, certainly...

I'm sure Da Silva was signed with the thought that we would continue to play wing backs, and so where defensively there would be additional cover for his obvious disadvantage in dealing with any aerial threat. He was given a long contract and I'm not sure he will be that easy to offload if...

Yes, but equally Birmingham and Stoke made plenty of signings that were the envy of many on this site pre-season.

Even though he has obvious pace MVE has always seemed reluctant to take a player on 1v1. When he does get round behind the defence it has normally involved some one touch build up play involving O'Hare and Sakamoto, taking the opposition full back out of the equation. Because of that I think he...

I think MR might well go to a back 5 for the West Brom match, although I would be surprised if he goes with the formation for every game. Either way missing Saka fundamentally changes the balance and therefore the formation of our team, as there is simply no like for like replacement. He has...

Funny that after our first season in the Championship Brighton sent Ostigaard on loan to Stoke in considering that it would be a step up for him :)

Really? They seem to have our formations pretty spot on!

Are there fans on Twitter as reliable as ours? BBC line up for their last match against Cardiff as follows: Blackburn Formation 3-4-2-1 1Pears 5Hyam55McFadzean16S Wharton 2Brittain6Tronstad30Garrett45Chrisene 8Szmodics44Ayari 9Gallagher BBC lists the same formation in the 3 games Fadz played...

The Blackburn formations I've seen including Fadz have been a back 3! With all our injuries and particular to Sakamoto for who we have no real replacement, I can see MR reverting to a back 3, starting against West Brom, probably in the shape of Lati, Thomas & Kitching. If MR had foreseen that I...

but how many Paul Williams' were there?

I'm not normally up for blaming clubs for twats that happen to support them unless they are clearly in the majority, as I kind of worry where that could eventually end up, but I think part of Wednesday's problem here is that the abuse aimed at Palmer was from a guy standing right next to some of...

Maybe playing Lusala is the only realistic alternative if we want to rest MVE, given Lati & Eccles are probably required to play elsewhere, but this does not mean we will be playing our entire under 21 team, as some of you keep asserting. He is only one player! Any other under 21's such as...

A point is fine if we then go and win at West Brom, but no win out of those 2 games will certainly make things difficult for us.

The more I think about it the more I'm with maybe playing a couple of our under 21's in the Maidstone game. The West Brom game the following Friday could be huge for us and we could really do with most of our strongest XI being well rested for that. Playing a team from so low in the pyramid...