(13-02-2017, 14:35)Devongone Wrote: I agree Matt, our position is extraordinarily difficult. Hurst seems to have got Shrewsbury going, either him, or ditching SEB, Oldham have started to win and are even scoring occasionally, Bury have broken their losing run. The fact is only Swindon of the teams immediately above us is matching our level of disorganisation and they've adopted exactly the same policy as us of filling their side with academy about-to-be-rejects on loan, and they've got Tim Sherwood playing Chris Turner with almost equal insincerity.

Gillingham away on a Tuesday night, congratulations to the fixture program on that piece of digital bollocks! At least Caldwell will have plenty of time for team-building and bonding on the road. Even if we win it isn't all going to look promising on Wednesday morning.

Assuming we won't have the sense just to discard all our loanees AND recall our loan-outs, we are stuck with these boys for the rest of our excursion into Division Two. Now I don't give a fkuc what kind of fantasy football Mr Caldwell thinks he can impose, but if I were building us a team I'd start by saying FIRST: names for the future ..... so Maguire plays centre back. He needs a bigger man alongside, who'll help, choose between Evatt and Anderson. Right back is our Libyan international, on the left we need Dan Jones - to get forward. Midfield, first name on the sheet is Martinez, our only controlling midfielder, then we choose Nolan or Mr Grim and we need whoever is best equipped to attack down the right, to balance Jones attacking from left back. Further forward - well Ched has been just as successful as Jamie Vardy this season, everybody knows we've got him and as he's our only threat he's never going to score ........ so. My solution is to play two players in front of him and have him coming from deeper. If Josh Morris can score bucketloads for Scunny I'm convinced one step back might set Ched free. Up front, well Dennis doesn't appear to have the weight to be effective beyond the fifth tier, so I'd play to young lads to see if they'd cause defences more problems. I'd stick Faupala and German together to see what happens, because in some way we need either to kickstart or kick out Ched Evans ....... because he's our only proven source of goals. Dennis would sub Evans, Simons one of the front men .......

Almost anything would be better than the screw-loose idea that a bunch of raw recruits is likely to pass teams of hardened pros into oblivion and save us in a feast of skills straight from the coaching manual ..... that incidentally every other coach will have read in any case.