[spireitematt]

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.

We may as well have brought our youth players through then get loanees because it would have given them a taste of first team football and experience and you never know a few could become first team regulars if they are good enough. At Manchester City Pep Guardiola has the youth team playing like the first team same formation, tactics etc so when a youth player makes a step up to the first team they can adapt quickly.

I think what we need to do is play formation's like 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 so we always have 4 at the back and we need more than one striker up front because we can't rely on one striker to get goals. Stick German up front with Dennis or put Seb up front with Dennis because Seb is the type of player who could hold the ball up and lay it off for a strike.

Wouldn't surprise me if the budget for next season will be slashed whether we're in L1 or L2. Unless a buyer comes in and invest.

[Dancingwilldoit]

This is this best time to blood our own youngsters. Accept this season as a write off and give the lads a chance. Whats the point I bringing on other teams youngsters when our own would jump at the chance of first team games. Even if we lose every game for the rest of the season we can blood our own young team, by next season they would be used to each other and we would see the benefits. Keep a couple of the older players, Hird, Nolan, Jones (if fit), Angel (if fit), Donohue, then bring in a solid central defender and bin the rest including Evans. Whats the point in having our own youth set up then bringing in other teams kids to develop for them?
Its not because ours are not good enough, the ones that were given games under Wilson have all looked useful.

[Devongone]

Unusual for me to get some support ..... or to be supporting your ideas ...... whichever.

The other benefit is that if our youngsters don't develop, don't step up we find that out. We then have a genuine choice of either working with them some more or discarding them actually knowing what we are doing and why. All too often teams fairly randomly discard a young player on minimal evidence, who then starts to shine at a lower level and proves himself far better than the players they decided to keep. Which of course makes you wonder about those who become discouraged at being discarded and leave the game; what would have happened if the club had chosen that pivotal moment to say yes and change their lives?