[Devongone]

Paul Cook is a very good manager, but every manager needs to be flexible in his thinking, and unfortunately, as in life itself, experience can imply becoming set in your ways. I was always a rebel, ready to think outside the box, now I can't even find the box. I'm set in my way of challenging almost everything. I admit it!

I too would like to see us switch to a back three, though not quite the one Dancing selects. I'd like to see us move the ball quicker and be less concerned about dominating possession, and I'd want to see pace, youth and enthusiasm characterising our forward play. But I'd like to see the experience of Naylor shielding our back three and choosing when to move forward when we have some attacking impetus. Young players and experienced players benefit from one another.

More than anything we need to review our training regime and pre-match procedures and as Matt has so often pointed out, we desperately need a team below our EFL side playing regularly, where the young can develop and fringe players can maintain their fitness and eagerness to show what they can do. MKD away from the football he's been playing in was a huge jump to ask of young Innes, but we do have to be able to take a chance on blooding youngsters, but not a dog's chance. It's of little use to us having a Bailey Hobson being one of Barnet's most consistent players when we are struggling to win, but he did need to be playing competitively on a regular basis. We can't carry on like that in the EFL.

[Dancingwilldoit]

Bring Hobson back to warm the bench?Grimes will have good company.

[Devongone]

It took Drummond 4 minutes to score ....

Can't say I was expecting Cook to change his playing style radically, and he didn't.

Our good goalscoring stats are a bit misleading as a good % came when we went large.

Dobra has scored 6 so far, which isn't bad for a player who isn't up front. Berry is doing even better from a deeper position too.

Two defensive midfielders in a home game is either over-kill or an admission our defenders aren't up to it. I'd like Hobson off the bench and on the pitch.

3-0 is undoubtedly a good win, but our squad does look potentially equal to being a real promotion contender and at the moment we are far too inconsistent. That's the problem Cookie has to face. And alongside that if we did get promoted is our playing structure up to it? And I certainly don't think it is ......

[Dancingwilldoit]

Good win and Dobra had a good game. Having said that so did everyone else in the team. Got to say that Tranmere looked awful so don't know how much we can read into that. Hobson and Drummond both looked sharp when they came on.
Another game Tuesday, let's hope Wigan aren't that bothered. Read yesterday we have 11 injured and Williams took a bad knock.
I think we have to put out more than the youth squad for this, it's the closest we can get to Wembley for many a year but at what cost?

[Devongone]

Wigan are a very young team. They don't seem to have a lot of attacking options, but I'm guessing they'll have too many for us. I suspect they'll field a strongish team because I don't think they have a huge squad available.

Huddersfield showed that the key to beating them is to snuff out their best player Aasgaard. He is very good, but he is their main source of creativity. They were very effective at stopping Huddersfield playing, but they lacked the creativity to benefit. Their other star player is their keeper Mr Tickle.

Personally I think we should just play our team and forget about the injury crisis. Players can and do get injured in training or making chips for dinner. If we make it less of an issue then the players who have to step up will only consider the chance they are getting, rather than imagining they are part of desperation move by a team with no chance. The more you win, the more you keep winning, whoever is pulling on the kit. Blooding a load of youngsters together tends only to set them up to fail.