The changes I’d make, and this is without seeing some of the players before except for the game at Barnsley are:
Hall in Carruthers out - obviously enforced
Mousinho in Ruffels out
Other than that I’d leave it pretty much as it was.
Whilst there were a number of poor performances they were playing against what’s seems on first impressions like an excellent side for this level. Fleetwood will likely give us a better idea of where we are at.
This is of course assuming we don’t bring in anyone between now and the game who is ready to go straight into the side.
The players who’ve been with the club before this seasons are better than what we saw on Saturday, certainly Henry and Nelson to name two, so we should be careful to avoid knee jerk reactions to a poor performance and give them the opportunity to put things right.
For what it’s worth, until we have players who are more keen to join in with whoever is playing up front we are likely to struggle with scoring goals.
Obika is never going to be prolific but he does make some good runs and get onto the enemy of many balls into the channels, but once he picks the call up there’s often quite a gap between him and the midfield.....find me a striker who is going to excel in this kind of situation?
Most front men, when surround by defenders will be unable to retain possession.
Hopefully the addition of Hall to the side, and a Jamie Mackie with a proper game under his belt will help to rectify this issue.
