I'd expect our starting XI to be the same as it was on Saturday vs Bristol Rovers. Don't think any of our injured team of players will be back for this one.
We still don't have a right back. Jay Mingi has been filling in and doing a good enough job, but you can see it's not his natural...
We lost to both Blackburn on Friday and Carlisle on Saturday. Not ideal.
We don't seem to have started our 'strongest XI' in any of the friendlies so far with both teams over the weekend being made up of first team and trialists with academy players making up the bench.
Trialiasts in the game...
Yeah we beat Wrexham to Nick Powell last summer.
Not seen him at all in pre-season though so he must be injured.......again!
We do need another striker, especially is Mellon's injury from Saturday turns out to be a bad one
Bit of a delayed post but we overcame a Stoke 1-0 at EP on Saturday. It was interesting to see up play such an aggressive high pressing game against Championship opposition but it was good to see how we adapt when better teams play through the press.
Yet another injury concern after Michael...
Latest squad update:
Goalkeepers (3)
Ben Hincliffe
Corey Addai
Max Metcalfe
Defenders (10)
Fraser Horsfall
Ethan Pye
Sam Hughes
Jay Mingi
Callum Connolly
Ryan Rydel
Ibou Touray
Kyle Knoyle
Macauley Southam-Hales
Jid Okeke
Midfielders (7)
Nick Powell
Callum Camps
Will Collar
Lewis Bate
Lewis...
Lost 1-0 to Oldham on Saturday. Missing quite a few first-teamers with 'niggles' namely Oloafe, Powell, Rydel, Mingi, Fevrier, Stretton but still fielded a fairly strong starting XI:
GK Corey Addai
RCB Kyle Knoyle
CB Sam Hughes
LCB Ethan Pye
RM Jack Diamond
LM Trialist A (Ben Williams...
To be fair, he wasn't 'injured' he go a cut on his brow which they chose not to risk so brought him off. He was warming up with the 2nd half squad at half time, so not fair to say he was injured
Your money might not come out of Rob & Ryan's pockets but you are not 'uniquely funded'.
Despite the documentary and the TikTok sponsorship etc, you still owe Rob & Ryan Ltd a cool £9m! (according to your latest set of accounts.)
It's probably because
"your football is so slow and boring to watch and your team is full of fat balding lower league geriatrics. There is nothing excitable about your team and manager at all.
You have no pace in your team whatsoever and that's a key requirement to stay up in L1."
;) ;)
Looking at some of the pricing in this league actually makes you realise how expensive our STs are!
Huddersfield charging just £249 is crazy?! What were the prices last season in the Championship?
Assume bigger numbers mean they can afford to charge less?? But surely their overheads are much...
Rumours doing the rounds on our messageboard / lazy social media ITKers
Louie Barry - Aston Villa
Elliot Watt - Salford
Matty Platt - Bradford
Joe White - Newcastle (loan)
Liam Gordon - St Johnstone