Tuesday 22 October fixtures

[EricSabin]

We're consistently inconsistent these days, if you come at us you could easily come away with the points.

We don’t tend to try and sit in away from home with mixed results (won at Huddersfield, thumped at Wrexham), so I can’t see Brady setting up defensively. I’d imagine we’ll try and press high and force errors at the back but I do worry it leaves us open defensively especially with how stretched we are back there.

 

[Conker]

Northampton have a good team I think, I remember Hoskins and Pinnock a couple of seasons ago, both good players and seemed to have added some others in the mean time. Not sure how tonight will go really. I don't think it's one many neutrals will be running to the bookies certain of how this ends up either.

Horsfall suspended for us against his old side. He's a rock for us and he missed one game last season which was through illness and we lost 4-0 at Tranmere. I don't think we ever lost by more than 1 goal throughout the season apart from that which showed how important he was and still is.

We beat you 2-0 on New Year’s Day.

Horsfall with the mistake for the second goal funnily enough.

 

[Trapdoor]

Reading at home. They will no doubt give us a good game but I will be disappointed if we don't win.

 

[ForzaCounty]

We don’t tend to try and sit in away from home with mixed results (won at Huddersfield, thumped at Wrexham), so I can’t see Brady setting up defensively. I’d imagine we’ll try and press high and force errors at the back but I do worry it leaves us open defensively especially with how stretched we are back there.

That's exactly the sort of thing that's undone us recently. You'll know how imperious Horsfall can be but even he's had a couple of shockers recently

 

[EnglishRed]

For what it’s worth, you do come across massively biased.

How dare you.

 

[LordJord]

Northampton have a good team I think, I remember Hoskins and Pinnock a couple of seasons ago, both good players and seemed to have added some others in the mean time. Not sure how tonight will go really. I don't think it's one many neutrals will be running to the bookies certain of how this ends up either.

Horsfall suspended for us against his old side. He's a rock for us and he missed one game last season which was through illness and we lost 4-0 at Tranmere. I don't think we ever lost by more than 1 goal throughout the season apart from that which showed how important he was and still is.

Hoskins and Pinnock remain Brady favourites despite their productivity massively dropping off in recent times. Hoskins is a great finisher, but that is it. An asset to have when he is scoring goals but other than working hard he does not really offer anything else. We have Tariq Fosu and Tyler Roberts, both of whom are levels above talent wise. Roberts I think has to be in the side.

But Brady has been so loyal to a core of the squad (at times frustratingly) but it difficult to argue with him given our success with that core in his tenure.

I just think we struggle to ever really have control a game, we dont tend to ever really dictate play. We also have a slow CB pairing and I just think we may struggle tonight. We try and press high at times but the gap in the CM area is astounding at times. Its like school football where everyone is either in defence or upfront.

Hor$fall was excellent with us in his 2 years. Didnt begrudge him a move elsewhere if he was going to get a big pay rise closer to him (the players gave him the cash moniker).

 

[Casey]

I'm not sure we will win another game until January when we can get some defenders in.
Mukena is a young lad who will come good but leaving him on his own at the back while the other two defenders fly forward us unfair in him. I believe the modern term for it is rest defence. There should be 3 but we keep ending up with just him. Add in our complete lack of coaching in set pieces and you can understand where I'm coming from.

I'm hoping we can keep it to two or under for a change.

Casey

 

[AmberAndy]

Has anybody got some spare change to put in the electric meter at Stevenage tonight? Lot of Cambridge fans, including myself giving this one a big swerve after all the trouble last year, not wanting to fill the coffers of that odious little club by one penny. No idea if we are good enough to steal a point or three from this, we generally don’t pick up much from this fixture. We might see some minor squad rotation, with the Burton game in mind. No word on injuries from Saturday which generally isn’t a good sign. If we can play with the intensity we did against Wigan we might just get something from the game, and the confidence a win brings must surely help. 1-1 with a last minute 35 yard piledriver from Loft securing the point. Lofty actually looked half decent on Saturday and was linking up with big Dan N quite nicely at times.

 

[denzel ecfc]

No Magennis tonight. Just Cox up front which is interesting. I think this might be a tough night