Reply With QuoteWe'll play academy players in a game we clearly don't care about.. They'll pick up on that and perform sub par.. Likely meaning we are beaten and go out.. Some folk will then assume our academy players aren't good enough.. Totally unfair..
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Tony will put out a 3rd choice team in order to keep us focused on the league so in all honesty I can see us going out
2-1 loss
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We'll play academy players in a game we clearly don't care about.. They'll pick up on that and perform sub par.. Likely meaning we are beaten and go out.. Some folk will then assume our academy players aren't good enough.. Totally unfair..
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2-0 to Rovers. This is even more guesswork than usual!
A good match to see all the fringe players, such as Nuttall, Davenport, Downing, Leutwiler, Caddis - as well as a sprinkling of youngsters.
Last edited by AucklandRover; 12-08-2018 at 09:11 PM.
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3-2 to Carlisle by the way.. Scoreline sounds exciting, but quality will be pretty low, as it generally is in the early rounds of this cup.
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Originally Posted by Saxo1man41
0-2 Rovers.
I would like to see a reasonably strong team with a few of the Under 23 squad mixed in. I would like to see what Butterworth can do. But not with another bunch of kids (like Saxo correctly says) as that way we would not learn anything.
The likes of Rothwell, Davenport, Palmer etc need games. Play them!!
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Just read that Davenport is out for at least a month, unfortunately. This would have been the perfect opportunity to see him in action.
Interesting that TM is still speaking positively about Ben Gladwin. Does this mean he will stay long-term? Obviously, he couldn't be transferred at the moment, because of the injury, but I wonder if he is still in Mowbray's plans.
Good performance by the Under-23s in their first game at the higher level. Our oldest player was 20!
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If gladwin finds his early potential then he could easily be the winger we were looking for.
Very often he would come on and look lazy and uninterested,on top of his constant injury problems.
He could still have a future but the effort needs to be applied.
Going on to that academy the future is very bright at the moment
Raya
Nyambe
Lenihan
Travis
All are in the first team picture all produced in our academy.
We have several others who are literally 1 maybe 2 seasons away from breaking through as well.
Light came through the clouds last season,we might just start to see the sunlight soon.
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I'm struggling to scroll through the memory banks to find a worse footballer I've seen with my own 2 eyes. Plus his injury record is truly woeful. I dislike singling outvplayers, but he is shocking. And I've seem my fair share over the years.
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TM gone for a pretty strong 11.. Wants the first win of the season out the way I suspect.
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We have players who need games. Dack and Armstrong 2 - 0
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