Carlisle

So here we are about to face the kind of opposition that differs greatly from those of recent games. This is the kind of match I was referring to in another thread (better teams). Carlisle's lowly position belies their recent form. 4 games unbeaten. However, the weight of expectation on the Alex is much greater. Will we manage to break them down?
Well Bogle is fit but should Lankester play instead?
I'm always pessimistic and after the highs of recent performances, I'm somewhat wary of the bump that may occur against a lowly placed team like Carlisle. A 1-0 loss.

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Originally Posted by gazan

So here we are about to face the kind of opposition that differs greatly from those of recent games. This is the kind of match I was referring to in another thread (better teams). Carlisle's lowly position belies their recent form. 4 games unbeaten. However, the weight of expectation on the Alex is much greater. Will we manage to break them down?
Well Bogle is fit but should Lankester play instead?
I'm always pessimistic and after the highs of recent performances, I'm somewhat wary of the bump that may occur against a lowly placed team like Carlisle. A 1-0 loss.

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If you take it as 90min games then we're unbeaten in 5! (We lost the Wigan FA Cup tie in extra time).
We seem to be much better than we were, tightened up at the back and more controlling in midfield, start scoring on a regular basis and we SHOULD start to pull away from the bottom. Infact tomorrow is a great incentive to 'hopefully' get points, so anything other than a defeat will see us out of the bottom two, for the first time in weeks.
Anyway really looking forward to it, how many are you bringing up BTW?

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Originally Posted by gazan

So here we are about to face the kind of opposition that differs greatly from those of recent games. This is the kind of match I was referring to in another thread (better teams). Carlisle's lowly position belies their recent form. 4 games unbeaten. However, the weight of expectation on the Alex is much greater. Will we manage to break them down?
Well Bogle is fit but should Lankester play instead?
I'm always pessimistic and after the highs of recent performances, I'm somewhat wary of the bump that may occur against a lowly placed team like Carlisle. A 1-0 loss.

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Well there is no such thing as an easy game and I think it will be a big struggle for us which I think that we will just about come out on top of. 2-1 is my forecast. I think that Bogel and Lankaster should both start, the latter possibly coming in for Holicek. 60 minutes of Lankaster I feel would benefit us more. No Cooney tomorrow, will Billington step in or will Knight-Lebel come back in with a juggling of positions? Let's keep it going.

So no Bogle anywhere - more disinformation. No JKL in the team. I'm not sure Connolly has done enough to keep him out. Will Billington at RWB change the way we play? He's not really one for charging up and down.
Still worry that this will be a very difficult and very frustrating game that we may stumble in.

Very lucky. The game went exactly as I expected except for the result. We were lucky to get the penalty decision. We wouldn't have scored otherwise. Too lethargic, too slow in making decisions. Although RS commentators praised Holicek, I think he often made the wrong decision.

Ditto from me Gazan. I keep looking at Holicek and he does a lot of good and clever things with the ball at his feet but 99% of the time it does not lead to anything. To a lot lesser extent you could say the same thing about Tabiner. Jack Powell is obviously not hitting the numbers in training or he would be a lot more involved by now, then the question is, why is he even on the bench. Even Mickey was sloppy today. Atleast we got a point.

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Originally Posted by gazan

Very lucky. The game went exactly as I expected except for the result. We were lucky to get the penalty decision. We wouldn't have scored otherwise. Too lethargic, too slow in making decisions. Although RS commentators praised Holicek, I think he often made the wrong decision.

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I am not sure about very lucky. We deserved a point, probably no more than that. We were a long way from our best and they were not the worst team we will play this season. Draw was a fair result.

Was thinking about that myself. How many games has Powell been on the bench? Long enough now to make you think Bell doesn't rate him enough.

We have to remember he is still young and will have up and down games

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Originally Posted by gazan

Was thinking about that myself. How many games has Powell been on the bench? Long enough now to make you think Bell doesn't rate him enough.

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I don't think LB is going to take any risks with Powell, he has just come back from a long injury so LB is going to ease him back in to the team, he will get his chance and hopefully he can regain his form from pre-injury , there are still a lot of games to play.