You may prefer that we have other keepers to select from but the fact is we don’t. As this thread was opened to discuss what we think our strongest team is then that has to be made from those available for selection, so I would suggest that we get on with it and leave that increasingly fractious argument for another thread - it has been done to death on at least two more IMHO!
I haven’t seen any pres-season matches but, based on reports and what I’ve watched over the past couple of seasons, it seems to me that much of the starting 11 picks itself, namely
Jaaskaleinen
Ramsay Adebisi
Murphy
Kirk, Dale, Mandron (if fully fit)
So 2 CBS and 2 MF (depending on formation). Ainley has apparently been at the better end of his form and I like the cut of Lundstram’s jib. As for CB I have thought that Offord reads the game better than most since he made his debut; he’s not the biggest but is decent enough in the air so he starts for me, alongside someone more dominant in the heading department. I haven’t seen Hoban at all, but at 6’2” and with his experience he hasn’t been brought in to make up numbers. So
Jaaskaleinen, Ramsay, Hoban, Offord, Adebisi, Murphy (captain), Lundstram, Ainley, Kirk, Dale, Mandron.
Subs Richards, Daniels, Johnson, Finney, Porter, Long, Griffiths
A rather more attacking line up than I think Dave and Ken will opt for!!