Not feeling a lot of confidence tbh and then we have Blues on Saturday.

The two young players brought in on loan sound decent and have a bit more experience than our own Bostock and Whitwell but, whilst I obviously hope they do well and can maybe provide a bit of inspiration, it might have been preferable to have been able to bring in at least one seasoned Championship player who wouldn't be phased by the dog fight we now find ourselves in. That ship has sailed though, so we will just have to make the best of what we have.

Ramsay has at least had another week between games to spend with the team but just hope that he doesn't rigidly stick to his preferred formation and instead plays one more suited to those players at his disposal. Maybe he will at least realise that Mikey creates far more playing wide as a winger, that Campbell is better than Gilchrist and (admittedly based on his first outing) Imray and that Styles is better than Taylor.

With the underwhelming Illing Junior now gone and Grant out injured, it will also be interesting to see who Ramsay selects on the left and where he fits in Mustapha and Jimoh-Aloba who are both listed as "attacking midfielders". I'm certainly not saying that we don't need players for this role but personally think we will also need a defensively solid central midfielder in this game so if Mowatt is fit I would play him. Maybe one of these youngsters will replace Price on Saturday?

Stoke are a decent side and a bit of a bogey team for us so, apart from Ramsay getting the formation right, the players themselves must, at the very least, show fight and competitiveness. Anything else and it's going to get ugly.