Do you still have to start with five players who were in the previous match day squad?
No rules have changed :Do you still have to start with five players who were in the previous match day squad?
Let's take the fine and play the team that suits the bigger game Saturday.No rules have changed :
7.3 Each EFL Club shall play its Full Available Strength in and during all Matches.Full Available Strength means the EFL Club must include at least four Qualifying Players in the ten outfield Players named in the starting eleven on the Team Sheet.
7.4 Qualifying Player means any Player who:
7.4.1 had started the immediately preceding First Team Fixture (as defined below);
7.4.2 subsequently starts the immediately following First Team Fixture;
7.4.3 is in the list of ten Players at the Club with the highest number of starting appearances in First Team Fixtures in the same Season;
7.4.4 has made forty or more starting appearances in First Team Fixtures or international equivalents (and not limited to the same Club or Season); or
7.4.5 is on standard loan from a Premier League Club or any EFL Club operating a Category One Academy.
7.5 First Team Fixture means the League Competition, Premier League, EFL Cup or FA Challenge Cup (but shall, in the context of Rules 7.4.3 and 7.4.4 only, also include this Competition).
7.6 Any EFL Club failing to meet the requirement to play Full Available Strength will be required to pay a fine of up to £5,000.
Let's take the fine and play the team that suits the bigger game Saturday.
I was being flippant definatily as weak a team as possible at this stage and see where we go. For me this trophy should only get out first team if Wembley is in sight so the semi finals. My only caveat to that is if we play Sunderland.That won't happen - we can't afford to throw money away.
There's no way Kelly is going to play and based on us keeping the same formation Baka and Biamou both won't start.Think it will be as follows.
Wilson
McCallum
MacFadzean
Williams
Dabo
O'Hare
Eccles
Kelly
Biamou
Kastaneer
Baka
You really think that 10 and a half months after tearing his ACL for the second time, Jodi Jones will be on the bench?I'd quite like to see Dabo start in this one, bring his confidence back up a bit after the Oxford game as one of our strongest starters. I'd then play a mix of our subs/youth with a couple of first teamers, maybe start O'Hare to add a bit of a lively cat amongst the pigeons. Would be nice to boost confidence of a few with a goal or two. Would be good also to see Biamou start, dependant on fitness/injury maybe even Allen/Jones on the bench to appear for the last ten. Personally I'd have
-------------------Wilson--------------------
-Dabo--Drysdale--McFadzean--McCallum-
----Eccles-----O'Hare-----Burroughs----
Jobello----------Biamou----------Kastaneer
Subs:
Billson
Hyam
Allen/Jodi
Wakefield
Westbrooke
Bremang
Bapaga
In truth I'd lost touch with how long it had been and wasnt sure how far away he was from being fitYou really think that 10 and a half months after tearing his ACL for the second time, Jodi Jones will be on the bench?
wouldn't surprise me if he rested KellyThink it will be as follows.
Wilson
McCallum
MacFadzean
Williams
Dabo
O'Hare
Eccles
Kelly
Biamou
Kastaneer
Baka
I agree unfortunatelyI don't think we will ever see Jones in any meaningful way. He will be too physically fragile for the rest of his career. I am also unconvinced he is good enough for the top half of L 1.
I'd quite like to see Dabo start in this one, bring his confidence back up a bit after the Oxford game as one of our strongest starters. I'd then play a mix of our subs/youth with a couple of first teamers, maybe start O'Hare to add a bit of a lively cat amongst the pigeons. Would be nice to boost confidence of a few with a goal or two. Would be good also to see Biamou start, dependant on fitness/injury maybe even Allen/Jones on the bench to appear for the last ten. Personally I'd have
-------------------Wilson--------------------
-Dabo--Drysdale--McFadzean--McCallum-
----Eccles-----O'Hare-----Burroughs----
Jobello----------Biamou----------Kastaneer
Subs:
Billson
Hyam
Allen/Jodi
Wakefield
Westbrooke
Bremang
Bapaga
I don't think we will ever see Jones in any meaningful way. He will be too physically fragile for the rest of his career. I am also unconvinced he is good enough for the top half of L 1.
You never know, he could shake it up babyAt least if/when JJ comes back, he can have a flat pitch to try and twist and turn on. Let's hope it's not a twist followed by a shout!
Hate comments like this - what do you know about it? He has got every chance of recovering from this injury, physically and mentallyI don't think we will ever see Jones in any meaningful way. He will be too physically fragile for the rest of his career. I am also unconvinced he is good enough for the top half of L 1.