If we approach the game the exact same way Ipswich did then we will almost certainly win. People are getting freaked out by a true fluke result. We’ve been handed a golden opportunity to both progress into the quarterfinals AND rest key players as we enter the end of a long and gruelling season. I don’t know why we’d willingly pass that up.
at points his cb's were about 5 or 6 foot outside the maidstone area
No chance?
You can't really compare that to us vs. Maidstone
It's also a bit different us saying no chance to Robins being unprofessional!
It’s got nothing whatsoever to do with his injury. He’s 23 and never played regular first team football. Taking the injury into account, by the time they’re 21/22 most played have played first team football.
Realistically our second choice XI with a handful of first teamers beats them handily. You could replay that Ipswich game 10 times and not get another Maidstone win, it was a total fluke.
Don’t think O’Hare had at Villa who were not premier league then.
He’d been on loan at Carlisle
And us!
I wouldn’t play more than one or maybe two maximum. Rus has played at the same level as Maidstone more than a dozen times over the past couple of seasons - if he can give us 90 minutes and it means we get to play O’Hare or Sakamoto in both of our league games that week as a result then I’d do it.
Agreed, at that level you'll have a lot of players that have been on the books of pro clubs who will...
Us beating Manchester United in a cup when we were not very good in the Championship? Their reserve players were worth more than our club.
We were 1 league below them.
Counterpoint: it’s Maidstone United
Bit of a lucky ground for mexjust had a reckon up and ive been to OT eight times and only see is lose once in 1967, last time I went we won 1-0 and United fans were screaming for Sir Alexs head.
Championship team beats heavily under strength Premier League team isn’t a humongous feat.
To me, in your sentence ‘subject to starting lineup’ says it all. We have a tough game on Friday night against Preston, a couple of knocks, a bit of fatigue, we rest players, go one down to a fluke, go down to ten men (again
)bottle it…. It’s happened before. After saying all that, I think we’ll win well, but we need to take it seriously, get the job done in the first hour, then rotate.
Don't disagree with that. We've got enough rotation in us to field a strong enough side without kids though, and everyone keeps saying Sakamoto needs a rest, and when's he going to get that if not vs Maidstone?
All of them together might be taking he piss a bit though. You can hide one or two among experienced pros, stick a whole fleet of them there and they get a bit lost.
