Harry_SFC

Seems like Martin has possibly had a falling out with KWP? Saying that when he comes back into the side "at some point" it will be fantastic. Unless he's playing mind games, surely KWP should be in the 11 every day of the week?

For me Aribo should be in the side every week. Overall he is a much better player than Smallbone.

If no one is guaranteed a place then I expect to see Lumley in goal on Saturday. (It won't happen)

I wouldn't bother trying to reason with Fabrice. Even though you are 100% correct.

What so we can outplay them and lose in the last minute again? This side is not set up to win one off matches.

Biggest match of the season and you bench your best player. Make it make sense.

Football is all about what you do in both boxes. We can't defend and we waste far too many chances when we get them. Martin is more concerned about how we play rather than just getting the job done.

He should've saved the second tbh

I'd get rid of him before the play offs. We can't win the big games under this guy.

It's working really well.

Unfortunately Martin is incredibly stubborn with these tactics.

I didn't see it but clearly he had a poor game in that respect. It happens. Generally it's been decent though.

Did KWP have anyone behind him? Probably good CF play. Get into the space where neither CB is anywhere near you.

We have a big problem up top. Adams clearly not the answer to scoring goals but we have no one else who can actually play up top on their own. No doubt Mara is a better finisher but his hold up play is non existent, very much like Armstrong who has performed much better out wide. But we've had this problem for years and it's ultimately why we are where we are.

We can probably count him out of the starting 11 on Friday then. Guessing it'll be Edozie or Sulemena to replace him given Fraser has only just started training again.

Seen some people saying Brooks was limping as he came off

This is the problem Martin has. When we've veered away from our best 11 we've looked very disjointed and now we've probably got to win every game, we can't afford to be disjointed. On the other hand with a game every 3/4 days there's inevitably going to be some rotation. Hopefully he doesn't over do it.

Bazunu; KWP, THB, Bednarek, Bree; Downes, Smallbone, Armstrong; Brooks, AA, Adams. That's my side but I'm certainly expecting Manning and Stephens to be in the starting 11. Players like Smallbone, Brooks, Bednarek, THB, Stu and Adams are all likely to be playing tomorrow night, so it'll be interesting to see if RM goes for a slightly different side.

He's really turned them around. Didn't expect anything less tbh.

That's where they will finish

I feel like Poch should be going mad at Sterling. Why is he taking set pieces off Palmer?

Of course not. Jack should be deployed in the legendary front sweeper position with a licence to roam forward and use all that pace of his.

We've looked at our best this season with Bree, Bednarek, THB and KWP as the back 4. Wish we would go back to this for the run in but I just can't see it unfortunately.

Yeah I think it's pretty clear to see tbh. He's the kinda guy that plays for himself. He looked gutted after the game yesterday (probably because he failed to score), despite us winning 4-2

Adams was in an offside position but no way is the keeper getting near that finish from Rothwell.