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Championship Games 25/26

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  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,800
    Can't we just forfeit Wednesday's game, take a 3-0 paper defeat and keep everyone fit and healthy for Saturday?
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,479
    That could be the game that gets Wednesday off minus points.
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 1,456
    RC_CAFC said:
    I’d assign Kayne Ramsay on a man marking mission on Hayden Hackney. He was everything in that performance today. Far too good for the level.
    Yes we need a Keith jones or Kishishev job done on him.👍
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,426
    edited 11:31AM
    Sword65pf said:
    RC_CAFC said:
    I’d assign Kayne Ramsay on a man marking mission on Hayden Hackney. He was everything in that performance today. Far too good for the level.
    Yes we need a Keith jones or Kishishev job done on him.👍

    Or The Tank!


  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 1,456
    bobmunro said:
    Sword65pf said:
    RC_CAFC said:
    I’d assign Kayne Ramsay on a man marking mission on Hayden Hackney. He was everything in that performance today. Far too good for the level.
    Yes we need a Keith jones or Kishishev job done on him.👍

    Or The Tank!


    Indeed!, all joking apart you don’t see man to man marking jobs that much these days?
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 25,177
    edited 11:44AM
    Briston_Addick said:
    Something tells me we won't be going into Wedneaday night's game as favourites ...
    Suits me...👌
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,250
    Jones will get ridiculed if he plays a weakened side to play 'Boro on Wednesday but honestly think it's the smart play. Certainly wouldn't be risking Jones, Clarke, Chambers, Carey
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 16,602
    Pelling1993 said:
    Jones will get ridiculed if he plays a weakened side to play 'Boro on Wednesday but honestly think it's the smart play. Certainly wouldn't be risking Jones, Clarke, Chambers, Carey
    I think we're likely safe now but if we do get pulled back down GD could be crucial. Even if you accept the premise we lose, it's better to lose by 1 or 2 than 3 or 4
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,323
    I think it will be 3 or 4 starters and the rest fringe players. I wouldn’t blame him. Saying that Oxford away has always been a bogey trip for us.  
  • scruffle
    scruffle Posts: 2,359
    We've just turned around our play a little why the hell you would not play your strongest team against the strongest team left to play is madness. You never know we mind end up with a draw of cheeky 0-1 win. That would put this 'relegation' beyond doubt, which I think already is beyond doubt tbh.

     Even 'resting' players doesn't mean we've got massively better chance of a result against oxford, always play your best team. We're notoriously shit after any breaks be it internationals or free cup wknds during the season. 

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  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,856
    So we're just giving up on the playoffs then?
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,313
    If we are resting players on Wednesday, the 2 that I'd be most keen to keep fit and fresh are Jones and Bell.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,257
    Does Jones need to survive one more game to avoid a yellow card suspension? If so, I'd rest him.
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 1,456
    Just play the best team!!! They were very good at the valley admittedly but we were in a bad run with injuries, we are in a much better place now, I don’t think we will roll over.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 11,013
    I’m probably going to be very wrong here, especially as Jones mentioned the Wednesday evening away, Saturday morning away fixtures we have this week.

    But I think he will want us fighting for every point. I also expect he would have to chain Lloyd Jones to the changing room for him to not to want to play as well.

    Maybe Kelman might start. But otherwise I really can’t see much being changed. 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 11,168
    FishCostaFortune said:
    I’m probably going to be very wrong here, especially as Jones mentioned the Wednesday evening away, Saturday morning away fixtures we have this week.

    But I think he will want us fighting for every point. I also expect he would have to chain Lloyd Jones to the changing room for him to not to want to play as well.

    Maybe Kelman might start. But otherwise I really can’t see much being changed. 
    I can't see you being wrong tbh. Just not sure what he will do with Lloyd.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 6,212
    No chance I would be playing Jones on Wednesday. Avoid the yellow and have him fresh for Saturday
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,491
    We don't have the depth to field a second string team

    If you rest Ramsay, Jones, Bell and Chambers, who's playing instead? 

    You'd end up with a back 5 of

    Clarke Mitchell Laqeratebua Gillesphey Fullah

    or something equally stupid, given our recent defensive injuries
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 1,456
    AndyG said:
    No chance I would be playing Jones on Wednesday. Avoid the yellow and have him fresh for Saturday
    NJ kept playing Coventry last season when in the same situation, will his thinking be the same? I think we might give them a game on Wednesday.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,254
    Leicester and Oxford both got draws at the Riverside in February, so it's not a game we should write off. Boro are a good team, but not one we should fear. 

    I'd be tempted to beef up the midfield though, and play for the nil nil.

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