BluesRockDJ
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- Jan 24, 2020
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Can we smuggle Keiffer Moore on the team bus afterwards ?
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[Albion] Team for Cardiff?
- Thread starter SockMonster
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- Oct 17, 2008
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This will be near as damn it I reckon. Tsoungi will be the U23 defender.
Medwayseagull
JCB
Back up driver ?
You old romantic you.
The U18s are available - they haven't got a match until Saturday. Let's just get out of this winnable competition with a European place up for grabs as soon as possible, eh? Who wants a cup anyway? Not counting the Sussex county cup, we haven't won a cup for over a hundred years - surely we can be patient for another hundred years or so for a bit of silverware?
Yes, you've probably guessed it - I hate putting out a team to lose!
Yes, you've probably guessed it - I hate putting out a team to lose!
I'd like to see some fringe players but not too many. I accept that we have to wrap some of them in cotton wool because the league is so valuable these days, but equally the dividend for being a EPL also-ran should be to have a real chance in the cups. Therefore I hope we play a team that looks a bit unfamiliar but still on paper looks slightly too good for Cardiff.
Sanchez, Dunk, Bissouma and Maupay should be nowhere near Cardiff, but equally nor should fringe players who aren't knocking on the door of the EPL match day squad.
Sanchez, Dunk, Bissouma and Maupay should be nowhere near Cardiff, but equally nor should fringe players who aren't knocking on the door of the EPL match day squad.
Wardy's twin
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Could potentially see Richards playing as our man up top, he's mobile and has an eye for goal (10 in 41 for Doncaster in EFL last year) and he might find it difficult to break into our midfield but we clearly need options up front.
Man Utd will not be getting Bissouma in this window unless they offer a mind blowing amount and that will far more than our 3rd best cb commanded
albionfan37
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I thought he’d make a decent cb certainly has all the attributes to be a good ball playing one
No.he is not in the same bubble. Too big anyway.
The Wookiee
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Veltman is out, I reckon one of Dunk, Duffy or Webster will play
Silverhatch
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Going to Wolves… according to the t’internet jungle drums
No one is "advocating team line-ups to lose". There's just huge disadvantages to playing the strongest team & big advantages to playing young/fringe players in this cup and thats why people, including Potter and pretty much every other PL manager, does it this way.
Most of the team line ups put forward as suggestions on this thread are teams set up to lose - and that's nothing to do with Potter, or what team Potter may or may not choose.
- Jun 27, 2012
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This was the squad for the equivalent fixture last year v Pompey. They won 4-0.
5 or 6 starters and 9 of the squad if you include Molumby (who is likely to leave) have now left the club, 3 - a year later - started against Watford,
Probably only Roberts and Steele likely to start tonight.
Steele (first team squad)
Molumby (sold by end of window)
Veltman (first team injured)
Burn (first team injured)
Bernardo (sold)
Pröpper (sold)
Stephens (sold)
Jahanbakhsh (sold)
Groß (first team)
Mac Allister (first team)
Gyökeres (sold)
Substitutes
Sánchez (first team)
Sanders (sold)
Gwargis (sold)
Roberts (first team)
Cochrane (loan to SPL)
Yapi (sold)
Dendoncker (injured)
5 or 6 starters and 9 of the squad if you include Molumby (who is likely to leave) have now left the club, 3 - a year later - started against Watford,
Probably only Roberts and Steele likely to start tonight.
Steele (first team squad)
Molumby (sold by end of window)
Veltman (first team injured)
Burn (first team injured)
Bernardo (sold)
Pröpper (sold)
Stephens (sold)
Jahanbakhsh (sold)
Groß (first team)
Mac Allister (first team)
Gyökeres (sold)
Substitutes
Sánchez (first team)
Sanders (sold)
Gwargis (sold)
Roberts (first team)
Cochrane (loan to SPL)
Yapi (sold)
Dendoncker (injured)
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In your opinion yes.
I believe the fringe/young players of this squad is capable of giving Cardiff a very good match and quite possibly win.
Fair smattering of (at the time) first teamers in that line up - plus it was at home, and Portsmouth were much less of a threat than a Mick McCarthy managed Cardiff at their place!
Veltman, Burn, Bernardo (although not much lately), Pröpper, Stephens, Jahanbakhsh (just about), Groß and Mac Allister were all first team, so overall a pretty strong team. Didn't fanny about - got through. Hope Potter doesn't fanny about and put out a team too weak to beat Cardiff.
Yes, some in the team - but not all at once, as many have suggested. Apart from youth and lack if experience, a centre midfield that have never played together - not good; a back three who have never played together - not good. Yet many blithely believe that they will roll over a strong Mick McCarthy side on their own patch!
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