Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Best available who aren’t carrying knocks.
I don't expect that at all.I fully expect them to try and kick us off the pitch. Just hope we don’t pick up too many injuries.
So you’re resting Mac Allister, Bounanotte, Caicedo, Sarmiento, Estupinan, Ferguson, Sanchez, Lamptey, Gilmour, Enciso, Moran, Van Hecke and Mitoma.I would rest any player called up for international duty and pick the strongest team left
So you’re resting Mac Allister, Bounanotte, Caicedo, Sarmiento, Estupinan, Ferguson, Sanchez, Lamptey, Gilmour, Enciso, and Mitoma.
But APART from that, you’ll go strong?
I’d imagine Colwill will be named in the U21 squad tomorrow, so that’s him out…Just for fun, that starting lineup could look like this:
----------------Steele
-------Webster---Dunk------Colwill
Veltman------------------------Van Hecke
--------Gross ----Ayari----March
------------Welbeck Undav
I'd still be confident...
We’ll see, I hope you’re right.I don't expect that at all.
I assume the crackdown on players waving imaginary cards (that never seems to actually be applied) also goes for managers too, hence the booking.He got booked for that? Blimey
Nah, we’re not that sort of team at all. Industrious yes, we have players who will run themselves into the ground on Sunday no matter what prevails in the pitch, but not dirty. Our manager Paul Hurst is a decent bloke who likes decent people in the changing room, it is not in his makeup to send his team out to kick lumps out of the opposition.I fully expect them to try and kick us off the pitch. Just hope we don’t pick up too many injuries.
Thanks for the reasoned response, I was just expecting the, seemingly unjustified, worst outcome.Nah, we’re not that sort of team at all. Industrious yes, we have players who will run themselves into the ground on Sunday no matter what prevails in the pitch, but not dirty. Our manager Paul Hurst is a decent bloke who likes decent people in the changing room, it is not in his makeup to send his team out to kick lumps out of the opposition.
Naturally, there’ll be a bit of gamesmanship. Don’t expect us to take many quick goal kicks for as long as we’re not losing, and in the highly unlikely event we’re in front with a few minutes to go, you can bet your bottom dollar our ‘keeper will need lengthy treatment for ‘cramp’. Our second penalty at Southampton was a hundred different shades of ridiculous, but it was simply a case of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I think some old stereotypes prevail about the lower leagues. We’re not a team of overweight, kebab eating, lager swilling meatheads. Our players are professional athletes - no different to look at than Brighton’s players (only with less expensive haircuts, I’d imagine). It just happens that man for man, your players are that bit quicker, stronger and more technically gifted than ours. We’ll do what we have to to try and level things a little, but within reason.