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[Albion] Team for Crawley Town (H) - Carabao Cup 2nd round
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schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Well, I believe his dad was black.
Yep!
London Irish
Well-known member
I tend to think there will be a few first teamers starting:
Steele
Hinsh
Webster
Dunk (c)
Baleba
Gilmour
Ayari
Adingra
Sarmiento
Pedro
O'Mahony
Steele
Hinsh
Webster
Dunk (c)
Baleba
Gilmour
Ayari
Adingra
Sarmiento
Pedro
O'Mahony
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pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
In the Carabao Cup?
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No.
Given 6 of these players were in the team yesterday that failed to beat a rotated Crawley side, and the fact that we have about a million first team players, I would be really quite angry if this is the team we put out.
albionalbino
Well-known member
10 man starting line up with all those players?
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
You may be thinking of the League Trophy rules, which specifies that the EFL clubs can only rotate their teams a certain amount.
There is actually a stipulation in the League Cup rules, but it's less prescriptive:
"Each Club shall play its full available strength in and during all Competition Matches, unless some satisfactory reason is given. The Management Committee may from time to time issue a policy as to what constitutes ‘full available strength’. "
The Sock of Poskett
The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
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Indeed, a classic case of needlessly repackaging a joke already made, for the slow on the uptake.
Guilty, m'lud
pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
London Irish
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Ah cheers I meant to put Pedro in with my other first teamers
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Sima is off to Brest on loan - just announced
Right, I read that yesterday or something... hard to keep track of all these people!
London Irish
Well-known member
Here is an excellent analysis of why Crawley are good enough to be playing us next week.
theanalyst.com
It doesn’t make the point explicitly but in footballing terms Crawley are a mini Brighton. They are totally committed to playing out from the back even if it leads to mistakes and goals conceded, they back themselves to do it better next time. Also, their data methods of finding players from unlikely places is drawing envy and admiration from peer clubs.
All this seems a far cry from a couple of years ago when many reputable observers of British football branded Crawley a laughing stock because they were taken over by a consortium who were branded crypto cowboys. There was a bit of prejudice there though. Yes crypto attracts a huge number of scammers and chancers - but it also attracts intelligent and ambitious people too. That these Americans turned themselves into smart operators in British lower league football in very little time I think puts the owners Wagmi into the latter category
From Woeful to Wembley: The Unlikely Rise of Crawley Town | Opta Analyst
Crawley Town have risen from the bottom of League Two to competing in League One in less than 18 months. We ask how.
theanalyst.com
It doesn’t make the point explicitly but in footballing terms Crawley are a mini Brighton. They are totally committed to playing out from the back even if it leads to mistakes and goals conceded, they back themselves to do it better next time. Also, their data methods of finding players from unlikely places is drawing envy and admiration from peer clubs.
All this seems a far cry from a couple of years ago when many reputable observers of British football branded Crawley a laughing stock because they were taken over by a consortium who were branded crypto cowboys. There was a bit of prejudice there though. Yes crypto attracts a huge number of scammers and chancers - but it also attracts intelligent and ambitious people too. That these Americans turned themselves into smart operators in British lower league football in very little time I think puts the owners Wagmi into the latter category
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Given the following players resumed full training today after injury, perhaps we might have more to choose from on Tuesday:
Moder
Igor
Enciso
Lamptey
Estupinan
Moder
Igor
Enciso
Lamptey
Estupinan
I think that’s the biggest assumption you’ve ever posted on here!
Players in bold are up to their eyeballs in loan rumours and the players in italics could well be sold by the time we play Crawley.
Then there are the rumours flying around about Ferdi, O’Riley, Hummels and Boscagli.
Certainly the hardest line-up to predict since the days of Potter.