What's your "everyone's available" starting XI?

[IndianaPaul]

Stockdale

Calderon
Greer
Dunk
Bennett

Ince
Holla

Texieria
Mackail-Smith
Colunga

Baldock

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

So - we're at home against a nothing special Championship side, everyone is fit and no one is suspended. What is your starting XI?

A reminder of your choices...

13 Goalkeeper David Stockdale England
16 Goalkeeper Casper Ankergren Denmark
31 Goalkeeper Christian Walton England

2 Defender Bruno Spain
3 Defender Gordon Greer (captain) Scotland
4 Defender Aaron Hughes Northern Ireland
5 Defender Lewis Dunk England
14 Defender Iñigo Calderón (vice captain) Spain
15 Defender Adam Chicksen England
21 Defender Vitālijs Maksimenko Latvia
30 Defender Joe Bennett (on loan from Aston Villa) England

6 Midfielder Dale Stephens England
8 Midfielder Andrew Crofts Wales
10 Midfielder Kemy Agustien Netherlands
17 Midfielder João Carlos Teixeira (on loan from Liverpool) Portugal
18 Midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey England
19 Midfielder Gary Gardner (on loan from Aston Villa) England
20 Midfielder Paddy McCourt Northern Ireland
22 Midfielder Danny Holla Netherlands
24 Midfielder Rohan Ince England
25 Midfielder Kazenga LuaLua Democratic Republic of the Congo
27 Midfielder Solomon March England
28 Midfielder Nzuzi Toko Democratic Republic of the Congo

7 Forward Adrián Colunga Spain
9 Forward Sam Baldock England
11 Forward Chris O'Grady England
12 Forward Craig Mackail-Smith Scotland
23 Forward Shamir Fenelon England

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours...

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

..................... Stockdale ....................

Bruno ... Greer .... Dunk ... Bennett

................. Holla ...... Gardner ............

........ Texiera ..... March ..... Colunga......

.......................... CMS ........................

This. Maybe JFC for Gardner.

 

[beardy gull]

Don't think we can wait for COG to start running on all cylinders, he looks slow and very out of salts, where as baldock has age on his side and a more clinical finisher.

Out of salts? Really?

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Out of salts? Really?

No need for a frosty reply.You could be on a slippery slope.

 

[Rich Suvner]

I'd imagine most have - he scored at the Amex !

Was wetting the babys head that day. Literally can't tell you anything about the game, having just Googled it and found out it was for Coventry in first Amex season.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

My first XI is....... very difficult to pick, simply because i haven't seen some of the players in action to be able to try to pick a best XI.

 

[livewire11]

-------------------------Stockdale-----------------------
Bruno---------Greer----------------Dunk--------Bennett
--------------------------Holla---------------------------
---------------Crofts------------Gardner----------------
------Baldock-------------CMS------------Texieira-------

Ankergren,
Calderon,
Hughes,
Lualua,
JFC,
Colunga,
McCourt.

Would swap baldock for colunga!! Job done

 

[rogersix]

My first XI is....... very difficult to pick, simply because i haven't seen some of the players in action to be able to try to pick a best XI.

its only muckin about;av a guess;
its your opinion; you cant be wrong

 

[Rich Suvner]

Difficult - could easily have put Ince/Crofts in for Stephens, or March for CMS.

------------- Stockdale ------------
Calderon -- Dunk -- Greer –- Bennett
------- Holla ------ Stephens ------
------------- Texeira --------------
CMS ------- Baldock –----- Colunga

 

[Sheebo]

Surely it's an impossible question as we've not seen a lot of them play more than 1 or 2 games...!?

 

[London Irish]

Surely it's an impossible question as we've not seen a lot of them play more than 1 or 2 games...!?

Gardner and Baldock have played against us and been on the telly a few times, so we can have a fly I think - the ridiculous ones are rating guys like Tex and Holla before they've played, but we've got some limited evidence there too now

 

[London Irish]

Still mostly guesswork obviously but fun....

Stockdale
Bruno - Greer - Hughes - Bennett
Gardner - Holla - Stephens
Teixiera - LuaLua
Colunga

​

 

[BrianWade4]

As long as Dunk replaces Greer, I'm relaxed.

 

[brightonrock]

Stockdale
Bruno Greer Dunk Bennett
Crofts Holla Stephens
Colunga Teixeira
Mackail-Smith​

^ That's as I haven't seen Gardner or Baldock yet to really know whether they warrant a place, and O'Grady is clearly Sami's Plan B. I think Stephens was one of our better players last year and when fit should be straight into the squad. LuaLua & March are better from the bench IMO. JFC & Ince should be rotated as both have the potential to be key players, but are still young and learning. Toko I'd like to give a chance; still can't work out whether there's more than meets the eye to his absence or whether he's just struggling for fitness, but I doubt on initial impressions of Holla that he'll replace him as no1 holding midfielder. Agustien should be shown the door if we can find a buyer, although I doubt there'll be anybody lining up at the door.

 

[perseus]

2 Bruno

3 Gordon Greer (captain)

4 Aaron Hughes

5 Lewis Dunk

6 Dale Stephens

7 Adrián Colunga

8 Andrew Crofts

10 Kemy Agustien

11 Chris O'Grady

12 Craig Mackail-Smith

13 David Stockdale

14 Iñigo Calderón (vice captain)

15 Adam Chicksen

16 Casper Ankergren

17 João Carlos Teixeira (on loan from Liverpool)

18 Jake Forster-Caskey

19 Gary Gardner (on loan from Aston Villa)

20 Paddy McCourt

21 Vitālijs Maksimenko

22 Danny Holla

23 Shamir Fenelon

24 Rohan Ince

25 Kazenga LuaLua

27 Solomon March

28 Nzuzi Toko

30 Joe Bennett (on loan from Aston Villa)

 

[perseus]

Team of Right Footers



The aspect I took from this is that Baldock needs a player to feed him, Emmanuel-Thomas mostly for BC.
Teixeira would seem the player mostly to fit the role. Calderón leads with two assists so far.

Stockdale
Bruno Dunk Greer Calderón
Holla Ince Stephens
Teixeira Baldock Colunga (Lualua 66)​

Ince is included because despite his limitations*, I don't think he will get better unless he gets the games. (* choice of passes mainly)
This makes it awkward as I tempted to include Forster-Caskey but I don't think we are dangerous enough going forward with Caskey and Ince in the same team.


Still unsure as the whole team are right footers. And a lack of sheer pace.

 

[livewire11]

Is Stephens fit

 

[bennibenj]

Stockdale
Calde
Dunk
Greer
Bennett
Holla
Gardner
Teixeira
Baldock
McCourt
Cunlunga

This but CMS for Colunga

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Still unsure as the whole team are right footers. And a lack of sheer pace.

Sorry but I have to pick you up on this...lack of sheer pace? CMS is back to full speed; I bet the 2 CBs on Saturday wouldn't say he lacked pace as they looked in fear for their life's when he started running at them. Tex is swift as well, to the point it looks like he needs to slow down so the others can catch up with him.