Robin 101 Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 Given almost all the players have played now the question now really is what is our best eleven (Bar injuries) Bit of a repetitive thread but always interesting Id go with O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan O'Neil Pack Reid Tomlin Kodjia Abraham Very Harsh on O'Dowda but fail to see a way of playing 2 up top and wingers without playing 4-4-2 which doesn't suit tomlin who is our best player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 31 minutes ago, Robin 101 said: Given almost all the players have played now the question now really is what is our best eleven (Bar injuries) Bit of a repetitive thread but always interesting Id go with O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan O'Neil Pack Reid Tomlin Kodjia Abraham Very Harsh on O'Dowda but fail to see a way of playing 2 up top and wingers without playing 4-4-2 which doesn't suit tomlin who is our best player I expect Golbourne to play LB and Bryan left midfield with Reid on the bench. Also, O'Dowda will probably start with Tammy on the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 Maybe a standard 4-4-2. Matthews Flint Magners Golbourne/Bryan O'Dowda Neil Pack Tomlin Abraham Kodjia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin 101 Posted August 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 11 minutes ago, Iron Man said: Maybe a standard 4-4-2. Matthews Flint Magners Golbourne/Bryan O'Dowda Neil Pack Tomlin Abraham Kodjia Possibly but feel tomlin would be limited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 3 hours ago, Robin 101 said: Given almost all the players have played now the question now really is what is our best eleven (Bar injuries) Bit of a repetitive thread but always interesting Id go with O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan O'Neil Pack Reid Tomlin Kodjia Abraham Very Harsh on O'Dowda but fail to see a way of playing 2 up top and wingers without playing 4-4-2 which doesn't suit tomlin who is our best player Would play Goldbourne/Bryan,and bring wes Burns in on the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Is this the match thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglosbcfc Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 4 hours ago, Robert the bruce said: Would play Goldbourne/Bryan,and bring wes Burns in on the bench. Wes Burns is on a season long loan at Aberdeen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 I'd stick to the same starting 11 and bench as against Wigan. Why change a winning team when you don't have to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky89 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Very tough one! Our best player is a No.10 and we are now strongest up front with two strikers. Maybe we signed a bunch of good players without really thinking much about shape and formation , , , , ? Anyways, based on Saturday and yesterday evening, I'd like to see us try: --------------------------- O'Donnell ---------------------------- Matthews -------- Flint ----- Magnusson ----- Goulbourne -------------------- O'Neil --------- Pack ----------------------- O'Dowda ----------------- Tomlin --------------------- Bryan ------------------------------ Abraham -------------------------- Would love to see Abraham up top with someone as good as Tomlin, could be the start of something quite beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 minute ago, Clarky89 said: Very tough one! Our best player is a No.10 and we are now strongest up front with two strikers. Maybe we signed a bunch of good players without really thinking much about shape and formation , , , , ? Anyways, based on Saturday and yesterday evening, I'd like to see us try: --------------------------- O'Donnell ---------------------------- Matthews -------- Flint ----- Magnusson ----- Goulbourne -------------------- O'Neil --------- Pack ----------------------- O'Dowda ----------------- Tomlin --------------------- Bryan ------------------------------ Abraham -------------------------- Would love to see Abraham up top with someone as good as Tomlin, could be the start of something quite beautiful! If the team was to change then I'd go for this one. I much prefer to see Bryan further up the pitch as many of us do but I doubt LJ will make any changes assuming everyone is fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Robbored said: I'd stick to the same starting 11 and bench as against Wigan. Why change a winning team when you don't have to? Because the "winning team" on Saturday was the team that finished the game, not the one that started it? (Two subs scoring the goals). That would be my guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Robbored said: I'd stick to the same starting 11 and bench as against Wigan. Why change a winning team when you don't have to? SAF regularly changed a winning side. You put out the best team to win on that particular day and with the squad depth we have this year there is no excuse imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderbeans Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Abrahams movement is so much better than kodjia. He will score a lot more goals on that basis alone. Playing him up top with tomlin behind I feel would be the right combo. Might be we start the game with a 4-4-2 with wingers and then switch to a 4-3-1-2 to put tomlin behind the strikers, play more narrow but get him threading those balls through to kodjia and abraham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 When people are sniffing around your prized asset, I'm not sure benching him will be an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSSEL85 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 2 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: When people are sniffing around your prized asset, I'm not sure benching him will be an option. Id rather nobody was sniffing round my assets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 2 hours ago, Robbored said: I'd stick to the same starting 11 and bench as against Wigan. Why change a winning team when you don't have to? On the basis that the winning goal in both games hasn't been scored by someone who started the Wigan game? Abraham has barely played 90 minutes in total yet has scored twice, that makes him almost impossible to leave out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Clarky89 said: Very tough one! Our best player is a No.10 and we are now strongest up front with two strikers. Maybe we signed a bunch of good players without really thinking much about shape and formation , , , , ? I'd look on the positive that we signed a bunch of good players to allow us to be very flexible depending on the occassion. For example, Burton 4-4-2, next three 4-2-3-1 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roe Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 10 hours ago, Robin 101 said: Given almost all the players have played now the question now really is what is our best eleven (Bar injuries) Bit of a repetitive thread but always interesting Id go with O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan O'Neil Pack Reid Tomlin Kodjia Abraham Very Harsh on O'Dowda but fail to see a way of playing 2 up top and wingers without playing 4-4-2 which doesn't suit tomlin who is our best player Yeah I'd go with that team as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 When is Korey back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 43 minutes ago, cynic said: The starting eleven struggled, the finishing eleven did well. Yep! I see your point.......... What I should have posted is that I'd keep the same squad of players....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 mathews will come in for ayling and tammy will start upfront with kodja, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 2 hours ago, Robbored said: I'd stick to the same starting 11 and bench as against Wigan. Why change a winning team when you don't have to? Arguably that first 11 didn't perform well until changes were made, it's hard to leave out Abraham after he's scored his second in 2, perhaps a different system would better exploit Burton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciderbeans Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 ....................o'donnell................. matthews..Flint..mags..golbourne ...................o'neil........................ o'dowda..........................Bryan.. .....................tomlin.................... ......Tammy..............kodjia.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaverface Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: Arguably that first 11 didn't perform well until changes were made, it's hard to leave out Abraham after he's scored his second in 2, perhaps a different system would better exploit Burton. I think the team will depend on much attacking we want to be at Burton. If we start with the same starting 11 as against Wigan, even though O'Dowda made some good runs on the right, I generally thought we lacked width and were very compact and uninventive. When we then brought Abraham with Tomlin behind, we suddenly had a very attack minded front three (where Kodjia wasn't isolated anymore) and Freeman and Reid had licence to go forward. Personally, it looks like Burton score a few and let in a few, so I'd try to outscore them. Let's go 4-4-2 with O'Dowda fixed on the right, and Tomlin on the left but with licence to roam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin1988 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Abraham was our best outfield player last night and the 4-4-2 diamond really didn't work when we played it to begin with. With that in mind and Kodjia's performance against Wigan I'd go ----------------ROD-------------- AM-----AF---------HM-------SB --------MP--------G'ON---------- COD----------LT---------------JB ----------------TA------------------ Which it turns out I'm too late to the party behind @Clarky89 to suggest, looking back. Maybe Johnson will take our comments on board if we all agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 For me I'd put O'Dowda on the left and have Abraham coming in off the right. -----------------------ROD Matthews---Flint----Hordur----------Bryan ------------MP---------------G'ON ----------------Tomlin -------------------------------------O'Dowda -------Abraham--Kodjia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 On 10/08/2016 at 07:25, sglosbcfc said: Wes Burns is on a season long loan at Aberdeen. I'm aware..just wishing he wasn't......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 On 10 August 2016 at 09:30, 29AR said: I'd look on the positive that we signed a bunch of good players to allow us to be very flexible depending on the occassion. For example, Burton 4-4-2, next three 4-2-3-1 etc. With you fella, for this one I'd go 442, to give Kodjia and Abraham a start together if you want to start Tammy. There's no way imho you can leave Kodjia out. He could've easily scored a couple last Saturday....and rested Tuesday. If you wanted 442, how about this. O'Donnell, Matthews, Flint, Magnússon, Bryan O'Dowda, Pack, O'Neil, Tomlin (drift inside) Abraham, Kodjia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarmyArmy Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan Pack O'Neil O'Dowda Tomlin Kodjia Abraham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 10 minutes ago, BarmyArmy said: O'Donnell Matthews Flint Magnusson Bryan Pack O'Neil O'Dowda Tomlin Kodjia Abraham So the same as me, apart from the strikers opposite....not that it matters, they'll not be fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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