With the greatest respect to Harrogate, if we don't win this then I reckon it's goodbye to a top 3 finish....

Be back for game will go even though in work at 22.00 will leave ten mins before end .

Team well it'd pretty damn obvious who he will choose .

Same team as yesterday bar injuries .

Wonder if he be brave enough play more attacking players or will he try win it 1 to nil .

Think it be a very low scoring game so 1 -0;sounds about right .

Hope we score a few more than that though to nil .

 

 

Have to win. The reverse fixture was the one time this season I thought we actually dominated and looked a like a certain promotion side. Dominated the ball but a little toothless. I’d like to see us dominate the same way and at home I fully expect us to win this. 2-0 vale, don’t see us scoring many with how Moore likes to manage but I think it will be a comfortable win. If Byers is fit, I’d make 3 changes. Clark for Hart who I think has been dreadful and just isn’t at the races. Tolaj for Hackford and Chislett for Harper. 

1 hour ago, valiant_593 said:

Have to win. The reverse fixture was the one time this season I thought we actually dominated and looked a like a certain promotion side. Dominated the ball but a little toothless. I’d like to see us dominate the same way and at home I fully expect us to win this. 2-0 vale, don’t see us scoring many with how Moore likes to manage but I think it will be a comfortable win. If Byers is fit, I’d make 3 changes. Clark for Hart who I think has been dreadful and just isn’t at the races. Tolaj for Hackford and Chislett for Harper. 

I agree with Clark for Hart, not sure about Tolaj starting and can't believe you would start Chislett over Harper. Harper does a lot of work and is both defensive and attacking with goals in him.

I think I’m more inclined to start Rico than Chiz who contributed the sum total of nothing when he came on. We’ll see what happens with Byers. My guess is this game might have been earmarked to rotate him anyway.

Either way just win the game. At this point of the season we know what we do so no point expecting a nice comfortable 3-0 under the lights. We’ve become a good home team of late so be nice to maintain that.

13 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I agree with Clark for Hart, not sure about Tolaj starting and can't believe you would start Chislett over Harper. Harper does a lot of work and is both defensive and attacking with goals in him.

Not sure about Tolaj starting? He looked fine to me yesterday he has to start 

352 on the front foot:

                        Amos

           John.     Smudge.    Hall

Sang.            Croasdale             Mitch

                Harper

                               Chis

             Curtis            Tolaj

Assuming Byers rested/injured. If ready, Byers for Chis.

Understand Chis has done very little but he is a CAM by trade. Would want square pegs in square holes etc.

 

9 minutes ago, VTID-New said:

Not sure about Tolaj starting? He looked fine to me yesterday he has to start 

I think we need Hackford to start, Tolaj can come on for him again like yesterday.

Sang starts for me. Debrah has done very well since his recall so it's harsh on him.

Sang bringing the ball out from RCH gives us a better dimension in home games, and then I know DM is criticised for rotation but Debrah back in at Fleetwood. 

 

59 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I agree with Clark for Hart, not sure about Tolaj starting and can't believe you would start Chislett over Harper. Harper does a lot of work and is both defensive and attacking with goals in him.

Harper was atrocious yesterday don’t win him near the 11. I’d argue completely different, I don’t think does much work at all and offers little defensively and offensively. Yesterday he was really poor and laboured throughout and was lucky to stay on the pitch as long as he did. 
 

Why aren’t you sure about Tolaj starting? He clearly has to start in place of Hackford

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32 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I think we need Hackford to start, Tolaj can come on for him again like yesterday.

Why would we do it that way around? Curtis and Tolaj are our two in form players and Tolaj is probably our best player (along with Byers) hackford has pace and can finish but is pretty awful at everything else. I just don’t see why he would start over tolaj, he was poor yesterday as well

Interesting comment on yesterday's game about Moore's body language, and how apathetic and negative if came across. This typifies the Moore approach, boring risk averse selection and tactics, even against bottom of the table teams, at home. I am sure that Moore was (quite rightly given his budget) given quite stringent performance targets. Moore looks like he is percentage managing to hit a certain number of points. If so it is so shortsighted as it is possible to be. We look a totally different team when playing on the front foot and had we done so all season I believe we would have been right up there with smalsall 

So, starting Tuesday night Darren, for gods sake go for it.

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                  Amos

Clark Sang Smith Hall John

         Harper Croasdale

                 Chislett 

              Curtis Tolaj

4 hours ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I think we need Hackford to start, Tolaj can come on for him again like yesterday.

Hahahahahahahaha 

5 hours ago, darren1810 said:

Sang starts for me. Debrah has done very well since his recall so it's harsh on him.

Sang bringing the ball out from RCH gives us a better dimension in home games, and then I know DM is criticised for rotation but Debrah back in at Fleetwood. 

 

I think I would keep Debrah in as he has been in good form since he came back into the team,I would have Clark in for Hart and Tolaj on for Hackford and being honest I think i would sooner see Sang start in the middle instead of Harper