Darren drops two players in GHall and Paton who were different gravy against Maldon and Tiptree and Puts Garrity who's been diabolical the last few games and Headley in forward positions , Darren you should be renamed Dipstick Because that team selection screams out he's looking for damage limitation 2day  it's a proper negative team selection, imo 

6 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Honestly if I was Paton, Hall or Curtis I’d be knocking on mangers door and handing in a transfer request. If that’s the formation and a LWB has been selected over me I’d be fuming. Even worse that all 3 are constantly played out of position

Thats how i see the line up.

D M will play headley before hall to try and defend their wingers and attacking style of play.

I would go Hall before Garrity to be honest

9 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Honestly if I was Paton, Hall or Curtis I’d be knocking on mangers door and handing in a transfer request. If that’s the formation and a LWB has been selected over me I’d be fuming. Even worse that all 3 are constantly played out of position

Darren has lost the plot , mate  

Proper negative team selection 

And if anyone says Darren is resting players 

And rotating the squad They are talking bollox 

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1 minute ago, Nippy Naylor said:

Darren drops two players in GHall and Paton who were different gravy against Maldon and Tiptree and Puts Garrity who's been diabolical the last few games and Headley in forward positions , Darren you should be renamed Dipstick Because that team selection screams out he's looking for damage limitation 2day  it's a proper negative team selection, imo 

Another one of DM and CO's selection where we all wonder what the f... is going on in that office.  Then sometimes it proves to be a wonder stroke - but a lot of the times is changed at half time or just after as we are losing and it is just not working.

You never know what they will select and as a lot of us said - they had a great last game - they will be dropped to the bench or even left out.

2 minutes ago, PVFC764 said:

Another one of DM and CO's selection where we all wonder what the f... is going on in that office.  Then sometimes it proves to be a wonder stroke - but a lot of the times is changed at half time or just after as we are losing and it is just not working.

You never know what they will select and as a lot of us said - they had a great last game - they will be dropped to the bench or even left out.

There's no defence for dropping Paton or Hall 

Fed up of the constant f#ckin about with team selection 

And I bet most of the players are as well , tbh 

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He’s pushed Johnson forward on the left and Headley to play behind, would be my guess. I know Headley has played further forward before but with Johnson you get the quality ball in. That bit makes sense and I would have them both down that side together in some way, so we’ll see how that goes. Stockley must be not 100% because surely him and Cole are the way forward.

26 minutes ago, Hoppers said:

We really need to start narrowing the top 11 down to give some continuity 

Of course we are all setting ourselves up as moaning Minnie's come 5pm and we win 1 nil 😇

Yes

Give us a settled side for once.

Changes for the sake of changing does D M

Thinks he is clever but sorry they are poor decisions in the main.

6 minutes ago, Nippy Naylor said:

Darren drops two players in GHall and Paton who were different gravy against Maldon and Tiptree and Puts Garrity who's been diabolical the last few games and Headley in forward positions , Darren you should be renamed Dipstick Because that team selection screams out he's looking for damage limitation 2day  it's a proper negative team selection, imo 

Back again are we? Only out from under your rock when there's some negativity about you.

I'd prefer Paton and G Hall were starting but the game now is a squad game and the team can be changed at any time.

5 minutes ago, Sandyford_Lion said:

Thats how i see the line up.

D M will play headley before hall to try and defend their wingers and attacking style of play.

I would go Hall before Garrity to be honest

Garrity should be coming on on the hour and make something happen. Hall from the beginning in that 10 role for me too

5 minutes ago, Sandyford_Lion said:

Thats how i see the line up.

D M will play headley before hall to try and defend their wingers and attacking style of play.

I would go Hall before Garrity to be honest

I'd rather Stevie Wonder Pick the team instead of Darren 

3 minutes ago, Paul6754 said:

I'd prefer Paton and G Hall were starting but the game now is a squad game and the team can be changed at any time.

So You drop two players who are in form

And replace them with two players out of form 🙄

Are you f#ckin kidding me 😄

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1 minute ago, 1 said:

He’s pushed Johnson forward on the left and Headley to play behind, would be my guess. I know Headley has played further forward before but with Johnson you get the quality ball in. That bit makes sense and I would have them both down that side together in some way, so we’ll see how that goes. Stockley must be not 100% because surely him and Cole are the way forward.

No confidence in Headley playing defence. He also has a few goals to his name. Johnson can always overlap and put crosses in.

Headley also in to help defend against their runners from midfield / wide

If we go 0-1 up, that starting 11 can easily become a 541 shut down. Maybe that’s what we’re going for.

6 minutes ago, Quebec_Valiant said:

Yes, I wish that I had a graph that showed a correlation between the level of pre-match meltdowns and positive results.  There have certainly been some games where this has been the case, but I don't have supporting data. I just know that it has happened before on more than one occasion.

If this was the case, id have assumed we would be in a higher league position.