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Zanzala to start or 5 in midfield?

Will Coleman risk playing Sykes from the start?

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I think Sykes should start meself, probably 5 in midfield?

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Would go 3 5 2 with Sykes Hughes and another across the back. Mcconville and Clark on wings. Seamus and brown in holding/centre mid, and Sousa in advanced midfield/ free role, kee and zanzala up top.

And make sure we score first!

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Never mind formations, I think they'll need umbrellas today if the forecast is correct.

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Johnson must play. So must Richards Everton and Ripley.

I cant see Sousa starting.
I think he'll go with two changes Zanzala for Jackson Ripley for Maxted and see how it goes.

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Twenty Eight- Richards Everton would be the first name on my team sheet.
I’d like to see Harvey back in the team as well.

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Don't know about first name my friend and he wouldn't be left back for me - centre back. I do however know you're thinking with his honesty and commitment.
Rodgers - I just can't get Barnet away out of my head Lord.
The most sympathetic substitution ever by Coley.
I don't think he's up to it - sadly.

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Game was lost in midfield last weekend. Need an extra man there, don't think the current 2 in midfield can always be expected to get close enough to the play all he time. Maybe Johnson in midfield, but would prefer someone a bit more attack minded.

I don't last year's system is going to cut it in this league.

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Do not like Big Ben at LB :(

What is the crack with Wood???

Would have liked to have seen a 5 man midfield, with Sam Finley in there..........

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We shall see.
Team announced - all the best Ripley and Zanzala.

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That dont look a bad line up to me.

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Yesssssssssss . 1-0

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Good start Sean Mac,:)

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Early sub (for Coley!)

Finley on for zanzala, 58mins, (zz injured)

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1-1 damn

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(&*&*^%$#%^^(**&^%$#@^$%#*^&^%#$@^&&%&^*&^%#$^^%

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2-1 up greattttttttt

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SEAN MAC- U feckin BEAUTY !!!!

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2-1 Stanley sean Mac looks to have got the winner?

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Get in !!!!!!!

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Good result, up and running now.:)

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Kayden who ? :)

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FAN ****IN TASTIC !!!. Top stuff Men In Red

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Looks like a post a B/R fan would put up.

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Amen to that :D

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Good to get the season up and running.
Anyone know what happened to zanzala?

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Good to see Gillingham have a comfortable win too. Maybe we lost to a decent team.

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According to my butcher who is a rovers season ticketer they were last season.

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someone said injured but not what it was.

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Clicker was immense today and the icing on the cake would have been his shot coming down off the bar over the line.
You won’t see a fitter lad - up and down up and down.
On to the next one .........

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Great all-round performance today from Stanley, on an immaculate pitch but in driving rain for most of the 90+ minutes.
Very impressed with Big Ben and Ross Sykes in defence, and the new keeper who made a stunning reaction save in the first half.
It was a good contest but Stanley restricted them in terms of clear chances and at times played some lovely, controlled football.
Zanzie must have thought he'd turned up at a wrestling contest he was held and manhandled so much in the first half. Was surprised he was replaced with Finlay but, tbh, Stanley's attacking threat in the late second half seemed to increase with his introduction.
Having said that thought the ref had a good game. It wasn't a dirty match but he helped by being very reluctant to flash his yellow card at every tackle like some do.
The whole team played well but Clarke just gets my MotM just because he was a threat every time he got the ball in the opponents half.
Great early goal (even if, as it looked to me, it took a deflection), fantastic equaliser for the Gas, but then a superbly worked winner from Stanley to send the rain soaked 'hordes' into ecstasy.

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Agreed my friend.
You heard it here.
He’s the jewel in the crown is Jordan.
Next seven figure earner for the club.

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Can one of the fans who attended the game do some player ratings with comments?

Thank you in advance !

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Not from me, Davo.
They play as a team, rate them as a team - 8/10.
Professor Coleman is the only person who needs to 'rate' individual players.

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could not agree more exile. like the man of the match awards that i really hate in a team game. we got promoted as we played as a team and not just one ot two turning it on when they felt in the mood for it. lets hope we use yesterday as a spring board for the future this season.

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Highlights here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi9V6QWfgZQ

Best bit was Seamus making a great tackle then the pass from Sean to set up the Clark chance - was missing last weekend, more of the same next week please!

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To be honest i thought best bit was that first half save of our new keeper.

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Top class winner from Sean,opening his body up before passing it into the far corner.
Obviously they hadn’t done their homework on him !!!,

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Exile and Monkey - those are nice thoughts, but I'll bet you a (pretend) tenner that you can't go through the whole season and never comment on a specific player as having a good game or a bad game?

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Your Lordship, if you read my post after the match you'll notice that I did comment on specific players. Have done it many, many times, and will continue to do so. I try to give positive comments (which is why I mentioned two defenders who got limited time last season, and I was pleased to see them perform well) but, rarely, someone may have such a stinker that negativity over takes me.
But I try never to 'rate' an entire team. I don't have the knowledge to do so and, when I read such ratings on the Sunday papers, it seems clear to me that they just give goal scorers the highest rating.
So keep your pretend tenner and use it to buy a paperback copy of Pride & Passion.:)

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never go through a full match never mind a season having comments on this player or that player. everyone has a bad game no matter who but they do not go out to have one. but this Man of the Match thing is a nonscence for me. always has been and always will be.

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Singling players out for special praise feels like an entirely natural (and helpful) thing to me.
Fans debating, scoring and comparing seems in built into all (most) of us too.

It’s probably the manner in which it is done: “the goalie had a stinker and should have saved the first goal” versus “the goalie has had better games and might reflect on whether he might have stopped the first” that divides people the most.

But I agree that really the most important thing is how we did as a team, and that can be hard to pin down. Grinding out results by collective graft and patience is a hard thing to score.

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And after last night I don't think it, I know it.
Mystified how the lad has gone backwards.
What the hell did Fleetwood do to him ?