Time to test fringe players?

Should we try to win the competition?

Does anyone care?

Will Jeremy Corbyn get a game?

Will Parnaby play?

I'd look to rest maybe Woods and Paynter. At the same time I would want to win the game to try and go as far in the competition as possible.

Perfect time to get away from this god awful formation.

I'd rest Paynter and Woods like has been said and Magnay (if he's still carrying a knock)

What's happened to Kudus? He's a winger isnt he? Could maybe go 4 4 2 with two from Hawkins/Smith and Oyenuga on the wings?

I don't like the thought of a Featherstone and Nelson-Addy midfield pairing like if Walker and Magnay aren't fit.

walker is a midfielder who hides and goes missing, so fail to see how changing him into a central 2 would benefit us.

we're now seeing the result of not actually signing necessarily what we needed before the season. Kudus has I would take a guess has never actually been watched, because if its still a problem with his fitness now, then there is something wrong. starting to show signs that we basically don 't really have much of a choice with the players available but magnay has become very integral in a position he surely can't of been signed for.

I hope Dan Jones gets a game. He's not even had a couple of minutes of game time from the bench so far this season, and seems to have fallen well down the pecking order.

Ronnie Moore lost confidence in the Harrison-Jones partnership at the end of last season but Dan did enough over the whole season to suggest he is a real prospect.

Bates came off the bench at York when Worley got injured, did well enough there and against Newport but then got injured himself early on down at Stevenage. Result: no defensive midfield cover when Magnay got injured on Saturday.

Nelson-Addy wasn't remotely a like for like replacement for Magnay. Instead of blaming the back four for how the Carlisle game turned out, Ronnie should be asking himself why he didn't put Jones on for Magnay and switch to a 5-3-2.

According to the OS Jones is "is pressing his claims for a first start of the season." What's the lad supposed to think if he doesn't even get a start in the JTP?

4-4-2 tonight and give Woods & Paynter a rest.

Play Harrison in place of Magnay, the big 6 footers at centre half, Jones at left back, Richards right back and midfield of Feather, Harrison, Duckworth and Hawkins, Bingham and Fenwick up top.

Love the team selection monkeybutt with plenty of commitment and effort as well. Are you Paul Murray or Martin Scott?

Surely time for Ronnie to go 442
Instead of criticising the back four for the 3 man midfield which every oposing team by-passes for fun.
Play that system at Wycombe and its a home banker!

If its broke fix it!

442 442 442

Could Carroll play further forward? He could play left wing with Jones at left back in a 4-4-2.

For me has to be Conner Smith on the left wing a talented prospect who must be due a start.

Team tonight

Pools: Bartlett, Duckworth, Harrison, Worley, Jones, Carroll, Hawkins, Featherstone, Fenwick, Oates, Bingham.

Subs: Denton, Nearney, Nelson-Addy, Oyenuga, Smith


Think he has made the right choice with that line up, hope Worley hasn't been rushed back mind.

Only just realised its a bastard 7pm kick off and i'm still at work, best get going now.

4-3-3 with Carroll in midfield?

3 4 3
against sheff utds 4 4 2

Pools player paying up for anyone?


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Pennas... Oh well, Wembley can wait...

Poor first half with Worley not looking match fit. Changed things in the second half and we looked a lot better, good finish by Fenwick like.

Looked much more comfortable playing 4-4-2. Even without wingers, it can be implemented with Jones at left back and Carroll ahead of him. Quite impressed with Hawkins tonight too.

plenty of positives tonight.....Bartlett. Worley. Harrison, Carroll.Jones, Hawkins, thought after going 1-0 down and the following 20. mins it was going to be a long night but we grew into it after that and with a bit of luck might have even won it......unlucky.

We were hopeless with the 352 formation again, looked much more solid and like we might score after going 442 midway through the first half.

Hope Magnay is fit for Saturday though as we need some bite in the middle, ronnie also needs to stick with 4 at the back, whether it's 433 or 442 it needs to be a back 4.

I thought Hawkins played well and when we went 4-4-2, how much better did we look

Oates did well on the right in a 4 man midfield and caroll looked better in midfield, Jones looked off the pace and Nearney was like Bambi when he came on.

Enjoyable game on the whole.

Was expecting a hammering after the first twenty minutes..................but thereafter, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Concern is Duckworth's injury - and why did so many of our guys suffer with cramp?

Thought Worley looked very clumsy. And along with Jones you could see exactly what they were, players without that match sharpness. More so for Jones with a lack of pre season minutes too.

The formation we started with seemed to be wing backs and wide strikers, and it assisted in making it look like would be a cricket score. Changing to 442 was a great move and agree with everyone saying Hawkins looked good. Carroll looked lot better on wing and felt Fenwick really played through middle well.

He ensured centre backs know they been in a game with his approach and game style

For the first 20 minutes of the game I feared the worst, but we improved as the game went on. Duckworth was outstanding and nearly scored a great goal just before half time. Hawkins impressed in midfield and must now be a contender to start a league game. Fenwick put himself about, looked strong and took his goal well. He also looks a lot better as a central striker and id have no problem with him starting ahead of Paynter in that position. A big plus with Fenwick is he can keep up with play when Bingham brakes forward.

I thought Worley did very well last night, he is one of the few players in our team who can 'put it about', along with Fenwick and Harrison. Too many of the others need to learn how to do this, and use their arms (like their big lad up front) to keep the oppo' at bay. We don't lack the creative side as we showed 2nd half it's just we have too many 'honest' players in our team.
We're are much solider with Worley at the back as he 'gets in the way' more and therefore will incurr more bookings.

Think he's slow and clumsy as proven by amount of silly and unnecessary fouls given away.

Him and Harrison have terrible distribution but the worse thing about Worley is he doesn't even look to see if he has time. Just kicks it forward

Fenwick usually finishes well Joe, which is why he should always start for me.

As said, no one knew where they were supposed to be or who was covering who when playing 352. Could've been four down at HT if not for Bartlett.

Very comfortable 442 in second half, and the better team throughout once we switched. Great finish by Fenwick.

Carson got some work to out Bartlett on that display

i don't think it was 352 to begin with either, oates and bingham were very wide for it to be a front 2. so looked more like 3-4-3 or 5-2-3 which as people have said, left us ridiculously exposed.

I don't what formation we started off with but it didnt work, massively exposed in the middle and just looked very unorganised.

Just read the RM interview and it was 3-4-3 the formation.

Agree with the Worley part so much... It's just stupid at times.