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Weve been pinned in our own half for most of the match against Reading and for 90 mins against Stoke when we're supposed to be agressive and attacking according to the manager.
The window's not closed but with our current squad we've got to play 2 up front and set the midfield up to be more combative.
Yates and Madine upfront until we get someone else.
It's difficult to know what to do in midfield with the players available. This highlights the injury problems and recruitment strategy, we're crying out for a robust left sided midfielder. It's far from ideal but the least we can do at the moment is to squeeze both Virtue and Dougall into the same starting line up.
Subs: Madine off injured after 21 mins to be replaced by Corbeanu - Yates then played number 9. Dougall for Virtue at half time. Patino for Fiorini after 70 mins Lavery for Yates after 82 mins.
Surprises: Persisting with Madine (and then Yates) alone up front. Fiorini deep lying. Inexpeienced and lightweight midfield 3 of Fiorini, Virtue and Carey - 2 of whom are coming back from long lay offs and the other a newbie.
The transfer window's not closed yet and we need some changes.
We had a terrible start in the L1 promotion season under Critchely but I wasn't worried. From the way we were playing and the general feeling around the club I knew we'd progress and things'd come right somehow.
The homeymoon perod or feelgood factor of being a progressive club on the up walked out of the door somewhere between Critchley leaving and Appleton being appointed.
Rosenior or even Brannagan would've resurrected this posituve feeling and kickstarted some momentum. I'm not getting that the players are in harmoney and buying into a new regime.
On the pitch there've been 1 or 2 decent fifteen minute periods in games but as it stands there's been precious little on show to suggest we're going to make a fist of it this season.
Rather than having an enforcer type player, you could be right that Appleton prefers his deep lying midfielder to be a ball player with a large passing range.
We got away with an unconvincing win at home against relegation favourites Reading. Stoke aren't in great shape but this match is a bigger test and will tell us more about where we are and what we have to do this season.
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