Cheltenham Town F.A Cup 3rd round match thread

[Ted Maul]

Just now, moore_94 said:

Getting the break he needs

The bloke's been playing 180 minutes a week after an ACL. I'm genuinely amazed he's gone this long without some sort of injury. 

[Danizen]

Faes spared the ignominy of being dominated by players he's absolutely sure are not as good as him. He must be off.

[Claridge]

13 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Evans for Skipp and drop Page back.

 

Oh and Monga for Silko b***ard Thomas

Don't get the hate for silko, tries a lot harder than most of the team. Glad he is in. Like to see Monga play, but does he contribute more than Thomas?

[adam]

How has monga not got a game here. He needs to get a bit of confidence back. silko Thomas is not the future. 

[Stadt]

A Skipp and Choudhury deep midfield pairing against a L2 side completely sums Cifuentes up.

 

All the threat and creativity is coming from a lad who’s just turned 17. Cheltenham’s

odds are very appealing 

[JimJams]

Some of you need to breathe a little, fxxking hell.

[Pliskin]

I do enjoy being an underdog…….

[Blueman1967]

Would have been a good chance, to give Evans a run out

[Raj]

[brookfox]

1 minute ago, Stadt said:

A Skipp and Choudhury deep midfield pairing against a L2 side completely sums Cifuentes up.

 

All the threat and creativity is coming from a lad who’s just turned 17. Cheltenham’s

odds are very appealing 

I get the point but have a bit of sympathy in the CDM positions. We have Winks (checked-out) and Soumare (jogging back to fitness) as the other “first team” options and his hands seemingly tied on the transfer front. Not sure of his natural position but could’ve had Page a bit deeper I guess but other than that we’re desparately short there.

[Grebfromgrebland]

Cheltenham will fancy their chances today.

 

All they have to do is be in our faces.

[Muzzy_no7]

7 minutes ago, Claridge said:

Don't get the hate for silko, tries a lot harder than most of the team. Glad he is in. Like to see Monga play, but does he contribute more than Thomas?

For me there’s absolutely no doubt Monga has more about him and more of a ceiling than Silko ‘runs about a bit’ Thomas.

 

Daka runs about. 
 

So did Kasey McAteer. 

[Vaz]

15 minutes ago, Long Eaton Fox said:

Where's Fatawu?

Not running down the wing

Not making the Leicester sing

[westernpark]

6 minutes ago, Stadt said:

A Skipp and Choudhury deep midfield pairing against a L2 side completely sums Cifuentes up.

 

All the threat and creativity is coming from a lad who’s just turned 17. Cheltenham’s

odds are very appealing 

It’s also indicative of our great one and his disciples squad building.

Id have liked to seen Page deeper and maybe Monga behind the striker but like you say that’s a bit ambitious for the manager. 

[worthosoriginals]

17 minutes ago, Long Eaton Fox said:

Where's Fatawu?

In talks with Coventry.

[lcfcsnow]

25 minutes ago, LCFCCKEANO said:

Don’t hate Mavididi starting, more probably than anyone in the squad he needs to play himself back to form

Mavididi in league two

[Leicesterpool]

If we win itll be just by one goal, cant see us scoring any more than one. Pitch looks rather frosty at our end.

[Wink84]

13 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Not enough kids for my liking. 

Mods!!!!

[Wink84]

Whilst Fatawu does need a break and no problem he isn't in the squad today, this also means he isn't cup tied if he was to move.

 

Id like to say the same for Faes, but that one is wishful thinking. 

[Leicesterpool]

First visit here, feels proper non league. In fact seen better grounds in non league.

[BrilliantFox]

21 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

no idea why we're at a point where everyone's just accepted that he's a bang average full back. 

That Hamza x Skipp midfield pairing against Newcastle scarred me for life. I don't want to see either of them in midfield again.

I'm surprised Skipp hasn't also been converted to a fullback. Terrible midfielders the both of them.

 

One of them alongside Tielemans or KDH I can tolerate. But both of them together is asking for trouble.

Edited 10 January by BrilliantFox

[Muzzy_no7]

Would’ve been a perfect opportunity for Braybrooke to start and stake a claim for regular minutes between now and the end of the season 

[BrilliantFox]

Braybrooke and Will Alves both better players than Hamza and Skipp.

[Pliskin]

Don’t know how I feel to be honest….

 

I mean starting Daka over Evans is ****ing insane….. league two opposition? Any available academy player ready should be starting. 
 

Frankly I don’t give a flying **** about the FA cup this season, and I’d much rather see us go out, out play mainly academy lads to se how they fair and if they could do a job in the championship for us. 
 

But no, he sticks Daka in, I could put my dog on for 90 and he would come off with better stats than Daka…..

 

With it being the FA cup, I’d take a defeat if it meant Marti finally getting the boot. The only slight positive about this club is the academy, and he’s even neglecting that. 

[Pliskin]

18 minutes ago, Claridge said:

Don't get the hate for silko, tries a lot harder than most of the team. Glad he is in. Like to see Monga play, but does he contribute more than Thomas?

He's garbage. He was terrible at Wigan, and has been terrible for us so far….. he’s got a goal which is essentially irrelevant, and running around a bit doesn’t really help, Daka does that, and he doesn’t do shit.