MK Dons away - Match Thread

[Finnegan]

14 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

A lot of bed wetting going in right now. Maybe the players left out need a rest 

 

Yeah what a bunch of ****ing idiots being upset that we're playing without a recognised striker when the multimillion pound new signing is sat on the bench. 

 

[Otis]

15 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

A lot of bed wetting going in right now. Maybe the players left out need a rest 

True, it's been a long hard season. 

[ozvaldo]

RM needs sacking. 

[dmayne7]

23 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

Same with starting Bristric imo, should have benched him midweek and started him here.

Made more sense to play him just to get him up to speed, but madness he's not starting 

[Bfaptu]

Bobby Shitpants ffs.

[Ric Flair]

Alves created our only 2 league goals, been our best player so far and he couldn't wait to drop him.

 

That said, we are strongest in the LW and RW positions with 4 genuinely decent players. 

 

At least he's dropped Cullen as well but Reid up top I just cannot fathom. Bristric needs to be played in to form and confidence.

[foxinsox]

I realise options are limited, but what a team selection 🤨

 

It is very hard to see where a win is going to come from this season.

 

 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Just now, foxinsox said:

I realise options are limited, but what a team selection 🤨

 

It is very hard to see where a win is going to come from this season.

 

 

 

There are definitely some bizarre selections in that XI but it really should have enough to beat MK Dons — the manager has nowhere to hide if we're winless after 3 league games with what he's got

[LVFox]

No Aluko, Alves and Bristric is ridiculous 

 

 

The guys a clown 

[copunk]

Can’t wait to log back in later after a 2-0 defeat

To drop Alves is beyond words, our most creative output so far this season 

Disgraceful 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

9 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Alves created our only 2 league goals, been our best player so far and he couldn't wait to drop him.

 

Might it be a case we’ve guaranteed first XI status to Brighton in order to get Watson in and that forces our hand a little? 
 

Positives in that line up: Martin is admitting McCarthy and Cullen (could have played him up front) have been shit.

 

Souttar starts again - I think Russell really wants to keep him. Will he do better right of centre (I should bloody hope so!)?

 

Possible issue: We have zero natural central midfield cover. I guess Howell / Cullen would be the options if needed? 

 

 

Edited 29 August by DJ Barry Hammond

[TheGoldenGod]

Seems already we're both giving another striker time to bed in and flourish. Just setting up players to fail.

 

No wonder its a cursed position!

[Collymore]

The MK Dons channel is absolutely ripping Martin! 

 

Calling him a liar and the same things we are saying with playing out from the back when it wasn't working 

Edited 29 August by Collymore

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Bob the Throb.

[LCFCJohn]

Stolarcryk over McCarthy in terms of the options we have - good

 

Defence - McFarlane in good. Thomas not but I understand why he wouldn’t throw Kangasniemi in so soon. 
 

Midfield - probably about what we’d go for no? Page in good. We’ll see how the Chaplin/Burns partnership is. Alves for Watson questionable but at least Watson is a player we are happy to see. This feels more like options that will be rotated. No Cullen is good.

 

Forward, the worst and most preventable part, Reid. Not that we know much about Bristvic yet but at least he’s a striker. Obviously anger can’t play every game so the solution is simple, get another striker in, even on loan. Perhaps this is the message Martin is trying to make? 
 

Reid actually popped up with some decent goals in the winter last season. Obviously I’d rather move him on but even if we hadn’t signed Cullen and had Reid to compete with Chaplin and Howell/Alves, I’d be ok with that.

 

The main issue is that we have wasted money on Cullen, a nothing player in a position we were stocked with. Had we spent that on bringing another striker in (towards that cost), we’d have a much better balance. And yet those who said anything against the Cullen transfer were shouted down as normal.

[trabuch]

Come on Leicester - surprise me.

[Muzzy_no7]

30 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

A lot of bed wetting going in right now. Maybe the players left out need a rest 

Nothing like an alternate view just for the sake of exactly that 😂

[reidt]

Like Thomas to be the best player on the pitch today and score the winner. You heard it here first!

Edited 29 August by reidt

[Freddy]

33 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

Yeah I’d have been tempted to chuck in new CB just for this reason, alongside Souttar 

Me too

[whoareyaaa]

28 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Stolarczyk and McCarthy are much the same for me so don’t really care who starts

 

Great to see JJ starting and McFarlane
 

Thomas playing centre back is annoying but I can understand it if Aluko isn’t 100% and the new guy has barely trained with us

 

Page and Braybrooke should’ve been in together from the start of the season so good to see it now and hopefully if Page stays those two with Chaplin will be our constant middle 3

 

Burns I don’t mind as I expect Howell’s fitness isn’t up to him starting every game yet

 

Alves not starting is harsh

 

Bobby Reid - wtf.

This is the biggest postive we have seen so far along with Joesph and Alves, those 3 midfielders should be a cert for the season.

[21st Century Fox]

Our entire squad must have the collective weight of a wet pair of Top’s skinny jeans.

[CL Fox]

1 minute ago, reidt said:

Like Thomas to be the beat player on the pitch today and score the winner. You heard it here first!

And last probably 

[whoareyaaa]

The club should be doing everyhing possible to get a striker in the next few days it's going to be crucial.

[CL Fox]

Team of midgets playing sideways and backwards. What have we done to deserve this.

[Tuna]

If I told you in 2021 that within 5 years we would be in League One with a 33 year old Bobby Decordova-Reid as our striker, you'd think I was mad and rightly so.