bring back the cowshed!
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Unusually, we have two games in 48 hours, giving us a quick opportunity to banish the Boxing Day blues. While getting anything from Burton even with a full team would have been difficult, our home game with Northampton is the nearest you'll get at this stage of the season to being a "must win, six pointer". They have lost their last four, and their last eight out of ten, worse even than our recent record.
If we turn up, show character, avoid sloppy defensive mistakes and manage to create a couple of chances - and get a Cambridge ref rather than a Burton one, we might snatch the points. With York playing Carlisle and Daggers away to Southend, we have a great chance to leave the relegation zone and make ground on our fellow strugglers.
Ridehalgh was the last player we wanted to lose for three games. There's no ready replacement - either defensively or up the left wing. I suspect Holmes will get the job, but that leaves a vacancy at right-back. Normally, I'd go for Donacien, but we're too short at centre-back, so I'd plump for Rowe. The rest of the team selection may be affected by fitness and fatigue.
fon Williams
Rowe, Donacien, Thompson, Holness, Holmes
Laird, Jennings, Power
Stockton, Fenelon
If we turn up, show character, avoid sloppy defensive mistakes and manage to create a couple of chances - and get a Cambridge ref rather than a Burton one, we might snatch the points. With York playing Carlisle and Daggers away to Southend, we have a great chance to leave the relegation zone and make ground on our fellow strugglers.
Ridehalgh was the last player we wanted to lose for three games. There's no ready replacement - either defensively or up the left wing. I suspect Holmes will get the job, but that leaves a vacancy at right-back. Normally, I'd go for Donacien, but we're too short at centre-back, so I'd plump for Rowe. The rest of the team selection may be affected by fitness and fatigue.
fon Williams
Rowe, Donacien, Thompson, Holness, Holmes
Laird, Jennings, Power
Stockton, Fenelon
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