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Team v Hull

Iversen

Storey Lindsay Gibson

Offiah Whiteman Armstrong Small

Devine Dobbin

Osmajic

Could do with more of a freshen up, but we don’t have the players to do that sadly
 
Team hard to predict at this point
Don’t know if Osmajic, Pol & Jebbison are all out
 
A few games in quick succession. Charlton will be at us like dogs on Saturday. Dobbin and Devine have played a lot of football for us, with basically no pre-season. I'd go for this:

Iversen

Small
Storey
Lindsay
Gibson
Andy

Armstrong
Whiteman
McCann

Mads
Osmajic
 
Doyler said:
A few games in quick succession. Charlton will be at us like dogs on Saturday. Dobbin and Devine have played a lot of football for us, with basically no pre-season. I'd go for this:

Iversen

Small
Storey
Lindsay
Gibson
Andy

Armstrong
Whiteman
McCann

Mads
Osmajic
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Another valid reason to rest both Dobbin and Devine is that there is a reasonable chance that Osmajic will be banned by the weekend.

Can't afford anything to happen to Dobbin as he'd be my choice to play as a false 9 up top floating around whilst Osmajic is banned.
 
Time to put Saturday behind us and look forward to tomorrow with some sense of purpose which we can do thanks to that last minute save by Iversen - frankly its psychological effect in keeping up morale may be more important than the immediate point it saved us. PH very likely has two selection decisions to make - who replaces Valentin assuming the latter is injured but you never know and whether to give what looked a tired team on Saturday a bit of a freshen up.

As far as Valentin is concerned the like-for-like replacement would be Potts who has apparently started training again and maybe he will be pitched straight back in. What has to be certain after last Saturday is that it is not Offiah who is a right-sided defender and not a wing-back. Nor am I keen on the notion of switching Small to the right though with Vukcevic having looked good on the left after he came on on Saturday that may be the option PH will choose. Frankly if Valentin is missing and PH otherwise wants as far as possible to keep the same line-up the player to put on the right might be Armstrong who I seem to recall was billed as being able to play anywhere in midfield.

Otherwise Thordarson and Frokjaer are both available and it will be interesting to see how Frokjaer reacts to his recent omission once he gets on the pitch again. He has the skill to make a difference.
 
Millar was back in the Hull squad on Saturday after recovering from his ACL. Would be ironic if his first start after a year out was against us.
 
Millar & Belloumi being out injured changes our approach to this game entirely.

Storey's had some great games this season, but Mehmeti, Dembele & Murphy have caused him no end of problems in the away fixtures. It's those type of games where Offiah will be perfect once up to speed. This however, should suit his game perfectly.

I'd go with:

Iversen

Small
Storey
Lindsay
Hughes
Vuk

Whiteman
McCann
Devine

Smith
Osmajic
 
Lee Trundle said:
Millar & Belloumi being out injured changes our approach to this game entirely.

Storey's had some great games this season, but Mehmeti, Dembele & Murphy have caused him no end of problems in the away fixtures. It's those type of games where Offiah will be perfect once up to speed. This however, should suit his game perfectly.

I'd go with:

Iversen

Small
Storey
Lindsay
Hughes
Vuk

Whiteman
McCann
Devine

Smith
Osmajic
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Hughes one match ban.
 
Iversen
Offiah - Storey - Gibson
Small - McCann - Armstrong - Vukcevic
Devine - Frokjaer
Osmajic​
 
SF said:
Iversen
Offiah - Storey - Gibson
Small - McCann - Armstrong - Vukcevic
Devine - Frokjaer
Osmajic​
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Lindsay instead of Offiah. Storey to move to the right and Lindsay in the middle of the back three to counteract McBurnie.
 
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