QueenCrod?
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More of a Queen Consort to be honest Andy.
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Line up. I would start Maher every game from now to the end of the season.
We need someone who is fearless.
We donāt need players in midfield who can only play the direction their facing.
We need people who want the ball.
My team would be:
Evans,
White, Daniels, Monthe,
Knowles, Maher, Comley, Hutchinson, Gordon
Stevens, Matt
Bench:
Maddox,
Riley,
Low,
Smith,
Wilkinson,
McEntee,
Allen or Kinsella
Definitely not:
Williams
DJT
Labadie
Songo
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Bar that Grimsby game Sutton aināt lost in a while so will be a tough one, play offs still on for them also so theyāll be right up for it
Oh how I wish we could compete with the likes of Suttonā¦
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Still only 70 and after his exploits for Charlton, could probably still do a job for us.
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Yes, and Bradford, Mansfield and Barrow are all at home on Saturday to teams from the bottom half, with the first two named having a game in hand, so Sutton canāt afford too many slips.
So it could be an interesting game. Entertaining as well? Hmmā¦ 
Behave.
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Evans (as he is our only keeper)
McEntee - Daniels - Monthe
Riley - Maddox/Comley - Hutchinson - Gordon
Maher
Stevens - Matt/Wilkinson
I find the constant clamour for RAM to start games strange, if not a little annoying if Iām honest. I mean I get that fans of all clubs yearn for a home grown talent but I just do t understand what anyone thinks it gains. For him or the club.
Firstly, whatās he done to deserve it? I mean he trains with them every day and the staff havenāt seen fit to add him to a squad or give him minutes ahead of anyone else, so that tells me something in itself.
Heās getting games in the youth team and like last week the Senior Cup. Now the youth team, the lowest level of pro football youth team you get btw, should be an absolute doddle for him and while I know itās not always that easy, you have to look at players his age or similar playing in league two on loan for premier league clubsā¦ā¦there arenāt manyā¦ā¦the few that are getting game time are generally 19/20 not 17/18ā¦and thereās a huge difference. Thereās also a huge difference in what the Catagory 1 clubs are producing and sending out on loan. I dont think RAM is at the level of most of the Cat 1 youth team players and there really arenāt many, if any, getting minutes in league 2.
Secondly, is it going to benefit him? 18 years old coming into a side vereft of confidence, a fan base thatās increasingly frustrated and in the most part voicing it with a chorus of boos at half time and full time (I even heard some pre match boos recently!!). Howās that beneficial for a young player to come in and be part of that environment? Whoās got time, at the moment to sacrifice their own performance or take their eye off the ball slightly to make sure RAM is settled and being taken care of?
Lastly, whatās he going to offer? Itās ok saying heās brave and creative and will want the ball but howās that changing Evans McEntee or Whites insistence on booting the ball as far as they can everytime they get it? The players we have (ie Hutchinson and Maddox who come from premier league clubs) are having trouble getting anyone to pass the bloody ball to them, how is RAM going to change it?
Heās still going to find a game going on at a fair few miles an hour quicker than heās ever experienced, against players 2/3 stone heavier, with a football thatās generally 30/40 feet on the air higher than heās used to for 80/90% of the time itās in play!!!
RAM needs to see out the season and get himself on loan because my feeling is heāll be first get away from the first team next season than he is right now.
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Is the problem Evans, McEntee, White etc, or is the problem there is no one showing themselves to receive the ball?
On Tuesday, when the defence played short balls into midfield, Riley and Kinsella immediately passed it back to them. Hutchinson tends to work well when picking up the ball in the opponents half, but rarely has the space to receive and turn in our own half - why is this?
We seem incapable of finding space and yet the opposition appear to always have time and space.
I would go with RAM if only to give him more experience. He canāt do worse than Comley, Kinsella, Riley, Songo, Maddox and Hutchinson have done in recent weeks.
No the problem is most definitely the players not wanting to pass into midfield. I donāt buy this ānot showingā rubbish and if any one isnāt showing itās actually just because theyāve given up on it. Ive watched very closely and even when Evans gives the ball to any of the back 3 (which isnt very often) they either donāt look or they are reluctant to pay through the press or through lines into midfield. What youāll end up with is a midfield player coming so deep heās taking it off a defenders toes which is pointless anyway.
They didnāt play into midfield. The midfielders came so deep they bounced it into them and back out again almost still in the back line. Thatās because if you come that deep the opposition press (midfield and forwards) can see you, stay goal side and are happy to see you pass backwards. Theyāre also as happy for you to try and turn and or take them on because they know they have the numerical advantage (pretty much 11 behind the ball), have set the trap and can risk springing forward to steal the ball in dangerous areas.
Hutchinson is fine coming that deep but whatās the point? We want our most attacking midfield player to come that deep and get the ball? Probably exactly where opposition managers are happy for him to take it? The idea is we get him the ball beyond their midfield press so heās turned and facing goal not in front of it.
We have some players constantly in space but thatās no bloody use unless you see it and have the courage to pass it to them. Opposition teams seem to have time and space because they have a shape and have worked on a strategy to move the ball into it or into their most dangerous players and work off that. Swindon are patient and move the ball across the pitch and backwards in order to move you around and create the space. When they have done they they try and exploit it. Stevenage go long but they pick a weak area (they targeted our right side recently) hit two front men who are lively pacy and physical and their midfield players donāt show for the ball they run off that long ball and join in quick - again the goal side of our midfield so weāre facing our own goal.
Trust me he will be miles off it. He will experience all the same problems they have experienced plus heās not physically and / or technically as good as the ones you list. If anyone thinks you couldāve plonked RAM into the side as a replacement for maddox v Stevenage or Hutchinson v Wimbledon for example and seen any different outcomes as a team, a performance or a result, youāre mad (in the nicest way 
)
Let me ask a questionā¦he trains with and alongside all those players every day for the last 9 months, do you think Flynn, Hatswell and Saddler have at any time thought āheās better than what weāve gotā and then not included him even in the 18?
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Agree RAM has abilty but to use a phrase they use in boxing he hasnt got his man strength yet i know football is not the same but its a polite way of saying he struggles physically which is understandable at his age at this level.Also agree he should go out on loan said it for months now.
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Flynn and harswell wouldnāt see a decent player if they slapped em in the face then scored with Flynn wife
Iād like Maher to have a gon
On the beach 0 , Sutton weāve got something to play for 2.
Just to back this point up I highlight the following play below where Daniels could have
A) played it short to Riley
B) played a forward to diagonal to Knowles (you can see Knowles pointing for it)
C) rolled it to Monthe
D) hoof it up field
To no oneās surprise he went for option D) as can be seen it was easily dealt with by Wimbledons defence.
Why, choose option D? A) or B) would be want I want to see, but I mean option C) would at least have given a breather.
D) is such a bad choice Iām mystified.
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Iāll be in the Lake District so will miss this one thankfully.
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If Boycott paid me 20 quid to attend this one I still wouldnāt attend!!!
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Good
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