Grabban may not be clinicle but I'm fairly sure he would have worked the Shrews keeper last night, if Hooper wasn't match fit an insurance policy of Jerome or Grabban on the bench would have been sensible. Never mind after 30 years of cup misery I expect to go out early every year.
I don't understand players playing out of position with a squad as big as ours. Adams seems to have abandoned the 4-2-3-1 which was working well for a 4-4-2 which, IMO, has hardly worked at all. Had we stuck with the former, Odjidja-Ofoe could have played as an ACM instead of WR switching to WL. It seems that the formation is forcing the players roles. As for last night, it was always going to be difficult to get fluid play from 11 players who have hardly played together before. Gary Gowers sums this up nicely: "There is no questioning the quality of those brought in – we’ve discussed at length the depth of the current squad – but by making wholesale changes, however logical, you end up with eleven talented individuals but not necessarily a good team. And so it proved. Last night’s starting XI was almost a brand new team and, however well drilled they have been on the fields of Colney, to expect them to ‘click’ as a unit was always going to be a big ask. And it’s not just the team cohesion that suffers. Minus a bona fide reserve league it’s also nigh on impossible to maintain the required levels of match fitness."
I'm pretty certain if Grabban had played we would have won fifteen or sixteen nil, and he'd have scored at least a dozen of em.
me and my family vowed never to go to another cup game after Luton! just don't expect us to try. Its not right I want to go to Wembley!
