injuries, suspensions, loss of form, fallouts etc part and parcel of football

thats why you (should) build a squad and continually strive to improve it so there are no glaring deficencies if and when one, some or all of the above happens.

Posted By: MIKEWALKER on January 29th 2015 at 10:11:03

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How different might things have been if we'd been able to regularly play (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:05:36
- Alex Tettey has been a big miss, off the top of my head he has (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 29, 11:34:06
  - Ps maybe next season will indeed be kinder but will we still have a squad (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 11:38:40
    - It'll certainly become harder to attract the likes of Redmond (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 29, 11:44:02
      - Other than maybe a left winger I'm not too unhappy with what we have. More (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 11:58:20
  - I agree re Tettey and Bennett. As you may have gathered from some of (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 11:36:50
    - Essentially what we need is a settled side (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 29, 11:41:55
      - Yep. Thats what the sc*m have had but we have't. Their (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 12:02:31
- Bennett's great. Except when he plays. Bassongs great. Unless he can't be arsed. Truth is, (NCFC) - Higher Wrather, Jan 29, 10:23:59
  - I think with Turner his performance vary hugely depending on who his partner is (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:42:26
    - At the start of the season we'd have considered Turner our best CB (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 29, 11:28:26
      - He is what he is, a stopper, a centre half who heads the ball and gets in tackles (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 29, 11:36:22
        
        CB partnerships take time don't they, and ours haven't had that. Also, Ruddy needs to comm (NCFC) - Higher Wrather, Jan 29, 11:44:56
        
        posted up there ^^about Partnerships accross the pitch (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 29, 11:47:57
- I think with the personnel that we have... (NCFC) - Darren Eadie, Jan 29, 10:17:20
  - Fitting in redmond won't be a problem for long! (n/m) (NCFC) - admckechnie, Jan 29, 10:19:21
- it is simple (NCFC) - Chris Peacock, Jan 29, 10:15:16
- With The Bassong situation, we don't know why he went elseswhere (NCFC) - admckechnie, Jan 29, 10:14:49
  - I don;t think Bassong was really any worse than any other CB last season (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:20:42
    - Was liable to a brain fart once a game... got away with quite a few but (NCFC) - Pixelman, Jan 29, 11:07:05
    - He drove me nuts last season. Doing Cryuff turns on the edge of our box. (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Jan 29, 10:50:05
    - I agree Bassong wasn't terrible last season. But if he left for (NCFC) - admckechnie, Jan 29, 10:23:54
      - True. Just not sure that the players get as worked up about things like that (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:46:20
- Or if Wes had not been injured or moved out of position. (NCFC) - roedtonowhere, Jan 29, 10:14:45
- injuries, suspensions, loss of form, fallouts etc part and parcel of football (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 29, 10:11:03
  - I agree but we have had more than our fair share of all of them this season whereas (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:13:44
    - Just saying really that no Bassong fall out and Bennett having a bit more luck with (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 29, 10:14:52

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