herefordvillan Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Should we go all out for this or allow a rest for some players? I would go for: Guzan Young Collins Dunne Warnock Sidwell NRC Delph Milner Heskey Gabby or Young or Albrighton (depending on fitness etc.) With a bench of: Friedel Cuellar Shorey Albrighton/Young/Gabby Albrighton/Young/Gabby Petrov Carew What do you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatestConfirmedIn Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Lets get through Wolves first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 id rest some players, else we'll just burn out or suffer injuries. Could be a good chance for Luke Young, would also start Heskey and probably Shorey. Delph should start and maybe Craig Gardener should play a part. Id also play Cueller in the centre. We've spent a lot of money on a squad, lets use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshare Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 id rest some players, else we'll just burn out or suffer injuries. Could be a good chance for Luke Young, would also start Heskey and probably Shorey. Delph should start and maybe Craig Gardener should play a part. Id also play Cueller in the centre. We've spent a lot of money on a squad, lets use it totally agree with you on that. sunderland have just lost cattermole too which has got to be a good thing for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markdell7 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Why rest our best players against a good team that is fighting us at the moment for a top six position at the moment? surely we should rest key players if we have to against wolves!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Resting key players against a lethal Sunderland that will most probably be right up there this year? Not a good plan at all. Best 11 plays IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Totally agree with 'daft.' We are not good enough yet to rest key players against one of our main rivals this season. However, against Wolves i would rest Sidwell for Reo-Coker, Dunne for Cuellar and play Luke Young at RB. I would also keep Gabby on the bench and play Carew up front on his own with maybe Delph in an attacking role of a midfield five. Should still be enough to beat Wolves and allow us to rest some players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshare Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 well when the likes of ash and milner are knackered come march and we fade in the league only to get overtaken by the likes of fulham or sunderland we may look back think that maybe it was better to rotate the squad a bit rather than burn them out in the league cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Resting key players against a lethal Sunderland that will most probably be right up there this year? Not a good plan at all. Best 11 plays IMO.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myb Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Why rest our best players against a good team that is fighting us at the moment for a top six position at the moment? surely we should rest key players if we have to against wolves!? I think a lot of people are missing the fact that it's a league cup game, not a league game hence the suggested team changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted October 20, 2009 Moderator Share Posted October 20, 2009 I think the league cup is our best chance of a trophy this season. We went out of Europe very early, so we can afford to give the contest everything we've got. Sixth won't be easy this year and this gives us a good chance of Europe. I really hope we give it the strongest side we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamsonwoodVillan Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I will be gutted if the best team doesn't play both the Wolves and Sunderland game to be honest. Bar possibly Guzan and L.Young coming in for the league cup match. Why change a winning team? The only change I would even consider making at this stage would be to put Reo-Coker back in for Carew, who isnt quite firing yet. L.Young will presumably be back in for Cuellar in the next couple of weeks. The Wolves game is now the biggest game of the season, we can't fall behind Man City and Spurs, even at this early stage. The Chelsea result will count for nothing if we muck up this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 ------------Guzan--------------- Young--Collins--Dunne--Warnock ---------Reo-Coker-Delph--------- Albrighton------------------Milner ---------Heskey-Agbonlahor--- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdubber Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 ...... The Wolves game is now the biggest game of the season, we can't fall behind Man City and Spurs, even at this early stage. The Chelsea result will count for nothing if we muck up this weekend. There are loads of biggest games to come, as we quite often loose out on valuble points against clubs like this.... IIRC we came away with one point against Stoke last season. But the point you made is certainly quite valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 our best 11 cant play every game, as proved last season. people really shouldnt under estimate wolves, the league is our priority. therefore rest players against Sunderland, they will almost certainly do the same. Im not saying bring in kids, im saying bring in Young, Shorey, NRC, Delph, Heskey. Probably about £30m of lerners money there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I hope the club don't take any cup match lightly, we might not put out our 100% strongest team but I really don't hope that MON just sticks out a complete reserve side - especially for all the fans making the effort to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Assuming Luke Young is back to full fitness ----------------Guzan------------------ L Young---Collins---Clarke---Warnock Albrighton---NRC---Delph---A Young --------Delfouneso---Carew------------ Subs: Marshall, Baye, Petrov, Dunne, Gabby, Heskey, Milner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 ---------------Guzan L Young --- Cuellar --- Clark---- Warnock Albrighton --- NRC----Delph---- Sidwell ----- A Young --------------------Carew---------- for me, with Delfouneso and Heskey getting some game time late on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 need to pretty much put out our full team to beat Sunderland. Need to go far in this cup for once, at least semi's should be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaGoMarching Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 i want to see us win something so i'd be happy to rest a few against wolves in order to beat sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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