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Extracted ourselves from a pointless competition, increasing our chances of winning the FA Cup, whilst arrogantly scoring at the end to maintain scoring in every game.

Excellent night's work.

Buck up folks, players no-one thinks will be here much longer lost a game in a cup no-one likes, none of our first team got injured and it's not going to put the fans who didn't go in their droves off from the next home game. (Unless you brought your mate/kids/boss who say they never want to come again!)

Our poor run ends here.🙂

* I admit I didn't see the game

I think Hanlan will rehab with us again but leave once healthy.

McCarthy is gone, surely.

Taff will be kept for backup unless we land an absolute coup in January (and keep Taylor).

Wheeler should go, as he is still plenty talented enough for many teams in this division, but not for us.

Not a great spectacle tonight. Lost the battle in the centre of park first half which set the tone for most of the evening.

Actually think there was only one good individual performance tonight and that was from Taff - watched him closely tonight and he was good and should be our back up centre half. Don’t think too many of the other current fringe players did themselves any favours but saying that neither did the few that normally start.

Hopefully get back on track this weekend!

we were always due a poor game at some point & lets hope it was this one...would rather we played like pish in the tinpot than in the league.

To be fair to the players brought in they probably had one training session as a team so to bemoan the strenght in depth is a little harsh.

Bishop is coming back from injury & was stuck behind a makeshift defence that will have hardly if ever played together, having said that he filled me with a lot less confidence than either Rav or George, so am unsure why we would or if we will hold onto him come 1/1/25.

Skura is a solid prospect who has performed well when in between 2 experienced defenders who can talk him through the game. Woodhouse has played consistently well for The Daggers & whilst probably isnt yet ready for L1 is definitely not far off. neither were helped by having two very rusty & frankly lethargic players (McCarthy & Taf) alongside them today.

As for the others Bakinson is solid & is probably 4th choice CM after Scowen, Morley & Humphries: Leahy is a bench player at best, Butcher is a huge concern as he looked so good last season & yet his form appears to have nose dived off a cliff - the coaches need to figure out how to get him reinvigorated. Wheels is a legend and model pro but is very rusty & a bit off the pace, I cannot see out of our first choice 18 who you would leave out to accomodate him.

The forwards are all pretty decent, MB needs to just figure out the combinations that do & dont work especially given his propensity to often rotate them heavily.

I think on today's evidence unless we have an illness or injury crisis of immense proportions I struggle to see either McCarthy or Taf playing in the quarters again.

I suspect a few there (McCarthy, Taff and potentially Wheeler) played their last game for the club tonight.

Roodini?

Apart from a couple of poor goals conceded and some pretty woeful finishing, I don’t think there was too much different to a lot of games this season.

‘Nothing to see here’

All winning runs have to end. The longer they endure the more onerous holding onto the run becomes. It’s now confined to history as is this Mickey Mouse comp. We regather, win the league matches that matter, push for promotion. Oh and we know that some ins and outs in Jan are probable.

Onwards.

GA targets should include McCarthy and Wheeler. They would do a job there. He won't go for Taff owing to the injuries.

If he is getting the band back together, bring Samuel back down from Ross County, as long as he has someone who can take the freekicks Alex would win in the channels! Samuel would actually fit what Shrewsbury need to do to scramble to safety.