Team news: Conor Mitchell, Jordan Cropper, Teddy Perkins, Oliver Younger, Ali Koiki, Tunde Bayode, Mace Goodridge, Rahis Nabi, Tinashe Chakwana, Dwight McNeil, Jonathan Walters.

Subs; Aidan Stone, Brad Jackson, Arlen Birch, Christian N’Guessan, Ntumba Massanka.

Hmm...Walters back....Jackson and Birch still at the club...and who is Mace Goodridge and will he tyre as the game goes on ?

Hope I am wrong but doesn't look good for people like birch and Jackson if they cannot get in this team at this point of the season utc

Aiden O'Neil?

Dark Cloud wrote:Aiden O'Neil?

Doesn’t often play in this team. He’s usually with the first team squad.

JimmyMac'sMate wrote:Hope I am wrong but doesn't look good for people like birch and Jackson if they cannot get in this team at this point of the season utc

Birch has had trials with Cheltenham & Forest Green but we are using the team now to try out trialists and give some younger players an opportunity.

ClaretTony wrote:Doesn’t often play in this team. He’s usually with the first team squad.

Cheers, but can't help thinking it would be decent game time for him as well as lifting the experience in the team.

Couple of new names in there. From a quick look around, Teddy Perkins is Leyton Orient U18s captain and Mace Goodridge signed for Newcastle after being released by Man City in 2016.

MDWat wrote:Couple of new names in there. From a quick look around, Teddy Perkins is Leyton Orient U18s captain and Mace Goodridge signed for Newcastle after being released by Man City in 2016.

Both in squad last Monday. I found their clubs then.

Half time and it’s 0-0 but we are the better side

55 mins: Sheff U 1 Burnley 0

How many times has CT posted 0-0 but we are better side; followed by 1-0 to the opposition?

mdd2 wrote:How many times has CT posted 0-0 but we are better side; followed by 1-0 to the opposition?

Probably less than we have left the Turf together over the years asking "How did we not win that?"

68 mins: Massanka on for Chakwana

79 mins: Birch on for Cropper

mdd2 wrote:How many times has CT posted 0-0 but we are better side; followed by 1-0 to the opposition?

Very rarely this season with this team but we shouldn’t be losing this

Lost 1-0. Didn’t really look like getting back into it after going behind.

Another defeat by the odd goal ==it looks as though we are in the land of fine margins rather than heavy defeats which we suffered on a few occasions earlier in the season.

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote:Another defeat by the odd goal ==it looks as though we are in the land of fine margins rather than heavy defeats which we suffered on a few occasions earlier in the season.

We took some hammerings early season but we have improved as the season has gone on. Until the goal today we were the better side by some distance but didn’t offer enough once behind.

It will take time but some real signs of progress recently.

Can I also confirm that we had a good view today from our elevated position in the exec suite (the bar).

Tony can please give an honest view of hour back five playing today seams apart from Connor Mitchell very young unit cheers utc

ClaretTony wrote:Very rarely this season with this team but we shouldn’t be losing this

Pretty sure it has happened a couple of times recently which was why I posted and having seen your post that we were the better side I thought 1-0 was coming

mdd2 wrote:Pretty sure it has happened a couple of times recently which was why I posted and having seen your post that we were the better side I thought 1-0 was coming

Lost against Hull when we should have won but we've won three of the previous four I've been to.

mdd2 wrote:Pretty sure it has happened a couple of times recently which was why I posted and having seen your post that we were the better side I thought 1-0 was coming

I thought EXACTLY the same when I saw the post, but just about refrained from commenting in case I was labelled a doom monger !

Dark Cloud wrote:I thought EXACTLY the same when I saw the post, but just about refrained from commenting in case I was labelled a doom monger !

mdd2 is, well, he's certainly a pessimist