After the excitement of the FA Trophy last weekend, it's back to league action for the penultimate game before Christmas with the Monkeyhangers of Hartlepool making the long journey down from the north-east to Roots Hall.
Pools are currently managed by 76 year old Lennie Lawrence (who is also a non-exec director of the club), and currently sit in 11th place in the league - 3 points and 3 places ahead of us. Their league form is also better than ours, although in contrast to us their home form is better than away from home (the only team on a worse run of home form than us is Ebbsfleet!).
Their home FA Trophy game against Tamworth was postponed last Saturday due to the weather, and was played on Tuesday night instead. Pools looked like they were going to scrape a 1-0 win until former Shrimper Chris Wreh equalised for Tamworth in the 90th minutes and Tamworth went on to win on penalties.
For the blues, Kev made a few changes last weekend to give a rest to some key players and put some vital minutes into the legs of some other others. He must choose whether to revert to the team that won our last league game, to stick with a winning team or a blended option. He has more options in defence now that we have signed James Golding on loan and with Joe Gubbins returning from injury too, there may be options to shake things up at the back after we conceded 3 goals to a step 4 non-league team.
So who would you choose to try to extend our 4 game unbeaten run and what do you predict the result will be?
Pools are currently managed by 76 year old Lennie Lawrence (who is also a non-exec director of the club), and currently sit in 11th place in the league - 3 points and 3 places ahead of us. Their league form is also better than ours, although in contrast to us their home form is better than away from home (the only team on a worse run of home form than us is Ebbsfleet!).
Their home FA Trophy game against Tamworth was postponed last Saturday due to the weather, and was played on Tuesday night instead. Pools looked like they were going to scrape a 1-0 win until former Shrimper Chris Wreh equalised for Tamworth in the 90th minutes and Tamworth went on to win on penalties.
For the blues, Kev made a few changes last weekend to give a rest to some key players and put some vital minutes into the legs of some other others. He must choose whether to revert to the team that won our last league game, to stick with a winning team or a blended option. He has more options in defence now that we have signed James Golding on loan and with Joe Gubbins returning from injury too, there may be options to shake things up at the back after we conceded 3 goals to a step 4 non-league team.
So who would you choose to try to extend our 4 game unbeaten run and what do you predict the result will be?
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