[Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread]

On 30/06/2021 at 20:37, Francesc Fabregas said:

I wonder what our starting XI will be when the competitive games roll around. Stephen Swift has used everyone available to him in the past few friendlies, fielding a mish-mash of presumably guaranteed starters with non-league jobbers, but when the big boys' stuff starts, I reckon he'll go with:

- Robert Thomson - Tam Orr - Euan O'Reilly -

- James Lyon - Declan Hughes - Ross Forbes -

- Jamie Mills - Jordan Tapping - Sean Crighton - Ross Lyon -

- Ryan Marshall -

I like what I've seen from Cammy Graham in these pre-season games but feel the manager will select his "own man" in O'Reilly as a wide attacker alongside Thomson and Orr. We don't really have a lot of dynamism in the middle of the park and I hope Lyon will drive the side forward. I have a slight worries over central defence - while I'm sure Crighton will be the bedrock on which the team is built, who should partner him? A player who's never really kicked on in his career and already looks like an injury concern in Jordan Tapping? Or an older, more experienced player who might be lucky to find himself playing in the SPFL at this stage in Craig Reid?

Either way, it's a decent-ish side and one I hope can challenge for the top four. I cannot wait for the real stuff to get going!

I personally think it will be a 4 4 2 but the midfield  will be a diamond 

                     Marshall 

     Coll Crighton Tapping Mills

                 Wedderburn

      Forbes                   Hughes 

                         Lyon 

                Orr         Thompson 

 

 

[Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread]

1 minute ago, Big Dougie said:

Terrible defender, very pacy, but cannot defend.

You seen him in the last 3 year ? 

[Stenhousemuir FC - The Warriors - The 2023/24 Thread]

Don’t panic just get the next 5/6 signings are the names that will excite people