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A fair bit of rain forecast for Monday through to mid afternoon Tuesday. I wonder if the pitch will hold up?

A great chance for the team to bounce back from the set back on Saturday.

We know Harborough will come and thrown nine or ten men behind the ball and their manager will be an arse.

For me the keys to this are movement between their lines, creativity in the final third and matching them in the desire department.

The team I would select would be

Finners
Butt - Dolman - Ashton - Brown
Gearing - Harris - Confue - Rogers
Lorraine - Turner

Redding - Parky - King - Fazel - ELJ

Good selection. Brad needs to be in midfield playing the holding role.

That was my thinking, Brad sitting front of the CB's gives a solid triangle to contain the one man they will play up top.

That gives Charlie and Sam freedom to push on from FB, which in turn allows the wingers to push up on their full backs, with Turner and Lorraine not afraid to pull their markers wide that should leave space for Gearing and Rogers cutting inside or Confue through the middle.

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:That was my thinking, Brad sitting front of the CB's gives a solid triangle to contain the one man they will play up top.

That gives Charlie and Sam freedom to push on from FB, which in turn allows the wingers to push up on their full backs, with Turner and Lorraine not afraid to pull their markers wide that should leave space for Gearing and Rogers cutting inside or Confue through the middle.

Exactly. That's what should have happened last Saturday. Brad would have dealt with Brown-Hill and our wide men would have seen more of the ball.

The lowest home league gate we've had is 319, I wouldn't be surprised if that's beaten tomorrow.

I'd keep an eye on this one as we've just had a couple of hours heavy downpour in the area. Not sure of tomorrow's forecast tho

Has anybody seen the pitch, what's the chances of playing it.

It's been raining stair rods for the past 45 minutes in K*ttering - if it is like this at Wellingborough I think we could be looking at a night in front of the tv.

Sun forecast for Wellingborough at 3pm but they are predicting snow for the county from around 8pm.

I suppose it all depends on how wet the pitch currently is.