There's A Famous Seaside Place Called......

There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool

That's noted for fresh air and fun

And Mr. and Mrs. Morgan

Went there with young Albie, their son

A grand little lad were young Albie,

He played to his best,

But never really impressed,

Now beyond the bench he does rarely progress.

Blackpool are next up in SE7. Amongst their ranks of course is Albie Morgan formerly of this parish. Most of us recall Albie as a player who tried hard and shone on occasion but could never achieve the required level of consistency.

One hoped that a move away might help him but it would appear that despite him featuring the opening games of the season he is now an occasional squad member.

Having been out od the squad completely, Albie returned to the bench last Saturday. One assumes that Neil Critchley will be tempted to at least have him on the bench tomorrow as he may feel Morgan has a point to prove.

Someone else with a point to prove of course is Appleton. He had an unsuccessful spell as manager and is not as fondly remembered by the Blackpool fans as those of Oxford.

The Seasiders record this season is almost identical to ours and they sit one place and point above us. They’ve enjoyed some highs and lows with pretty much the same mixed bag of results as ourselves.

One has to assume the we witness the same starting eleven for the Addicks. I can’t see that Aneke is up to another start in 4 days. That leaves the quandary as to who plays up front.

Appleton will probably go for a straight swap of Leaburn replacing Aneke and keep May in a number 10 role that he did well in and have Tedic out wide.

Louie Watson ought to start again. He has been great. I’d include the other Watson in that too. Tennai offers us so much attacking threat on the right. Without him nothing comes from there and it’s all about CBT on the left.

This is a game we ought to be confident in winning not least because of our recent form. However, we can’t keep making the silly defensive mistakes that we have. Tuesday saw another howler and as is often the case Hector was involved.

With all his experience he should know better and not up being a great big, silly old Hector!

The weather looks good this weekend, the team should be confident, Appleton has a point to prove, there’s a better squad to chose from and hopefully we’ll see a decent crowd. It should be great, right? I mean what could go wrong!

Come On You Reds!