Hull City - V - Wednesday

[Lord Snooty]

 

HULL CITY - V - WEDNESDAY

Tuesday 1st October, 2019

19:45 Kick off

 

 

THE TEAM NEWS

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HULL

Predicted line-up (4-1-4-1):

Long 

Lichaj   Burke    De Wijs   Kingsley

 Stewart 

Bowen     Honeyman    Irvine   Grosicki

 Magennis

 

 

Unavailable: McDonald (Injured), Fleming (Injured), Jon Toral (Injured), Elder (Injured)

Doubtful: Henriksen (Out of favour)

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WEDNESDAY

Predicted line-up (4-4-2):

Westwood

Odubajo        Iorfa        Borner       Palmer

Reach         Luongo      Bannan     Harris

 Fletcher      Nuhiu

Unavailable: Forestieri (Suspended), Wildsmith (Injured),

Doubtful: Hutchinson (Injured) , Lees (Injured)

 

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  Hutchinson has got a knee problem. Of course this isn't news. But there's a chance that it might keep him out of tomorrows game against Hull. Lee's has been back in training.

But we will either  be risked?

I can't see Monk throwing them in. He's been in the game long enough to have known the issues that Wednesday have had with players coming back and tweaking something and then being out for the next 10 games. Or in Almen Abdi's case, 3 years.  

 

Our Sammy - Knee tweak again 'boro

 

Luongo will be chomping at the bit for a midfield birth and was one of Wednesdays better performers against Everton.

Besides, what is the point of having a decent squad if you don't use people when needed? If Sams knee is playing up and we can stick a lad in for a game and make sure Sam doesn't risk making things worse- then great. That's what it's all about. Monk keeps reiterating the importance of the whole squad. I don't think he'll take risks when they can be avoided.

 

As for the skipper, he had his own problems last term with the injuries and again, why take the risk. Especially when at centre half Big Dom Iorfa seems to be having a lovely time out there at the minute!

Yes, I know, I'm the same, even when he's doing well there's those moments. The Warhurst moments. Brilliant for 99% of the game and then suddenly you poo your pants.

 

Cultured centre half always in control...

..until that weekly overly casual moment

 

But anyway...Dom's a beast in the air and he seems to blend well with Börner.

There's another tool in Iorfas armoury aswell, other than his gargantuan size -( 7"2. Only an inch shorter than Stars in their eyes host Mathew Kelly, but a good 3 inches taller than Vernon Kay. And quite why they had to ruin family fortunes by throwing 'celebrities' into the mix I don't know.  Thick normal people are what made that show great.)

 

 

Where was I?

Oh yes. Doms armoury. Pace!  Or more to the point 'recovery pace.' Big Dom has it.  Ok, recovery pace by it's very nature is usually reserved for recovering something that's gone wrong. But this is Championship football -Stuff goes wrong all the time!

If you admit that to yourself you can look at solutions and Big Doms rangy stride is one of them. It's a great tool (his pace, you filthy b'stards, his pace!)  when things go pear shaped.

Yes. The big lad has done well.

 

 

 What of the rest of the side. Will we go back to the 4-1-4-1 and match them up? Will we perhaps stick with the 4-4-2? 

Truth is I don't know. Monk has brought a tactical flexibility to this group and that, in modern football really is a useful weapon.

It's not just being able to pick horses for courses in tough away games. But also in being able to make changes within that game, either to come back if they (the opposition) have caught you on the hop or mixed things up themselves, but also in terms of nicking points, or seeing them out. 

 

I didn't see Fletcher and Nuhiu coming as a partnership. I really didn't. I'm not usually bad at the old 'guess the line up game' but I'd have never have come up with that one. But it worked! 

 

Jones rated you, Gray rated you, Carlos rated you,

Jos rated you, Bully rated you and I rate you

 

On paper, two big lads, it doesn't sound right does it. You want that blend or skills. In the words of The big useful f*cker and the little lively one.

Do two big ones work? You wouldn't think so. But Middlesbrough didn't know what had hit them. They were bricking their pants everytime the ball looked like coming in.  Will Monk do it again?

No idea. Absolutely none.  Keeps his cards close to his chest but he's clearly giving the lads the right words in the ear holes and got them onside. And lets be right, that's half the job in this game. 

 

COME ON WEDNESDAY!

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PS- FOR THOSE OWLS FANS HEADING UP THERE ,  THE WEATHER DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.

BE CAREFUL PEOPLE!

 

AND IF YOU CAN'T BE CAREFUL... GO IN ONE OF THESE

 

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[N0rtherner]

Excellent OMDT, but this has all gone boobies up now... it's Monday night as I'm writing this, sitting in a London flat for a half-term holiday over "here" with a bottle of wine... not my usual morning read of the match preview with a decent cuppa. Doubt the impact of that really, more hoping we'll continue in good style and see if we can go into the international break on a high with even more wins.

 

Up The Owls!!

Edited September 30, 2019 by N0rtherner

[OWL1969]

18 minutes ago, A12owl said:

Let me be the first....correction second to congratulate you Your Lordship on a most intruiging OMDT that isn't an OMDT.

A 2-0 win for us tomorrow or today when most read this.

Have you nothing better to do @northerner

Everyone will read it today, you can't read it Yesterday or tomorrow!

Although tomorrow when I look back at this, I won't be sure if I posted it today or Yesterday.

Now look what you've done A12, I've confused myself now.

C'mon Wednesday 3 more points tomorrow (or today, no I'm certain it's tomorrow.)

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by OWL1969

[OxonOwl]

I'll read it in three weeks time. I won't know the difference .

[owlandished]

29 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said:

Luongo will be chomping at the bit for a midfield birth

 

 

[Ibbo48]

Love the Big Bad Dom song, Snoots. Is this already being sung on the terraces or is it an original penned by yourself ?

A version of a classic song from our youth when ‘shooting up the Sheriff’ meant just that .

 

[Westfield Owl]

I’m interested to see how we manage our squad off the back of the best result of the season so far, with the games coming thick and fast at the moment.

 

I’d just make the one change tonight; Luongo for Hutchinson.  Stick with 442 as it worked so well against Boro.

 

If Lees is fit, he starts on the bench.  Neither Borner or Iorfa deserve to be dropped or shunted out to full-back.

[offalyowl]

Brilliant as always snoots and I honestly can't see monk changing the team unless hutch is injured so let's hope it stays the same and the same scoreline 4-1 win away and into the playoffs Uto 

[BRADDO]

I miss Stubbs! 

 

Come onnnnnnnnnnnn Wednesday! 

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

THE WEDNESDAY

[Holmowl]

Brilliant Snoots. Loved that.

 

Although what Dom’s pear-shaped tool has to do with football I’ll never know.

 

And you’ve started something that will dominate pub-talk and social media today. Just like “who was the best Bond?” and “who was the best Dr Who?” debates, you have now kicked-off “who was the best Family Fortunes host?”. 

 

For me it’s an easy one:-

 

1. Les Dennis 

2. Bob Monkhouse 

3. Vernon Kay

4. Max Bygraves

5. Andy Collins 

6. George Lazenby

 

Cant wait for tonight. I think Monk will be tempted to revert to 433, but will surely stick with Nuhiu-Fletcher up front. How can you change an away 4-1 winning team? 

 

Never sensible to look beyond your next game, but you’d need to be a pretty cool customer not to think that if we win this we have Wigan at home between us and going into the International break in the top three or four and in fabulous shape.

[full fathom five]

COME ON WEDNESDAY

[SwellOwl]

Take a draw but I feel we will just sneak it, 1-2! 

[Holmowl]

Reach scores in batches.

 

In 17/18 he got 3 in 3.

In 18/19 he got 3 in 4.

 

Confidence player? Isn’t everyone? Lets hope we see another one tonight.

 

Fletcher similarly. He’s got 4 in 5 now.

 

3-1 Nuhiu, Fletcher, Reach

[Tarquin]

Well done Snoots, you have got me singing in the shower. Mrs Tarquin then banging on the bathroom door asking if I'd fallen over? 

The ballad of bigDom wasn't thought through to the end though was it,? The mine collapsed on big John who was never seen again!! 

An end like that (even metaphorical) would result in a crowd arriving from the Nuns Chuff with a length of stout bull rope and some timber to knock up a gallows on your doorstep. 

 

Just sayin like FFS

[slinger208b]

We’re on sky red button...

[OWLERTON GHOST]

The Wednesday Steamroller keeps on a Rollin 

0-2 

"Lots of big lads 

n a few little uns " 

That's Monks team talk over ....

[Orlando_Trustful]

HMS PTL doesn't stop.

 

0 V 1

 

Action Man (57)

[Womble Owl]

I can't see anything less than 3 points tonight if im being honest. 

 

I actually think it'll be our home games where we struggle this season. 

 

1-3 

[latemodelchild]

Just had a horrible flashback to Hull away last season. Nasty business. And now I'm thinking it's a midweek game and we never win midweek games. Plus we're in the mix and teams round us are playing each other so a win would be fantastic. 

 

Good luck Garry, you're gonna need it.