[Paragon of Virtue]

Sheckleford is fine as starting RB for me, before he picked up his injury he looked solid and more than comfortable against higher level opposition in the cup. I would still get another RB for depth though as Mandeville is better than just a back up RB.

[Mr Mercury]

dtp, on 07 June 2024 - 09:32 AM, said:

Must admit from a quick count up from the players in and out of contract thread I had counted Connor Cook as part of the squad number. As such, I thought we were up to 23 outfield players over 21 when it seems to be 22. So, if we only sign U21 players going forward there would not need to be any departures, loans out, or players not counted in the squad.

Interesting team selection now -

Boot
Mandeville, Dunkley, Grimes, Gordon
Naylor, Akinola
Colclough, Madden, Dobra
Grigg

???

Would absolutely love to see Tyrer back but not sure it?ll happen, either way I fully expect Boot to be No2 again this season with either Tyrer or AN Other as first choice.

[Bluenosey]

Slight problem might be that neither colclough or dobra play well off the right, colclough looked like a fish out of water at the start of last season playing on the right

[sophocles]

Agree that most of our attacking midfielders seem to prefer playing on the left. However, I think Dobra is also effective on the right; can't remember which home game towards the end of the season it was, but he ran through the opposition defence wide on the right and played a perfect ball in for Mandeville to score. I'm sure there are other examples where Dobra and Mandeville interchanged down the right to good effect.

[Osborne again]

 Paragon of Virtue, on 07 June 2024 - 01:11 PM, said:

Sheckleford is fine as starting RB for me, before he picked up his injury he looked solid and more than comfortable against higher level opposition in the cup. I would still get another RB for depth though as Mandeville is better than just a back up RB.

Mandeville isn't and never will be a full back. He's an emergency stand-in only. As you rightly say, he's wasted so far back anyway, and some are trying to shoehorn him into the side believing others will be in front of him in the starting eleven, but, in my opinion, he'll play more games than he'll miss.
As for Sheckleford, he's getting better and it wouldn't surprise me if we go without signing another full back and rely on Williams to cover both defensive positions with Mandeville as a fill in.

[Fit as a Nelson]

Cooper offered a new contract at Leeds

[danblue]

 Fit as a Nelson, on 07 June 2024 - 04:19 PM, said:

Cooper offered a new contract at Leeds

We've signed Chey Dunkley anyway