We will find out in an hour or so what the team is. Hopefully it will not cause the consternation the selection a week ago did. That one was atrocious. Its faults were an improvised fullback in Browne when we had two proper fullbacks available, the sterile midfield '3' utterly devoid of creativity in which the strength and running of Potts and Sinclair were coupled with the bizarre selection of Bodin and the use of Barkhuizen who is an attacking midfielder as a centre forward when we had both Maguire and Stockley available.
All of those errors were remedied in midweek and the difference in performance was manifest. So for today the fullbacks have to be two from Fisher, Rafferty and Hughes, the '3' must have a proper creative player in it which if he is available has to mean Johnson with Browne and Harrop as additional options and we have to start with either Maguire or Stockley upfront.
That still leaves AN with some tough decisions - Rafferty or Hughes assuming Fisher starts, Bauer or Storey alongside Davies, Browne or Ledson alongside Pearson though I just cannot see how AN can omit Ledson who was our best player a week ago. Also if we do start Maguire upfront, which given AN's previous practice seems the most likely option, then with Barkhuizen moved back to where he should be played and you would hope Johnson there would only be room for one of Browne (assuming Ledson starts), Harrop, Potts and Sinclair. I would probably keep Sinclair back since he and Stockley make for a very good aggressive double whammy option later on.
Anyhow we do need something from today to get our season underway. Let's see if we can go out and get what we need.