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Sep 24Liked by Machel Hewitt

This Chelsea side has some good players in it, but the Men's First Team are also playing against Barrow at Stamford Bridge tonight, and I expect a few of the "better" U21 lads will get called up for that squad.

That said, it'll be a tough test, this lot have scored goals for fun in recent years, so it should make for a good game.

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Sep 24Liked by Machel Hewitt

RE: Bromley, though, I'm not sure.

I listed to you and Col this morning, and I do think there are few issues to solve across the team. The main ones for me, as you've highlighted, are the midfield 2 and the 2 guys in behind Cheek.

Could we switch to 3 in midfield? Have a lone 6 (Thompson?) with two 8s either side (Leigh + Charles? Congreve?) This would allow us to have genuine width up top, though I don't think we have the personnel in the squad to play wingers.

If that's the case, I like either 2 up top (Cheek + someone will to run beyond him) or 3 guys in behind him. That would allow one to go beyond him (Fela? Dinanga?) and one or two to hunt second balls and create something (Corey? Leigh? Congreve?)

I'm curious to see if he tries something drastically different tonight, or if it's just big changes to the XI.

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Great article and I love reading your work. My point is a bit off topic. I went to the game against Cambridge and the crowd size was small. We know this is a chance to get players minutes who aren’t playing, so we know it will be a second string playing against a team of Chelsea kids. That is less appealing to most than watching the first team against MKDons on Saturday, so why is the club charging at their normal pricing? I would like to go tonight but I am put off because of the ticket price. Perhaps I am alone in my thinking and there will be a big crowd tonight, I hope so.

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I would be shocked if the crowd reaches 1,500

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