Gary 'life is like a box of chocolates' thornton can't sort his own players out so what chance does he have of another teams?

He has been released but dont know where he will end up.
It will be a Championship club

According to the Star , Howden went off with concussion & is a doubt ,Thackray received a neck injury.
GT checking on Feka & Barnett .

The Dons have named a 20-man squad for the Good Friday match:

Richie Barnett, Zac Braham, Tom Carr, Kieran Cross, Sam Doherty, Brad England, Jordie Hedges, Chris Heil, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Kyle Kesik, Charlie Martin, Jack Miller, Jason Muranka, Feka Paleaaesina, Connor Scott, Louis Sheriff, Russ Spiers, Jason Tali, Jamie Thackray, Ryan Wright.

Mason Tonks, Liam Welham, Jordan Howden and Makali Aizue are injured.

No Mark Castle , is he injured ? Thought he was having a good season .
Lets hope Feka & Thackray are fit .

Ex-Dons man has just signed an extended contract at York until the end of 2018. I thought he was older than 30.

rlhttp://yorkcityknights.com/club/robbo-extends-knights-stay/rl

And IMO we should have not let him go

Another one of the catalogue of errors they keep doing.

Signing up the players they want for next season early shows some
intent imo

Maybe James Ford has a 'five year plan' too ?

Still cannot understand why Cas has been left out , not mentioned as being injured . Has been consistent this season .

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GT seems to have some sort of squad rotation in mind. He must know something we don't. I would certainly have Cas in my team for Friday.

Only a fool would rotate his best team with other squad members while still playing the better sides ... and I have to include York amongst those.
Rotation is for use against lesser sides and we are in the fortunate position of having half a division of those.

In other words if all the teams in our division were good, I would play all my best players all the time less injuries/loss of form etc.

If we had two games a few days apart as sometimes happens I would consider rotation.

For games as far apart as 5/6/7 days and more, rotation wouldn't exist.

Chopping and changing is really, really bad.
It can be forced by circumstances I know ...
But it makes Thornton look like a ditherer.

Anyone who sits on his hands and watches his side being slaughtered is a dithering numpty anyway.

What did he actually do in a material way to alter the course of that game apart from substitutions?
Did he swap players around from left to right for instance to strengthen a weak side.
I saw no remedial work in the 30 mins of suffering that I endured.

'I was particularly disappointed with our defence.' Gary says in the Free Press.
Well you organised it and it never was much cop against half decent sides.

What a poorly organised side and poorly used side we have ...

I'm not GTs biggest fan but to be fair I don't think any coach would have been able to do much to save us last week against Toronto. There comes a point that if a team is outclassed by a wide margin, you get shredded. We got shredded.

Training can't have been a happy place this week. Morale must have been at a low ebb. I'll be more interested to see if GT can lift the players for the York game.

I'd love to know what messages are actually sent out onto the pitch during a game.

I agree with S/O that the time to rotate players is when we're up against the lesser lights in this league. The York game isn't a time for tinkering. We need our best 17 out there to make sure we have the best possible chance of winning.

GT must be hoping Feka & Thackray are fit to leave Cas out.

Its time to put your hands up guys and prove us doubters wrong do you want to win promotion this season or not , just about calmed down after last Sunday & will be there to give support on Friday .


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