Andrew Abbott's Blog

Friday 2 December 2011

The latest news on the Newport fixture is………

……..That David Holdsworth is not giving anything away as to whether he will change things around for this game. He named an unchanged team for York (and look where that got us) but has plenty of options for a bit of a change round with Francis Laurent, Nicky Nicolau, Jamie Taylor, Luke Medley and Mitchell Nelson all pushing for a place along with Jean Francois Christophe who was on the bench last Tuesday.


Sam Smith and Andy Hutchinson are injured still. One would suppose if anyone is looking over their shoulder it might be Kyle Perry, hauled off at York and largely ineffective against Ebbsfleet although Holdsworth may not agree as Perry completed 90 minutes plus injury time in that game. Perry was revealed as a closet musician this morning on BBC Lincolnshire as singer and guitarist with beat combo Stubblemelt who are on said station tonight as part of the BBC introducing programme. He will be hoping that is not his swansong as of course David Holdsworth does have form when it comes to dispensing with Perry’s services.

Newport occupy an even lowlier position in the table than City although they did achieve a 4.0 win at Hayes and Yeading on Tuesday so if anyone thought that here were three easy points for the taking clearly Newport have other ideas.

City are in Wales tonight having had their overnight stay sponsored by the Lincolnshire Echo. The club are also indebted to Birmingham City who allowed the team to break their journey and do an hours training at their facility. Clearly our manager has friends in high places.

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