Source: FOOTYMAD
Boothroyd ponders best positions for his players
City boss experimenting Coventry City manager Aidy Boothroyd has revealed he is still experimenting with his players with the aim of getting the best out of them. He is trying to find out which players make the most effective partnerships, who is most comfortable in which position and how players cope with playing out of position when the need arises. When Boothroyd was asked if the team that played at Northampton was close to his first choice, he said, “I think if I had been here a couple of years it would be fair to say yes, but because I have only seen two or three weeks of the players I think you get to know people better over a period of time, but I wanted to see Chris Hussey play left midfield and I wanted to see Ben Turner paired with Nathan Cameron." // '); // ]]> "I want to see how Carl Baker does on the right and what Roy O’Donovan and Freddy Eastwood are like together. I want to look at a number of different things, how Sammy Clingan and Michael Doyle play together, Sammy and Aron Gunnarsson, so I want to look at lots of different variations and at the same time I want to make sure we work on things we do in training and win games as well because we want to get a momentum going." “So balancing all that together I feel like a juggler at the moment, but I guess that’s what management is and wrapping everything up, that’s not a preferred line-up because with a little bit of luck we will be bringing in two or three other players and with a fair wind we might get them in the next two or three weeks.” Boothroyd then gave an update on the injuries to David Bell and Stephan O'Halloran, “Stephen has come from Villa and it is a different intensity to the reserves but he is a terrific player. He has got a little bit of a stiff back and we don’t want to risk any injuries and with Belly, because of the operation he had on his knee in the summer." "What we don’t want to do is risk bringing him back too soon, so it is a case of little and often for him and we are not quite happy with him playing a game just yet, but he will get his games in. I gave a few players 90 minutes at Northampton." "Carl Baker had to go off injured in Austria and I started to see him stretching off so I didn’t want to risk him, so I took him off. It is about measuring it and managing it and making sure that if I think one or two are struggling them I take them off and give someone else a go.”
