Fenton to Miss Lincoln

By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 09/12/2006

NICK Fenton will miss Town's big derby game against Lincoln next week after picking up his fifth booking of the season against Shrewsbury. With Town only having two recognised centre backs, Alan Buckley will either have to play someone out of position or bring in another loan player.

Youth Team player Miles Chamberlain had been the only other central defender at the club besides Whittle and Fenton, but he was released by Alan Buckley last month. Of the players still at the club Gary Croft has played as an emergency centre back earlier in his career. Besides Croft and a loan player the only alternatives would be either to play a defensive midfielder such as Gary Harkins in the back four, or to raid the youth team for a rookie defender. A formation change presumably would be unthinkable for Alan Buckley, for whom 4-4-2 is something of a mantra.