Not too much to discuss with the first 11 - Harry Kite should have done enough to keep his place in the team so the only real debate is over who should play at left wing back. However, with Colin Daniel now fully fit and Archie getting close we are reaching the point where quite a number of perfectly good players are not even going to make the bench.
Back in the 80's Sutton had a really good team but they regressed a bit after that and by the time we were in the Conference they were much less of a force. It's only really in the last 5 or so years that they've picked up again.
One of the advantages that Sutton have over many of the recent new arrivals to the League is that they have a large potential catchment area. Yes, Wimbledon are to the north and Palace to the east but that still leaves tens of thousands of people for whom Sutton is now their nearest league club.
I dunno. It will take a long time to build up their support base, if ever. This is not a football area. Only 2,484 at their game on Tuesday - amazingly 251 of them from Hartlepool. Even fewer last Saturday: 2,427, including 297 from Stevenage.
Those attendances compare favourably with the likes of Forest Green and Salford. I'm not saying the attendances will shoot up over night but just that they have more potential to than if they were based in a village of 5 000 people or less than 5 miles from two of the biggest clubs in the world.
Wimbledon sell out Plough Lane at the moment.
That's just the London factor. I've no doubt a fairly hefty proportion of that 251 would be London-based.
Although Sutton is now a regular London Borough, it was until relatively recently a genteel place with Cheam, Banstead and Epsom close by. The support is at best encouraging in a downbeat sort of way..You will hear chants not heard since the seventies with clapping to accompany...The club is run by committee and the members of the committee still wear blazers with club tie and club crest on the pockets...Bradford, it ain't..