Wasn't at the game so can't comment on sendings-off etc. With regard to next week - I believe I'm right in thinking that no loans can be made at this stage? also, when is the deadline for eligibility for a Cup-tie (some competitions it has in the past gone right to the day before, others as much as a week in advance) in the case of free agents?
Assuming no signings are possible, a starting line-up looks to me like this:
Deasy
Sinnott - Leather - Heathcote - Griffin
Bowerman - Richman - Moult - Crowther
Lawrie
Reeves
(alternative - Lawrie plays right, Bowerman behind Reeves)
I base this on the conviction that neither Clee nor Rankine is fit enough for more than 30 minutes tops.
Subs - Williams, Rankine, Clee, Swift, Davis, Stouppis; Densmore might have to be named to make up seven but I don't imagine he'd be a serious candidate to play at this point. There really is nobody else.
Colchester let another five in today, having been one up at Burton - so I suppose there's always hope, but 'to lose one player is unfortunate, to lose two looks like carelessness' (a thought loosely based on Oscar Wilde!).