Stan has almost a full strength squad

Last updated : 13 February 2004 By Tony Scholes

Robbie Blake - back in the side after missing last week
With Robbie Blake returning having sat out last week’s win over Gillingham with a one match ban, and Arthur having come through a midweek reserve game we have a total of twenty players to choose from although that does include the unusable subs Matt O’Neill and Joel Pilkington.

The only player unavailable is skipper Graham Branch who apparently has picked up a calf strain this week and that rules him out.

It is unlikely that there will be many changes from last week although Robbie will almost certainly come back in. Just a year ago we played out 5th round tie at Fulham and Stan sprung a surprise by relegating him to the bench and proceeded to leave him there until after the cup defeat at Watford. History will not repeat itself.

He will almost certainly come back for Alan Moore who didn’t have the best of games last week but certainly did not deserve the dreadful treatment he received from the Turf Moor crowd.

Other than that it would be no surprise to see us keep the side as it was last week although there have been suggestions that Bradley Orr could come in for his first start in place of Neil Wood.

If there is just that one change then we will line up: Brian Jensen, Lee Roche, David May, Mark McGregor, Mo Camara, Glen Little, Richard Chaplow, Tony Grant, Neil Wood, Robbie Blake, Ian Moore. Subs: Paul Rachubka, Dean West, Bradley Orr, Paul Weller, Luke Chadwick.

That would mean not even a seat on the bench for Alan Moore, who had one of his best ever games for the Clarets at Millwall, and Arthur.

Millwall too have a strong squad to choose from and add both Andy Marshall, currently on loan from Ipswich, and John Sutton to the squad which won at Telford. Both were ineligible for the Telford tie.

Marshall will almost certainly play in goal at the expense of Willy Gueret who made his first appearance for over two years on Wednesday at Bucks Head. First choice keeper, the highly rated Tony Warner, is ruled out with injury.

That is expected to be the only change to Millwall’s starting line up with Sutton, brother of Chris, on the bench. Mark McCammon is also expected to be on the bench, he was at Telford, after recovering from both injury and a knife attack from one of his team mates the now sacked Moses Ashikodi – and we thought Kevin Muscat was the one to worry about.

Millwall’s expected team is: Andy Marshall, Kevin Muscat, Robbie Ryan, Tim Cahill, Darren Ward, Matt Lawrence, Paul Ifill, David Livermore, Neil Harris, Danny Dichio, Dennis Wise. Subs from: Willy Gueret, Marvin Elliott, Peter Sweeney, Kevin Braniff, Andy Roberts, Mark McCammon, John Sutton.