Team News From The Wycombe Camp

Last updated : 11 December 2009 By Thetashkentterror

Adams Park
Wycombe winger Matt Phillips spoke to the Bucks Free Press ahead of his side's League One match against Carlisle at Brunton Park tomorrow, Phillips pleased with the training at Adams Park under recently appointed boss Gary Waddock :

"The training is good and it is working for us. It is all sharp work that we are doing now and it is a different style of work to what we were doing under Peter Taylor.The manager has come in and changed things and it is working. The sessions are much more like a match situation now.

"We are starting to get results and show that we are better than our league position suggests. We believe it is only a matter of time now before we start climbing the table. Everyone is buzzing and enjoying it."





Meanwhile Wanderers defender Chris Westwood commented to the Free Press :

"We are showing promotion form at the moment but we need to because of the position we are in. We are finally getting the results that we have deserved. It's building our confidence. I've played in relegation teams before but this doesn't feel like one. The confidence is unbelievable and the fans have really helped with that because they never got on the lads' backs."




In team news for the visitors on loan QPR midfielder Gareth Ainsworth will miss out tomorrow, the former Loftus Road caretaker manager currently sidelined with a calf injury. Another veteran midfielder that will be available though is ex-Bristol City man Tommy Doherty who has returned to training late this week following a short-term ankle problem.

Also available now after a small absence through illness are former Weymouth striker Stuart Beavon and one-time Ipswich Town trainee midfielder Matt Bloomfield. Two players are definitely missing though after undergoing recent respective hip and knee operations, the pair being ex-Gillingham centre-half Leon Johnson and former Wigan Athletic youth team midfielder Lewis Montrose.

20-year old striker John Akinde plays the last game of his current one-month loan spell from Bristol City tomorrow, with Wycombe hoping to extend that deal. In other signing news at Adams Park, boss Gary Waddock currently has Eastleigh goalkeeper Steve Arnold on trial, Waddock having switched his attention to Arnold after not choosing to take on another Blue Square South goalkeeper, in Rikki Banks from Lewes, after a trial spell with the Chairboys.



The referee for tomorrow's match is Peter Quinn from Middlesbrough, and he will be assisted down the lines by Nicholas Greenhalgh from Bury and Ross Joyce, who like referee Quinn, is also from Middlesbrough. Meanwhile the fourth official is Tony Harrington from Durham.