National League Half Term Team of the Season
I first started putting this team together before Christmas and felt pretty confident with my selections. Three weeks later, I’m preparing to write up my rationales and I’m finding every reason to doubt myself. For the second time in a month, I sat down, wrote each position and collated a list of players that have played regularly during the league season. I then cherry-picked those that caught my eye and slowly whittled that list down. Thankfully, I came out with a very similar selection of players. Clearly, I was onto something. That’s not to say I haven’t made a couple of changes to the final XI. For example, Callum Howe and Ruben Rodrigues made the initial cut. Matty Palmer and Michael Cheek didn’t. And from start to finish, I’ve been really torn over whether to choose Joel Senior or Kane Smith at right-back. As ever, the 11 players selected had to form as an actual football team, not just a collection of 11 players, otherwise it would have been a pointless exercise call