There's no way they'll all stay fit. Davenport will get a chance.

I thought Rothwell was a lot better today. More considered use of the ball, and good driving runs. Rothwells already a useful player and has a lot of potential to improve. Brereton it is hard to see what potential he has.

My guess is Davenport will get a go.

I would say Travis natural position is where he played today. He's a box to box player, not a sitter. Not really sure where you are coming from?

Devastating this. He's such a big part of our team.

?? He's first name on the team sheet every week for Mowbray. How is he marginalised?

He played centrally today for 70 mins till Armstrong came on. Thing with Brereton is you can tell him to play centrally in the box but he will drift of his own accord to the wing.

I am okay with him being 3rd choice.

Thought we played really well today everywhere except in the box. Technique and passing was top drawer. Dolan, Holtby, Travis, Rothwell all a joy to watch. Buckley made a nice cameo. We really really suffered though in the striking department. Brereton had a few decent runs out wide but he's supposed to be the centreforward. It was laughable. We had no one in the box, and couldn't create a real threat. I really think we should drop Brereton and look for better options. He just doesn't give us anything. When Gallaghers back we need to give him a try centrally.

That side would be a bit like Kean's famous forfeit. We need to get our side and system settled. Resting one or two would be okay, but should try and keep largely the same team if possible. Kaminski Nyambe. Lenihan. Williams. Bell Travis. Davenport. Evans. JRC. Armstrong. Brereton.

I have to say it's hard how we would meet his demands. Maybe because he's on a free we will throw him a big signing on fee but keep the wages in our structure. Could work? I think that's how we swung Holtby.

I agree I think that's where having a flexible approach could help. If a team sits in going 4231 or 4411 could help using whoever is at the 10 role to unlock. But then I suppose if they sit back we can still press them hard in 433 and get them to make mistakes and turn over the ball. I know they're a trillion times better than us, but Liverpool hardly struggled to break teams down in a 433, they were just relentless. I guess we will just see how it works. Probably other teams will work out best thing against us, no matter the vaguries of the formation, is to just hoof it as we are so weak under a high ball or running back towards our goal.

I am surprised by Davenport too. I think he's decent. Johnson and Evans have qualities but are not going to last all season. I would imagine that Travis, Johnson, Evans, Davenport will get rotated in the flanking two CM "water carrier" roles, while Holtby and Buckley will share the central playmaker CM role. If we are playing high pressing those flanking roles are going to be really really intense as they are asked to cover a lot of ground. If you run out of legs there to whole system falls apart. I can see a fair bit of rotation as we play Saturday/Tuesday a lot.

I think to be honest you are dammed if you do or dammed if you don't at the moment. He's trying something new, it looked pretty good against Bournemouth, let's see how it goes next few games. Prefer that to just hiding away with a defensive game.

Don't think Tony, or any manger, would want Dack that far away from goal.

Yes I was thinking that last night. Basically he would have to play as a false 9 I think. On the balance I do think we are better pursuing a system which work for half a dozen of our attacking players rather than just one. That said maybe we could have a fluid system that switches to 4231 when needed with the same personel? 433 Kaminski Nyambe. Lenihan. Williams. Bell Travis. Holtby. Johnson. JRC. Dack. Armstrong. 4231 Kaminski Nyambe. Lenihan. Williams. Bell Travis. Johnson. JRC. Dack. Holtby Armstrong

Oh enormously so. To be fair to Brereton though last three or four games have been his best. Starting to look like a reasonable asset, mainly because he can now quite regularly beat his full back. Has bulked up a lot.

Based on what I've seen he's seems a.nailed on future star. Last time I saw a player come through with that sort of quality was Hoilett. I'm so confused why Preston let him go. Mental. He's the ideal last 20/30 minute player. Will get a lot of game time for us. Should have scored on Saturday, but that apart his all-round game was excellent.

I know hope springs eternal but having watched the Bournemouth game I have to say I like the new system which is quite a radical departure from where we were for most of last season, we've actually got quite a lot of good attacking players, so am interested to see if Tony and the team have turned a corner. Desperately needs some quality defenders though or it's all for naught.

Couldnt watch the game yesterday, but watched the whole match back this evening. All in all very unlucky to not get a point, draw would have been fair. Also hard to really say any of the goals were major defensive errors, more that the Bournemouth players made some incisive moves and finished well. Johnson, Evans and Dolan all had chances where if they had shown similar cool finishing we would have scored. Also it was really hard to see if Holtbys goal was offside. Looked very close. Obviously the 433 is going to lead to some pretty open play. But I'm looking forward to it to be honest. In Dolan, Rothwell and Chapman we have players who can come off the bench and scare teams, and we are a very energetic and youthful side who can cover a lot of grass. Del had a surprisingly good game, I like the look of Kaminski. Bell was actually less of a defensive liability (but was an offensive one). Still we do need two really top defenders to kick on. Think this could be quite a fun season for us playing some ultra aggressive football with quite a lot of entertaining attacking players in the team. Expecting mid table again, but it should be a more interesting season.

It's really ballsy move by Mowbray. Straight out of Klopps "heavy metal football" playbook. Level of fitness to make it work is extreme. But I definitely prefer it to last year's initial "lump it to Gallagher on the wing" tactics which were rubbish.

Sorry I meant Davenport.

There is a chance we will be better - if the two or three of the young lads (JRC, Dolan, Buckley, Downing, Wharton, Magloire) make a significant impact, and if either of Brereton or Gallagher offer something (as they didn't last year). Plus obviously hope is Kaminski is significantly better that Walton. So some cause for hope there. But we are an injury to Lenihan or Nyambe away from disaster. And left back is already hopeless. We need to sort that.

He's always been like that.

Fair point! Does say he was born here though. Does his dad own a place near Blackburn?