Honestly don't get this critique. Has created plenty of chances over the last half dozen games. Not his fault we miss them. That said he's been slightly wasteful today in the final third but played his part in the goal we did score.

Agreed. Don't understand this criticism of cantwell, he created two great chances one for ohashi and one for gueye. The gueye one he couldn't have put it more on a plate for him. He's taking the ball, carrying it, giving it the wide players in good areas. Putting great through balls and crosses in. He's really not an issue. He won't be here that long, he's too good for this team.

Very worrying, the lack of ability in the final third really starting to show. I don't agree with eustaces team selection especially the wingers and I was very disappointed with his hesitancy to change the attacking line in the second half. That's said we're stuck with the players we have and that's on the venkys. The real and only positive for me was cantwell. He's a class above and created 2 fantastic chances, and kept getting the ball on the half turn driving at their back 4. Problem is the runs were largely poor and lacking in numbers. We then proceed to miss every chance we made. Gueye - I thought he'd score more if we actually put the ball on his head in the box. I was wrong. Weimann - hes got it between the ears but he's past it. I've no idea why he plays so frequently. Hedges - very poor. Wasted his big chance, got the ball in plenty of space down the left and did nothing with it. Dolan was an upgrade off the bench, which says it all. Ohashi - isnt as bad as gueye, has shown patches of quality. Isn't doing it right now. Leonard - missed his chance, I'd give him a run up top to see if he can do it.

I'd probanly be recalling markanday, garrett and o'riordan in January. Markanday I'd be loaning out to a league 1 side. He's got regular game time at l2 level but if he's ever going to make it here he's going to have to do it at a high level. He's got games under his belt now, a good time to test him in league 1 provided he continues in the same vain up until January. Garrett if he's not getting regular game time then he needs sending somewhere he will. The lad needs to play week in week out. O'riordan could recalled as cb cover depending on the severity of the Carter injury. Especially if we are going to a back 5 more regularly.

Rumour over on another thread was he refused to play for the under 21s and has been banished. I'd prefer to change the shape to a back 3 to utilise brittain and Becks width and attacking threat due to our lack of decent wingers. That said we are pretty good defensively in the current shape so if we are insisting on 4-2-3-1 you'd be looking at siggurdson in on the left and cantwell at 10. Neither Weimann, dolan or Hedges really deserves to start and at the moment only offer work rate /defensively work. I'd be going: Pears Hyam. Batth. Pickering Brittain. Buckley. Tronstad. Beck Cantwell Ohashi. Leonard

I wouldn't describe us as low effort

Agree 100%. Performancs of late have been poor, thought we were good today, moved the ball well and created 2 must score chances. I know a lot of the focus is on the striker position but it's the 3 behind that concern the most for me. Other than cantwell we are missing quality and pace. Ultimately that's a problem with the budget and the recent recruitment.

Pears Jrc. Hyam batth. Beck Brittain Trav Tronstad Cantwell Gueye Leonard Subs: toth, Fadz, pickering, Buckley, siggy, Hedges, dolan, weimann, ohashi

Leonard having a good game

There's an argument to freshen things up a bit after looking very flat at Coventry which was the first mid week league game. I agree getting your best players in their best positions. Carter for example. On cantwell, I think ideally he plays as 10 but we really lack pace and ball carrying out wide at the moment so that could be influencing the decision to play him there. Ultimately for cantwell his best position is one where he gets on the ball more, maybe starting from the left and drifting helps that more atm. If you look at the way we press (in a 4-4-2), dolan as the 10 presses higher up the pitch. Perhaps the worry for cantwell is if he plays there he drops too deep to look for the ball affecting the press or if he's pressing higher up then he might go longer periods without touching the ball. I'd like to see eustace explain it tbh.

I think he is good defensively in that he works hard and protects his full back. Interesting that eustace has admitted he was going to start ACD before his knock and he thought Hedges was very good on Saturday or something to that effect

No way cantwell doesn't start if he's fit. He's been in the building 6 weeks now. He's started games and had enough time off the bench. He didn't come to sit on the bench and we didn't sign him to sit on the bench. Our success this season I believe will come down to wether his potential can be unlocked. I'll put my hat on him starting (provided there's an injury there which I haven't missed)

I didn't think he was as bad yesterday as some seem to be suggesting. That said he's clearly not a finisher. I'd be going two up top with him and ohashi. There's no pattern of play to the way we build up under eustace. Might as well be direct. We press in a 4-4-2 anyway.

Batth is shite

He backs off because he's a cb playing at right back. A cb in that position needs to back off, a right back needs to go tighter.

Toth Brittain carter.Hyam or batth Pickering Travis tronstad ACD. Cantwell. Hedges Gueye Subs: Pears, batth or hyam, duru, JRc, Buckley, Baker, sigurdsson, dolan, ohashi,

If ACD develops that right foot he could be very dangerous.

Pears Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering Travis tronstad ACD. Cantwell. Dolan Gueye or ohashi Subs: Toth Batth JRC Duru Buckley Baker Hedges Weimann Gueye or ohashi

We didn't move the ball anywhere near quick enough today especially in the 2nd half. Felt Buckley was an obvious early change that wasn't made Our build up play and patterns in the 1st and 2nd thirds were really poor and quite concerning. Using Carter as the width downt he right didn't make a ton of sense to me when you have the more technical jrc on the bench. I don't think the 2 cbs used the ball very well at all.

Thought he got his teams selection and tactics wrong from the out set today. Thought he got his subs wrong and wasn't aggressive enough, we didn't use the man advantage at all. The positive is he's highered our baseline in terms of bad performances. Not conceding bad goals goes a long way to winning you points on a consistent basis.

I don't

I could see it just not for 90 mins. On the hour when we're chasing the game for example I think it could work.

Pears Brittain. Carter hyam beck Travis. Tronstad Weimann. Dolan. Hedges Ohashi Subs: toth, batth, Pickering, jrc, Buckley, baker, cantwell, sigurdsson, ACD, Gueye. (There's 10 there but it's really hard to decide who to drop) If brittain isn't fit then you'd stick with Carter rb and batth cb. Think you'd he looking to get Hedges off as first change.

Thought Carter was okay. A couple of odd choices positionally but that's to be expected to some extent. I'd go further on Baker and thought he was poor. Clearly not a winger, and one where the manager is trying to crowbar him into the team. I also wasn't massively impressed with his set pieces. I was also really looking forward to seeing cantwell but he looks very short of match fitness. It's going to be a good few weeks before he's starting. Don't let distract from what was a very pleasing afternoon at ewood.

By palace yes. By england no