yankfan

Where else would he possibly go?

We don’t have any to sit there...they’re either sitting with the physios or utter shit

Kaminski Nyambe Lenihan Braithwaite Douglas Travis Davenport Dack Elliott Brereton Armstrong Rothwell and Johnson ready to come in at half if the center of the park needs changing.

I guess your right...just tell the lad to try and tuck it away and surely it will get cleared out of danger

Douglas with a hospital ball to Davenport to earn the yellow

He wouldn’t be a finished product...my concern is he’s not that good in the air. How many times has he misjudged crosses in the box. That’s a pretty critical quality for a center half.

I’d expect Pool to recall Elliot when TM is sacked, which I’m fine with. Elliot was here to help us try an win promotion, that ship has sailed. I rather now see us develop our own lads.

The man has to get sacked. He himself set the expectations at the kick off to the campaign that we would be in or around a playoff position. 14th is just as close to 6th as it is to 22nd. By his own standards the squad is not performing to expectations.

Because he can’t outperform the AA. No business playing out wide but also no business playing at all if you can’t beat out the competition for the place in the squad

A back 4

He’s also much to soft the play center and hold the ball up. Doesn’t have the pace to threaten the back 2 center half’s nor the airial ability.

Don’t worry The Gaffer will bring Dolan on with 1 min left in regulation. Daft tactics and all

A totally different player since the restart

With 5 substitutes, we run SG out there for 5 min the pull him off

Would like to see Downing replace him. Has the class that we miss from Holtbe

Started when he hit/sniffed top 6. Like a broken record. Get near the top six and go on to lose 6 of 10 while only picking up 6 points

Apart from the the times we’re shipping goals and opportunities to the opposition, our defense is tits. ?

I said this after the last match. 4-3-3, or 4-2-3-1 it’s all the same really. It’s just the direction from the gaffer on players selected, player roles and expectations. Against the top sides we can’t select the same teams with the same directives as the bottom feeders. It’s abundantly clear our back 4 don’t have the quality required to boss the Watfords and Readings of the league. In both matches our center half’s needed cover, both in front of them and out wide.

Anyone want to admit the pressing 4-3-3 line up is leaving out center half’s exposed. Maybe with Travis back we could play this way but Johnson and Evans don’t provide enough cover for our outside backs to be so advanced. Add to that our captain certainly isn’t good enough to be left even numbers.

I guess you can put the names on paper however you like but the mid 3 are all fairly central, one has more defensive responsibilities, while the other two more freedom to operate. One more advanced and the other a bit deeper. The wide advanced players also have defensive responsibilities to cover the backs. So 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 it’s really the same.

For me it’s: Nyambe Lenihan Williams Dougless Travis Holtby elliot. Dack. Brereton Arma I think we would be exposed at the back with both JRC and Douglass against stronger sides. Also think Arma has earned the center forward role and Dack will be just fine playing off him. really a good problem to have trying to leave a quality player out vs years past where we couldn’t find a quality player to put in

Agreed, we can be exposed in the counter. It was very apparent vs Watford. Johnson doesn’t have the motor or pace to provide sufficient cover in front of the center half’s when the backs push up. Add to that, the final product from Bell and Naymbe are often times so poor and easily dealt with it’s almost begs for a quick break. That role is best filled by Travis as he will do much better providing cover and breaking up the quick transition.

Decent strike there Ben

He saw an image thought it was a photo of Gallagher playing out wide. He thought maybe if we play Harvey out there everyone will think it's the lad I spent $7 million quid on

Maybe Evans too?