Game opening up a bit here. They still look like the side more likely to get a goal however

Best movement ive seen from Gally there. Final ball a bit disappointing but the rest wasn’t terrible

Read the LT piece where TM say Giles best position is right forward!?!? Did he watch a different game than me on Tuesday? Giles looked completely out of sorts in the right. Running around the ball several times to play it with his left instead of his right. He’s a quality player, no doubt, and will produce there, but it was very evident he wasn’t as comfortable there as he would have been on the left. I’m shocked, even though I shouldn’t be. After all this guy thinks Gallagher is a wide forward and Buckley a false 9…still I’m amazed to read those comments as I assumed there’s some other reason for his selections.

From TMs comments Dack will be on the bench and available for 20 min max. So I assume we start: Kamenski Lenihan Van Heck Warton JRC Travis Pickering Rothwell Dolan Khadra Buckley subs to be Giles for Pickering, Gallagher for Dolan and Dack for Buckley. All to come on around 70 min (TM doesn’t make tactical changes before then) to try and rescue the match and get us a goal. Final 1-1. I fear, though Dolan will be left out so Gallagher can waste opportunities, give away possession and display complete incompetence. In which case I suspect we lose 0-1

It was quality up until the final third, but thats been the case for 8 matches now. Playing a right left back at right forward, a center mid as a false 9 and Gally at all, but wide left....it was the only outcome that we'd struggle to score. The thing these last 8 matches have proven is that we dont have many proven finishers in the side. And the opportunities we are creating are falling to center backs, wing backs or others who have less than 10 goals to their name in their careers. It's really not surprising were struggling to score. We create chances but those chance need to fall to players that can finish, and unfortunately at the moment we dont have any of those players.

Still getting used to our system. Maybe in a few weeks he will learn to play our style

While I’ll concede it’s maddening to see our 5 million pound 6’4” center forward play wide, it’s less troubling than seeing his inability to control a ball, win a header or make any movement into a dangerous position in anticipation of a ball played in and then get handed a contract extension

Over 700 min now. Almost a milestone to be that poor.

Should be dropped. Rather see Vale get 90 than watch him for 1 min

The only system Gallagher is suited for is beer league. Can’t win a header, can’t get into space, can’t control the ball. He does do a good job of tracking back, which is useless for a center forward.

Plan A always works. Never need anything different

The system does accommodate a #9 but does allow for left wing backs to play as right forwards.

We play with one striker (if you can call him that) out wide 6 defenders and 3 center kids…and we wonder why we can’t score

I’ll leave this right here. The foresight of Ray Charles. “We had opportunities, there were No.9s out there and the really interesting thing is that clubs are phoning us and asking if we want to take this player, Premier League clubs.” “They have to fit into the way we play, why would we sign a Premier League centre forward if we don’t play with a centre forward at this moment, and he can’t do the running of a wide striker, doesn’t chase full backs, so we’d be playing with nine men rather than 10 out of possession?” “Why when we’re doing so well at the moment would we throw that away and do something totally different?” “We tried to recruit players to fit the system.”

No way this side is promotion material.

C’mon lads get this in.

We’ve totally lost it when Buckley came off. He was at the heart of everything we created. Leave Gallagher on for what?

Why do we give the young players 5 min to make a difference. No chance to get into the game

Should be Pickering off, Giles to wing back. Dolan on. Vale will probably get a chance with 3 min left.

Somehow Gallagher played that backward. If he just stands there it would nick off him and go in.

FFS!

He’d be better at the left out position.

This is a crazy idea but why not play him in the wing where we have non wingers playing?

Because when we sell BBD and don’t replace him, Gally will be our only recognized forward. Recognized a incapable but recognized none the less

Needs another month to learn how to play our style. Our style apparently is wasteful in the final 3rd.