Thanks Mike, As I said, its marginal gains, it wont generally ruin a player/defence, but at top level sport, marginal gains can be the difference maker in a tight game

The whole 2 left footed centre backs being unbalanced is in marginal gains. There are many right footers than left footers... so there are more right footed centre backs. As such, at some/several points during a right footed centre backs career, he will be asked to play as a left sided centre back (as his partner/s are also right footed) Left footed centre backs (being rarer) will rarely be asked to play on the right, as it is probable that their partner/s throughout most of their career will be right footed. So, in much the same way that right backs often look lost when played as conventional left backs (because they are not familiar with playing there), left footed centre backs playing as right sided centre backs is almost like learning a new position, as silly as that might sound, and can in theory lead to a decline/drop in their performance compared to when they play on the left Hope that waffle made some sort of sense, lol TLDR - if you are less familiar with playing in a certain position, then if you are played tehre, then your performance may drop (albeit slightly)

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Quite possible

Rovers website says 182cm, which is under 6ft https://www.rovers.co.uk/players/scottwharton

I'd go no where near Mawson, he has been useless for years, Magnusson is a great call, giant aerially dominant CB Boeheim is probably out of our price range for wages, but we can dream

Shorter Centre backs are rare, but there have been a few over the years, from Moore, Koeman, Puyol, Beresi, Cannavaro.... a brain and positional sense can be as useful as height. Isn't Scott Wharton also only 5 ft 11?

Or a young squad with plenty of time for growth and development

Birmancevic is a right footer who plays on the left, and Markanday is a left footer who plays from the right, Dolan would likely compete with Birmancevic, and Hedges with Markanday

He moved to Koln on a free a week or 2 ago https://fc.de/en/fc-info/news/detailpage/details/fc-sign-kristian-pedersen/

He is probably on more than our entire squad combined Estimated £150K a week https://salarysport.com/football/player/luke-shaw/ Pretty sure that's around 10 times our highest earner

Bagan played left back/left wing back for Cardiff whenever he was fit https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joel-bagan/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/742163/wettbewerb/GB2/saison/2021 Giles filled in at LWB when Bagan was injured, but Giles is much more a winger than a wing back/full back, which is only emphasised by how badly Cardiff's defence performed during that period, Although as you state, most of his assists for Cardiff were from set pieces, so maybe he was nothing more than a set piece specialist who doesn't offer much from open play... quite why he couldn't provide a few assists from set pieces for Rovers is a mystery though eh?

Giles played as an old fashioned left winger (rather than the current fashion of playing inverted wingers) for Cardiff, according to transfermarkt, he played 17 out of 21 matches for Cardiff as a left winger https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ryan-giles/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/504581/plus/0?saison=2021&verein=603&liga=&wettbewerb=&pos=&trainer_id=

The video stream graphic has been wrong almost every time I have watched it, lol My guess is Mowbray will try and Match WBAs formation and go with 3 at the back, meaning Buckley as a wing back and Rothwell pushed forward alongside Gally and Diaz in a 3-4-3, or alternatively 3-5-2 and try and pack the midfield

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