Nice pass for the first goal and well taken for the second goal from Gally.

What with 5 at the back as well ?

Not this time I think.

Look at the pitch compared with todays pitches !

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Centre forward is the hardest position to play on the pitch. That’s why good ones go for big bucks. If you’re playing against two centre halves it’s harder still. The service you get from the rest of the team will make or break you. Regarding your first sentence - as I say, I didn’t see the game last night, but other people are saying on another night the score could have been really embarrassing.

I quite like that formation. I’m left wondering why it didn’t work better last night.

What worries me is we appear to be trying to play a Big Sam type game without us having the sort of players required to pull it off.

I didn’t watch last nights game but the was the inference I got. Regarding your second point, Sammi probably could. Not everybody like Dolan out wide but those two are probably our best bet at the moment.

I suppose Sammi isn’t a natural fit in a rigid 4-4-2 , unless he plays in the Dolan role with Gallagher.

We ought to have the tools to play a more direct style of football but that’s expecting Gally to play a more traditional centre forwards role and he rarely does. He’s too easily dominated by physical centre halves. He’s more of an old style inside right than a centre forward. If that bit of the plan isn’t working the rest of the plan struggles.

What about Gilsenan ?

Good teams score at the death, poor teams concede at the death. That’s always been the case as long as I’ve been involved in football. It’s a state of mind. It’s the first thing Eustace needs to address.

Same old story - go behind and it’s over. What ever happened to scoring the last minute goals to steal a point or even a win ? A distant memory I’m afraid.

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That would be madness. Without a sell on we should have walked away.

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