Fraserkirky

I wanna see this team: 352 Walton --Tosin-Lenihan-Williams-- JRC------------------Downing -Buckley Travis Rothwell- ----Dack -------------Gallagher Balanced and creative.

Johnson was horrific in that first half yesterday, total passenger. Would not be surprised if Buckley takes his place and soon.

Strips were ridiculous today, not sure why that’s allowed.

Having Cunningham in at Left Back has given me a new lease of optimism.Seems to be pretty straight forward selection. Walton Bennett Lenihan Williams Cunningham ————-Travis—Johnson—————- —-Armstrong— Dack ——-Rothwell —————-Gallagher————— I prefer Rothwells pace, away from home especially, Bennett should be benched for Nyambe, but he hasn’t made any catastrophic errors this week, yet, so keeps the Jersey. As someone mentioned earlier, Buckley and JRC are banging on the door.. If we could find out scoring boots, we have some decent talent to kick on.

Decent point, Hoilett best player on the park when he came on. Cardiff were just as stodgy as we were, which made for a tight affair. I'd be dropping Dack, its just not good enough I'm afraid, total passenger today. Graham back to the bench too, he just isn't going to get any joy against decent sized CBs at this level. The Gallagher and Armstrong partnership looked to have some threat. I'm always a big fan of the little and large stiker combo in a 4-4-2. Get Rothwell and Chapman on the wings and we might actually cause some problems. The back 4 are pretty settled and you have Nyambe and Tosin competing for spots, Travis and Johnson are two soldiers in the middle, its finding the right mix in the other 4 spots. Still, happy enough with a point, with two tricky away games coming up in the next week.

I think we have a bit of our mojo back, fancy another win. Shifting Williams to LB is a scary thought, but I would rather see a confident Willams at left back with Tosin in the CB spot for his home debut against a collection of lummox's.

Walton Nyambe Tosin Lenihan Williams Travis Johnson Rothwell Dack Downing Gallagher

Would have had Williams as Man of the Match. Plenty others in contention, Travis best game of the season too. What a bloody relief that was.

Bennett costs us goals, I still wake up at night in cold sweats remembering the away game at Norwich last year when I swear they stopped going down the left cause they felt bad.

The time is now, what other formation allows us to play 2 of our 4 natural strikers, Dack in his favorite position. Bennett/JRC at Right wingback, Even Travis could play right wing back as he did throughout his time in the under 23s, and you could put Rothwell in CM with Johnson playing the half back role. Downing/Cunningham/Bell will all excell at Left Wing back. I also love the balance at the back with a choice of Tosin/Lenihan/Williams or Nyambe/Tosin/Lenihan. Perhaps this has been the plan all along but we haven’t had all three ready centre backs yet.

Time to try the 3-5-2 again cause we have the personnel and the strikers for it. ————-Walton————- --Nyambe-Tosin-Williams— JRC——————-Downing ———Travis Buckley——— ————Rothwell———— ——-Brereton Graham——

Well the good news today is that Tosin is good enough to keep us up this season. I thought he was superb today. Johnson lost the plot second half, and was pretty terrible throughout. Lucky to stay on the pitch. He was right though, that was a disgraceful refereeing performance. Buckley time already? Gallagher looks an absolute waste of money so far this year. Won a couple of high balls, everything else was crap. Armstrong is just a headless chicken out wide, the fact he stayed on the pitch for 90 mins was surprising. Bennett done okay but still responsible for collapsing during the build up, causing the second goal. Nyambe doesn’t fall down like that. He actually managed a couple of decent crosses in first half. Thought Derrick Williams was good today didn’t put a foot wrong and won the ball a fair few times. Tony needs a result next week. Once Lenihan gets back I really think he needs to consider 3-5-2 again, we are getting zilch from the wide areas, and we have 4 natural strikers on the books.

I remember what it felt like to be named captain. I’d give it Lenihan.

That’s a decent side

Hanley has no business in premier league, especially away at Anfield. Rough

Needs time on the grass also.

I’d be straight on the blower to Jack Rodwell.

Seen him a few times, absolute filth.

Wait and see I guess.

Yeah this is a decent lineup, but if any of them get injured it’s absolute panic stations. Hope this means Mowbray really trusts JRC to step into RB when Nyambe might be needed to cover inside. Although odd, getting rid of Mulgrew is a stroke of genius though. Absolute liability at this level.

Leeds got Eddie Nweitkh laddie from Arsenal, probably now best player in division. West Brom have signed three class players just today.

Absolutely terrifying seeing who some of our rivals have signed today. We are in for a relegation battle regardless if we sign Cunningham or not.

We got the wrong Southampton reject

Oli Burke from West Brom on loan would be nice, with view to make permanent. The mystery position I think will be Right Winger.

So very disappointing if we don’t make another signing tomorrow. At least one. See the Dangoura bloke from West Ham, right winger we were loosely linked with is heading to West Brom. Wonder if Oli Burke maybe available again. I know, I know we need defenders. Would like just a really solid tough left back.