Byrne wasn't it? Signed by Coyle hardly played for us. Season after given the freedom of Oldham because Mowbray was scared of Oldham's right back

Only in reverse as we paid the wages not the ECB [or its equivalent]

I would never call Faz or David Mail midfielders they both wore no.6. No. 6 usually was one of the central defensive pairing. No.4 or 8 were the midfielders

I stand corrected.

Genuinely can't remember any bids only talk I can think of was Everton preparing a bid but then they signed Maulpey instead

How many times have we said we shouldn't be losing to them? Any victory should be enjoyed. How many times have weve been told by opposing mangers, we are the best team they've played when weve lost to them? Refreshing to hear praise when we've won

We only whinge when we are winning!

Agree with this. The issue is with gaping hole in our midfield because our third midfielder Szmodics is playing so high up the field then at best one of our defenders is playing midfield, usually two of them so we are outnumbered at the back. So with the two at the back overloaded mistakes will happen. Even with the world's best defender and keeper will struggle playing effectively 4-3-3 but in reality that formation is 3-2-1-4 or even at times 2-2-2-4 or even against Sunderland in the 2nd half 2-1-3-4. It would be great if we had forwards who could take chances but we haven't.

It is the reason we are stretched, one midfielder taking off the defenders one to cover the middle third and then Szmodics in the final third taking the glory. Unless the wide forwards are prepared to play deeper its why teams can pass through us

Way he is playing at the moment, there wont be any silly offers

So principally we are playing as a 4-2-4. Suicide

Am I missing something? We have a three we seem to forget that Szmodics is supposed to be a midfielder not an attacker.

Much as I enjoy the attacking play upto the business part of the scoring goals and as much as I think Pears need dropping. The simple maths of probability is that the more shots rain in on our goal the more chance the keeper will make mistakes. At the end of the day if we had Friedal, in his prime, in goal this season we would be conceding goals. Our new keeper gets better every game he doesn't play.

or we dont and we go down.

So is this where we can maintain the Alan Nixon knows Jack Sh*t where he just repeats his Adam Wharton is being looked at 'put in any premier club here' until Jan?

In answer yes we are knackered but is also shows that there is little to back up our starting XI after they tire

He is one of those annoying players but when Jack GRealish is idolised by the media as a God nothing is going to change.

SG may not get many goals as we would like but he is very capable at defending corners which was noticeable on Saturday when he went off. It was probably coincidence more than anything but our ability to clear our lines also suffered after he went off.

Trialists A, B and C cant play for us as they were playing for Accy on Saturday. lol

Watched it....it wasnt seeded just North and South draws

He crossed my mind but remember Kendall got shut of him for Viv Busby

I thought the original post was applying present tactics. When under JDT have we played 4-4-2? My team would be Freidal Emerton Berg Henchoz Le Saux Sherwood Tugay Bellamy Dunn Duff Chris Brown As we are using today's tactics, the ultimate striker who couldnt score has to Chris Brown.......only kidding it has to be Alan Shearer

I used Crawford specifically because both scored the goals that fired us out if the third tier.

Can he be put in the same boat as Andy Crawford or Ken BEamish though? Just as a side thought. To me Dack was never the same player once Danny Graham started to decline. Keeping Dack makes no sense without a player like Graham. It was probably why the club was trying to get 15mill at the time of the first injury as the club could not replace Graham.

Same story, same excuses different manager. Did we not have a death spiral again, just later in the season? I agree though this summer is pivotal. We can build but if Venky's pull the rug under this management team then trouble could be ahead.