Formation change?
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I’d argue when you’ve got a squad that’s as deficient in quality as we are to the rest of the league, you’d be better off at least matching up the majority of teams rather than setting up in a formation that further disadvantages you.
The current setup is easily overwhelmed offensively and nullified defensively by anyone with a half decent set of wingers and full backs. Add to that anyone who has a decent attacking midfielder able to push back our unbalanced midfield 3 and leaving a huge gap to the strikers
Going for a different setup is fine when you’ve got the players to really make it work, to try and act as a differential in quality, but we don’t, and we clearly haven’t a clue how to find them with our paltry budget. So I’d argue going with a 433 or similar and matching up most teams would at least give us a chance of not being overrun, with a couple of talented loanee wingers or a pace merchant, and would at least give some sort of idea where the goals may come from. Because right now I don’t know where our creativity is
I wish they would have some steel, those two.
If we continue with three at the back then it seems evident we need to do something about the obvious decline of Hughes - he simply cannot continue to be a first choice option even at left centre-back and is totally finished as either a left-back or left wing-back. The ideal would be to bring in a new mobile left-side defender - a left-sided version of Offiah - but failing that there are two options - one is to move Gibson to the left and use either Storey or Lindsay in the centre, the other if Gibson remains in the centre would be to use Vukcevic at left centre-back. I think that latter option would work and Vukcevic and Small operating together on the left might be pretty good.
I can see what you mean but Brady isn't a fullback and Frokjaer isn't a winger.
Absolutely spot on
You need very gifted players to enact the more forward thinking formations.
Now that said 4-4-2 has become unfashionable yet it’s a solid foundation for players at our level maybe
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The more simple the better for the less advanced players, such as our team
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We'd need to loan a right winger there for me but that is easily done (had Murphy here on loan without much fuss and he was a top Championship performer last season).
Heck would buy time off me if he dropped this back 5 fucking nonsense.
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With the current personnel at the club and going 4 4 2, that's how I'd go. Frokjaer at the tip of my diamond 4, and probably Jebbison to start but making way for Smith in the 2nd half.
Ideally, I'd want a replacement for Storey, Potts, Jebbison, plus a different left back. Then we might be in business.
4-1-4-1 at home, 4-2-3-1 away please
Depends on the standard of winger, we had this talk last year as well and ended up with Josh Bowler and we know how that went
I think another problem would be if we filled the spot with a loan, would a PL club loan a player out to a team who mainly doesn’t play with wingers.