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MBcha

MBcha

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Huge game really as a win could just about make us safe.

Wayne Rooney's Derby County usually play a 4231, FM will likely match them up and play the same I think.

Iversen
VDB Story Lindsay Hughes
Browne Whiteman
Barky Potts Gordon
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MBcha said:
Huge game really as a win could just about make us safe.

Wayne Rooney's Derby County usually play a 4231, FM will likely match them up and play the same I think.

Iversen
VDB Story Lindsay Hughes
Browne Whiteman
Barky Potts Gordon
Evans
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I really can't see the case fore preferring Hughes to Cunningham or for leaving out Ledson or for playing Browne deep when we have alternatives. But more fundamentally why change from the wing-back formation that has seen us get something from three of the last four matches back to the formation that saw us plummeting under AN? If FM wants to freshen things up a bit then a recall for Sinclair right upfront might be an option. But realise you are guessing what FM might do rather than what you might want.
 
MBcha said:
Exactly that, the team above is miles away from what I'd have chosen if I was the gaffer.
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My guess is FM will stick with the wing-back formation. While I probably think we do need a fresh start with a new manager I will admit that FM is showing some independence of mind.
 
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ernest said:
I really can't see the case fore preferring Hughes to Cunningham or for leaving out Ledson or for playing Browne deep when we have alternatives. But more fundamentally why change from the wing-back formation that has seen us get something from three of the last four matches back to the formation that saw us plummeting under AN? If FM wants to freshen things up a bit then a recall for Sinclair right upfront might be an option. But realise you are guessing what FM might do rather than what you might want.
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mainly because Hughes is a better LCB.

FM only wants to play 2 up top.... so any team with 1 up top must be wrong ?
 
I just think Frankie will set us up for a draw and Derby will probably snatch it with an undeserved free kick. They’ve done us twice recently at Deepdale with free kicks a la Lawrence and Rooney.

My advice would be DON‘T GIVE AWAY CHEAP FREE KICKS.
 
My team but no chance it will happen.

Iverson
Storey Huntington Lindsay
SVDB Whiteman Potts Browne Barkhuizen
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Yoowell said:
My team but no chance it will happen.

Iverson
Storey Huntington Lindsay
SVDB Whiteman Potts Browne Barkhuizen
Maguire Riis
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I know he’s got a long contract but Seani is in the last chance saloon for me.

We just can’t carry on with strikers/attackers who don’t score.

I’d love him to start banging them in but we all know what his issues are.

Big few games ahead if he gets game time because I can’t see a new manager being as patient with him as AN. 😐
 
Staffordwhite said:
I know he’s got a long contract but Seani is in the last chance saloon for me.

We just can’t carry on with strikers/attackers who don’t score.

I’d love him to start banging them in but we all know what his issues are.

Big few games ahead if he gets game time because I can’t see a new manager being as patient with him as AN. 😐
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People are still seeing Sean as what he originally was - a goal scorer - and are now incorrectly slating him because if these people actually opened their eyes and equally possessed a footballing brain, they would see that his entire role has changed.

His job is of a provider these days - see the pass to Browne on Saturday that resulted in the Red Card - as the most recent example.

I recently posted a link to this seasons stats and % and Sean figured highly despite not recently playing. Facts lads, facts.

The lad clearly has a clever footballing brain but the dimwits only ever go on about his goal scoring which is not his main game now, it is his creativity. He plays people in, he wins fouls to relief the pressure.

Any goals are a bonus.

He is getting the same kind of flack on here that the divvys dished out to Heskey with England (5 goals). Think of the wider picture.
 
ernest said:
In a back three he probably is but Cunningham is a better wing-back in that formation and left-back in a back four.
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I agree about the LWB but FM seems to like the back 3 so it has to be Hughes in defence....

As for best as a pure LB... Greg when he was fit, Hughes now for me....especially aerially
 
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