Team vs Villa
Do we have news on Robinson? Definitely out for Villa?
Nothing yet but then we rarely get anything on injuries. Cant see us risking him Tuesday if he has a chance for Saturday
Whatever the particular players we choose on Tuesday we have to resume the 4.2.3.1 formation that is the only one that has brought us success with AN. If Robinson is injured then Moult should start - he actually did OK in the brief time he was on the pitch on Saturday. Barker is yet to look convincing when starting so I would give Johnson a start further forward alongside Browne - the fact that AN ignored him yesterday was shameful. If AN persists with the wing-back formation and we do not get any points then I think I will join the AN-out camp of which I am not yet a member. Hence:
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Fisher, Huntington or Clarke or Storey, Davies, Earl or Hughes
Pearson, Ledson
Barkhuizen, Browne, Johnson
Robinson or Moult
Browne has 3 in 10 this season, that's just sort of Striker figures.
The other worry is Harrop. If he had not picked up that injury yesterday I might have liked to have seen him start on Tuesday alongside Browne. This season is proving desperate so far. Given the extremes this team - and I just mean men with Lamb & Flag crests on their left breast - subject you to then when we do pick up we are going to get some amazing results.
Neil has to go back to basics and a formation that has worked. Go for what suits us best at the present and not what the opposition might do.
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Fisher
Hunts
Davies
Hughes
Pearson
Ledson
Barker
Browne
Barky
Robinson
When Nmecha or Maguire are available then slip Robinson back into the middle three and play them up top.
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Fisher
Hunts
Davies
Hughes
Pearson
Ledson
Barker
Browne
Barky
Robinson
When Nmecha or Maguire are available then slip Robinson back into the middle three and play them up top.
Imho he won't change the three/five at the back. Storey played well yesterday against some quality.
Barky (nice lad) disappointed me again yesterday, not often I swear at my laptop during the game but the pass he played wide left to Hughes BEHIND him was shambolic. Momentum gone, initiative lost, we have to start all over again.
Question for anybody/everybody - did something happen at Wolves away last season that seems to have destroyed his confidence?
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Barky (nice lad) disappointed me again yesterday, not often I swear at my laptop during the game but the pass he played wide left to Hughes BEHIND him was shambolic. Momentum gone, initiative lost, we have to start all over again.
Question for anybody/everybody - did something happen at Wolves away last season that seems to have destroyed his confidence?
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But if the team was set up properly by the manager that pass might have been played by Johnson with Barkhuizen running onto it.
He did which is why there is a case for using him and Davies as the central pairing in a back four.
I thought he played well Sid..... He looked very composed on the ball and made some confident passes..
I was impressed with him given that he is only 20......
Just because we set up differently to how you’d want, it doesn’t mean we weren’t set up ‘properly’. You’re suggesting shoehorning DJ into an unnatural left sided position which would make us equally unbalanced imo.
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Same here Ando. I’m impressed with him, Hughes and Davies individually so I think it’s just the overall setup/organisation that needs addressing......
I've suggested that if we could find a way to use Johnson and Browne in front of Pearson and Ledson that might make the most of our resources - I have specifically said that I would not want to see Johnson pushed out wide. Maybe there isn't a way of doing so in which case it is a choice between Johnson and Ledson to supplement Pearson and Browne. But I am absolutely certain that the wing-back formation is a fundamental misuse of our resources and if AN persists with it doing so will cost him his job.
I'm sure we experimented with 2 10s pre season with Harrop and Burke. Now isn't the time for that but I wonder why he didn't try it earlier maybe against Reading when we were missing our holders
The one hopeful thing about our present situation is that if we get out of it then the likes of Storey, Davies, Earl, Ledson and Harrop will have gained experience of coping with adversity. Add that to what we already have in Pearson, Browne, Johnson, Robinson and Maguire and there is still the prospect of a really strong team emerging.
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Fisher Hunts Clarke Storey Davies Earl Hughes
Ledson Pearson
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If they don't score we can't lose.....