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Murphy Clarke Malaga Wood Kilbane Baker Jennings Barton Fleck (If fit) Elliot McDonald 4-3-1-2

442 is a simple solid system and every pro player should be able to play it. I agree that Black did well but the formation thing isn't entirely correct. He had a great start with 3 wins 2 draws in the first 6 games similar to Thorn really but he finished I think with 7 points from his last 7...

Wow it must be why I dont read the Sun Brown was so poor in the first half that even if he'd have played a blinder in the second (he did get better) I would still have scored him low. How many times did we not deal with balls into the box? I can think of quite a few so how you give the central...

Murphy 7 Clarke 7 Brown 4 Wood 5 Hussey 4 Barton 7 Fleck 7 for the part he was on the pitch Daniels 5 Kilbane 5 McDonald 7 Ball 5 Macca 3 Elliot 5

Yes indeed Chelsea did favour it at that time and with the quality of player they had the attacking benefits of the system were stronger than the defensive shortcomings. They had players who when they got a chance it would more often than not end up in a goal. We don't have that quality of...

Too many games last season where we took the lead and lost. We couldn't close out games. No width with the rigid diamond allowing the opposition more space for them to attack our full backs. There are plenty of ex-players and managers of Cov who have commented they don't like the diamond and the...

My first post so go easy on me. I've been a ST holder since 1992 so I consider myself as long suffering as I need to be. Does this make me an expert in all things football? Not in the slightest, but it does mean that I've seen enough football to know when things are working well and things are...