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It’s why I’d be looking at someone like Marcus Browne in the summer, who could play centrally (in a 1 or 2 behind a striker) or out wide (in a 3).

Quality of set pieces has been dropping almost vertically this year. Even throw ins look like such hard work - just get the ball back in play.

Had a week off last week (and had a bit of a ‘fat week’ when it came to eating) but back to it this morning with a 5k. 28 mins so a chunk slower than a couple of weeks ago.

Oh, I agree with that as well. But if we’re sticking with wing backs then we’ve got to understand the importance of their attacking impetus in stretching the play horizontally and moving us up the pitch. If we revert to a back 4, then not a problem playing Pask. But in a WB role, no.

This is madness. Criticise MR for a negative set up and yet would willingly have a CB operating in a wing back role.

What are you farting on about now?

Jordan Hugill went to Norwich for about £5m last summer and is no doubt on £30k+ per week.

Honestly can’t believe what I’m reading here. Picking a wing back because of their defensive ability is bonkers, especially when we look so toothless in attack already. Dacosta is being tarred by early performances in the same way Sheaf was - has everyone forgot about his performance vs...

What the fuck do you think we’ve been playing for about 3 months now?! It’s absolute shite, looks a mess and makes me feel ill.

We have one, we just need to get him off the bench from time to time.

Really, pack it in. You make little to no sense down this route. There are plenty of ways to suggest we have a higher budget (and, for the record, I agree) but this is absolute nonsense.

This is a mentality thing (not a criticism of you, by the way) that we should be relying on our wing backs’ defensive ability. If the rest of the setup is right, there is nothing wrong with Dacosta’s defensive ability. In a back 4, this of course is not the case and he’d be rather disastrous...

I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Sheaf. His use of the ball is (mostly) streets ahead of Kelly and James. However, because we’ve only got one advanced midfielder and the wing backs are dawdling on the edge of our box, there is literally no option to pass forward about 70% of the time we...

You’re right with a lot of what you say here. Our players have lost the bravery of wanting to play football in difficult areas. Kelly was quite frankly embarrassing with his use of the ball today.

To be fair, I will admit I got carried away when I got to the subs. That said, Dacosta pushed us up the pitch which was so important in my opinion, so I suppose I’m rating the game plan rather than him. Sheaf I thought was good when he’s on but maybe drop to a 6 then - was just getting that he...

Wilson - 6 Dabo - 7 Rose - 6 Ostigard - 7 Hyam - 6 McCallum - 5 Kelly - 4 James - 4 Hamer - 6 O’Hare - 5 Biamou - 3 Dacosta - 6 Walker - 6 Pask - 6 Godden - 6 Sheaf - 7

Guessing you mean Kelly/James/Hamer. In which case, I agree.

Kelly and James don’t work together at all. That said, I fear Sheaf won’t see any more minutes and we’ll now switch formation instead.

No problem with 1 up top. After all, we’ve beaten them twice recently with 1 up top. Difference was we got midfielders into attacking areas but that was sorely missing today. Could be far better than we are showing.

Out of curiosity, why would you be slightly biased on this? I suppose the overarching issue here is how can you police this kind of thing? You’d like to think that teammates/clubs would gladly shop individuals doing this kind of thing but given some of the prehistoric mindsets we’ve seen from...