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It’ll be a quite a narrow 4-4-2 assuming the front 4 is Saka, EMC, Wright and Simms. The only reservation I have is that one of Simms or Wright would need to function slightly deeper to bridge the gap between the midfield. The priority will be an AM imo.

Viveash did mention we could play a 4-4-2 with the personnel we have. More likely to be a Plan B rather than a Plan A though. It will be good to able to use a 4-4-2 if we’re chasing games, for example.

Our best player? 😂 I’m sure we’ll be fending off plenty of suitors in the summer for him then.

Simms and Wright have a lot about them, agreed. We need to get more balls into the box for Simms, he’s really proven his value as a goal scorer in recent games. On the McFadz point, he’d be valuable had we stuck with 3-4-1-2 but in a back 4, I don’t think he’d suit that at all.

He was solid as always, but I disagree he’s been ‘excellent’ in any of our recent games. This isn’t an insult by any stretch… Hamer was excellent, Sheaf last week was excellent. No one was excellent today, we lost to a pretty poor team today. I’m tired of hearing about how good our midfield...

Last year we had Gyokeres and Hamer who were 2 of the best players in the league. Our team this year is more rounded and the quality is spread across the pitch. There isn’t the same ‘X Factor’ of Vik and Hamer and stubbornness of defence to grind out results and drag us up the table. Yet, we’re...

That’s a start but games like today, Norwich, PNE and WBA we lacked something in midfield. My hope is that Torp adapts to English football and flourishes next season and Eccles adds layers to his game too. If we want to be a strong playoff team pushing automatics, we need someone as close to...

I had a similar thought. Watch us lose to Cardiff and get a win against Leeds - typical.

Agreed. We still miss someone with Hamer’s ability to put the ball into space and today there were plenty of opportunities to be more direct to Simms, Wright and even Tavares - we opted for safer passes consistently. We got caught out down the left hand side a lot today. I don’t think that was...

Agreed on being unable to break organised sides down. I’ve been consistent on this point all season, but we struggle to play through midfield at times. Sheaf was guilty of some poor passing today but at least he went for it. My frustration is that we often dawdle on the balls without causing...

He played well against Huddersfield and Wolves so one disappointing performance doesn’t mean we should drop him. As for COH, did he do much change the game? He also misplaced passes and got tackled on the ball.

It’s a difficult game whether or not COH starts or not. He hasn’t done much to earn a start to be honest.

Agreed - COH has lost his place because he isn’t impacting games like he was in Dec-Jan. Even then, a few of my mates who are neutrals said the same thing: if he isn’t scoring, he generally isn’t playing that well. As for Palmer, overplayed a lot today and as good as he can be, he’s probably...

He’s one of, if not, our best player. His contributions are underrated at times.

The answer is: were they relevant to you? If not, rest easy friend.

Midfield will be an area of focus in the off-season. We’ll have 3 first team CMs (4 if you include Allen) and we extra bodies to get through 50 games. Apparently our option is the P’Boro midfielder, Kyprianou who looks like he’d be a great fit. Then, we need another wide player in to support...

Well, if our form was better, we probably wouldn’t have fast tracked the change in formation, so no. As it happened, we changed formation mid season and Sakamoto established himself as a top performer. He and Wright were our only wide players so we really needed cover in case of injuries. In...

Well, the word used was ‘evolution’, so they probably expected McFadz to play longer than he did. He didn’t lose his spot because of individual poor performance, but rather we played better as a team with the new formation. Wide players weren’t our biggest recruitment need in the summer after...

COH does have an annoying habit of slowing play down in the opposition half at times. It’s not always a bad thing but Simms, Wright and even Gyokeres last season looked more threatening when we’re more direct.

We signed them on 4 year contracts, judging them half a season in was always stupid. It’s always the same people who seem to look silly year in, year out.