Well from what I hear you’re a failure with women so maybe go down the gay route But that’s not my thing
Seen a few people suggest going to a back 3 but that makes no sense to me. You play a back 3 if you can't defend, but we can defend yet we struggle going forwards so I don't see how removing an attacking player will help us look better. We just need better forwards as we've said all summer
you dont play a back three because you can't defend you play two wing backs if you struggle going forwards
I think it would've suited us to go to 3 at the back in this specific game as we had limited options on the wing. If Ally, Lokilo and Vaughan are fit and firing then I don't think 3ATB works, or like you say if we had better options in that area. But shoehorning Traore onto the wing was a bit of a disaster. With what was available, I think 3ATB was a better solution over what we ended up playing with, there would certainly be fewer square pegs in round holes.
A back 5 works because the manager like playing central midfielders on the wing and we look absolutely ****e attacking as a consequence. I am not much of a fan of going 5 at the back at all but it’s going to be a much better solution than Traore and Vaughan on the wings and Tufan up front in a 4-4-2.
if more than 10 penalties each side are needed do they start again or does an England player take a second?
A back 5 is a back 5. If you had say Allahyar and Longman in the wide positions you could maybe consider it a back 3.
I noticed junior posted this on Twitter this morning, as the team he thought we should play against Wednesday, he also put the chances of it happing at 100/1…
It shouldn't happen though because it doesn't fix the biggest issue we had which was being steamrolled in midfield.
With another defender behind you though, our midfield of Smallwood and Slater never got steamrolled with 5 at the back
Richie is the exact type of player we need though and if he was still at the club, he'd be starting. We had 2 unbelievable wings backs in Brady and Elmo for this level and grit in midfield with Meyler. We don't have any of that now
It was obviously gutting to lose to a last minute goal, but there's little point in moaning about not having VAR for the corner, if there was VAR they'd have had a penalty for the Coyle handball. Seri, Slater and Tufan all had an uncharacteristically poor game and that's obviously not going to happen every week, so the reactions on here (and elsewhere) are a tad over the top. Traore is wasted on the right wing, I thought that was fairly obvious from the Nantes game and I was surprised to see him played there again. The only criticism I think is fair, is that fact that it clearly wasn't working and changes should have been made earlier.
I do get it though as it's a catalogue of reffing **** ups that have cost us. There are 3 reasons that goal should've been ruled out and when you're having a tough day you need decisions to be correct. I don't think any of them are difficult decisions either.
I am 99% certain if someone was to do a bit of trig from that still you would be able to work out that the ball is still over the line, a lot more than this example. Either way it’s very marginal and hardly so clear that everyone in the stadium knows it’s out.
