WTF?? We could go five up front, but if there's no service to any of them, what's he point? Most of Elmander's decent touches today were around the half-way line / centre circle - if that constitutes '2 up front', forget it. Honestly, how many meaningful touches did Hooper have today?? No, I thought not.
Do we have anymore news about the Snodgrass and Pilkington? Have they specified how long RVW will be out for? Those are the big questions that need answering.
I would not play Murphy and Redmond unless we have to. Hopefully Pilks, Snodgrass and RVW will be fit. We need our strongest team for this one because they will be pumped to show Pulis they deserve their place.
H ok then Cromer, 2 up front where they ate actually playing in the middle , not out wide or in the centre circle
Can't see the point in pace in the Palace game. They will defend deep and hit long. I'd be inclined to a 433 with hoolahan, Hooper/Rvw and Elmander. Hoolahan with a free role. Fer, Howson and Johnson in the middle.
I wouldn't play Redmond full stop. He's just not got a footballing brain yet, he has a very detrimental effect on how we play.
Well seeing as it looks like we're unlikely to have any fit wingers, your 4-3-1-2 is probably the best use of the players available. Would put Whittaker and Olsson at full back for some kind of width.
Yes, he was incredibly frustrating as always last night (it's the day after the night before now in Vietnam). To be fair to him, he was almost the only player who ever looked like creating something, but then, of course, he made the wrong decision and it came to nothing. Repeatedly.
I get the feeling he could "click" with his decision making and suddenly become a fantastic player. It's just whether we get relegated and lose him before that happens or not!
I would go Northampton in goal Cromer, Dave Carrabuh Munky RBF Beefy, river End, DH canary Gh Pyjamas SuperNorwich I'll be the physio with the magic sponge! Couldn't do any worse than what we are seeing and would give100% especially the centre half pairing!
I'm afraid I fear a break down in communication between centre backs. For some reason I just feel they aren't on the same page
Can't agree at all - you're playing several people out of position. Beefy is definitely a 'bite your legs' type defender, Superman should be bossing everyone around in midfield having elected himself captain, Carrabuh should be the out of favour 'star' sulking on the bench, RBF should the creative but slightly frilly player in the hole who tries to do fancy dan stuff, and I think we should have some of our international players in there to add a bit of non-British spice to our play. Rob and Robbie can keep the statistics, of course, and tell us that we lost because we only had 32.7% of the throw-ins, Cove can do the scouting and find a nice job with Ajax for anyone who impresses, and Cruyff's Turn can tell us how many points we need not to get relegated. (More than we'll get, that's for sure.) Oh, and Thai can do the post-match counselling after we get thumped. Has anyone else noticed how he always tries to get us to love each other on here and we never do?
