What is Rigg's best position?

I have no idea, I actually think he could play a deeper role, behind the striker?, he just has an awful lot of skills. Chuffed to bits he signed on, and he seems genuinely happy about it

 

personally think he’s a “number 8”. Box to box. But he can do a bit of everything

 

This. His best position seems to be as a textbook centre mid, he can probably do a job (ie second position) as a 10, playing the most advanced of a midfield 3.

 

8 imo. Box to box, gets stuck in and has an eye for a goal. Looking forward to seeing him next season.

 

Top class 8 in the making, pleased as punch that he has signed .

 

My favourite position is a 4, sitting in front of the defence doing a Bracewell.

 

He can play anywhere in the middle, he has great attributes for different roles, as has been said the number 8 role is where id like to see him, he can drive forward or look for a forward pass quicker than others.

 

Here.
There.
****ing Everywhere.

 

He'll end up an 8 or a 10 you'd imagine.

 

It's funny referring to a player's position by number (I do it too) and it reminds me of early 90s Sunderland where you had Gary Bennett playing Centre Half wearing 4. Gary Owers on the right wearing 6, and Brace playing as a holding midfielder wearing 7.

In my head it was traditionally

1
2 5 6 3
7 4 8 11
9 10
​

The good old days

 

8 or 10

Definitely not RW where he was playing at the back end of last season. Daft.

 

6 always midfielders for me, 4 the other centre half but otherwise agree.

 

Running in little circles with the ball?

 

This is exactly how it was until about 15 years ago.

When I used to play Football Manager I always assigned my first choice centre backs with squad numbers 5 and 6.

Return to tradition.

 

They are the numbers I still use in my head. People using 6 for a midfielder scolds my retina.

 

Ritchie Pitt

 

Mike Smith.

 

I don't play it anymore, but my squad numbers 1-11 always followed convention, as did 12-22.
23 was reserved for a young starlet and 33 also reserved for an attacking left back.
Any players with "preferred" squad numbers were roundly ignored and I never allowed them to dictate squad number of preferred position in contract negotiations.

I was wildly unpopular.

 

Continental numbering system, innit. When teams started moving to a back 4 from the ubiquitous WM formation it was usually the left half (who traditionally wore 6) who dropped in to become the second centre back. In places like France and Italy it was the right half. Different places moved different people in the old 235 to different locations to accommodate new formations. In South America what we'd consider to be traditional full back numbers are their traditional centre back numbers. Modern terminology just seems to be based on a European numbering system.

 

That cheeky innit saved that post from being your nerdiest/most academic yet.