Case for the defence

Good!

As soon as we get the knacker out of the first team the better! He's a waste of space and we play better without him, I've had enough of him getting chance after chance. All our defenders have already outscored him playing from their natural positions, just stick one up front and allow them to do it regularly.

 

In one campaign?? What season was that? That is impressive to be fair

 

No, over their Toon career.

 

Sorry didn't notice the in one campaign cavaet.

I can't think of many who scored more than the 4 Schar got last season in that case.

 

I do think there's a bit more to being a striker than just sticking Schar there!! We've seen from Joelinton, who's allegedly a forward player, that if you don't know how to position yourself you're a total passenger.

FWIW I think we should abandon longer balls and give up trying to play with a target man. Genuinely we'd be better off not having a striker and adding another midfielder in a unique 5-5-0 formation. The wide players would be St Max and Almiron whose jobs would be to win corners, rather than score goals.