The "System"

Love that team. Don't think the FA would be too happy though

 

In theory a great idea but I can almost guarantee the team would have no width and get pinned back for 90 minutes as with that formation the wing backs are paramount and as much as I rate pva revelliere and Jones I don't think they are of the class needed for 532 to be a real attacking threat

 

We would get slaughtered

 

I'd go with

Pant
Jones-Brown-JOS-PvA
Catts-Seb
Johnson-Giacc-Wickham
Defo

 

I'd have that with whickham and giacc under instructions to swap every so often

 

Yeah I agree. I'd say all three should roam about. Especially Johnson and Giacc, with PvA and Jones back they can provide width

It's very important that we get bodies up towards Defoe

 

My worry is Poyet loves a central DM and I think he might rather play 532 to accommodate that rather than sacrificing that for 4231

 

I'd be very surprised.

 

doesnt matter who he chooses it will be one up front and nine in a line 30 yards behind. we need a coach more than new players.

 

Even with 12 men?

 

Just realised why! dear me!
would take Larsson out then!

 

Nah this is more like it:

 

This more than Fletch, Whicks, or anybody else is the main problem, and it places too much responsibility on Catts or Bridcutt, it might have worked in the lower leagues but with our slow CD,s its suicide.

 

If Gus sticks with his current system but chucks Defoe up front on his own we are wasting our money. The lad is a good player but a lone striker he is not. He's a poacher, a damn good one but still a poacher, he barely gets involved outside of the penalty area. We need to change things round a bit if we hope to get the best out of him. Ironically, I think Jozy would have been an ideal partner for him but obviously that's no longer an option... Wickham could do the job?

I'm pretty confident Gus will stick with the usual system, stick Wickham wide left and call it a "partnership", and Defoe won;t see the bal for 90 mins.... Hope Gus can prove me wrong...

 

its got to be a little one feeding off a big one as a pair

 

Just been listening to the Wise Men Say podcast. They summarised football under Reidy as:

1. Lose the ball a lot
2. Someone kicks the ball up in the air
3. A big man heads it to a little man
4. The little man makes a goal

Amused me.

I'll put a "big man" and "little man" on my DOF list

 

Gus alludes to wanting to play differently in his press conference on SAFsee. In between grinning like a demented Chesire Cat that got the cream, then everybody else's cream, then boshed Angelina Jolie whilst watching his team beat Real Madrid ten nil at the Bernebeau....