We do seem to like to fanny about alot when we get near the penalty area and our shooting has been woeful at times has well when we do shoot from outside the box.
Regards Woodburn i think you are being a bit unfair on him young kid chucked on for the last few minutes, Coutts has hardly looked good when he has come on for the last few minutes recently.
Woodburn needs a run of games starting before judging him, unfortunately i don't think he will get that here.
I personally wouldn't mind seeing him start a home game.
I know that there are differing views on the matter, but i don't think that BS & LC 'works' as a front two, i see them a two lone strikers when they play together (i appreciate the link up against Wigan, which i want to see more of). I don't see much of a partnership nor understanding between the two, in the classic sense. From what I have seen over the last two seasons, i thought LC looked most threatening against Wednesday at their place with Brooks playing off/around him. LC kind of created space/a gap that DB's intelligent running & pace made use of, sort of lateral as opposed to vertical. BS appears to function better with McG (this season at least).
We now find ourselves with a problem. If we aren't going to play a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, then Woodburn is not needed & won't get a run in the team which the whole point of him being here, the only other position that i could see his in the DB Wednesday role, roaming around LC (which I could imagine him being good at). If we do that, then I can't see a starting role for either BS or McG, who are currently our best chance of scoring. I don't think that trying to shoe horn in LC, BS & McG works as a starting option, better for the last 15 mins of a game to try and salvage something. It also drops our pace down dramatically.
It appears that the longer LC is dropped from the first 11, he goes off the boil mentally/physically, and it seems the longer than Woodburn is here and doesn't start, the more he is a waste of a wage & an unnecessary negative focus on the team. So, catch 22, i'd like to see LC & Woodburn start, but it comes at the expense of dropping our best two, if we start with our best two it damages our options off the bench.
Regarding the 4-3-3 (flat midfield 3 of coutts, fleck & norwood, with sharp in the centre and two from woodburn/washington/marvin occupying the wide positions) & 4-2-3-1 ideas (two from fleck/coutts/norwood in the two, with duffy and woodburn and marvin as the 3, with BS or LC upfront), both i think would work. It gives us flexibility and allows us player rotation without dropping the quality on the pitch, putting round pegs in round holes as opposed to trying to squeeze them into square holes.
