Team vs Fulham

[1987]

Brewster for Didsy who hasn't looked himself (he proved it by scoring), Lowe for Stevens who just doesn't seem at it and at this point might be relieved to be pulled, Ampadu for Robinson because he just has more upside and seems much calmer with the ball.

If Bogle isn't making the bench, I'd be amazed if he displaces Baldock anytime soon.

I don't think CW wants Norwood back in, when he said "I just think it's time", he sounded almost sad when he said it, like one of those decisions you've wrestled with and finally made. Those decisions you don't turn back on easily.

He experimented with him at RCM, maybe he'll pop him in there. Ideally our players wake up and start performing, I'm looking at you Fleck. Seeing as Osborn shit the bed today, I'll go with

--------------------- Ramsdale --------------------
------- Basham -- Egan -- Ampadu --------
Baldock --‐------------------------------------- Lowe
-------Norwood/ Berge -- Berge / Norwood -- Fleck
---------------- Brewster -- Burke ---------------

 

[Gannon's perm]

Our midfield is really struggling at the moment. Fleck has been off the boil for a while and Osbourne and Lunnny are not good enough at this level. I'd like to see Ampadu and Berge in central midfield and a return to 3412, with Mcgoldrick in the Duffy role.

 

[bonobo]

Norwood back for now. Lundstrams effort, is undermined by a continued lack of quality. I would not think of dropping Stevens, until we have decided the new LCB. McG has to start, our only goals this season.

 

[CoatesyBlade]

View attachment 94157
Looking forward...

I know Ampadu isn’t left footed, but going off what I saw against leeds, he offers more going forward than Robinson.

To be honest the line-up is pinning a lot of hope that Ampadu will inject some creativity and life into the left hand side (looking at you Steven and Fleck) - I completely understand the view that Stevens could be benched for lowe, but for this particular game I would stick with Stevens.

Norwood - has to come back into the team, we need somebody who can switch play. He offers something that no other midfielder in the squad has and we are crying out for some creativity. So what if the odd pass misplaces we need to see forward passes.

Berge - He is fantastic on the ball but needs to carry the ball forward more, no better opportunity than against Fulham.

Burke - For me he is currently first choice on team sheet. Nightmare for defenders.

Brewster - Straight in. Give him freedom to drop deep and pick up the ball and lets see what the boy is made of.

Need points. Need Fleck to find form. Need more goals. Need more forward balls. Need to play without fear and a bit a luck wouldn’t hurt.

Keep the faith Blades.

What would be your lineup?

I quite like your midfield/striker options. I can’t see CW playing Ampadu at LCB though. I do think Ampadu should start, he’s an absolute talent. But for me he plays RCB. It appears so far this season that overlapping CB’s will be employed less. As a consequence I think we need more direct wing backs to offer our attacking threat.
I think we need Norwood back spreading the play in midfield and Sander playing at RCM. I’m quite surprised this hasn’t been the tactic as Berge himself stated how he was adapting to the No.8 role.
I’d keep the spine of experience in Egan, Norwood and Didzy... then throw the energetic youthful signings we’ve made in around them. (Although like you I think Burke has been our best forward player so more than happy to see him start)
I’d go something like this... replace Robinson with any potential signing to play LCB

 

[DronnieBlade]

Against a bang average Fulham side, at home.

Has to be 3:4:1:2 for me.

UTB

 

[CoatesyBlade]

Against a bang average Fulham side, at home.

Has to be 3:4:1:2 for me.

UTB

Something like this... ?

 

[HackeyBlade]

That's how I'd go, drop McGoldrick back into the Fleck role if Fleck's having an off day and put McBurnie up Front. This is assuming Brewster won't start

 

[RedandWhite]

View attachment 94157
Looking forward...

I know Ampadu isn’t left footed, but going off what I saw against leeds, he offers more going forward than Robinson.

To be honest the line-up is pinning a lot of hope that Ampadu will inject some creativity and life into the left hand side (looking at you Steven and Fleck) - I completely understand the view that Stevens could be benched for lowe, but for this particular game I would stick with Stevens.

Norwood - has to come back into the team, we need somebody who can switch play. He offers something that no other midfielder in the squad has and we are crying out for some creativity. So what if the odd pass misplaces we need to see forward passes.

Berge - He is fantastic on the ball but needs to carry the ball forward more, no better opportunity than against Fulham.

Burke - For me he is currently first choice on team sheet. Nightmare for defenders.

Brewster - Straight in. Give him freedom to drop deep and pick up the ball and lets see what the boy is made of.

Need points. Need Fleck to find form. Need more goals. Need more forward balls. Need to play without fear and a bit a luck wouldn’t hurt.

Keep the faith Blades.

What would be your lineup?

Exactly that however, Lowe for Stevens.

 

[BrisBlade]

Something like this... ?

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?attachments/46d5f727-66dc-4a79-9897-2c27943de08d-jpeg.94173/

This one looks the best so far.

I would like McBurnie in at the start and then bring on Burke against tiring defenders. I can also see A N Other coming in at LCB (although I think Robinson has been OK). An alternate would be Ampadu or Norwood CDM, Berge on the right and Fleck on the left (if he's looking a bit sharper in a couple of weeks).

For most of the other suggestions, I just can't see us going with right footers on the left at the back.

 

[Kev Gee]

I think he will need to freshen things up.
Playing the same team, will just produce the same results.
I would even be tempted to goto a back four with Ampadu sitting in front.

 

[Swannyblade]

If we play Norwood, we have the option of a long through ball to Burke to utilise his pace. No one else in the squad has the passing range of Norwood.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

.....................Rammers....................

......Bash.........Egan.......Ampadu....

Baldock...Norwood....Berge...Lowe.

........................Didsy........................

.............Burke.............McBurnie.....

Bench:
Fodders
Bogel
Stevens
Fleck
Osborn
Brewster
Sharp


Let's take the handbreak off (as Wilder often used to say) and go at it FFS. We need to get into the habbit of scoring goals, and I don't see that happening with a flat midfield 3 at the moment. Didsy is best dropping deep and linking things up, although he is our top scorer, so maybe he should start up top In which case he can swap positions with McBurnie.

The only change I agree with there is to have both Burke and McBurnie up front. But alas I think the chance of them playing together has come and gone unfortunately. It will be one or the other with Brewster now.

 

[S64 Blade]

I would go with;

-------------Ramsdale------------
----Bash-----Egan----Ampadu----
Baldock------------------------Lowe
---------Norwood---Berge--------
-----------------Fleck--------------
----------Burke-------Brewster-------

Subs: Foderingham, Bogle, Robinson, Lundstram, Osborn, McGoldrick, McBurnie

I know Berge isn't left-footed btw, but I do't think it makes a massive difference. I'd play Norwood and Berge in that holding role, allow more freedom to the wing backs and wide CBs - at the same time, push Fleck forward, where he is more effective.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

If we go into this thinking Fulham are going to be pushovers, we’ll probably drop points. No easy games in this league, and no doubt they will fancy this as a result that could kickstart their season against an out of form side low on confidence. Confidence isn’t something you can just switch on and off like a tap – it might be single goal that wins it in a scrappy game.

Too many changes to an unfamiliar lineup/style might have an effect counter to what was intended. At the same time some freshening up is needed. I would go with:

Ramsdale
Basham, Egan, Robinson
Bogle, Berge, Norwood, Fleck, Lowe
McGoldrick, Brewster

Harsh on Burke, but I would expect us to be less on the break in this one.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Robinson's not up-to this standard, just get rid. Have we kept a clean sheet with him in the team? Ampadu needs to play ahead of him even if he's right footed.

 

[bongleblade]

....................Ramsdale..........................

.........Bash.........Egan.......Stevens.........

Baldock...Berge.Norwood.Fleck...Lowe.

.............Brewster.............Burke..............

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I’ve certainly changed my mind on what is Sander’s best position at the moment. In the centre of the back three he seems wasted as nothing more than the teams “water carrier,” who ultimately lets the ball flow through midfield and gives it to the supposed more talented midfielders either side of him. Unfortunately we don’t have these highly talented midfielders either side of him. So he needs to return to RCM again or maybe the front tip of a midfield diamond.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Robinson's not up-to this standard, just get rid. Have we kept a clean sheet with him in the team? Ampadu needs to play ahead of him even if he's right footed.

We’re not getting rid of Robinson. If we want to ditch the overlapping aspect of the centre-backs in our system, or switch to a two in the middle, then Ampadu on the left starts to be in the conversation. While we can hope that he could get to the byline and cut it back, or whip in from the wing, with his right, I don’t think it’s likely with his left. He’s comfortable with his left sure, but not as comfortable or capable of doing all the requirements you’d expect of him at LCB.

 

[hidesbehindapseudonym]

Cant' see "Lundstram" in any of the proposed lie-ups. Which would be good.

 

[Harry's Game]

.....................................Ramsdale

..................Bash...............Egan............Ampadu

Baldock......................................................................Lowe

............................Berge..................Norwood

..........................................Fleck (or new attacking CM )

...........................Brewster...............Burke.


Lets play some attacking football like we used to eh?

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

We’re not getting rid of Robinson. If we want to ditch the overlapping aspect of the centre-backs in our system, or switch to a two in the middle, then Ampadu on the left starts to be in the conversation. While we can hope that he could get to the byline and cut it back, or whip in from the wing, with his right, I don’t think it’s likely with his left. He’s comfortable with his left sure, but not as comfortable or capable of doing all the requirements you’d expect of him at LCB.

He's played there for Wales multiple times and always faired well from what Blades Analytics says. If we don't manage to sign a JOC replacement we can't have Robinson as our first choice in this division and get away with it.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

He's played there for Wales multiple times and always faired well from what Blades Analytics says. If we don't manage to sign a JOC replacement we can't have Robinson as our first choice in this division and get away with it.

He’s played the left of a two for Wales. We ditched 3 at the back fairly early into Giggs’s reign, despite it working extremely well under Coleman. When that was deployed, Ben Davies was the LCB. It’s been a back 4 for quite a while. And the requirements of that compared to our LCB role are rather different.

 

[Swannyblade]

Berge's best position might well be centre of the midfield three. However with Norwood and Ampadu, we have other good options there.
For us, right now Berge's of more value on the right of the midfield. He grew into the role post lockdown and looked a threat going forwards.
At the moment we only have Lunny as the other RCM option. I think there's a place for Lunny when we require a high energy box-to-box player, but if we want to impose our play on the opposition we must be starting Norwood in the centre and Berge on the right.

 

[Mojo]

Biggest game since we got promoted. Losing it is unthinkable

 

[Jon Bon II]

Subs: Lovely, Carp, Incident, Freak, Starsky, Sharp

 

[Jan Age]

Burke is a bit like a dog chasing a tennis ball, rapid and gets on the end of it but once he gets it he goes mad... needs to work on holding it up and bringing others in to play.

Would keep putting him but work on that in training.

 

[BanderSerge]

If we play Norwood, we have the option of a long through ball to Burke to utilise his pace. No one else in the squad has the passing range of Norwood.

No one else tows a caravan like him either!

 

[Bladeinleeds]

To my mind if results keep going the way they have been - At some point we are going to have to play our most talented players.

For me Norwood and fleck should be included - they might need to play there way back into a little bit of form (fleck in particular always starts the seasons poorly). Wilder sees training but I can’t see a circumstance where either of them (lunny and Osborn ) are better than their alternatives longer term. Fleck and Norwood are a class apart.

For me, Berge - Norwood - fleck is infinitely stronger than lundstram - berge - Osborn. And it’s not even like we’ve been getting the results that warrant them keeping their places in the side.

Perhaps the fullbacks could use freshening up? If bogel and Lowe were our answer to our total lack of creativity by having better final balls - it would be nice to see if these are viable options or not. At least have them on the bench - as a one goal against basically is putting a win out of our reach atm.

 

[BladesMadGreeny]

I’d like to see us try 4-3-1-2. The overlapping centre-halves are non-existent so a change of system has to be considered.

We need to approach the Fulham game with an attacking outlook. I dread to think if we continue as we are I see them nicking a goal then us being unable to break them down despite their defensive frailties.

Stevens form post-lockdown has fallen off a cliff. Lowe looked positive against Burnley so I’d like to see him given a start.

I really don’t rate Jack Robinson at all. Not strong enough in the air. He’s a Championship-level defender.

We miss Norwood’s distribution and ability to switch play, picking the balls up from the centre halves. Fleck should’ve been given a kick up the arse from being dropped. He’s still our best Midfield for advancing with the ball at his feet.

Ramsdale

Bogle/Baldock
Ampadu/Basham
Egan
Lowe

Berge
Norwood
Fleck

McGoldrick

Brewster
McBurnie

 

[Mumbo]

I’d like to see us try 4-3-1-2. The overlapping centre-halves are non-existent so a change of system has to be considered.

We need to approach the Fulham game with an attacking outlook. I dread to think if we continue as we are I see them nicking a goal then us being unable to break them down despite their defensive frailties.

Stevens form post-lockdown has fallen off a cliff. Lowe looked positive against Burnley so I’d like to see him given a start.

I really don’t rate Jack Robinson at all. Not strong enough in the air. He’s a Championship-level defender.

We miss Norwood’s distribution and ability to switch play, picking the balls up from the centre halves. Fleck should’ve been given a kick up the arse from being dropped. He’s still our best Midfield for advancing with the ball at his feet.

Ramsdale

Bogle/Baldock
Ampadu/Basham
Egan
Lowe

Berge
Norwood
Fleck

McGoldrick

Brewster
McBurnie

Please Santa,
I want Lowe to start,I want a more creative midfield,I want faster counter attacks with less faffing abaaat,I want more shots,I want someone with the balls to shoot on sight of goal and if the keeper parries I want tap ins from switched on runners.I want McBurnie to stop jogging and start running,I want Burke and Brewster to form a great partnership,when we get a free kick around the box I want Brewster to hit the fucker
I don’t care if he misses next time he might score but the threat will be ever present and last of all I want 40 points by season end.