Fallowfield, I know you ship a lot of shit for your team selections, and fair play to you for coming back, week after week seemingly with the hide of a fucking rhino.
But really? McBurnie - the least profligate striker with minutes on the pitch versus goals scored? I mean, I'm sure the other two non-malignant lumps we've shipped out had a better hit rate didn't they (help me Silent) than this waster? If you want sixty minutes of him faffing about between centre circle and penalty area trying to be De Bruyne or Scholes, if you want every shot half scuffed/half hit tamely at the keeper, if you want every challenge made on him to end with him laying on the deck with his arms up or chasing a pissed off referee back up the pitch when if the ref has any professionalism in him he'd blank the twerp or if you'd like our midfielders or wingers to be in an area ready to cross and there's a big fucking McBurnie shaped hole in the penalty area then fine. He's scored one goal this season. He's hardly had a crack on target. Wilder would be pleased with your selection, wouldn't he?
And as for Sander Berge at RWB? Really? What phase of play recently has Berge showed where he has to capability to cover the entire strip of pitch rectangled from the edge of both penalty areas to the touchline? What makes you think he'd relish teararsing up the pitch with chalk on his boots and then about-turning as play turns over to cover across for the counter attack? This is what Baldock, Stevens, RND and Bogle are briefed to do. They do it well. Berge is good in a free-role. Receiving, delivering, running at and past opposition midfielders. He's not a wing back and never will be. And a Defensive Midfielder isn't a wingback either. See the box? See the words on it? That.
Finally, Norwood and Hourihane are two almost identical players, save for Norwood occasionally might put in a distanced pass. Hourihane is just Norwood without the ping. He has no attack qualities, no defence qualities and won't score goals. Like Norwood, in fact.
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