Formation

[Pinchy]

We need to stop shipping goals against average teams. We are not picking up points. Something has to change.

Silly, knee-jerk over-reactions would be the first thing I’d change. Then I’d move on to educating the S2 population about how all teams lose games and have bad runs from time to time, without inevitably being shit, dire or gash.

 

[Pinchy]

Okay. Some truths:

We don’t have a Plan B? If ever a manager had plans A-Z and back again it’s Chris Wilder as he has demonstrated time after time by seamless alterations that have changed games in minutes.

Formations don’t win games; good players do. On the Desso, not on charts and whiteboards.

Teams lose games. They lose form. In S2, knees jerk uncontrollably.

 

[metalblade]

Think it's time to try something new while we're missing a couple of faces.
I thought Miwaw had loads of space down the wings deep in our half yesterday.
So I suggest this. It's a bit 4-5-1 but a bit more 4-1-3-1-1...
Not strictly these players but something like...

Goalie in t'net
CCV right back
O'Connell & Wright/Basham centre back
Enda left back
Lundstram in front of them
Fleck centre midfield
Carruthers or Stevens right midfield
Lafferty left midfield
Duffy between midfield and striker
Leon front man

Nowt to stop the usual overlapping shenanigans.
Duffy feeding Leon or Leon taking defenders away to make space.
Solid both flanks.
Solid down the middle and defence protected.


Hope you're reading this, Chris. It's the future.

In Wilder's words at the pre match interview Are you serious?

 

[Pinchy]

In Wilder's words at the pre match interview Are you serious?

I love to see left footed defenders looking like fish out of water in midfield on the right. It’s so exquisitely....daft.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

He waint change owt.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

...nor should he.

 

[Pinchy]

...nor should he.

...as I was just about to say, before I read on.

Unlike some in S2, Tufty has an anti-jerk device fitted in each knee.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

...as I was just about to say, before I read on.

Unlike some in S2, Tufty has an anti-jerk device fitted in each knee.

Forgot to add that bit and could be arsed to find edit in more options.

Anti knee-jerk, like it!