Regarding the midfield, I would chuck all the babies out with the bath water. As I see it our failure to score goals along with our inability to keep a clean sheet, is almost exclusively down to our poor midfield. They never get the blame for our lack of goals or the leaky defence. But the virtually non existent protection they afford our defence, as well as the number of times way they meekly give the ball away, is always gonna put our back line under pressure. Similarly going forward, they starve our front players of decent service and often leave them marooned up front on their own.
