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Good point Fill. By the time our 1 is chasing the ball everywhere we look more like 4 6 0. and not the 4 5 1 we are meant to be playing. Does anyone actually play the dreaded 4 4 2 anymore that we need to set up just to conquer it. If so the 9 times out of 10 certainly doesn’t work with our 4 5 1 or 5 4 1 that we favour. Reality is we just have to work harder and be more positive. A little like what Use promised but didn’t deliver.
The way we play this one striker system 4th bottom will be a massive over achievement this season Makem!
Two strikers and a positive approach may do that. Or let’s just keep it His majesty Griff’s way and play one striker with his back to the goals.
May not even get to be in the squad Saturday.Will need resting after all these reserve games.Question is would he be able to score at Championship level.
Well someone needs to be asking these questions because what we have had this season needs questioning.
I suppose you are right there Griff its so rewarding watching all the goals we are scoring and to see the amazing goal scoring record of our lone striker. It would be such a stupid thing to change this style and also such an unobvious question to ask the man who has it in his hands to change things we are doing to a low scoring side without a prolific goal scoring striker!!!
Defo the best period under the Jewler. Should be a bronze statue of Paul our greatest ever manager outside the main entrance at New Springfield.
How about a Pardew and Allardyce joint management team in charge of England when Roy finishes.I know what you mean about the all time Latics best or favourite 11 and to compete at all in this league we should have at least half a dozen or so players who would get in Paul Jewels squad that won the third division. That is squad and not starting 11. I don’t think there is one. Sad but this is where we are now. Selling players and replacing with journeymen/below average players to balance the books will always result in this. Remember Kenyon continuously selling off the assets to do the same. Surely though those Kenyon years must have been worse than now.
Well at the start it looked like it could be pretty positive. It looked like Maloney playing alongside or just behind Fortune, but alas no! Sean out left and McClean was sort of in that role. Figs at centre half again was questionable. Ben Watson too. Why has he a god given right to start. It all seemed like changing for changing sake. Malky has said he was pretty happy in general with the first two performances apart from the finishing at Sheffield so why not play a similar line up to the Boro game at home where Sean and McCann looked solid in midfield instead of switching players around. We could afford to drop Callum or McClean for a second striker or even play Callum as an out and out striker alongside Fortune.This seemed to work against Blackpool and Birmingham but Rosler changed things around instead of sticking with it.
Is it not glaringly obvious that Fortune needs someone alongside him. Again Fortune worked like mad but he will not score goals if he doesn’t play in the box. Often he was out left or out right or even back into midfield looking for the ball. Saying this a striker playing from centre spot to penalty spot with long passes to run on to doesn’t seem to happen anymore at Latics. Its long gone. Five or at one stage yesterday six midfielders on the park at once seems to be the way.
Well that needs changing and changing quick before next years derbys are Fleetwood Town and Rochdale.Plus he introduced us to the lone striker bollocks. Remember the first ever home game with the mighty Jason Scotland flapping around on his own doing a Fortune!
He indeed put us in this shit in the first place then jumped ship to line his already bulging pockets!
None of our players are anywhere near as good as any of Paul Jewels Third Division side.
That is the benchmark for what is required. The present side would struggle to get promoted next season if we were to get relegated this season.
