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A tad unfair. He had been down injured seemingly seriously just previously and to be honest when we were preparing the sub I thought he was still off. I hadn’t noticed that he had actually hobbled back on, so I presume he was wanting to get some treatment and that’s why he left sharpish.
I don’t think he’ll play because of the need to recover from whatever it was.

Because you were looking out for me but didn’t see me turned towards you, and you asked random strangers if they were me :)

and the club is tied to a “he plays if he’s fit” contract.

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You’ve been challenged before on things like this, rash generalisations of what you think is going on without any evidence whatsoever, and never come up with the goods on any one occasion.
Where’s your evidence that that is the case? Do you know, or just “think” there is such a contractual clause that the club is lying to us about?
Come on. Spill the beans.

Isn’t it good that we’re debating who is the better of two not-at-all bad keepers? Makes a change.

Because Jones is injured

The only slight point I’d make is that no team from the 1920s on played 2-3-5; it was in fact 3-2-5 with the big “stopper centre half” actually being the central defender. Although programmes still gave a 2-3-5 layout, with the change in the offside rule in 1925 to reduce the number of players needed between player and goal-line to two from three. This needed an extra defender, so the centre half dropped back.
Famously Hungary in 1953 numbered their team with the centre half as #3, causing Kenneth Wolstenholme to comment to confused viewers.
The 50s and early 60s saw the heyday of the wingers; but it is in fact arguable whether they were what we would now call forwards or were their midfielders pushing far forward; a sort of 3-4-3, that would alter to a 3-3-4 as one winger ploughed his way to the opposing bye-line.
Ramsey then disposed of the wingers, narrowing the options, but in line with continental practice became more defensively minded, putting 4 into the back line in a 4-3-3. The Italian Catennacio even took one of the forwards and put them behind the back 4 as a sweeper.
Since then the scene has become more fluid, even during matches. Formations ebb and flow throughout the game. The main reason for having less forwards and more midfield is that it doesn’t matter how many forwards you have, if the midfield is over-run the ball will never get to your forwards.
4-4-2 works fine if one of the forwards is prepared to put in a shift helping out the midfield when necessary, but ready to push forward. A very tiring role. So we do tend to see an interim solution of a diamond with one midfield tucked in behind a lone striker, but not committed fully to an attacking role – Jacobs being often seen doing that for us.
As I said though everything is so much more fluid now, changing by the minute, so that at times it is futile to try and put numbers and rigid definitions on how a team is going to play.