Saint Garrett

He gives us a more physical presence in the side, he works his arse off, and was involved heavily in the best part of our season last year. Plus Nigel and the players who have been around a while know what they're going to get for him. You look at the bench and it's not like we have anyone that particularly stands out. Also has played pretty well everytime he's played this season. Instead of moaning about the players why don't you give them a chance, rather than writing them off and making up the fact that he's got it in his contract that he's got to play...?

Maybe because he offers somerthing to the team rather than us being contractually obliged to bring him on ?!

Fox?

I have no problem with people having something negative to say, in fact I welcome it as it means people can have a discussion. But when it is constant and amongst multiple threads its just unecessary. If you were having a conversation with a group of people in a street, you wouldn't just carry on and on and on saying the same things over and over again would you ?!

Give it a rest Alpine ffs,

There was that cracker Vs Birmingham on a Tuesday night think we were 3-0 after 20 minutes and it was freezing.

Despite him being our second best striker for a month ?

alt + f4

Kingsland North doing the same thing, COYS !!!

Although I agree egg, and that will defeinitely help us out defensively, we're not going to drop Adam, or Gaston. And like someone else stated...we spent £12m on a 'no 10' who wants to play in behind the striker and get involved, he's going to want to play there. I don't know what the answer is but you can see why we keep making substitutions as we've got about 7 or 8 players to fit into 3 positions.

They got 2 points off us. HTH.

I think when we're taking it to teams at home then it's fine to play like that. But when we're away, or against a better side where a draw would be a good result at home, play 3 in midfield with 2 wide players and 1 striker. Just means that Gaston will have to play wide, and he's the player who we need to be involved as much as possible.

Very odd.

Which is why I said I'd start with -----Morgan --- Cork------ Mayuka---Gaston---Lallana ----------J-Rod----------- Maybe chuck Lambert in at home and J-Rod away. Possibly change to more of a 3 CM's away from home in Cork, Morgan and Davis, and then have J-Rod, Gaston and one other in the front 3 places. We're not short of options it's just finding the right combination.

Well after you saying you wouldn't play Lallana in the '2' you have put him there, and our main strength is probably playing Gaston off the striker where he played Vs Villa and Everton.

And we'd have f-all width. We'll play 2 defensive midfielders, one roaming in front, 2 wider players and 1 up top. It works for plenty of other teams so no reason why it can't with us. Only problem is neither of our CM's are 'bruisers'. They're both quite happy with the ball and passing it about but not particularly great when they need to get stuck in. -----Morgan --- Cork------ Mayuka---Gaston---Lallana ----------J-Rod----------- Is probably the best we have at the moment. Maybe Guly/Punch/Lambert could be swapped in but thats how we're going to play.

4123 is essentially what we played Vs Man Utd, with Morgan in that role in front of the back four and he was absolutely outstanding in that game. I just think we need to have a few options, but it can't help that we're changing formation so regularly. You suggesting a 505 won't help things, it will just cause more problems. And your arguement of it being more of a 4123 is wrong, as Lallana and Ramirez aren't capable of playing in a midfield 2. They'll go missing and essentially our team will be split into 5 defenders, and 5 attackers.

It is one of the many problems I think. Our team doesn't particularly look like a 'team' does it. However, it's not going to help improve how good our defence is.

If I do **** at work I don't get taken on holiday!!!

No he's just abysmal

38k after tax supposedly, although who knows what tax rates footballers use.

One of the things that Morgan and Davis are pretty good at is ball retention. They're not very good at getting stuck in and driving forwards like Mulumbu was the other night against us. Admitably they both gave the ball away a fair bit on Monday night, but I don't think thats the problem, hence why we've had a lot of the ball in all our games. The problem is defensively, not when they have the ball.

If you're worried about us not being able to shield the back four with 2 pretty defensive minded CM's, how do you think we'll get on with an attacking midfielder in CM with an 18 yr old. I wouldn't even play like that on FM !!

Bump - Went on sale today for just STH with no games needing to be attached.

We certainly have defensive minded people at the club in Dodd/Jaidi and Crosby. Surprised we aren't using them to help the defence out.