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Whatever, I am a qualified FA Coach and have been for 40 years. What badges have you got?

It's taken a while but it is nice to see people talking about our missing right midfielder.

Until The problem costing us matches is rectified. Clearly you have little interest in the flaws that are going to get us relegated. Only 20 matches left. Suggest you put me on ignore then you won't be bothered by it.

Lallana has proved, by his inability to play in a selected position he doesn't want to be in, that he is not prepared to play for the team. You are clearly mistaking his undoubted ability for ball control and trickery as being a requirement to play in a team game. He plays for himself, is very undisciplined, has completely let down the team by playing anywhere, but the wide right position he is picked in. By doing this he has made it almost impossible to break down a massed defence, because of no width, and even worse has opened us up for the opposition to break and outnumber our defence. We have shipped loads of goals this year because of the way both he and McGoldrick when picked wide just didn't bother playing there. Dyer looked good for Sheff Utd and scored a good goal.

Not half as much as watching his superhyped non right midfielder, U21, future England star, showboating like a headless chicken.

I like your style. Take it one step further, maybe Cork with his moblity would be the best sweeper behind two markers in Perry/Pearce. I favour a front sweeper, Cork in front of Perry/Pearce but making up a defensive triangle and being the first to try and stop the break. The rest of the team would be two attacking CMs and two wingers reinforcing a central striker.

We need a right midfielder to play wide, he looked in decent nick for Sheff Utd, our one man right back midfielder having to play the whole right side on his own is killing us. Dyer has pace and might just get to the byeline. We are not doing that. All the other alternatives are worse.

Michael Kightley of Wolves.

I just can't make my mind up. I am gobsmacked that he allows McGoldrick and Lallana to ponce around, showboating with no end product, whilst James at right back, is expected to play most of the game both right midfield and right back, as the only player on our right side.

This has really gone beyond a joke. Portvleit must be either a total yes man or a total prat I don't know which. The fundamental flaw down our one man right side has got to be sorted immediately or we won't win another game. There are far better teams than Notts Forest and we weren't able to cope with them.

To solve the problem in the meantime for the next two games because it is really fundamentally hurting us. I would play Cork at right back with James at right midfield. Holmes and Skacel on the left, Pearce and Perry central defence. Euell and Surman if Schneiderlin not fit centre midfield. BWP up front paired with Paterson. The only other alternative I might consider is play Mills at left back and Skacel with BWP.

Robertson needs to go back, just not a goalscoring striker at the moment. Dyer could solve our right side problem

More people are seeing where our fundamental fatal flaw is. A right back having to play his own game and cover for the missing right midfielder, who sees his own self indulgence as more important than playing for the team. A striker who can't strike and can't be arsed to do much else. Both of them are lightweight showboaters and need dropping. The manager is either not allowed to do this or has been instructed to let them do their own thing. I just cannot believe the prat can't see what is destroying our defence and making us impotent in attack

Lallana has got a game plan, wide right but he doesn't want to play there so he doesn't. Either he plays for the team or leave him out. I would be happy to see him transferred as he is destroying our shape with his lack of discipline. If James wasn't trying to do his job and Lallana's as well, we would be a lot better off and he would look a whole lot better. If I was playing behind him, I would deck him, if he didn't do his job.

Well it probably won't matter to us as he played well for SU yesterday. According to Sky , he pretty much clinched a permanent move. We need another non goalscorer in exchange like a hole in the head. Let Robertson go back. Dyer is better than anything we have wide right.

The hairdryer treatment and a chucked boot or tray of cups might get his attention though. That would be my choice for him and McGoldrick.

You could also have read it towards the bottom of my first post on this thread.

It was Surman running with the ball and dispossessed.

Dyer signed his contract with Lowe in the summer. He probably isn't on any more than Lallana. The other two possibly won't be back. I expect them to go for knockdown fees.

Never mind the argument about 1 or 2 up front. We need to achieve two objectives. I know it's stating the obvious, we have to be better in defence and start scoring goals. The way to do it, is rediculously simple. Rectify the major flaw we have in the side. Personnel:- McGoldrick and Lallana because of their lack of discipline and lack of end product are making the team a lot worse than they could be. Defence:- James is the key, because there is no player in front of him, he has to play both right back and right midfield. We are regularly exposed to counter attack because of the space behind him and because our defenders are sucked across, our left and centre is exposed. Attack:- We are totally lopsided, we play wide down the left but have no right side. Lallana is supposed to be wide right but just refuses to play there and wanders all over, making us and him totally ineffective. This allows the opponents left side to tuck in and reinforce the defence, so we are always outnumbered by a compact defence. We never have anybody attacking the far post. By the time James gets forward on the right all the defence is back, our midfield is forward and we are exposed for the counter attack. Any cross is then into a packed defence. The ball is cleared and we are then outnumbered at the back. Solution:- Obvious really. Play two banks of 4, the right midfield and right back maintain our width. The right mid then tracks back to help the fullback. Lallana is left out because he is unreliable and undisciplined. McGoldrick is left out for the same reasons and both of them are incapable of troubling the goalkeeper and play in their comfort zones. BWP, James,Thompson or Gillett wide right, get Dyer back ASAP ( he played well for Sheff Utd last night and scored). Cork or James at right back. Paterson up front, Supported by Euell, not ideal, it won't happen but maybe Mills at left back and Skacel with Paterson for the next two games. I have heard that Molyneaux, Everton left back is now training with us and due to be registered on Jan 1st. The above tactical change would make us more compact in defence and allow us to stretch the opponents. Why the hell is it that Jan Portvleit can't see it and doesn't know what is going wrong, when it's as obvious as a dog's balls.

Well, just buy a ticket and crap on the seat.

Nobody is passing and moving anymore, today was just an inexperienced team playing disorganised crap.

You are right, I've given the prat every chance, but two up front, plus a left mid that fell over once and no right mid at all, it doesn't matter because the two got no passes, service or help. I hear Lallana was dizzy late on from running round like a headless chicken.

The crap and spin we have been subjected to is a joke. It is time to put in some performances, let that do the talking, otherwise just shut up.

He wouldn't get in instead of Osie.