Snowflake RoyalYorkshireRoyal99Snowflake Royal No probably we don't. Although I reckon most of us would have cottoned on quicker that it didn't include Mola, Carson (yet), Bindon (at RB) or the 4-2-2-2 bollox he was playing.
There's few standout players in the squad... Wing and Button are probably the only ones. But there are a lot of decent quality players that in the right combination should work. Although the longer Selles has them losing and their confidence in tatters and desperation creeping in the fewer and fewer will work.
If they weren't both left footed I'd say the best CB pairing is McIntyre and Abbey, I'm not sure how comfortable either would be on the right side though. But I'd like to see two of Holmes, McIntyre, Mbengue, Abbey and Bindon... except Holmes and McIntyre (both too slow) or Abbey and Bindon (both too raw).
Based on what you have mentioned about the CB's, is 3 at the back the way to go then? Holmes, Abbey, McIntyre could be decent and it gives us a platform going forward and it means that our full backs are less exposed and can afford to be higher up the pitch. Maybe a 3-4-3?
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Obviously a lot of quality, experience and/or potential outside the first XI with the likes of Dean, Carson, Mola (not sure which category he falls under of the 3 mentioned at the moment though), Elliot, Hutchinson, Vickers, Ballard, Kelvin E etc. Some fringe options like Rushesha and Craig missing as well.
Not suggesting that above is my preferred XI or anything, but we could maybe justify something like that which can potentially bring out a little more in the team. The only issue I've got is then we've got a lot of forwards not involved from the start and where do they come into the team. other than a like-for-like swap for Smith.
There are lots of options.
I tend to think no for that trio because it puts the slow ones covering in behind the fullbacks and that was a weakness previously.
Certainly not against 3 cbs though.
What I would say then is that it's more about positional sense rather than pace itself directly. Abbey can also cover in behind as well. Bindon also wouldn't be a bad option in any of those positions perhaps.
What it would solve is that it means the full backs become less exposed defensively and can afford to be higher up the pitch, it also means we might not need a holding midfielder either with 3 at the back as well and we don't really have a dedicated DM at the moment Hutch isn't one for me and McIntyre could develop there but we need some ready-made players somewhere).
You could possibly slot Vickers into one of the wider areas and allow him to drift inside off the channel perhaps as his movement is quite good as well. It just seems as if we need to balance out our squad a little bit though, we have numbers across the pitch and individual quality, we just can't seem to fit it in everywhere.
