Players in midfield this season... (off the top of my head). 17 players! No wonder we can't find any kind of balance. Mellis Frimpong RNL Cwyka Woods Paddy Bobby Lawrence Hunt McLoughlin Dawson Perkins Ethuhu Digby Jennings Fox (was he this year?) O Brien
How about this list. Cywka Mellis McCourt Proschwitz M'Voto All had a go up front this week whilst Danny Rose warms the bench at Bury
Whatever happened to two players competing for every position? We have no-one competing for LB; down to the bare bones at Centre back, anyone can have a crack at midfield including right backs, and No-one is allowed up front near Chris O Grady, unless it's panic stations, and then it's improvise time.
I wouldn't mind so much if O'Grady was a David Currie type, who gets the ball and starts running for goal, or a Johnny Hendrie type, nipping in and getting a goal from nothing, but we are sticking him up front on his own and then continually hoofing the ball up to his head. To his credit, he either gets the flick on or gets ruddy close to it, but what's the point? There's nobody else anywhere near him. It was only when Paddy came on that we saw a ball cut through to the strikers along the ground and even then it only happened twice. We had one glimpse today of the way we used to play under DW and, more importantly, the way that the better opposition teams have played against us this season. With three or four quick passes we went from Steele, down the right and created a chance within ten seconds or so of Steele releasing the ball. Every other time we go forward it takes an age and at least one of Kennedy, Dawson or Woods will have stopped and turned round, completely breaking down our attack. We are so easy to read. Burnley won today without breaking sweat, by getting an early goal and then sitting back and watching us, literally, running round in circles.
