Matt, I still worry about the vulnerability of Evatt and Hird without a tackler in front of them. As you say the friendlies suggested 3-5-2 and 4-3-3 on Saturday, so you are lining up an untried 4-4-2 too which suggests GC's getting to you nearly as much as he is to me. But I do think your team is interesting with German up front and O'Grady deeper.
I think this left back right back stuff is largely bollocks. I'm more than happy with a right-footed left back.
We have a collection of players I find almost impossible to coagulate into a convincing clot, but I'd have to seal the leaking artery of our defence to give the forwards a chance. But I still can't make any system I've heard of out of our players, so I've invented one.
LEE
BARRY
HIRD
MAGUIRE
MCGINN
EVATT
MITCHELL
DIMAIO
REED
DENNIS
O'GRADY
SUBS: GERMAN, UGWU, BREWSTER, SINNOTT, DONOHUE, WAKEFIELD, PARKIN, to be used tactically and positively to win games.
Amongst the players we lack within the random bunch of players we call a squad is a proper defensive midfield player and a proper attacking midfielder who might notch 10-15 in a season like Danny Whitaker did. We also can't field proper wingers if we want, yet we do have centre forwards for wingers to feed.........
Amongst the players we do have is a midfielder who gets tiredy, another who might be a bit of a Joey Barton and a keeper of dubious ability who if he plays will weaken the team and if he sits on the bench will block the development of a young keeper.
We've dealt ourselves a hand full of consonants and the only vowel is U.
I do think though that as O'Grady was always known as the workhorse of the Wednesday forward line there could be mileage in trying him deeper. After all he has spent 14 seasons up front, 8 clubs and 9 loans and never really returned many goals. Maybe he'd score just as many from deeper.
I think this left back right back stuff is largely bollocks. I'm more than happy with a right-footed left back.
We have a collection of players I find almost impossible to coagulate into a convincing clot, but I'd have to seal the leaking artery of our defence to give the forwards a chance. But I still can't make any system I've heard of out of our players, so I've invented one.
LEE
BARRY
HIRD
MAGUIRE
MCGINN
EVATT
MITCHELL
DIMAIO
REED
DENNIS
O'GRADY
SUBS: GERMAN, UGWU, BREWSTER, SINNOTT, DONOHUE, WAKEFIELD, PARKIN, to be used tactically and positively to win games.
Amongst the players we lack within the random bunch of players we call a squad is a proper defensive midfield player and a proper attacking midfielder who might notch 10-15 in a season like Danny Whitaker did. We also can't field proper wingers if we want, yet we do have centre forwards for wingers to feed.........
Amongst the players we do have is a midfielder who gets tiredy, another who might be a bit of a Joey Barton and a keeper of dubious ability who if he plays will weaken the team and if he sits on the bench will block the development of a young keeper.
We've dealt ourselves a hand full of consonants and the only vowel is U.
I do think though that as O'Grady was always known as the workhorse of the Wednesday forward line there could be mileage in trying him deeper. After all he has spent 14 seasons up front, 8 clubs and 9 loans and never really returned many goals. Maybe he'd score just as many from deeper.