[St Charles Owl]

All strikers miss sitters, Hooper also missed one tonight, but in the second half we finally at least gave the strikers some decent service, if we keep doing that then Fletcher, Hooper and especially Rhodes will score goals!! If we continue to starve them and only give them one or two chances per game like in the first half then they will struggle to score many at all.

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But that's how teams setup against us. They sit deep and lets us have the ball and play on the counter attack, we will have more possession and (probably) have more chances.

Fine, let teams set up that way. If we play like we did in the second half from the start then we will win far more games than we lose. We have to strikers to score goals, lets use them properly.

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Exactly Chaz. So why don't we start 4-3-3 with Fletch and be in front instead of chasing a point every week   Only CC can answer that one  

I still genuinely think that we will be dragged into the relegation scrap and any thought of auto will be gone by the international break. I hope I'm wrong.

Yes, only CC can make that choice. We used to play more 433 at home and 451 away from home, to great success, we need to get back to that. If as Kev says teams are happy to sit deep and let us come at them then fine, lets hit them with cross after cross and let our strikers do their job. I worry that CC won't change that but maybe with FF not being involved we can do this more often, he was the problem in a 433 because he wouldn't play on the left of a three and wanted to be a striker when we played 442, its time to stop building the formation around him and use what we have properly.

We won't be anywhere near the relegation places but its getting harder by the match if we truly have ambitions to be up near the top. I too hope you are wrong and I am right on this!!