[BaggieSteve]

What is going on with Burke? It's strange that he never even seems to make the bench.

It seems very strange. Darren Moore makes all the right noises, says he's a great player and a fantastic lad, he scores in the games he plays in, and yet he's clearly not close to the first team. This despite that fact that we have HRK on the bench who, in most people's opinion, is a waste of a squad number. I don't know whether it's because the coach cannot see where he would fit into the current system and whether he sees Barnes taking the role that could be Burke's. However, the last two results should indicate to the management team that the system & players are not working together. Like most people have said, I think this stems from the inability of the players at the back to play the way they are being asked, but I also think it's not helped by a lack of willing, mobile and creative midfielders to whom they can deliver the ball. I don't know what it was like last night but at Wigan, whenever one of the back three gave the ball to Brunt or Livermore, they were given it straight back..they then proceeded to pass it among their fellow back three, one of whom eventually would give it to Brunt or Livermore and who would give it back again (I feel like I could have cut and pasted this!). It didn't take Wigan long to work out this did not require too much robust defending on their part, just some high pressing. It worked.

Darren has to change something, not just replace Livermore/Barry with Field. As many have said, this system is not working, we cannot defend. We are 4th in the league despite, not because of, it.