Cityisland said:Didnt keegan try it in our first prem game under him following promotion?
Jihai was on of the three. Think we lost to Leeds at elland road.
Corky said:Kendal used it in the Everton 0-1 match at the start I remember, but it was more 5 at the back then 3. I'm sure Royle used it, e.g. the 2-3 at home to Ipswitch.
SWP made his name as a wing back under keegan with 3/5 at the back too.
It's all a case of where do you get your width from.
remoh said:Corky said:Kendal used it in the Everton 0-1 match at the start I remember, but it was more 5 at the back then 3. I'm sure Royle used it, e.g. the 2-3 at home to Ipswitch.
SWP made his name as a wing back under keegan with 3/5 at the back too.
It's all a case of where do you get your width from.
Yes, it was regularly 5 at the back under Kendal.
It was the only time in my Kippax years that I was bored stiff!
Any successful team in the Prem. nowadays puts a lot of demands on it's players over the course of a season and in my view that makes the job of wing-half almost impossible to sustain; the fitness required is incredible. This means that when we are under counter-attack, our central defenders are on their own because our wing-halves are stranded out wide and up front. They can never get back in time to do any good.
This wouldn't matter if our defensive mids were back with the defence, but again, they tend to get too far upfield to help.
Roberto likes to keep the team compact, but one of the problems with this is that a pacy breakaway will always catch us out.
No: for me let's have four at the back, every time. (with ONE defensive mid.)
PS: and two wingers to give us width. 4-1-3-2
Corky said:remoh said:Corky said:Kendal used it in the Everton 0-1 match at the start I remember, but it was more 5 at the back then 3. I'm sure Royle used it, e.g. the 2-3 at home to Ipswitch.
SWP made his name as a wing back under keegan with 3/5 at the back too.
It's all a case of where do you get your width from.
Yes, it was regularly 5 at the back under Kendal.
It was the only time in my Kippax years that I was bored stiff!
Any successful team in the Prem. nowadays puts a lot of demands on it's players over the course of a season and in my view that makes the job of wing-half almost impossible to sustain; the fitness required is incredible. This means that when we are under counter-attack, our central defenders are on their own because our wing-halves are stranded out wide and up front. They can never get back in time to do any good.
This wouldn't matter if our defensive mids were back with the defence, but again, they tend to get too far upfield to help.
Roberto likes to keep the team compact, but one of the problems with this is that a pacy breakaway will always catch us out.
No: for me let's have four at the back, every time. (with ONE defensive mid.)
PS: and two wingers to give us width. 4-1-3-2
I meant ball above.
Kendal did it with Harper as sweeper didn't he, all those 1-1 draws before we turned our form around.