The words of Andy King. Apparently we had Parkin, Holmes and Igoe up front from the start v Brentford. So Parkin's not that lonely figure of a man standing up on his own.
King really needs to consult someone on his tactics, because that's just a load of BS.
(Sorry if this has been posted already but I'm only a Mon-Fri 9-5 poster!!)
Its very similar to the formation that was used when I first started watching in the 60's.......you had one striker...at first Jack Smith, then a number of others were used like John Stevens, Frank Large, Bill Atkins, Keith East, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Lawton even Jack Howarth who went to Aldershot and scored sack loads, had a couple of games.
Then you had 2 wingers....at first it was Rogers and Summerbee, then when Summerbee went it was the likes of Bruce Walker and Eric Weaver and later Don Heath.
The system was essentially 3 up front because the wingers never went very far back into their own half.....an inside forward, todays midfield player was to get forward and join in a bit like Grant Smith has shown he can do.
This was someone like Ernie Hunt or Roger Smart.......so DR ended up as STFC's post war record goalscorer, EH is in the top ten and RS is just outside......I think this is what King means when he says its 3 up front.
