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Having watched the U21s use this formation to full effect last night I have been wondering if we should perhaps give it a go.

I know I poo-pood the idea a few weeks ago when Marky H suggested it, but I'm now wondering if it will give the team the impetous to keep going if we find ourselves 1-0 up again any time soon.

We could have something a little like this:



As I said when Mark suggested it we'd be in trouble down the flanks - but if we can just go out there and force the issue ourselves and commit to going forward we might get something out of it.

I'd go 5-4-1 and try to keep a clean sheet, in all honesty

Id go with

Heaton
Jenks OHanlon Ifil Nicholas
Pook Smith Whalley
Bouazza Fallon Roberts

I'm definately beginning to see Smith as  the midfield anchor, he can tackle, seems committed, has two good feet, likes to push forwards and shoot, and we have a capable left abck relplacement with nicho, maybe it's worth  a try.

Id stick with 4-4-2 to be honest, the last two games this formation has worked well, its our lack of confidence when the other team gets back into the game thats the problem. Not the formation

Heaton

Jenkins
O'Hanlon
Ifil
Smith

McDermott
Pook
Whalley
Bouzza/Roberts

Roberts/Bouzza
Fallon

When I look at the available players, my heart sinks... the manager could try out any combination and it'd make sod all difference.

   A complete overhaul and start form scratch is what's needed .

That's out of the question though Reg, (of course) so I'm thinking all out attack might produce the goods! :|

nice choice  8)

the 3 forwards would scare the shit out of oppostition defences if they were all on form. and we have shakes, nicolau & heath that could all be used in a front 3.

Oh yeah, sort of forgot about Shaky and Nicolau.

 In our situation anything has to be worth a try.....but that is more or less what King and Iffy have been doing.

 Probably the only time we've looked remotely like a proper team throughout a game, was v Forest, which was down to the simple fact that Summerbee although unfit at least still knew what to do with a ball when receiving it and what positions to take up when without the ball.

Perfect managerial material for us then! :wink:

I had far too many ..../....../...../....... things going on, got a bit confusing. :?

4-3-3 is the only thing that hasn't been tried this season! and why not give it a go? we are only going to concede anyway so why not try and score in the process?

Hard decsion to make really when you're in our situation. Try it against Stevenage when I'll be there to see us put 5 or 6 past the part-timers!

Don't think it would be advisable against Brentford, but then what do I know?!


Heaton

Jenks Seano Ifil Nicho

Shakes/Pook Smith Whalley

Roberts Fallon Bouazza

why not? whould Brentford expect us to go out all guns blazing? dont think so! id try it on saturday and tuesday! stevenage could be the turning point in our season like Southend was in 02/03

I wonder that Rich, were in the shit, why not just go for it, just in one match and see if we can catch them off guard.  It'd be class if it came off.

Exactly Jan! why not give it a go? what's the worst that can happen? we lose again! nothing to lose by doing that in my opinion

I suppose that's why we're not managers though eh?

It bloody worked for Swansea at Walsall though.  And what did we do a week later.  Went there with one up front, not going for it.  If we'd taken the match to them gone ahead it could have been their shoulders that dropped.

Ha, see everyone has included Roberts this week.... :D

i dont see any option for us but to attack. we lost 8 on the bounce because of negative formations. endless 4-5-1's under King has got us here so we will must do the oppostite to get us out of this mess

Heaton

Jenks Seano Ifil Nicho

Shakes Smith Whalley

Roberts Fallon Bouazza

No Pook he's shite.