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I think the lack of a holding midfielder is our biggest problem at the moment. We’re playing three neat and tidy passing midfielders for all want the same thing and end up on the same places. None of them protect the defence with often invites pressure on our back four. We need someone with a defensive instinct to win the ball back and give it to the more creative midfielders. If Luongo is going to be out for a while I’d consider moving Hutch there just to cover this for a while.

He played in an awful lots of different positions across his career. Which was his favourite and why?

BPF Hunt Iorfa Hutchinson Brown Adeniran Bannan Johnson Wing Shodipo Gregory

Our three midfielders could be a real source of strength in this league and allow us to dominate possession. Dropping one of them to play 442 (which has disappeared for a reason) would be a retrograde step IMHO.

Hmmm, lots of praise for BPF on here, but I thought he was quite flappy at corners and kicking wasn’t great.

It’s a fifty plus game season and full back in an attacking side is a position where you use a lot of energy. I imagine there’ll be a fair amount of rotation with Hunt playing 30 or so games there and Palmer the other 20.

Left footed. Can play centre back or left back. That’s exactly the gap in the squad we have.

It’s weird how fans think managers can’t learn, change or adapt. He’s got 3 more years experience as a manager since WBA and has clearly developed, like we all do in our day jobs with experience. Last season he played a completely diff style than his Plan A against Barnsley, for example, because he knew they played a suicidal high line and we could get in behind. Likewise Donny fans told us he could only play 4-2-3-1 but he’s gone with numerous styles and formations with us.

This has to have been written when we’d only signed Adenarin and Brown and just published now. Surely.

I do think he’s a better centre half than midfielder. Has a bit more time there to pick his passes, can read the game really well and doesn’t get booked as much. Looks like Moore is gonna be the first manager to give him a full season as first choice CB. And if Iorfa stays that is a Rolls Royce partnership with a bit of everything for this level.

Decent options in centre mid now. Luongo who can sit and break up play. Adeniran who can do similar job but with more energy to go forward. Bannan/Byers who can orchestrate. Wing who can break forward and get a goal. FDB who has the raw pace to do the same. It’s a 50+ game season so having 6 players for 3 midfield slots makes perfect sense and they’ll all get a game time as Moore switched between 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 and 3-4-3 depending on opponents.

First team: Peacock-Farrell Hunt Iorfa Hutchinson Brown Luongo Wing Bannan Green Paterson Shodipo Second team: Wildsmith Palmer Dunkley (New??) (Johnson?) Adeniran (Byers?) FDB Corbeanu Kamberi Windass

Why do people keep writing their teams with central midfielder Wing out wide. Is it just because he has “wing” in his name?

That is a good starting eleven for this league. Get in two more forwards and centre back and I think its a good squad as well.

As much as we want rid, I don’t think there’s anyone we’ll release this summer that will have any difficulties in finding a new club.