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I think Bullen is.now a strong favourite for the job and 4-3-3 seems to be his preferred formation. 

 

So, assuming Hector signs and that's the end of our business, what's out strongest side when everyone is fit and firing?

 

                          Westwood

 

Iorfa          Lees           Hector        Odubajo

 

                           Hutch

                   Lee           Bannan

      

      Reach          Fletcher         Harris

 

 

That leaves as back ups ..  .

 

                           Dawson

 

Palmer        Borner       Thorniley       Fox

 

                          Pulupessey

                -----------                -----------

         --------   Nuhiu/Winnall/Rhodes    FF

 

So still a little heavy on central strikers and in need of another ball player in midfield and a right sided forward.

 

Reach can drop into a 3 if we lose Lee or Bannan, but we are extremely threadbare in that department. You can see why we looked at getting Onomah back.

 

Do we think FF could play on the right? He had a brief fun there v Espanyol.

 

 

 

 

                      

 

 

 

      

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Odubajo Hector Borner Palmer 

 

That back four, agree with the rest. Would like Forestieri in there but can only see him working on the left and currently like the look of Harris there.

 

FF did play on the right against Espanyol but spent most of his time wandering to the left and leaving no one on the right.

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Decent starting 11 but not enough cover in central midfield for 2 players that have missed the majority of the past couple of seasons. Need cover on the wings too. 

 

This highlights how important important it is to shift at least one of the centre forwards out, 

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10 minutes ago, RUMBELOWS91 said:

I think Bullen is.now a strong favourite for the job and 4-3-3 seems to be his preferred formation. 

 

So, assuming Hector signs and that's the end of our business, what's out strongest side when everyone is fit and firing?

 

                          Westwood

 

Iorfa          Lees           Hector        Odubajo

 

                           Hutch

                   Lee           Bannan

      

      Reach          Fletcher         Harris

 

 

That leaves as back ups ..  .

 

                           Dawson

 

Palmer        Borner       Thorniley       Fox

 

                          Pulupessey

                -----------                -----------

         --------   Nuhiu/Winnall/Rhodes    FF

 

So still a little heavy on central strikers and in need of another ball player in midfield and a right sided forward.

 

Reach can drop into a 3 if we lose Lee or Bannan, but we are extremely threadbare in that department. You can see why we looked at getting Onomah back.

 

Do we think FF could play on the right? He had a brief fun there v Espanyol.

 

 

 

 

                      

 

 

 

      

 

Penney might be another option on LW/LB when he is fit.

 

A midfielder first priority, no doubt

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11 minutes ago, Owls2k said:

If Bullen avoids another Burton Albion debacle he has a chance of getting it. 

 

Some want Rowett, his Derby side were also turned over by 2nd bottom Burton Albion later that year. (Though they only lost 3-1)

 

But looking at it on the bright side, Jos would join us not long after.lol

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                                       Westwood

                                        Dawson

 

 

      Odubajo            Lees               Hector             Palmer

       Iorfa                  iorfa                Borner             Fox

                                                          Thorniley        Penney

 

  

                                           Hutchinson 

                                           Pelupessy 

                                           *Hector 

                Lee                                                         Bannan

               *Grant                                                      *Reach

 

Reach                                   Fletcher                        Harris

*Forestieri                            Rhodes                         Forestieri 

                                               Winnall

 

 

The slots that Lee and Bannan occupy are the concern to me.

Very short in that area.

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7 hours ago, Lord Snooty said:

                                       Westwood

                                        Dawson

 

 

      Odubajo            Lees               Hector             Palmer

       Iorfa                  iorfa                Borner             Fox

                                                          Thorniley        Penney

 

  

                                           Hutchinson 

                                           Pelupessy 

                                           *Hector 

                Lee                                                         Bannan

               *Grant                                                      *Reach

 

Reach                                   Fletcher                        Harris

*Forestieri                            Rhodes                         Forestieri 

                                               Winnall

 

 

The slots that Lee and Bannan occupy are the concern to me.

Very short in that area.

 

Short yes, but also very short in wingers. What if Harris get injured?

maybe lump the money on a fast winger, able to play on both sides, and pull Reach back to midfield?

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Ideally we'd sign a left back, central midfielder, Hector and someone else for wide right/left.

That would give us the balance and cover we need. This is assuming Rhodes is sold.

I would personally have Odubajo further up the field as a wide right/left option. He had decent success earlier in his career further forward.

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8 hours ago, Lord Snooty said:

                                       Westwood

                                        Dawson

 

 

      Odubajo            Lees               Hector             Palmer

       Iorfa                  iorfa                Borner             Fox

                                                          Thorniley        Penney

 

  

                                           Hutchinson 

                                           Pelupessy 

                                           *Hector 

                Lee                                                         Bannan

               *Grant                                                      *Reach

 

Reach                                   Fletcher                        Harris

*Forestieri                            Rhodes                         Forestieri 

                                               Winnall

 

 

The slots that Lee and Bannan occupy are the concern to me.

Very short in that area.

 

If all fit...

 

Westwood

Iorfa Hector Lees Palmer

Hutch

Lee Bannan

Harris Reach

Fletcher

 

Still looks great with a few injuries/suspensions.

 

Borner, Moses And Thorniley to push hard for a defensive role.

 

Joey as modest cover for a CM.

Reach as excellent cover for a CM.

 

FF killing himself to replace Reach or Harris, but anyway these three sharing the entire season in the two wide roles would be superb.

 

Striker is our weakest area for depth. Hopefully Fletch can play ~ 3000 of the 4100 minutes of our league season, with Nuhiu and Rhodes as cover. 

 

All in all I think it looks good.

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8 hours ago, bigash_swfc said:

I watched the game back today.

 

We made like one attack down the right side. Expecting a little more from Reach and Odubajo against Barnsley.

 

Agreed.

 

Every time we attacked down the left we looked deadly. Really looked dangerous with Harris going inside and out, and Bannan and Palmer wanting to go forward.

 

There were promising signs that Reach and Lee will link really well up the right, but Moses was poor going forward. Early days for him, but the thought of Iorfa, Lee and Reach carrying us up the RW is really mouth-watering.

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11 hours ago, Lord Snooty said:

                                       Westwood

                                        Dawson

 

 

      Odubajo            Lees               Hector             Palmer

       Iorfa                  iorfa                Borner             Fox

                                                          Thorniley        Penney

 

  

                                           Hutchinson 

                                           Pelupessy 

                                           *Hector 

                Lee                                                         Bannan

               *Grant                                                      *Reach

 

Reach                                   Fletcher                        Harris

*Forestieri                            Rhodes                         Forestieri 

                                               Winnall

 

 

The slots that Lee and Bannan occupy are the concern to me.

Very short in that area.

 

Oh dear, you forgot Nuhiu. :-( and van Aken.

 

I have been told Shaw and Dwado  is making real good progress in reserves and is getting close to being on bench. Alex Hunt has also started season particularly well. So we could have some young players pressing for games

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20 minutes ago, Quist said:

 

Oh dear, you forgot Nuhiu. :-( and van Aken.

 

I have been told Shaw and Dwado  is making real good progress in reserves and is getting close to being on bench. Alex Hunt has also started season particularly well. So we could have some young players pressing for games

 

I think I've accidentally already sold Van Aken in my minds eye!!:biggrin:

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1 hour ago, Lord Snooty said:

 

I think I've accidentally already sold Van Aken in my minds eye!!:biggrin:

As long as you remember he is one in a hundred  you will be fine. When you list squad like that it does show wear we are thin. on resources. Did Bruce say he was looking for 4 or 6 recruits.

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