1st Choice Strikers?

[Beeercan]

Well, wot have we got, a short guy who can't score, a new guy who looks good, jake the snake, mcphee, and the trolley?

Who would be your front paring against Derby?

I'd Go with Leon on left wing, with CKR and the sanke upfront

 

[Rookie]

Leon and CKR with the new argie on the bench to rough it up when all goes wrong

 

[The Great Cornholio]

On yesterday's performance, CKR and Knight with Jarrett left wing, Hart Right Wing and Hammond in the middle with A.N.Other.

 

[y2dave]

Given the lack of quality in midfield I'd go Leon (left), El Turi (center forward), CKR (right).

We surely can't play 4-4-2 with the current squad.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Can we PLEASE stop thinking that strikers can play on the wing.

 

[Rookie]

Can we PLEASE stop thinking that strikers can play on the wing.

Got to agree the sooner people get the message that Leon is a centre forward the better

 

[y2dave]

Got to agree the sooner people get the message that Leon is a centre forward the better

Disagree. Remember when we played the flexible 4-5-1 (or 4-3-3 depending on how things panned out) with Zamora, Brooker and Hart? I think either El Turi or CKR playing in the Zamora role would allow to us play this shape, Leon can certainly do the brooker role on the left and would perhaps create more for himself and others playing wide or deeper.

We could then play 3 central midfielders and allow Hammond to support the attack.

 

[Seagullible]

4-3-3 innit. Midfield of Hammond Hart and Jarret, CKR Knight and a bit of Argie Bargie up front

 

[Napper]

Leon played far better on the wing than he did up front for last season.
Would still give him benifit of doubt + start with him + CKR up front with Argie + Jake on bench. If we dont sign a left winger however then there is a big case to put leon there with the argie + CKR up front

 

[Rookie]

The idea of the 4-3-3 grabs me as opposed to a strict 4-4-2 with leon on the left. a 3 of argie up with leon and ckr just behind him would look good

 

[GUNTER]

I think the argie would be better of playing at the back at the mo!

 

[Simon Morgan]

ckr would DEFINITELY be one of my choices and i would either stick knight up there with him OR put knight on the left and put el turi up front with him.

 

[Loft23]

Given the lack of quality in midfield I'd go Leon (left), El Turi (center forward), CKR (right).

We surely can't play 4-4-2 with the current squad.

Since we dont have any wingers apart from Jarrett, we could play a 5-3-2 formation with nicolas, oatway and hammond in central midfield and knight and ckr upfront. Who knows who we'll have in defence.
If we play 3 upfront it would leave our defence exposed.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

4-3-3 innit. Midfield of Hammond Hart and Jarret, CKR Knight and a bit of Argie Bargie up front

That line up gives the defence too little protection. I reckon if we go 4-3-3, the midfield would be three from Oatway, Nicolas, Hammond and Carpenter.

 

[Seagull73]

We don't sound like there is too much of a problem going forwards at the moment, in a complete reverse to the majority of last season, I am concerned about our ability to keep clean sheets... That's didn't happen often enough last season...

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

4-3-3 innit. Midfield of Hammond Hart and Jarret, CKR Knight and a bit of Argie Bargie up front

Thats a good way to get SLAPPED

 

[Skaville]

4-3-3 innit. Midfield of Hammond Hart and Jarret, CKR Knight and a bit of Argie Bargie up front

That side would get absolutely stuffed every week.

 

[Bakesy]

Since we dont have any wingers apart from Jarrett, we could play a 5-3-2 formation with nicolas, oatway and hammond in central midfield and knight and ckr upfront. Who knows who we'll have in defence.
If we play 3 upfront it would leave our defence exposed.

What defence?

You've got to assume that we are going to ship a few goals, so we will need to score more.
Might as well go 4-3-3
At least doing that may see us score more than 1 a game

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

We'll give you £100k to take Wayne Andrews off of our hands!

 

[London Irish]

Since we dont have any wingers apart from Jarrett, we could play a 5-3-2 formation with nicolas, oatway and hammond in central midfield and knight and ckr upfront. Who knows who we'll have in defence.
If we play 3 upfront it would leave our defence exposed.

Spot on - can't believe people are suggesting attacking 4-3-3 formations at the rate we are shipping goals! Agree with your midfield but Chippy ahead of Alexis, I reckon.

The overriding purpose of our 5-3-2 we will probably put out at Derby will be to protect what will almost certainly be a new central defensive combination.

We need to put out a team of determined tacklers and ball-winners and trust the class of Leon and Kazza to make the most of their chances.

Playing an open game against Derby's excellent one-touch footballers is a suicide mission. Keep it tight, defend well, frustrate them, hurt them on the counter.