First off I'd say that I didn't go yesterday, but I've seen teams employ this tactic a couple of times now and more often than not it seems to work. The way we attack we are pretty reliant on our centre backs or holding midfielders playing out from the back. Both our centre backs aren't exactly comfortable on the ball or great passers, so last night we were reliant on Dicker (who is a good passer but can disappear in games) and Bridcutt who Blackburn seemed to be targeting (albeit illegally). It sounded as though the front 4 barely saw the ball for most of the game as we were forced to play it long (but seeing as we are largely poor in the air and had no pacey players in the starting line up) we seemed totally ineffective. I don't want to turn this into another lets have a go at the centre backs thread, but we clearly need players in that position in our system that are comfortable on the ball (Which I appreciate Gus is looking at).