I thought that about a few of our players. Not many players seemed to want to risk a bruise.

Agree regarding the second point too. When Hennessey did hoof it up field we seemed to fair better on most of the occasions.

He was a massive success at Villa (not Liverpool) and they at the time played a similar way to how trying to now

He is Steve Mounie and they paid £11.5 Mill for him.
I did say before the game he was strong aerially and thrives on delivery from wide areas !

Corner which he met with a thumping header and HT goalie made a cracking save.
Is it just easier for you to pick up on his weaknesses because our defence were so sh**. If our defence was more solid and knew what they were doing, then C.B could more easily focus on what he s paid for, why buy a striker and expect him to defend ? What s Dann etc for ?

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And hats the way FDB wants to play !!!
Tippy tappy football to the feet, how does that help a striker who thrives on crosses.
The reason Huddersfield s striker did so well, BECAUASE they played to his strengths, not fannying around with it, back and forth around the halfway line.

and it's goodnight from me.......

FDB has specifically said he wants to use the wingers to cross the ball. He has also said 4-3-3 is his preferred system but that he felt the latter meant Wilf spent too much time doing defensive work: hence the switch. Given that he also said he is prepared to switch formations, I think he means it would be good to have more than one way of playing.

Furthermore, He has made it clear he would like to create options other than wing play, because, as we have seen over the last four years, we have been worked out and are all too easy to nullify either in terms of our predictable formation or tactics (especially at home).

Tippy-tappy, as you call it, works where the team keeps the ball rather than hoofing it forward, as we have done all too often over the years (to groans from the crowd). The problem right now is that the players seem to think that inane tippt-tappy is all they can do. For professional athletes, it is pretty pathetic that some of them cannot pass properly let alone read the game well.

If we don't change, we will end up like Sunderland or Villa. Unfortunately, change involves risk too, but the potential rewards are higher. I'm all for it.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.