yorkshire stag wrote:gazza1988 wrote:To be fair we lost plenty of games last season playing a back 4.
time will tell, however from that showing we didn’t have the players available to call it a success don’t you think ?
No, still early days though.
I fact you could argue that we've stuck with largely the same players at the back and still can't defend direct running and diagonal balls.
In the heat of the game and the hours following a result emotions run high.
I've said my piece we need 2-3 actual defensive options.
The last team we had any kind of success with this formation we had White, Preston. Pearce, Sweeney and Benning (arguably CJ Hamilton as well). Who out of our current back 5 would displace them playing in the first half of that season? JJOT and Macca.
That is a tad unfair on Harbottle, he's had one start for us so far, but the rest? And that team only finished 3 places higher and was a string contender until the final whistle of the last game.
Hawkins would be decent in the middle but he's no krystian Pearce and any side worth their salt will thread through balls between him and his CB partner either side for a quick attacker to run onto and