| 4-4-2 is an option now 12:25 - Feb 5 with 2008 views | homer_123 |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:36 - Feb 5 with 1977 views | clive_baker |
Because just like many things at the club, it takes us about a year after it's blindingly obvious to most other people to act.
Hence Lambert will be off soon after t0ssing up another season, only a year too late. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:39 - Feb 5 with 1962 views | bluefunk |
so we are meant to believe that 2 of our strikers couldn't play together and getting parrot has resolved the situation? or was it dependent on getting yet more midfielders to add to the bloated squad? |  | | |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:40 - Feb 5 with 1957 views | footers |
I thought 4-3-3 was the formation Evans instructed Lambert to play? Maybe that wasn't the case or he's changed his mind if it was. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:43 - Feb 5 with 1952 views | Dubtractor |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:39 - Feb 5 by bluefunk |
so we are meant to believe that 2 of our strikers couldn't play together and getting parrot has resolved the situation? or was it dependent on getting yet more midfielders to add to the bloated squad? |
If only there had been a scenario where 2 of our existing strikers had played together in a 2 for a decent period, and maybe in that period we had our best run of form in 3 years, and maybe those 2 strikers also scored a few goals?
I'm not wedded to 4-4-2 at all, but this constant stream of bullsh1t that comes out of the club is just irritating. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:49 - Feb 5 with 1936 views | davblue |
we've recruited to play a 4-2-3-1 even in the last transfer window.
If they go 4-4-2 every week now after the transfer deals they done then they are somehow even more clueless than i thought... |  | | |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:50 - Feb 5 with 1923 views | bluefunk |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:43 - Feb 5 by Dubtractor |
If only there had been a scenario where 2 of our existing strikers had played together in a 2 for a decent period, and maybe in that period we had our best run of form in 3 years, and maybe those 2 strikers also scored a few goals?
I'm not wedded to 4-4-2 at all, but this constant stream of bullsh1t that comes out of the club is just irritating. |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:59 - Feb 5 with 1899 views | Steve_M |
Lambert has stubbornly stuck to one formation this year, seemingly in response to the criticism for changing formation all the time last season. This despite the fact that our current system is dependent on two 35-year old full backs and a striker who can hold the ball up and those players have not been as mobile and effective as they were in the first six weeks of the season. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:01 - Feb 5 with 1890 views | StokieBlue |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:40 - Feb 5 by footers |
I thought 4-3-3 was the formation Evans instructed Lambert to play? Maybe that wasn't the case or he's changed his mind if it was. |
I don't think that was ever explicitly stated although it's certainly the implication made by Lambert.
It might be true although it seems more likely Lambert is just stubborn.
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:14 - Feb 5 with 1857 views | Herbivore |
Thomas and Harrop can't really function in a 4-4-2, Harrop isn't going to play in a midfield two and Thomas sees himself as a wide forward, not a midfielder. Matheson is a right back, so can play any system more or less, so I can only assume Parrot has been signed with a view to playing in a two? It's not like Norwood and Jackson ever formed an effective partnership that we could have utilised this season...... |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:17 - Feb 5 with 1845 views | StokieBlue |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:14 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Thomas and Harrop can't really function in a 4-4-2, Harrop isn't going to play in a midfield two and Thomas sees himself as a wide forward, not a midfielder. Matheson is a right back, so can play any system more or less, so I can only assume Parrot has been signed with a view to playing in a two? It's not like Norwood and Jackson ever formed an effective partnership that we could have utilised this season...... |
Indeed, if he plays 442 tomorrow it's going to be even more frustrating given we had players to play that already this season.
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:19 - Feb 5 with 1833 views | GavTWTD |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:01 - Feb 5 by StokieBlue |
I don't think that was ever explicitly stated although it's certainly the implication made by Lambert.
It might be true although it seems more likely Lambert is just stubborn.
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I thought ME was saying we should play from the back and more possession based, not the formation but happy to be corrected. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:20 - Feb 5 with 1823 views | Swansea_Blue |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 12:40 - Feb 5 by footers |
I thought 4-3-3 was the formation Evans instructed Lambert to play? Maybe that wasn't the case or he's changed his mind if it was. |
I've heard that claim about Evans a couple of times now. I'd be pretty surprised and disappointed if it was true. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:24 - Feb 5 with 1812 views | Herbivore |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:17 - Feb 5 by StokieBlue |
Indeed, if he plays 442 tomorrow it's going to be even more frustrating given we had players to play that already this season.
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Absolutely. We're no more well suited to playing 4-4-2 now than we were before we panic signed four loanees. Arguably half of them make playing 4-4-2 a poor option as it doesn't fit with their strengths. Just yet more utterly muddled thinking from the club. | |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:31 - Feb 5 with 1786 views | homer_123 |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:24 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Absolutely. We're no more well suited to playing 4-4-2 now than we were before we panic signed four loanees. Arguably half of them make playing 4-4-2 a poor option as it doesn't fit with their strengths. Just yet more utterly muddled thinking from the club. |
Indeed - in no way have we loaned these guys in to 'move' to a 4-4-2 formation - they are no more or less suited to that than our current squad players. [Post edited 5 Feb 2021 13:42]
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:38 - Feb 5 with 1773 views | ghostofescobar |
Cos they know the fans are right. Are they seriously saying 4-4-2 wasn't an option when Hawkins was fit?? He seems to me to be a striker suited to 4-4-2, with one of the other strikers buzzing around him. Treating the fans like idiots again. Thing is, in reality, not much is going to change, whatever fancy formation you want to choose, until there is a change in the manager. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:38 - Feb 5 with 1767 views | LankHenners |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:14 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Thomas and Harrop can't really function in a 4-4-2, Harrop isn't going to play in a midfield two and Thomas sees himself as a wide forward, not a midfielder. Matheson is a right back, so can play any system more or less, so I can only assume Parrot has been signed with a view to playing in a two? It's not like Norwood and Jackson ever formed an effective partnership that we could have utilised this season...... |
Can’t remember which one it was (possibly Totally Football Show or its Football League sister show) but a fairly prominent podcast was talking about Parrott and the guy on there was saying how he feels like this’ll be another wasted loan for him because he’s more suited to playing in a 2 and Town don’t create anywhere near enough to give him enough chances to score.
As has been said many times already, this is like the end of the Jewell days where the manager didn’t have a clue so was just loaning and chucking players in in the hope that *something* worked. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 14:03 - Feb 5 with 1702 views | GlasgowBlue |
Lambert's view was that our midfield was lightweight when we had the likes of Nolan, Edwards, Bishop and Downes out injured. So my interpretation of his thinking was we needed extra bodies in their at the expense of a forward.
I could be giving him too much credit. |  |
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| 4-4-2 is an option now on 15:33 - Feb 5 with 1623 views | BlueBadger |
| 4-4-2 is an option now on 13:14 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Thomas and Harrop can't really function in a 4-4-2, Harrop isn't going to play in a midfield two and Thomas sees himself as a wide forward, not a midfielder. Matheson is a right back, so can play any system more or less, so I can only assume Parrot has been signed with a view to playing in a two? It's not like Norwood and Jackson ever formed an effective partnership that we could have utilised this season...... |
Plus, he's got to shoe-horn Judge in there somewhere as well. |  |
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