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The ball has to have left his foot or he's still in possession.

Anyone but us that's offside.

This angle shows a different picture, clearly offside. PS sorry about the quality.

This clown has got to go! Evatt clearly doesn't have the skill to get us out of this league.

We're so shit.

I didn't claim he'd be a Campo lol more of a discount Fabrice Muamba.

Yes, he's the 1 in 4231, i listed the 3.

Gomes would be there if he wasn't injured, so that would make Nlundulu like 3rd choice and more of an impact sub with his pace.

In essence it would be to use his physicality, pace and above average passing to totally disrupt the way other teams play. To play like the defence is his goal and he is a loan defender. This keeps the ball where we need it.

I genuinely think we have some of the best players in the league. I'd love to see us play 4231 and move Santos to the Midfield next to Thomason, in front of them a mix of Paris, Collins and Williams or Nlundulu. It takes the good things that we do today and moves it forward, allows us to get those second balls and gives us flexibility. The lack of which is destroying us right now it's all so predictable. The weekend was the first time I've seen a Bolton player score a headed goal in open play all season (i know others have but its rare is my point). Philippe Clement at Rangers is a perfect example of what we could be doing. The team play 4231, they're left without a left back due to injury so they switch formation to 352. When they attack sometimes the right back will make darting runs into the box, unexpected right? all of a sudden he's their top scorer, but sometimes he'll look for the overlap.

I'm hearing a lot of criticisms of Gareth Southgate recently online and IRL, and it's so strange, their comments echo the issues myself and many fans on here have identified in Evatt. Poor record against other big teams, tactically naive, bad substitutions, ego, inconsistent performances, strange callups/ signing. A manager who is trying to reinvent the wheel without the competence to do it. Interestingly, if we don't go up his record is similar too, 3 major competitions, One in no mans land and two failing in the quarter and semi finals.

Looking at our goals this season it's been striking how few headers we've scored, i can't help but think this is why Ogbeta tried to chest the ball into the net, do they even train for attacking headers. An annoying feature of the IE way is that we have no idea how these players would perform in a normal team. Is Dion our best forward or is his goal scoring performance just a feature of the formation pushing almost everything to the 2 front men. Is the reason Victor started scoring after Dions injury took him out of the team due to this?

They were last season too people just give him the benefit of the doubt. I wasnt amongst them.

My point is that our system gets the worst out of a good team. I have some faith in FV but I think IE is out of his league.

Yeh because 4-3-3 had a host of defensive limitations for Sam Allardyce at the near top of the Premier League. With players like Nicky Hunt who had to drop to league 2 to play regularly after us. Nothing against Nicky btw he's a nice bloke irl still lives locally too.