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As we can see from his club games Wood is capable of playing the game in many different ways and scoring different goals. 

I don’t think the problem is Wood- it’s what the game plan is behind him. 

Against Greece we had our best ball players in the middle of the park , allegedly, but couldn’t retain possession or build from the back or attack through the centre. We couldn’t get our creative players on the ball in space, we had no wingers which has been a previous and recent strength and Payne couldn’t offer width. We rarely passed with any fluidity, which we’d been able to do previously.

Our only attack was to get Libby to bomb crosses that were easily intercepted by the defense. No sweat for Greece.

Wood playing so far from support and scarcely touching the ball seems daft. It seems a given we need to get more players making runs into the box.

Also Bazeley doesn’t seem to be able to react to match circumstances which is fairly important if we’re getting dominated in some areas. 

I think we’ll see a substantially different effort against Ireland and can judge better after that.