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Posted August 29, 2017 22:33 · last edited August 29, 2017 22:33

mjp2 wrote:

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I think as others have also been saying we potentially have real versatility this year.  Abbas and Paracki at DM to close up shop against top sides and work on the counter is another.  Target man, front three, front two, overweight midfield, back three and wing backs, we seem to have the players to do any of that. It'll be interesting how Darije sets us up, how he varies that for specific opposition and how many options he thinks the squad can handle.  I'm wondering too if those infamous last minute goals against might get dealt to as well, with his defensive options for the bench.

Luckily no longer

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mjp2 wrote:
Eugene_Dadi_Issues wrote:
Mainland FC wrote:

That's all fine and good, but we need more than one plan. 

In the past season or two, not having a plan B proved to be our undoing.

that was my point though, we can either abuse Roy's lightning pace along with the relative quickness of vidosic and abbas and both fullbacks with throughballs and counter attacks (and to be fair AK doesn't look too slow), or we can use AK and/or Watson as target men, with all of our technical players pinging balls at them. Either one could be plan A, either one could be plan B. The bottom line is this gives us two plans

I think as others have also been saying we potentially have real versatility this year.  Abbas and Paracki at DM to close up shop against top sides and work on the counter is another.  Target man, front three, front two, overweight midfield, back three and wing backs, we seem to have the players to do any of that. It'll be interesting how Darije sets us up, how he varies that for specific opposition and how many options he thinks the squad can handle.  I'm wondering too if those infamous last minute goals against might get dealt to as well, with his defensive options for the bench.

Luckily no longer