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Why would we suddenly start playing long ball stuff with the formation I suggested? Not entirely sure where that idea comes from? [/QUOTE]

How are you going to get the ball from the back to the front? Through Brown/McKain/Lia? I think they've proven they can't do that.

Since when has Brown been an offensive minded midfielder?
You also advocate leaving out McKain and Bertos?

Dude.....

Was a suggestion on formation to allow us to free up two midfielders for attack instead of just the one we use at the moment.

 ...and I say again.  Why would you free up a midfielder this week when in Travis and McGlinchey we run in to the two best creative midfielders in the league ? 

Although I've worked out how to avoid angst over all this... Ricki won't change it anyway.  He knows he's on the right track and unless forced to by the absence of Ifill he's not going to change a thing....

...it's my new happy place.

Forza 4-3-3.

This is nearly as bad as the Arsenal fans fracturing into the AKB's  (Arsene knows best) versus the 'Wenger out, get someone who spends money" arguments that crop up every season.

Steve-O, 3 at the back?  Really?  There's a reason that almost no international or professional side plays like that now, generally coaches have figured out how to attack it.

Steve-O, 3 at the back?  Really?  There's a reason that almost no international or professional side plays like that now, generally coaches have figured out how to attack it.

I don't understand why you get Angsty about people discussing football!?!?

Steve-O for Nix coach

Cause their delusional and think their part of the 1%.

5 up front, like the Hibs team of the 1950's - they won the league. It's a guaranteed success.

Steve-O for Nix coach

But it's not a discussion is it ?  It's you and Stevo (mainly) completely bombarding the forum with your views that are against everyone elses.  At no point do you acknowledge or remotely take on others views or even consider that majority may have a fair point.

I love a discussion, but this isn't a discussion.  Since 19:00 Sunday, this and up to 4 other threads have been the same posts over and over and over and over and over again.  I'd love a good discussion about who might replace Ifill and how they will fit in to our current highly creative flowing style of play but that's not going to happen because despite all the evidence to the contrary we keep being assured by a minority that we don't play like that.

Instead there will be four more days of people claiming that the solution to our problems are to add another man up front when every single statistic and statement makes it clear that the problem isn't a problem that needs another man up front to solve it.

It needs a simple thing.  Players to finish chances.  You can play 6 men up front but if those 6 don't put the ball in the back of the net you'll still finish with no goals.  We're creating as many chances as any other side in the league with our current formatuion, and despite what Marius claims to be seeing are playing the best looking and most attacking football that the club has in it's existence yet we have more posts complaining about it than we ever have before.... not more people, just more posts.

I will say this now, if Ifill is 100% fit (unlikely) on Sunday and we play the style and formation we have played for the last few weeks and we convert 1 in 5 of our chance we will beat the Mariners by 3, much the same as if we had taken a fraction of our chances against Brisbane, Adelaide and Mebourne we would have beaten them by the same margin.

1 up front, 2 up front, 3 up front, if you don't finish, you don't win, the formation means nothing.

If they fail to finish chances someone will still be hear whining that you didn't play 6.

Steve-O, 3 at the back?� Really?� There's a reason that almost no international or professional side plays like that now, generally coaches have figured out how to attack it.

How is it not a discussion?

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For all future posts please state the highest level of football you played and/or coached, whether you are still involved in the game and in what capacity. If your opinion does not fit with the party line it will be dismissed unless your pedigree is impeccable.

Now, hang on Whitby.� James isn't saying that about posting on here, rather being given column inches in a major daily newspaper.� There is a fundamental difference here, and an important one considering how ill-informed about football many of the readers of the DomPost would be.

"and my evidence is the league table and the goals for column."

Fair enough I had my tongue firmly in my cheek as I wrote it. But there are many journalists out there that have no playing/coaching credentials but have views that are worth reading and/or listening too.

"and my evidence is the league table and the goals for column."