Agree 100%. Performancs of late have been poor, thought we were good today, moved the ball well and created 2 must score chances. I know a lot of the focus is on the striker position but it's the 3 behind that concern the most for me. Other than cantwell we are missing quality and pace. Ultimately that's a problem with the budget and the recent recruitment.

Pears Jrc. Hyam batth. Beck Brittain Trav Tronstad Cantwell Gueye Leonard Subs: toth, Fadz, pickering, Buckley, siggy, Hedges, dolan, weimann, ohashi

Leonard having a good game

There's an argument to freshen things up a bit after looking very flat at Coventry which was the first mid week league game. I agree getting your best players in their best positions. Carter for example. On cantwell, I think ideally he plays as 10 but we really lack pace and ball carrying out wide at the moment so that could be influencing the decision to play him there. Ultimately for cantwell his best position is one where he gets on the ball more, maybe starting from the left and drifting helps that more atm. If you look at the way we press (in a 4-4-2), dolan as the 10 presses higher up the pitch. Perhaps the worry for cantwell is if he plays there he drops too deep to look for the ball affecting the press or if he's pressing higher up then he might go longer periods without touching the ball. I'd like to see eustace explain it tbh.

I think he is good defensively in that he works hard and protects his full back. Interesting that eustace has admitted he was going to start ACD before his knock and he thought Hedges was very good on Saturday or something to that effect

No way cantwell doesn't start if he's fit. He's been in the building 6 weeks now. He's started games and had enough time off the bench. He didn't come to sit on the bench and we didn't sign him to sit on the bench. Our success this season I believe will come down to wether his potential can be unlocked. I'll put my hat on him starting (provided there's an injury there which I haven't missed)

I didn't think he was as bad yesterday as some seem to be suggesting. That said he's clearly not a finisher. I'd be going two up top with him and ohashi. There's no pattern of play to the way we build up under eustace. Might as well be direct. We press in a 4-4-2 anyway.

Batth is shite

He backs off because he's a cb playing at right back. A cb in that position needs to back off, a right back needs to go tighter.

Toth Brittain carter.Hyam or batth Pickering Travis tronstad ACD. Cantwell. Hedges Gueye Subs: Pears, batth or hyam, duru, JRc, Buckley, Baker, sigurdsson, dolan, ohashi,

If ACD develops that right foot he could be very dangerous.

Pears Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering Travis tronstad ACD. Cantwell. Dolan Gueye or ohashi Subs: Toth Batth JRC Duru Buckley Baker Hedges Weimann Gueye or ohashi

We didn't move the ball anywhere near quick enough today especially in the 2nd half. Felt Buckley was an obvious early change that wasn't made Our build up play and patterns in the 1st and 2nd thirds were really poor and quite concerning. Using Carter as the width downt he right didn't make a ton of sense to me when you have the more technical jrc on the bench. I don't think the 2 cbs used the ball very well at all.

Thought he got his teams selection and tactics wrong from the out set today. Thought he got his subs wrong and wasn't aggressive enough, we didn't use the man advantage at all. The positive is he's highered our baseline in terms of bad performances. Not conceding bad goals goes a long way to winning you points on a consistent basis.

I don't