victorturner

Three in midfield needed and making one of a two Palmer is unwise and I seem to recall it has been tried before and led to disaster. Playing high risk football not sensible even though DR blames individual errors.

….go ho

We have had enough lessons from unguarded gun

Suspect this is right

How can this be known?

I thought we’d dispensed with relying on the press given our midfiekd weaknesses and uncertain defence

Vaulks was intelligent as a footballer and did the work of two men defending in an under manned midfield in the last few months of the season but did not feel really wanted. He also took over taking the corners from BB, very successfully

He didn’t get it right all the time last year. We miscalculated how to play away at Soton, Norwich, Huddersfield, Leicester and Ipswich.

We are set up to attack but the midfield and wing backs cannot provide good ball to the strikers and our wide midfielders have no idea how to do it.

I remember Vaulks saying perhaps after the Norwich home match second half that we are having to change the way we prefer to play to get points.

Not sure it was as simple as Vaulks turning us down. He said he did not feel wanted and his appearances on video last season when he was often not picked showed he was a guy not afraid to speak frankly. Eg towards the end of the season , about having to play a different way from the way preferred ( by the management) to get points.

We were very fortunate in our last three away games and took 9 invaluable points as a complete surprise otherwise we would have gone

We saw fatal strategies vs decent teams last season

It was. But the press gives speedy skilful players a chance

players in midfiekd not good in attsck or defence incl wide midfielders