I've just mentioned this topic on the LET site, but I'd like to know what posters on here think too.
Our newly-confirmed, first-team squad midfielders are the following:
Lowe (Defensive)
Feeney (Wide)
Byrne (Up-and-Down or Central Attacking/Creative )
Marshall (Wide)
O'Sullivan (Central Attacking/Creative)
Akpan (Defensive)
Guthrie (Up-and-Down/Defensive)
Lenihan (Defensive)
Tomlinson (Central Attacking/Creative)
Mahoney (Wide)
Evans (Up-and-Down/Defensive)
Bennett (Wide)
Conway (Wide)

I have listed their primary roles, although some of them are reasonably versatile.
Owen Coyle has a reputation as being attack-minded, so I am interested to see the four he picks from this group (if we assume he is going to play two up front).
We seem quite strong in the "holding" and wide positions, but we are pretty threadbare in the central attacking/creative role.
I can't see much evidence that O'Sullivan or Tomlinson are close to a first-team place, so is the David Dunn/Tugay task going to be left solely to Byrne?
On paper, it looks better to me to go for 4-5-1, although I've never been keen on that formation. Can we afford to go for an attack-minded plan against Norwich, anyway?
I might be tempted to play safe and field this team"
Steele
Lowe Duffy Ward Hendrie
Marshall Lenihan Byrne Evans Conway
Graham.

This would involve Byrne playing as the central link between Graham and the midfield.
What do you think?