Pearson After Match Interview

[Rattea]

Bring back McClaren .... love it. The bloke that took over a great squad that performed and played together rode the initial wave and then destroyed it and started the slide we are now in ..... Brilliant

[Oldtimeram]

We should bring back Clough. Mel Morris can be his assistant and give the half time team talks. Job done!

[mistaram]

Paperclip. You say 4-4-2 is eighties So why have Burnley Boro Leicester Hull and Bournemouth have all got out of this division playing it Blaming the system we are playing is just pathetic In this division if you don't run and scrap you get nothing that's what they are not doing Professional footballers have to adapt we only have Hughes who has not played for another all the others have and they havnt all played 4-3-3 all there lives Don't put all the blame on the manager yes he should take his share. but mainly its the players

[ramAnag]

Paperclip. You say 4-4-2 is eighties So why have Burnley Boro Leicester Hull and Bournemouth have all got out of this division playing it Blaming the system we are playing is just pathetic In this division if you don't run and scrap you get nothing that's what they are not doing Professional footballers have to adapt we only have Hughes who has not played for another all the others have and they havnt all played 4-3-3 all there lives Don't put all the blame on the manager yes he should take his share. but mainly its the players

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[DCFCArmy]

442 will work if the players can be bothered to adapt.

I'm sick of this "we can only play 433" rubbish, if that's the case we're going nowhere because its easy to combat in this league, which is why we're still here 3 years on, and Bournemouth, Watford, Leicester, Burnley (been up, back down and back up again ffs) Hull and even Boro (who were lagging well behind us in 2013-14) have all moved past us and gone up, most with 442/4231 ffs.

if the players can't adapt then get rid and bring in players that will and can.

[Paperclip]

Boro didn't play 442
They played 4231

[ellafella]

The 442 looks very antiquated. Opposition strikers drop off into the hole and cause havoc. The midfield have to drop back to close the gap. Meanwhile we hoof it forward to our dwarfs and hope we can run faster that the opposition defenders. We've narrowed the pitch. We play central midfielders in supposedly wide positions. The message to the players is you are not good enough to defend the whole width of the pitch. Very motivational. They look fed up. The group has been smashed up by a paranoid manager who is unable to bond with this or any other group of players. He seems to have nothing to contribute other than a return to 80s tactics. Its an absolute shambles and he has achieved it in record time. The longer it goes on the bigger hole we dig ourselves into.

A very astute post with an excellent reading of our recent pattern, Sir. Let's hope the issue is resolved without much more delay.