I have just looked at our nominal back 6 players of goalkeeper, 3 centralish defenders and 2 wingbacks.
In all 4 league matches to date 5 of the 6 were at the club last season.
Now to my mind, if they weren't able to cope with a high press last year then why should we expect them to this year?
This appears to be a failure of recruitment, not of playing style.
Pivotal to our owners' desire to play a certain style of football is the goalkeeper who sees a lot of the ball and needs to be good with his feet.
I like Sam Slocombe but he is not the player we need in that situation and must be the first to be replaced. Now I don't think we could be so lucky as to get another Patterson but he does need to be better than Jaros.
I'm hoping that something will happen after the league transfer window closes on 1st Sept when clubs know what they have got and who needs to go out on loan.
Same with other positions maybe.
And lets hope RR and/or MP don't go the other way though.