Frank Vincent

[keldsyke]

First time seeing him today, thought he did well. Nice to see a midfielder breaking from their own half and scoring. Think he maybe better suited to a Micheal Doyle role than Ed Francis?

[Big Bob]

He was superb. Linked up well with palmer

[meoldlaner]

First half he made some good runs and and got into useful positions but no one passed to him.
Second half he was immense not only going forward but also getting a foot in to win a ball.
Very promising.

[Stan Marshall]

An excellent performance for his first league game. IB is going to have a few problems with team selection at this rate. If he can sort out the balance between defending properly and utilising our attacking options, we could still have a very successful season.

[uysapie]

An excellent performance for his first league game. IB is going to have a few problems with team selection at this rate. If he can sort out the balance between defending properly and utilising our attacking options, we could still have a very successful season.

This.

[Freeman25]

First time seeing him today, thought he did well. Nice to see a midfielder breaking from their own half and scoring. Think he maybe better suited to a Micheal Doyle role than Ed Francis?

Goal and an assist and you want to move him further back?

I think the long term plan is Francis being the holding player and Palmer and Vincent being the two either side which looks to suit Palmer and Vincent very well based on what we've seen of them so far, both full of energy with some quality on the ball, unfortunately Francis hasn't looked up to scratch yet so Palmer has had to take that role for now.

[keldsyke]

An excellent performance for his first league game. IB is going to have a few problems with team selection at this rate. If he can sort out the balance between defending properly and utilising our attacking options, we could still have a very successful season.

The thing that worries me is that as usual we do well against the better teams and drop points against teams where we should be getting all 3. I’d like to see us mix it up in tactics when we play against teams that need a different approach to get all 3, playing tippy tappy has its limitations against some teams.

[keldsyke]

Goal and an assist and you want to move him further back?

Just because he’s done well in two matches in one position doesn’t mean he can’t be a better player in another role, worth trying at least IMO.

[Killerkline]

Just because he’s done well in two matches in one position doesn’t mean he can’t be a better player in another role, worth trying at least IMO.

In terms of position, I’m with Freeman. Played well, team played well, deserved win… why try him in another role?

[Freeman25]

In terms of position, I’m with Freeman. Played well, team played well, deserved win… why try him in another role?

You'd also be limiting a player with as much energy as he has by putting him in a role like that, which is the same reason why Palmer is a bit wasted doing that role.

That's why Chelsea don't do it with Kante despite pundits saying for ages he should be in that role, if you play someone like that there they're not flying around the pitch all game closing players down and winning the ball further up the pitch, which is what we want to be doing.

It's a bit like buying a fast car and fitting a black box to it.