Quote Originally Posted by Londonbaggie1968 View Post
We all have our own permutations of a side, but unless Pulis allows the attacking players creativity, nothing is going to change, period. It is a travesty as with some width and overlapping fullbacks (which in Gibbs and Nyom we have), together with the likes of Phillips, Chadli, Burke and Brunt being played in their natural positions, I reckon we could transform ourselves.
I have no issue with the full backs not bombing on and playing a rigid back 6 the issue is the 2 wide players having to track back and play almost as second fullbacks they have to cover a lot of ground and as we know we don't hold the ball up enough upfront so they very often get stuck halfway between tracking back and going forward, yesterday was a good example only twice in the first half did we isolate our wide man our wide men one on one against their full backs and they got round them and put crosses in, also like yesterday Morrison dropped back a soon as West Ham got the ball allowing their back 3 so much time on the ball if we pushed the front 4 players 20 yards further up the pitch we would create far more chances in my opinion.