Quote Originally Posted by BigFatPie View Post
Yeah Richardson looks a great signing, my point was really why did we sign Parsons as well?
It's got a whiff of timing issues about it, don't you think? Desperate for cover but Richardson's availability in doubt, or couldn't be secured in time?

btw, I still not sure even IB gets it. In his presser, he talks of getting Parsons as a 'winger', then Richardson as 'more of a full-back'...well if they want full-backs and wingers they can always play 4-4-fluckin-2!
It's not good enough to think we can start with an attacker and then sub for a defender if needed, or vice versa....don't we need a player on the pitch with both attributes all of the time for that position? Yano, a specialist wing-back

As '78 said, the wing-back position is really something else in 2021
A good exercise would be to write out a Job Description for a modern 'Wing-Back' - all the things you need that player to do on the pitch and for the team. It'd probably make your eyes water reading that, and nothing you can just entrust to any old full-back.

Having said all that, I think we may have found the answer with our latest recruit. Let's hope so