Quote Originally Posted by JUSTaway View Post
It's the combination in midfield and attack.

If you think back to Tommy McLean era, you had Oloffson, Winters and McLaren as essentially a front 3, but behind them Zetterlund, Dolan, McInally/Bowman/McKinnon, none of them was a ball carrier, our full backs Perry and Pedderson were essentially defensive full backs, probably on par with McMann and Freeman in terms of getting forward. But you could just put a ball behind the opposition for Winters or Oloffson to chase, which would then bring the whole team up the pitch, Oloffson could act as a battering ram and compete physically with opponents, and McLaren added a bit of trickery.

Levitt can pick out a pass, as he did v Livi, but not if there is no one to pass to. There was no width for him to pass out wide or put a ball behind the full back until we introduced wingers, and if you play a ball in behind for our strikers your money is on the defender to win any chase.

In the absence of blinding fast full backs, or blinding fast strikers, wingers would help both the strikers and the midfielders. We aint exactly blessed in that area.
someone who can drift in between midfield and up front would help or pace. agree 100% with this. we have no one like this. system doesn't work but then tams alternative is one up top - imagine watt isolated like that like shanks was. ffs