The dilemma with Roberts

[jackal2]

Bit of a balancing act overall but hard to shake the feeling that to get the best of our current personnel it has to be a 4-2-3-1, with Roberts, Ruben and possibly even Sam (good today) or Brunt/Nemane behind Wootton, and Palmer and Vincent as the deeper two.

I agree.

I must confess I haven't liked the 4-2-3-1 formation ever since the days of Keith Curle, but it does seem to me to be the one best suited to the personnel we currently have. In fact I thought it was the plan when I saw our signings last summer. The key to its success is that the three attacking midfielders have to be genuine goal threats, which they were not under Curle, but I'd say we've got that goal-scoring ability in the likes of Roberts, Sam, Rodrigues and maybe Nemane and Brunt too if they were deployed in that formation.

IB certainly needs to try something different, because trying to shoehorn certain players into a 3-5-2/3-4-3 formation isn't working consistently. One way or another we always seem to have at least one of our best players looking out of sorts.