My main issue with last night was that the team selected shows that LW isn't using info about the squad that he should have.

It's all very well, giving a clean slate to players as an incoming coach, but that doesn't mean you should discount the collective, accumulated wisdom that's around the club. IB wasn't as brave as he talked, but he wouldn't have picked... Palmer+Francis+O'Brien in a 5-3-1-1 (tweak as you like) for a game like this, away to a Level 6 promotion club.

O'Brien - scored in just 1 game in 2020/21 and 1 game in 2021/22 right? And doesn't assist all that much
Palmer - only gets 1 or 2 goals per season throughout his career
Francis - purely a holding player, not really a factor in the final third.

(Vincent scored more goals than the rest combined in his limited appearances last year)

We know nothing is going to come from our full back/central defender on the left wing. With Langstaff and Rodrigues isolated and outnumbered, it's no surprise that our only goal came from work by Nemane on the right. So he picked enough to draw, but ffs there's enough to pick from in the squad to have bossed that game with a bit more courage in the team selection.
We got what we set up for. LW can speak about being unbeaten, and selecting like that, with lots of 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, 0-1 scores, will guarantee that he sees the season out. But for us to gather enough points to be a factor in the promotion race, would require a hell of a lot more courage.