Cal Roberts

[Chicken Balti Pie]

No, that's not what i said. I was referring to shoehorning players into positions that are not best suited to them. As for Nemane playing in that roll he is a liability, He cant tackle and rarely wins any defensive headers.

That's not what the wing back is there for though. That is Brindley's job or whoever plays right sided centre back. You are mistaking a full back with a wing back. A wing back is a winger that is expected to be defensively minded. If your wing back is defending for long periods, you're in trouble and under pressure. They cover the overlap, it's the centre back who covers the attacking winger. It's why Brindley and Chicksen work well as outside centre backs in a back 3 but in a back 4 they'd struggle.

Maybe your lack of understanding of the position is why you often seem aloof and on your own with your derision of Nemane?

[durhampie]

That's not what the wing back is there for though. That is Brindley's job or whoever plays right sided centre back. You are mistaking a full back with a wing back. A wing back is a winger that is expected to be defensively minded. If your wing back is defending for long periods, you're in trouble and under pressure. They cover the overlap, it's the centre back who covers the attacking winger. It's why Brindley and Chicksen work well as outside centre backs in a back 3 but in a back 4 they'd struggle.

Maybe your lack of understanding of the position is why you often seem aloof and on your own with your derision of Nemane?

My point is, he is asked to do something that he cant do, and that is defensive cover when needed. As you say, they are are expected to be defensively minded. I'm certainly not mistaking him for a full back, god help us if he was.

[the_anticlough]

That's not what the wing back is there for though. That is Brindley's job or whoever plays right sided centre back. You are mistaking a full back with a wing back. A wing back is a winger that is expected to be defensively minded. If your wing back is defending for long periods, you're in trouble and under pressure. They cover the overlap, it's the centre back who covers the attacking winger. It's why Brindley and Chicksen work well as outside centre backs in a back 3 but in a back 4 they'd struggle.

Great post

It's interesting that formations have edged back to the traditional positions around when I first started following football

Goalkeeper / Right Back, Left Back / Right Half, Centre Half, Left Half / RWinger Inside Right, CF, Inside Left, LWinger

For us that'd translate

Slocombe / Brindley, Cameron / Palmer, Baldwin, O'Brien / Nemane, Rodrigues, Langstaff, Scott/Austin, Chicksen

What I'd really like is for fans to stop thinking we're playing 3 centre-backs, call Brindley and Cameron full-backs and most of all to stop regarding wing-backs as full-backs.