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I know what you are saying...love a good strike partnership.

But it doesn't really work in today's game because the midfield is instantly a 2 v 3 situation.

It can be done with a 5-3-2. Or combinations of 3 CB's. But we don't really have 3 CB's.

Plus, where does that leave Gordon and Barnes.

Okay, if we play 5 at the back then Gordon could play a deep 10 role.

Chasing a game is the only way I see them playing together.

True enough. Formations are a case of ‘horses for courses’ and (obviously) one is not always superior to another. People who know far more about football than me say that the formation is not as important as many think and your set up when you have/don’t have the ball and the transition between the two is more so.

In our case I agree with the above. Instead of Shearer and Ferdinand we have two very good but more fragile strikers who (hopefully) have to play a lot of games in a season. Two up front should not be part of our ‘normal’ set up.