The Saunders Depart & Alves Steps Up

[ncfcog]

Think the inverted wingbacks was part experiment, part forced due to injuries.

There is nothing wrong with swapping wingbacks from time to time, especially 'in game' if it causes the opposition problems. The biggest issues we had whilst doing this was having players who were obviously uncomfortable in an inverted role, Tsaroulla a key example.

Let's be right, everyone will now want both JJ and Tsaroulla to start games but if they both play as wing backs one of them will have to be inverted, JJ being the obvious choice.

[SwalePie]

Think the inverted wingbacks was part experiment, part forced due to injuries.

There is nothing wrong with swapping wingbacks from time to time, especially 'in game' if it causes the opposition problems. The biggest issues we had whilst doing this was having players who were obviously uncomfortable in an inverted role, Tsaroulla a key example.

Let's be right, everyone will now want both JJ and Tsaroulla to start games but if they both play as wing backs one of them will have to be inverted, JJ being the obvious choice.

True but as JJ himself has said he prefers to play on the right I don't think he'd be truly inverted.

[BigFatPie]

Think the inverted wingbacks was part experiment, part forced due to injuries.

There is nothing wrong with swapping wingbacks from time to time, especially 'in game' if it causes the opposition problems. The biggest issues we had whilst doing this was having players who were obviously uncomfortable in an inverted role, Tsaroulla a key example.

Let's be right, everyone will now want both JJ and Tsaroulla to start games but if they both play as wing backs one of them will have to be inverted, JJ being the obvious choice.

I sometimes wonder whether my memory is completely failing me, but I?m sure Maynard expressed a preference for inverted wing backs on many occasions, not because of injuries but because he thought amongst other things that it made our defending more effective.

There were quite a few occasions when we had both Tsaroulla, Gordon and Austin fit and he picked them to play on their opposite side. It is only in the last 6 games where hes chucked all that out of the window apparently through choice.

[nw6pie]

I sometimes wonder whether my memory is completely failing me, but I?m sure Maynard expressed a preference for inverted wing backs on many occasions, not because of injuries but because he thought amongst other things that it made our defending more effective.

There were quite a few occasions when we had both Tsaroulla, Gordon and Austin fit and he picked them to play on their opposite side. It is only in the last 6 games where hes chucked all that out of the window apparently through choice.

He definitely said that at the fans’ forum the other month - that it was easier to defend crosses because you would be attacking the ball with your better foot. Something like that, anyway.