More recent than that we did it to devastating effect with two players still at the club. Indeed the left winger in that duo came on on Sunday. At right back. Go figure….
Jaidon is totally ineffective with Kelly playing behind him though, might be worth a go with Vina vs Saints though. The problem is that Tavernier, Dango and Christie are clearly all more comfortable playing on the right, the only one who really looks at all comfortable on the left is Dango and he is as erratic as anything right now. When you add Brooks into the equation it starts to become a bit silly, we have five players who can play in wide positions, and four of those are right sided players! I think that it either has to be Anthony on the left with Vina behind him, or Dango on the left and hope for the best.
Either way I don’t want to see Kelly at left back again to be honest, he just doesn’t look comfortable there unless we are sitting deep and keeping a compact shape. The games coming up are games in which we are going to need to try to be more positive and try to take the game to our opponents. I’m not normally an advocate for us playing three at the back, but it does seem to be the formation right now that will get the best out of the players we have got.
-Allows Kelly to play in the LCB role he looks most comfortable in.
-Solves our left winger problem (don’t think Anthony is quite ready yet to start) by allowing Vina to play at LWB.
-Allows Tavernier to play on his preferred side at RWB.
-Enables us to keep Smith on the bench, sorry but he hasn’t got the legs for this level anymore. I think that for his own sake, we shouldn’t ask him to try and keep up with Sulemana (fastest player at the World Cup) on Thursday.
-Allows both Christie and Billing to pick up advanced central positions.
Seems to be the best fit right now.
Also gives us extra bodies in the box to deal with crosses.