January transfer window

Paul 'Hoof Ball' Scholes the architect in centre midfield

 

To be fair, this is all you're going to get when it comes to loan signings so I look forward to seeing what he can do

 

4-4-2 is a very defensive, counter-attacking formation in modern football which sees you have very little of the ball... try play with 2 CMs and 2 out and out wingers this day and age you'll get hammered every week

 

It doesn't say anything at all about how well prepared or otherwise we are... patience is a virtue! Not that we haven't all been hurt before but there's simply nothing to judge whether the window was a good one or not yet with 90% of it still to go

 

Yeah but Fergie stopped using 4-4-2 by the end of his career because his team were getting pulled apart if he tried it

 

Yeah. He was in demand at the time too. We were lucky his release fee was so low

 

Not me. I would crawl b@ll@ck naked over broken glass just to stick matchsticks in his turds.

 

442 doesn't always mean wingers, and doesnt always mean getting overrun. Parky's latter version of it had TMAC on the right of midfield and he was no winger. If you want two upfront, which most of us do, it's less defensive than 4/5/1 or even the 4/2/3/1 that becomes 4/5/1 in our case.

 

Interesting he’s taken number 28. Where there’s quite a few lower options free. This feels as though we can expect some signings who are expected first team ready. Or it was just his preference of number

 

Imagine not liking Parky. Christ. That was the sweetest sort of success under him, winning against expectation.

I was gutted when he left. Ruined my holiday lol

 

Its the 4th of January! A bit of patience and perspective might not go amiss

 

I don't know about you but I sincerely hope not.

 

And now probably soon to announce his retirement sadly.

 

I seem to remember Tony McMahon started with squad no 29 at Middlesbrough at the start of his career so it may be through choice.

 

Ryan Loft to Bristol Rovers and Ryan Edmondson to Port Vale both look like promising signings for those clubs. Wouldn’t have minded them here as options.

 

I do believe the hoof football comment was overplayed, under Parkys time at the club (after his first season) we saw plenty of goalmouth action with the likes of Reid, Thompson, Morais, Yeats, Wells, with the driving force of Doyle and Jones in midfield

 

Those players gave us some fantastic memories.
And add to that Darby, Meredith and McCardle in defence.

 

Reid playing as an out and out winger on the left whilst on the other side Thompson playing right midfield, McCall had Marshall playing as an out and out wideman with Law playing left midfield.