Mile Jedinak - Released

[West Derby Villan]

In the league with Jedi starting we're W10 D8 L6, without W1 D4 L6.

Jedi with Chester and Baker: W9 D5 L0

Impressive stat

[Matt Collins]

As he gets older I do wonder if he'll move to centre back? He's basically a defender already

[Toronto Villa]

whatever happened to the old sweeper position that was for great players who could really read the game but just got old? You don't see many sides playing with one anymore.

[Matt Collins]

We've seen a revival of 352 so maybe that will come back

But I think that 352 revival will be short lived personally

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Now that Jordan Lyden is back, hopefully it will allow Bruce to bring him on for 10/15/20 minutes for the tiring Jedi who is so important to us now and needs to start every game.

[SheffieldVillain]

Now that Jordan Lyden is back, hopefully it will allow Bruce to bring him on for 10/15/20 minutes for the tiring Jedi who is so important to us now and needs to start every game.

That would be good. If we can develop Lyden as an understudy to Jedinak, that'll be one less player to sign for next year. Lyden, Green and RHM as key parts of next year's squad would be really great to see. As well as cutting down on bringing in new players, it'd maybe start to give us some identity back and more of a link to fans with academy players in the squad.

[West Derby Villan]

Thought he had a great game slotting into defence when Baker came off, the rest of the team worked hard to carry on without too much disruption

[tomd2103]

Looked very comfortable at CB and good to know that is an option.  Speaks volumes about how highly Elphick and Richards are rated though. 

[Bully2345]

There is an element of a lack of faith in Elphick but we were terrible for half an hour and Bruce wanted to change the shape without making two subs. Helped us press higher with Adomah up top and we got a foothold in the match

[Dave]

whatever happened to the old sweeper position that was for great players who could really read the game but just got old? You don't see many sides playing with one anymore.

It basically moved to the other side of the defence. So people like Alonso, Scholes, Xavi, Pirlo dictate(d) the pace of play from there without the risk that comes from the sweeper playing people onside.

[andyh]

I am in no way comparing him to god, and I don't want to go over the top,but we haven't had a player who reads the game so well  and is consistently the right place at the right time since...well, god probably.
Barry is the only other one.

[Brend'Watkins]

I think center half may be his best position.  He's a great header of the ball and very strong. He can read the game very well too. The only downside is that he either lacks concentration or momentarily must think at a couple of points in each game that he has to pass the ball to the opposition.  I still like him though.

[PeterWithe]

Centre back may be his best position but we have other centre backs, we dont have another defensive midfielder so he stays there for me.

[oldhill_avfc]

Depends on the formation.

He's been invaluable as the holding player in a 3 man midfield, but I don't think he's either mobile enough or has good enough distribution to play centrally in 4-4-2.  if we go down that route then the only option is to play as a central defender.

[N'ZMAV]

He could do that job in centre defence. I'd rather him that Richards