Glenn Whelan - Released

[eamonn]

I'll leave it to someone else to point out what's wrong with that line-up.   

Is it possible only you and I noticed?

I noticed as well.

You're all coming out of the woodwork now.

We're making a move, we're making it now, we're coming out of the sidelines!

[aj2k77]

Just had a word with Bruce and explained to him that his preferred formation has 12 players. He didn't notice either, anyway he said we're transfer listing Whelan as of today.

[kippaxvilla2]

One thing I will say is we appear to at last be buying proper men to bully teams in this division.  I think it could be quite interesting to watch.

[mallo]

I would imagine a team with Terry, Samba, Whelan and Jedi in the starting 11 would make up for their lack of speed by flattening all the outfield players of the opposition. We won't score though. If those 4 can't keep the rest of the team on their feet we might as well give up.

[eamonn]

Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

[aj2k77]

Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Adebayo Akinfenwa.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Chester, Samba and Terry - The good the badass and the ugly. We are going to let a lot less goals in than a 3 of Chester, Baker/Richards and Elphick would.

Whelan can actually play in a midfield 2 with a more attacking player, or in a 3-5-2 with Jedinak and Hourihane, or in 4-3-3 in that sense it opens up the ability to play three formations without having a horrible balance in midfield. Before it was like trying to make a jigsaw with pieces from three different puzzles.

[UK Redsox]

Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Adebayo Akinfenwa.

What's Grant Holt doing these days ?

[Ad@m]

Can we stop all talk of playing Whelan and Jedi together please.  Especially in front of a back 5.  I can't imagine a more depressingly defensive formation than that.  The introduction of Terry and Whelan should be freeing us up to play more attacking players, not fewer.

[Toronto Villa]

Agreed Ad@m. The reason we bought players like Lansbury and Hourihane is that they liked to get forward. We need to provide them the ability to do that and get them attacking and not play so deep and be concerned with defence duties.

[kippaxvilla2]

Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Taylor
Elmo Angela Whelan Conor Amavi
Hogan Kodja

No idea if that would work.

[kippaxvilla2]

Actually what I have just put is balls.

Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Chester Taylor
Angela Whelan Hourihane
Hogan Kodija

[Duncan Shaw]

Kippax it was balls and had 12 players!!

[Toronto Villa]

Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Taylor
Elmo Angela Whelan Conor Amavi
Hogan Kodja

No idea if that would work.

A new banner in the Holte End and we can have 13. Promotion guaranteed.

[eamonn]

Agreed Ad@m. The reason we bought players like Lansbury and Hourihane is that they liked to get forward. We need to provide them the ability to do that and get them attacking and not play so deep and be concerned with defence duties.

Lets get Adama back and run riot.