Agreed & i stand corrected.

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Sean Grehan (another Irishman) is probably the best prospect we have at centre-half, although he's barely featured since being loaned to Carlisle in January.

The whole point is that playing more centrally reduces the risk of him being left isolated with the sorts of players you mention.

It doesn't suddenly make him world-class, but it provides him more protection.

If he happens to get beat by a world-class forward on Saturday, it doesn't change the fact that this role is a better fit for him at this stage of his career and nor does it change the fact he still reads the game well and has very good positioning.

See your Jayden Danns (eighteen) rocking at Wembley on Sunday. He's gonna be some player.
Just shows what these kids can do if you give them their heads. Our youngsters will be coming on now they are being given a proper chance in an attacking team

Edited by dreamwaverider (27 Feb 2024 1.01pm)

Guehi, Anderson, Richards.

Just becuase Wardy looked more at home against the most shockingly Sh1t team I've seen at Selhurst in recent memory does not automatically make him Paulo Maldini.

He did OK in a back3 granted, better than he has of late as a full back, however please remember the quality of the opposition he was up against, the didnt register a shot at goal until the 66th minute, such was the pattern of the game.

Im not saying ward was/is rubbish in that role, just that he was up against some proper dog tits players, and it will be wildly different against Spuds.

So for me when fit it should be Guehi Anderson Richards.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

This. If he is to be caught for pace it tends to be in the first third of the game. He then works out the oppo and for the last hour beats them through guile and positioning.

We just need to ride that first half hour.