19-01-2022, 05:32 PM
(19-01-2022, 05:13 PM)Wightblue Wrote: Curtis shouldn’t be played in the middle ! He’s not a striker !
Play him either as a straight out left winger or as an attacking left wing back, he started well with us playing out wide but all the p*ssing around playing him anywhere other than where he is best is a nonsense.
Cowley prefers Brown because Cowley has a defensive mind-set and Brown fits the bill, result of this mind set:
Pompey 29 goals from 25 games Position 9th on 38 points
Wycombe 44 goals from 27 games Position 1st on 52 points
Wigan 44 goals from 23 games Position 2nd on 51 points
Sunderland 52 goals from 27 games Position 3rd on 51 points
Rotherham 50 goals from 25 games Position 4th on 50 points
FYI
Of the above only Sunderland (29,992) have a better average gate than Pompey (15,132), the other three sides Wycombe (5,558), Wigan (9,332) and Rotherham (9,273) have nowhere near our gate income…….but it is Pompey who are left struggling to make the play- offs.
I'd agree Curtis is better out wide on the left than as a central striker but we would have to go back to 4231 or 442 to play him there, He has never played wing back, and I think he would be even more unsuited to it than Hackett is. He simply does not have the defensive mindset or discipline, and can't tackle.
Personally, unless we sign a left wing back I think we should go back to a back four because we just don't have anyone that can play there. Brown is not fit enough for the amount of running involved, Hackett does his best but isn't really good enough, and there is no-one else that can play there.