He has just as much right to start a thread as anyone else. The point is - we need to play to Balo and Lambert's strength - CROSSES! Whip em in with pace - that's what they are good at. We keep trying to waltz through the middle with pretty passes - that's not Mario or Ricky's game.
A bit one dimensional do you not think in the modern game opposition teams will soon learn to counter that ? I agree good for plan B. But then why have we bought both ballotelli and lambert ? Or do we need cover for when ballotelli is not interested ?
Precisely. Yet more proof, if any was needed, that our transfer approach was scatter gun at best. Buying 2 strikers that clearly don't embody anything that was good about us last year, requiring us to change our game to a more one dimensional small club esque system just to use them.
Last year we complained about the lack if a plan B, we went out and bought Mario and Ricky for the plan B. The thing about Mario is that he can play to our plan A alongside Danny, as he has shown, and he can play to our plan B too.
That is hardly a scattergun approach. It is just unlucky that one of the key cogs in our plan A has been injured for 2 months.
I don't understand why Mario has been played solo upfront when he clearly performs better with a partner in attack. That is down to BR. However, this has nothing to do with this so called "scattergun" approach people are talking about. Its just the latest craze. First it was "managing expectations" and now it's "scattergun approach". We bought very very well in the last window and strengthened vital areas in the team. My only disappointment might be Lovren who i don't think has done well enough.
The rest is down to the change in tactics and BR's insistence on playing 1 striker, the main reason our from has dropped and we have struggled to score, IMO.
