I'd say that's a pretty good reason! 3-5-2 only worked as well as it did last season because of the wing backs, and it was nowhere near as effective on the few occasions when Joel or Luke were missing. Joel was obviously not with us at the start of the season, and there's still no one capable of playing on the left. We saw during pre-season that Brownie and Westy will do a good defensive job in a 3-5-2 (which might be useful in certain games this season), but lack the same attacking threat.BartonRaz wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:27 pmI have said openly on here and with fellow fans at games that I don’t really understand why we’ve ditched the 3-5-2 formation that served us so well last year. You only need to look at the amount of goals we’re conceding compared to last year. The only reason I could come up with is that perhaps Peaks doesn’t trust anybody to play the left sided role as diligently as Fairlamb did last season in terms of tracking back.ParcelFace wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:56 pmI really do think that playing 3 at the back suits our players with Gyasi coming back. It served us so well last season it makes sense to me for us to continue using it. I just wonder who would play on the left?Formic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:41 pm We were very much second best today. We rode our luck to only be one down at half-time, and could have got an equaliser through Gyasi or Lobjoit, but Hayes certainly look like a Step 3 side in the making, whereas we aren't looking as strong as last season, except perhaps when we went to three at the back with Lobjoit, Diamond and Bowen looking like they might form a decent partnership up front when we made the long awaited changes.
Peaksy has been criticised in the past for putting square pegs in round holes, so I'm totally behind the decision to ditch 3-5-2, until we can find someone capable of playing on the left (and assuming Joel doesn't get his dream move).