All managers do it.
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I meant as a box-to-box midfielder rather than an attacking midfielder. Sorry, I should have made that more clear.
I agree that Bacuna has played well recently, but both him and Ralls can get caught too high up the pitch when we lose possession in the opposition half, which is why I'd play with Pack sitting in front of the defence.
I also think that, during our promotion season, he was very much an unknown quantity. I think we bought him as a right back, but I'm not confident in this. Warnock said he'd be a fan's favourite. Even in the Premier League, defenders hadn't really come across anyone as unorthodox as Paterson.
Now teams are more aware of him, coupled with his lack of fitness, and he's been anonymous all season.
He's fat, unfit and a million miles off it. I'm sure he'll be back, he's got a great eye for goal and he's immense in the air. I don't think this has as much to do with people being used to him, rather than he's not had a preseason and could be that type of player that takes a while to get the cobwebs off.
He's right, we don't really want to play. He probably wouldn't have brought it up though had Derby battered us. I think that the problem with this debate is that some fans who defend Warnock's tactics go to extremes to prove their point. Things that are cited are 400 passes at the back, but getting nowhere, Tippy Tappy, Fulham getting relegated is always a favourite. It's almost as if Warnock is being portrayed as an Anti Hero, a throwback to the old days when things were less complicated, a sort of fingers up to the modern day footballing hipsters. I sort of get it, our football is definitely more builders tea than soya latte, it could be said that Warnocks Attitude and footballing style pitted against the cool looking Euro thinking, young modern day coach is a reflection of the political situation in this country at the moment as well.
I'm struggling to watch us at the moment, there's hardly any creativity, we don't look to create openings, angles, we don't have players who are allowed to make advanced runs in order to create space, our fullbacks man mark and our central defenders smash the ball 40 yards, all of this happens week after week. I'm not after 'Tippy Tappy' or loads of passes at the back without getting anywhere and i don't want us to be like Fulham. What i would like to see is some creativity from our midfield, an option for the central defenders ,and central midfielders who want to get on the ball and make things tick in the final third. That's not alot to ask for, is it?