It appears that, because of size dominance, our 3 CB's favour backing-off until they're in our box and ignoring the space occupied by a 10 or forward holding back which is either defended by CM or not at all.
The combination of Flint and Morrison has never worked well in open play and by March of next year we should be looking at one starting only. Morrison isn't doing enough to cover for Flint's limitations.
If I remember one of the complaints in pre-season was that we were so defensive yet coughed up so many good chances in each game played - much of pre-season doesn't matter but a few things become notable in hindsight.
A lot of that is Ralls being isolated when Pack goes forward, as he did well to accept nice ball from Bagan who hadn't taken option of cross with Pack sliding it into Moore in really pleasing combination, due to no CB stepping up or Bacuna...well, he's struggling this year in his current barely-defined role. I don't think he's trusted defensively and Mick has tried to engineer a way of helping out CM and AM but neither is happening.
Giles was at his least effective yesterday and part of that was Bristol doubling up on him. Wilson had Ojo or Murphy to take some of they eyes off him but who does Giles have? How much would we lose if Vaulks played next to Ralls and Pack played the Bacuna role?