Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
Overall I might agree with you, but the Burke of 2009/10 was just a bit better than anything I've seen of Hoilett over a period of time. Certainly more consistent. I'd say the Burke of 2009/10 and the Hoilett of 2017/18 would be pretty hard to split.
Fair enough.

Your post about that midfield 4 got me thinking. It looked quite lightweight but creative. That season that midfield 4 played together 5 times in the league, though McPhail went off injured early in one of those. We won all 4 of those where the 4 played at least a full first half.

Reading (a) W 1-0
Coventry (h) W 2-0
Sheff Utd (a) W 4-3
QPR (a) W 1-0
Leicester (a) W 1-0
Leicester (h) L 2-3
Blackpool (n) L 2-3

5 wins out of 7 was pretty decent. Interesting that we kept 4 clean sheets but conceded 3 in each of the other 3. 13 goals scored in 7 games but 9 conceded wasn't so good.

It would have been interesting had Jones continued with that. McPhail's injuries that season prevented that, of course, but it might have been a decent ploy to put Rae or another defensive midfielder in when we played a midfield 5 and dropped Chopra.