We clearly diasgree on this with polar opposite opinions. My take on football is that you need to have the ball to win/ score whether that be on a Sunday morning or at the top level. Fane is the only player we have that can do that. He is there to win the ball and give it simple. His distribution is coming on too, although he still has someway to go on that front.
People forget that our most successful spell came with Wellens reintroducing him into the side after Shez tried everything and everyone not to accommodate him.
Yeah and he shares a proportion of the blame. My point is that if he's not there we would concede more and there is no one in the squad who can win the ball back like he can.
So he starts because we are lacking in that position.
Spot on. To go into any game, especially when battling the drop without a ball winner, someone who presses well etc is asking for trouble. Teams will walk through us.
Upgrading on Fane in the summer I accept however.
Jack may have a point but he needs to be accountable for his own terrible form. He got the ball first half in decent areas and lost the ball straight away.
In the loan spell that was his best attribute, low centre if gravity and really hard to get the ball off.
Nazon can go one more, score and still offer some shape.
You will always struggle to win a game of football without a decent shape. Relegation battle or not.