Best Of

It is surely pretty hard to judge which players should start from a group several of which most of us had never heard of at the start of the year.

No doubt the team will chop and change a bit depending on form, tactics and rotation. It is far too early surely to guess lineup in say the play-off final if that is our fate.

interesting to note that I think only one of the OP suggested line up played for us last season!

Your faith in Westergaard is interesting. He looked a bit lightweight and out of bit to me. Sub him with Lubala (Berry) and I think we can live with that.

Hate to think but what a shame to take the high of an incredible transfer window and create an argument from seemingly nothing.

and I'm currently homalone

4-3-2 / 4-4-1 seems something of a disadvantage.

Ignoring the missing 11th player, if I’m interpreting this correctly, are you saying our strongest match day squad excludes McCleary? I can’t claim to have seen all our new signings play but surely he’s still worth a place on the bench at least.

I think a more likely midfield 3, assuming we stick with one, is Xavi, Scowen & Humphries.

My big hope amongst the more unknown signings is that Back can offer a similar option at RB to what Harvie offers at LB.

No I'm more pre malone.

So this is really @Malone!

Yes, think there's a very late cut off but up until then you can do what you like.

It is worth bearing in mind that correlation does not equal causation and that the same caveat that applies to the rest of the Gasroom vis not knowing the datasets also applies to you. It is equally likely that a number of players in a low cost part of Europe happened to be available due to seasons being ended whereas others flagged up by the glory rhythms (sic) were not available. If I were working on these models myself, I would certainly be checking against this issue.

I think you should have finished your reply after the first paragraph, which was balanced and well argued.