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Great stuff, hopefully in the next squad. Always comes across as a decent fella and making an Ireland squad means so much to him. 
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Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Excellent assist for the second as well, he has a great low cross ball in him, great at finding the area at the edge of the six yard box that is just out of the keeper's reach.

Bristol City have a very decent team this year, could make a run at the top 6. Sykes should probably be in the senior squad.

Ahead of whom? I think the challenge is his position. Has played wing back, midfield, right of midfield three and wide forward. And is he wide forward today? I don't disagree with you too much but there was a time when I thought he should be in as a wing back and now we play with two strikers and he is playing well as part of a front three. 
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He played wide right today. Think he'd be a support forward the way we set up if we're not playing wingers. There's probably a question as to whether we do need seven central midfielders in the squad or whether Sykes (or maybe Szmodics) would offer something a bit different. Probably a tight call between those two, McGrath and Hendrick for the last few couple of squad places.
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Highlights from the game yesterday. Nice goal and assist.

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against teams of a similar level to ourselves, he should be rwb imo. gives us something going forward and can defend too. 
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Think we just need to move away from playing with WBs and play these wide players like Ogbene, Sykes, and even Festy as wingers instead.

I know Festy is playing RWB at club level but these lads will offer us more playing RW than RWB.
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Originally posted by J89 J89 wrote:

Think we just need to move away from playing with WBs and play these wide players like Ogbene, Sykes, and even Festy as wingers instead.

I know Festy is playing RWB at club level but these lads will offer us more playing RW than RWB.

I feel like this is true. I don't feel we need a partner for Ferguson. I think we need one or two midfielders making late runs into the box like Knight or playing ball through to him like Smallbone. And even when we play 3-4-3 with two wide players up front then we are in serious issues in midfield. 
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Bring back 4-4-2 I say but if we do have a good few friendlies coming up then any formation with a back four should be tried out.

Use them to work on playing with a back four again and can always go back to three at the back come NLs if needs be. Need to work on having a plan B. Use these friendlies for that plan B and blooding new players in certain positions like FB.
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Can only go back to 4-4-2 if we're planning to go long ball again and skip the midfield. Basically play Trap tactics, two centre mids sitting protecting the back 4 and launch it up to Ferguson and whoever his strike partner is. But I think we have moved on from that for better or worse, so it needs to be three in midfield.
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Scored Bristol’s third tonight against Plymouth 
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Going well, has responded well to his omission from the last squad. Think he can win more caps in the future.
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