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There's a case to be made the first 45 minutes was our best half of football so far this season. I was listening to the Lincoln commentary and they were very complimentary about our attempts to play football through the midfield. They saw it as a complete transformation in terms of style and work rate from the dour hoofball we had served up in our 4-0 defeat against them a month ago.
I think we finally saw glimpses of what Curle has been trying to achieve with the 4-3-3 formation which we started the season with. The movement of Miller and Hoskins either side of Edmondson caused them a lot of problems.
However, the problem with this formation IMO is that you need a very specialist type of player to play in the 'wide forward' role. Miller is perfect because he's pretty much a hybrid of a striker and a winger. This is probably controversial, but I also thought Hoskins (a similarly 'hybrid' player) had a very good game in this role and looked dangerous when running with the ball and pace.
However, it was soon clear that the likes of Korboa and BAS lack the kind of specialised game intelligence to come in and replace one of the wide forwards. It also wasn't really working when we tried playing Rose in this role earlier in the season.
However, his superb cameo at the end suggests it's worth giving him another go alongside a frontman with better movement (Edmondson rather than Smith)
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