Claudius He knows Timber can play centre back
Can't remember him playing CB since he joined really. And even if he did, I doubt it's at the same time as White being out forcing Partey at RB. And if he did, its must be one of the performances where we dropped points in because Partey at RB almost always results in dropped points.
Claudius Partey has done RB a number of times.
Hessle done RB a number of times, true, but not really well as evidenced by our results with him playing RB shared previously by someone.
Claudius Big Willie you don’t deal with an injury crisis by creating change in multiple places, especially where you have an 18 year old.
What? You don't make changes in multiple positions during an injury crisis? I agree there. However we did make multiple changes as I showed. Timber was moved from RB, Partey was moved from 6, Rice was moved from 8 and Merino was brought in to start at 8. That's 4 changes to at least 3 positions if you don't consider Merino at 8 a change.
If what you're saying is true it would have been much less change to simply keep Rice at 8, Partey at 6 and Timber at RB and instead bring in Kiwior at either LCB and move Gabriel to RCB or if you want to keep Gabriel next to MLA then bring in Kiwior at RCB. It's not a huge different playing RCB instead of LCB. With Saliba out we'll be weaker whoever comes in, including Timber, so we shouldn't compount that by weakening RB, 6 and 8 in the process.
Claudius We’ve played Kiwior at right back before, and he had a massive problem with a left passing bias so, it messes up the offensive balance.
No one is saying play Kiwior at RB. That still weakens 2 positions by playing both Timber and Kiwior out of positions. Just play Kiwior as a CB. It's pretty simple stuff really, and doesn't force us to make multiple changes to multiple positions which as you've you've explained is not idea.
