Really important and well deserved three points today but it infuriates me how often we miss out the midfield when playing out from the back, and I don't mean just the last 10mins of hoofball. Far too often it is left to the defenders to launch balls forward with a poor success rate. There is the odd exception when a long diagonal from Hanlon finds its man or Doidge gets a nick on an aerial punt, but I'd rather see our midfielders doing more to make themselves available for simple balls on the deck. It's not Gogic's best or main role and today Irvine was more forward than Newell who I watched for spells and too often he was just jogging along in marked space pointing the way elsewhere. For me he should have been the one who was working hard to get into free space to receive the ball on the deck off the defenders but he rarely did it. And his booking was the direct result of laziness or switching off, call it what you want, and letting his man stroll past him until he realised he had to do something to rectify the boy's move forward.
Not been convinced by Newell since he got back in.
What's the solution?
