We’re talking about 2 completely different things here I think. Of course it’s possible for us to play the odd through ball, we always do and did under dyche too (I can think of at least 5 one on ones DCL was played in for earlier in the season) but that’s not the same thing as not asking the striker to play with his back to goal. Holding the ball up is currently a massive part of what we ask a striker to do quite simply because we don’t progress the ball or keep the ball well enough for it not to be. That is the point I was addressing. We NEED the striker to do the donkey work because otherwise we will just surrender possession over and over. You can say ‘just do what Armstrong did’ (no coincidence that that was against a lower league side who made it a little bit too easy to do) but doing it once, twice, even half a dozen times a game wouldn’t change what we’d need from the striker in the main over the 90 minutes. To not understand that is to not understand football as a sport to be honest.
