I don’t think the intended style of football is wildly different to say the 16/17 season when we had our best side under mcinnes. The idea has always been to go direct to the front man and have the three behind the striker get on the ball high up the pitch on the 2nd ball and play from there, then get the fullbacks involved overlapping. The problem is that the three are nowhere near Sam most of the time so the ball comes straight back at us. There’s very little tempo to our play so we become incredibly easy to defend against. The sitting midfielders aren’t taking the ball off the centre halves enough so we’re not transitioning through the middle either. The eventual outcome is us becoming increasingly reliant on set pieces to score and it is frankly brutal to watch. The question is how much of it is mcinnes and how much of it is our creative players not stepping up to the mark. I’d say it’s a bit of both. I must say the lack of flexibility in this style doesn’t reflect brilliantly on derek.