Butterfield has a lot of miles on the clock and his best work is further up the pitch, It’s fair to say he can’t be described as a combative CM player and Scales despite getting stuck in at times is lightweight. Those two in the middle of the pitch are getting easily dominated and played through.
This is where most of our problems stem from.
As sanfran typed above, Pugh is exactly the CM we need and yet Dean benched him. Pugh should be starting in place of Butterfield and told to play how he did at Hereford when he effected play much further up the pitch.
Start with him and scales and bring Beestin on for 25 minutes in the 2nd half and get him up to speed and eventually play him instead of Scales.
Those two will be a lot more solid and Butterfield and Scales. Butterfield at this stag of the season is becoming a luxury player due to being marked out of the game by just about every team we face.
Pugh was more than created enough when playing for Hereford so there’s absolutely no reason why he can’t replicate that back here.
I’d like to see Butterfield in a 10 role behind Whitehall and to see him coming on in the second half if we need to role the dice for a little bit of magic, but other than that he needs benching.
Far too easy to play against with him and Scales in CM.
