I would keep all the defence, they've done nothing wrong this season, regardless of the odd rick which they've all been guilty of even PIG and Upson. Orlandi deserves another chance given his number of games last season. Buckley is quality and worth keeping even if you only get 20 games out of...
The undercooked theory would be more convincing if there has been improvements over the season or if there had been really effective players brought in to play the Oscar style - maybe the past week has been a blip, but we'll see. We need to see that improvement over the next 8 games really.
And...
Thanks for that crass and patronising response.
The way normal football clubs work is that our scouting would have been reported to a guy like Burke - any research/interest in that period could certainly have been followed up when Oscar arrived if it merited it.
Now go **** yourself and come...
All of that of course ignores the fact that the squad has been schooled in a very rigorous discipline of passing football for seasons previously. The idea that Oscar was starting from scratch doesn't fly I'm afraid.
The question you have to honestly ask is has our passing game gone backwards...