First and foremost, we need to fix the midfield. First couple of months, we were dominant in the centre of the pitch. Now we lose the battle every frickin' game to the point where we pick up no possession in there, can't stop any opposition from walking through us and can't pass our way through it at all - so have to resort to lumping it forward to a set of forwards that are (Goodwin excepted) not strong in the air.
McGuane & RR - both so good in August/September - are both now so woefully out of form that they need to take a seat for a while.
Everything I heard about Jay Matete before he arrived was that he was an all-energy type of player; bit of a psycho who's second touch was often a tackle, but someone who would get you moving forwards. We haven't seen that player at all. We've seen someone who's barely getting out of the defensive third, barely making a tackle and struggling to play a simple 10 yard pass.
Either Plymouth and Sunderland fans are all wrong, or he's just being asked to do completely the wrong things. We need to unshackle him, and send him out there fired up to get ****ing stuck in. If he doesn't get booked, he's not trying hard enough. It may not work, he may be too tentative coming back from injury, but we've got to at least try to get him playing to his strengths and get some real physical presence in the centre alongside Cam. It's what we were begging for in January.....now we've got it, but we're using it wrong.
Then I'd be inclined to play Bodin at the #10. He's erratic, but so good at finding pockets of space that defenders at this level have trouble with him even though he lacks pace. So stick him in there in front of Matete and Cam, and try and actually build a proper midfield presence. And if he can't go, try Tyler in there instead. Do that, and we won't be desperately relying on 50 yard cross-field balls to Greg Leigh every time to actually get us going forwards.