What are your thoughts on getting the best out of Michael Doyle, Jim O'Brien and Jake Reeves?

I would drop 2 of them as guaranteed starters. Doyle and O'Brien.

Replacements are obviously needed. Nobody knows if Wolfe is any good or not? He made a 10 minute cameo and hasn't been seen or mentioned since. 

In my opinion, one must replace the other.

Notts needs a bit more pace in the midfield department and only Jake Reeves seems able to do that for 90 minutes. Don't get me wrong, I still think Michael Doyle and Jim O'Brien are good players but them together on a regular basis seems unlikely for success.

I think the three can work, but it can't be a common placement. Jim O'Brien is okay out wide but if he's going to consistently play, then the middle is preferred. I don't think he can play as often on the wing. Jake Reeves right now seems the future for our midfield.

Notts needs to find a young, creative outlet that can progress with this experience around.

I don’t think you can.

At the start of the season I can't image the plan was to play them regularly as a three as we pretty much played all last season with a 4 man midfield. It hasn’t helped that Sloth turned out to be a diva (our first recruitment dud). So we lost a player there. Wolfe was bought in as a last-minute replacement and hasn’t really featured as yet. Is he just not good enough? We don’t know, but I can’t imagine he’d have performed any worse than the mentioned 3 have recently, the bar was pretty low.

I think a midfield 3 absolutely can work but we need quicker (and better) players to make up for the fact we’re a man shorter than the usual 4-man midfield.

2 hours ago, menzinho said:

 

I think a midfield 3 absolutely can work but we need quicker (and better) players to make up for the fact we’re a man shorter than the usual 4-man midfield.

Yep, I'd agree with that. A Doyle or O'Brien can play in a 3 when the other 2 have got legs.

If we had someone like Callum McGregor in the middle, who could do the direct running and gaining space.

Then Jim O'Brien could work as an out wide option, given the support from the attacking focused midfielder but then I would rather see Jake Reeves start than Michael Doyle. For me, he's someone useful to bring on when the opposition is tiring and his energy/stamina will be at it's highest. The three players playing regularly together wouldn't work in my eyes, not even if we had wing backs supporting.

i dont know how to answer the questions as i am unsure, i think doyle and o brien should rotate between the two tho. i do also think we need to reinforce the squad a little in key areas such as cm/winger/st