I think we are limited to what we can change with the squad and type of players we have.
Us Albion fans suffered three years of anti football under Pulis which for the first two seasons was effective.
For the first few months of this season we were trying to implement a new passing based style which fans wanted, we had decent results especially at home but by the end of October teams had sussed us out and we had started to come unstuck.
We then changed to a more counter attack of 4-3-3 and that got results, again teams wised up against us, especially at home and what we should of done was have a variation for how we played, horses for courses and all that but instead we tried to persist with it regardless.
The key to both those formations and styles was who was available and at times, when we didnt have key players available which made those formations and styles work, we persisted anyway, again i think that is a mistake of a rookie coach but given time you hope he would learn.
Things like playing out from the back, only the players know the instructions, but if you want to play passing football, defenders also have to be part of that, you cant just hoof it and say we will play football in the final 3rd as you soon get sussed out.
There comes a point where the player has to use their common sense and decision making for themselves when to pass it and when to clear the lines, we seem to overdo the passing and we will see in the future if that is a coaching thing or if the players just doesnt make good decisions.
We have scored plenty of goals but at times the football has been quite pedestrian but again i think that is more down to the type of players we have than anything else. Out the teams above us both Leeds and Norwich have younger, hungrier and energetic squads that can play a more dynamic way of football. (Sheffield Uniteds team is different but they have a unique style which has been developed over a few years and they have a winning mentality after being promoted and having a decent season last year)
We dont have the players to play dynamic and energetic football, The spine of our team, Defenders - Dawson, Bartley and Hegazi are carthorses at this level, Midfielders - Barry, Brunt, Livermore, Hoolahan, Morrison and Field dont have a turn of pace between them, Johansen seems to fall into that catergory too though may be too early to judge. This doesnt make them bad players as most are good footballers but they are not young fit energetic players and most never have been, the problem we have is we seem to have is we have a lot of the same type of player, again maybe that was one of Moores mistakes, sticking with that type of player instead of revamping it in the summer.
In the spine of our team, there is only Harper a 19 year old kid who has played less than 10 games and Phillips who has numerous injury problems who have had any pace and energy in our centre midfield, but the championship is played at 100mph, even teams at the bottom of the league play with more tempo than us because we dont have the players to play that.
We have to find a system and style suited to what we have, the problem with that is that there are high expectations from the fans and you only have to see at home games how people get frustrated when we do play a slow tempo, we then panic and tend to force things which often leads to nothing.
We have pace at full back and out wide but any team worth their salt forces us to play inside because they know we dont have any legs to break from defence or midfield.
Tosin at left back was a one off painful lesson learnt, the Brunt in centre midfield experiment was changed within a few months. If Gayle is playing we do need to get him down the middle as without Barnes the 3 forwards changing over doesnt work, other than that i dont think the new coach can do much different because we dont have players who can play another way, it will be minor tweaks but the key will be whether the minor tweaks make that much of a difference.