I dont see the correlation between having some injuries and resorting to parking the bus and aimless long balls.
Pragmatism isn't being being negative, it's doing what you must.. I don't think we need to park the bus every game, I am seeing negativity not pragmatism.
Our squad was refreshed to the tune of 5 new players and tanganga over the course of the last 6 months.
We have enough quality players even with some injuries to try and play football against the likes of Southampton. We are just wallowing in Jose's tales of self pity.
I have pretty good imagination, but just can't imagine working game plan on current crop. You can play without a proper striker If other parts of squad can compensate. However If you try to come up with working game plan on our current available crop, well just can't see the way.