The need for Darius Henderson and wingers.

When we played Crawley away, i thought that Henderson put in one of the worst performances i've seen from an O's player in recent years.

Henderson - Got plenty of stick from the away support for not winning a single header all match or even really putting himself about. A fella of his stature shouldn't be in the pockets of defenders.

I also wrote:

One statistic that you might come across is that we probably put in about 70-odd crosses. And we did. So why didn't we score? Because not one cross was put in with conviction. Not one from the by-line. NOT ONCE DID A WINGER OR FULL-BACK GET PAST THEIR LAST MAN AND PUT A CROSS IN. NOT ONCE. Every cross was from deep. Practically the half-way line.

So i  thought i'd look at Henderson's goals this season.

Not very surprisingly most of his goals come from a ball that has been whipped in and he's attacked it.

More surprisingly is that when Henderson is picked to start, we lump balls at him from deep. This makes him look clumsy, pedestrian and pretty useless. Like at Crawley.

It also smacks of a team that has run out of ideas and a coaching team with no actual idea. If i can figure it out why can't 'football' people.

Look at this clip of Darius Henderson scoring from the recent match against Crewe.

That's Marvin Bartley beating the last man and putting a cross in with conviction for Henderson to attack.

Now look at this clip of Darius Henderson scoring against Gillingham.

That's also Henderson attacking a cross-ball from Dagnall.

And again we've got Cuthbert beating the last man and whipping a ball in vs Swindon.

And a fine attacking header from Henderson.

Lovely ball in from McAnuff with pace at the back-post at Fleetwood.

Powerful header from Henderson.

There's a few others too where he hasn't powered in a header, but attacked the ball in front of him.

If i were in charge of the O's tomorrow i'd play with Dagnall and Henderson upfront, push McAnuff / Cox and Hedges / Batt right up the pitch trying to beat the last man and putting crosses in.

I'd also have Lloyd James in the middle trying to feed the ball into Dagnall's tireless running. Bartley can break up the play from the middle and drive forward if he gets the chance.

I'd go for consistency at the back with Clarke and Baudry in the middle, Cuthbert at right-back and Omozusi at left-back. They didn't do too bad for us in them positions last year.

Cisak in goal.

Though i fully expect another random selection from Liverani. He doesn't do himself any favours does he?