Or their tendency to play an early (ahem - long) ball for Agbonlahor and/or Carew, rendering Young/Downing presence as a threat superfluous for large parts of the game. Now playing narrower since departure of Barry, when they preferred five across the park, with Young/Milner out wide. Some dubious signings in Harewood, Heskey, Sidwell, and Beye and his man management has isolated Reo-Coker.