My issue is more the lack of any outlet up front. With a flat back four and two double pivots being dragged back they are going to be fewer players to play progressive passes to, this will likely result in more long balls where a front three of Wood, Walker and Bridge are going to bullied off the ball.
It’s popular in football tactics to keep a spare man at the back. If the opposition play two up front (which most at this level do) you’d then want three centre halves. This helps defending as if one goes for the ball and misses it the spare man can cover it but it also helps with the build up play as it means you have a spare man who should be open to receive the ball and initiate attacks. Kensdale was very good at this aspect, Crowther hasn’t been yet.
I also find Jack Wood a surprising choice to dictate formation. I’m not sure what you’ve seen that makes you think he’s the player to build around?
If I was going 4 at the back I’d be looking more at a line-up like
@loz ’s where Pepple gives you an option to play it into his body for him to hold up for an oncoming attacking midfielder or over the top for him to run onto. Tilly’s line-ups always had a target man in whether it was Donkey Broughton, Tes Bramble, Wayne Gray, Shaun Goater, Michael Ricketts, Matt Harrold, Lee Barnard etc. We’d frequently look for that out ball rather than pass the ball out from the keeper.
