1.   He played a number of games that season in a centre midfield role.

2.   Was he crap last season, and now miraculously transformed in his new midfield role?

3.   Paul Wilkinson operated as a lone striker, with Slaven in a midfield role.

4.   Make-shift defender Simon Thompson could revert to his normal position on the right wing to allow Gary Himsworth to assume a more central midfield role.

5.   On Saturday, Mungall was obliged to take a midfield role in a last minute reshuffle caused when another veteran, Neil McNab, fell ill.

6.   Republic of Ireland international Roy Keane released from his defensive shackles and restored to his favourite midfield role surged forward time and again into dangerous situations.

7.   And Gorter, struggling with fitness, was unable to fill the attacking midfield role, or do the high-pressure defensive duties required by Zenga.

8.   He had been playing more of a defensive midfield role following a knee injury last month to Chris Armas.

9.   He has been playing an attacking midfield role for the first time and has performed well at a complex position.

10.   Joe Franchino proved he can fill the defensive midfield role.