Fingers crossed anyway. We can only hope. Back in the day I ran 352 attacking and had decent success with that. And later towards the end i did try 253 before it got as popular as it is now, but could never get it to work, even with the advantage of almost perfect gelling and morale every game.
Spiteri does amazing with 41311 and I've heard about him winning 211 with 181 aswell. And I mean, if that can win conferences then I'm sure any formation can!
I appreciate its pretty much about stats now from what I'm hearing. You have the best players it's not necessarily what formation you play, your in with a pretty good shout.
I was going to try 3412 coming back but essentially I'm hoping Xmas tree won't be terrible. 4 at the back and 5 midfielders too so we shall see.
I'll be honest though, my gut tells me it won't work out as strong as other formations... but still... 181?! That gives me hope haha