Tippy tappy football with one or even two defensive midfielders is trendy at the moment. So Coleman decides that's what he will do, even though he doesn't have the players or the time to drill the players. Do you honestly think Swansea woke up one day and decided to do this, how they play has developed through acquisition and coaching over seasons.
When Yorath had international forwards he developed a system that suited all the attacking talent available to him, not play them in a rigid off the shelf system and play them in a unfamiliar role.
Sadly however likeable Coleman is, he is a follower. We need a maverick, because its a rigged game in favour of the massive footballing countries with pools of talent. If we try to play by the same rules (formations) as the big boys we will always come bottom.
Dutch Ray would have been a gamble, but so was Hughes and Speed.
Toshack, Flynn, Gould, Coleman are all old school, we can't win playing old school.
But what is winning for the gentleman of the FAW ? A free flight, expenses paid to Geneva or Rio for themselves and a partner ?