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He didn't really - Obita's red card at Dundee was the only enforced change from that match to the Aberdeen game, and we could easily have kept the formation from that game. We'd gone 352 away to Celtic earlier in the season, as well as in the cup games so it was always an option.

To say it's forced does him a disservice though, there's a whole load of alternative options to a 352 that Gray could have used at that point. He chose 352, and chose to bring in Iredale, Smith and Rocky and kept that system despite not winning against Aberdeen.
Forced is maybe overplaying it, but there wasn't much to suggest DG was looking to make a change. He was committed to that 4-2-3-1 for the majority of the first round of fixtures and quickly reverted back to it on the couple of times he made the change.

What would have been lunacy is not sticking with it, I think we could all see at that game how much more comfortable we looked, and the difference we had playing 2 strikers was night and day.