You're not right because you are making false claims.
Pretty much most posters have agreed that the 451 works away from home - put away record is fantastic. It works because it gives defensive strength and means we can play on the break.
It hasn't worked at home because we have to dictate play, teams sit back and we're not good enough to break them down. Played 17 won 5 drawn 5 lost 7.
Everyone except you seems to acknowledge the need to try something different and play 2 strikers. You talk about Man U, there 4411 is with 2 strikers not 1, Rooney plays in the hole and makes runs in beyond van persie and when the ball is out wide is right in te box to get on te end of crosses.
Incidentally - we conceded crewes 2nd after Moussa had came on for Elliott so we were already 451.
451 away from home is perfect, it just isn't that effective at home, not necessarily saying 442 is.
As I have pointed out, we have lost more games playing 4-4-2 than 4-5-1 at home. we score less and concede a similar amount of goals, down to tactics so it seems because under LC we've kept 3/4 clean sheets.
Interesting you mention Rooney, he's not a typical '9' striker, he is becoming much more a playmaking '10', but with a striker's ability to score goals, also, something that has bugged me for ages about Rooney is that when his team is out-of-possession, he has a habit of dropping far too deep and becomes something of a midfielder in this respect, Rooney has serious potential to become a fantasic '10'. I like playing him striker for England in a 4-3-3 because he can play somewhat as a 'false 9' and England can have that Spainish/Barca 'esque' swag about us, like v Brazil.
I think 4-5-1 will work at home, I think tactics need to be looked at and adjusted, because whatever formation we play, we have underperformed at home, so I think we need to play our best formation which is 4-5-1 and 4-4-2 will never be effective with CCFC until we get another striker who is actually good, not Cody or Elliott (!), and 'orthodox' wingers.
Yes that is correct on Saturday, 5m after we made that transition, and we only played 4-5-1 for 8m as when Wilson came on, we went back to 4-4-2, and nothing happened, on Saturday we struggled because we couldn't play down the middle, and 4-4-2 restricts abilty to play through the middle as there is no 'middle man' to pick up the passes.
Perhaps at home we need to change personnel, approach the game differently?
