Like Roger and Adam i watch non-league, Brightlingsea Regent, Wivenhoe Town and Stanway Rovers and it’s amusing how many teams try to replicate what they see on MOTD without the technical ability to do it
Played sunday league last year and a new lad who came down said he was an "inverted fullback" when we asked where he wanted to play. We conceded like 3 goals from crosses down his side lol
Huge believer in this. My club, Cambridge United played this style first 10 games and I believe we were the worst team in the whole of the UK for points return after that.
My main point is the further down the EFL you go the less you have the players/pitches to do it. Also, as you’ve pointed out, this pissing around at the back in the hope to draw out the press ends up more often than not with giving the ball away in your own half with your defence horribly out of position.
Thankfully, we now have Neil Harris in charge who doesn’t believe in this nonsense.
One other point, I’m noticing now the guys we get on loan from Prem/Chanpionship clubs- they play this style and look nice on the ball but off it they are woeful.
If you’re Arsenal, City etc sure, play it. The rest of it for me is over inflated backroom teams full of coaches serving up this nonsense to justify their wage. Get the ball forward and play in the opponents half, fans don’t work all week to watch EFL centre halves pissing around with it in their own box
Superb stuff as usual Adam. When you break it down as simply as this you do wonder what all the people on the coaching team of PL clubs are doing if they can’t see this
Sometimes you just gotta hoof it, man. Even if you're a big team. Most big teams (except Spurs) know when to play out slowly and when to just go long up the field, so why would smaller teams insist on playing out from the back literally all the time??
I watch mainly non-league football. It always amuses/frustrates me to see teams at Step 5 trying to play out from the back. If the individuals had the skills to do that well, they wouldn't be playing at Step 5!
It's all relative isn't it! There's a 7th tier team down the street from me I absolutely love watching, and last season the side that ended up winning the league came and put on a masterclass in keeping the ball and playing it around. They've gone up now and are getting hammered every week.
Like Roger and Adam i watch non-league, Brightlingsea Regent, Wivenhoe Town and Stanway Rovers and it’s amusing how many teams try to replicate what they see on MOTD without the technical ability to do it
Played sunday league last year and a new lad who came down said he was an "inverted fullback" when we asked where he wanted to play. We conceded like 3 goals from crosses down his side lol
Good stuff 👍👍
Huge believer in this. My club, Cambridge United played this style first 10 games and I believe we were the worst team in the whole of the UK for points return after that.
My main point is the further down the EFL you go the less you have the players/pitches to do it. Also, as you’ve pointed out, this pissing around at the back in the hope to draw out the press ends up more often than not with giving the ball away in your own half with your defence horribly out of position.
Thankfully, we now have Neil Harris in charge who doesn’t believe in this nonsense.
One other point, I’m noticing now the guys we get on loan from Prem/Chanpionship clubs- they play this style and look nice on the ball but off it they are woeful.
If you’re Arsenal, City etc sure, play it. The rest of it for me is over inflated backroom teams full of coaches serving up this nonsense to justify their wage. Get the ball forward and play in the opponents half, fans don’t work all week to watch EFL centre halves pissing around with it in their own box
Superb stuff as usual Adam. When you break it down as simply as this you do wonder what all the people on the coaching team of PL clubs are doing if they can’t see this
Sometimes you just gotta hoof it, man. Even if you're a big team. Most big teams (except Spurs) know when to play out slowly and when to just go long up the field, so why would smaller teams insist on playing out from the back literally all the time??
I watch mainly non-league football. It always amuses/frustrates me to see teams at Step 5 trying to play out from the back. If the individuals had the skills to do that well, they wouldn't be playing at Step 5!
It's all relative isn't it! There's a 7th tier team down the street from me I absolutely love watching, and last season the side that ended up winning the league came and put on a masterclass in keeping the ball and playing it around. They've gone up now and are getting hammered every week.