25-08-2018, 12:49
I'd just like to add that when WE concede it isn't just the keeper or the defenders ...... it is the whole team, just as when we score it isn't just the goalscorer and/or the assist, it is the whole team.
Really good teams tend to make it hard immediately the opposition wins possession of the ball. And in really good teams every player is looking to score or contribute to a goal being scored when in possession.
Even hoofball can work ........ but you need some good hoofers and more than one dangerous hoofee. I wouldn't enjoy watching it, but if we are doing it I'm baffled why we don't actually start Muggleton and train to benefit from his equivalent of the hoof. I watched a You Tube of Long Throws the other day and what was noticeable once you stopped being amazed by their sheer length was their ineffectiveness. And the reason seemed to me that none of the teams involved seemed to have any plan beyond stationing a big bloke roughly where the ball might reach. Look at the confusion England caused just by standing their players in a line at corners and breaking just as the ball was being kicked. It doesn't require a rocket-science level of creativity to sow confusion under a throw like Muggleton's and FFS vary 'em.
Really good teams tend to make it hard immediately the opposition wins possession of the ball. And in really good teams every player is looking to score or contribute to a goal being scored when in possession.
Even hoofball can work ........ but you need some good hoofers and more than one dangerous hoofee. I wouldn't enjoy watching it, but if we are doing it I'm baffled why we don't actually start Muggleton and train to benefit from his equivalent of the hoof. I watched a You Tube of Long Throws the other day and what was noticeable once you stopped being amazed by their sheer length was their ineffectiveness. And the reason seemed to me that none of the teams involved seemed to have any plan beyond stationing a big bloke roughly where the ball might reach. Look at the confusion England caused just by standing their players in a line at corners and breaking just as the ball was being kicked. It doesn't require a rocket-science level of creativity to sow confusion under a throw like Muggleton's and FFS vary 'em.