| Fads in football tactics 21:38 - Sep 7 with 1382 views | Ifonly |
For a long time England have been playing too much dull, slow, one dimensional, tippy-tappy football. The same was true against Andorra when we should have been getting the ball wide and bombarding them with crosses. That's where the space was. We did it a few times, but not enough.
So, it was interesting to read Tuchel's words today when he said:
"I tell you, the long throw-in is back... once we arrive at the World Cup, all these things matter, so we will also talk about long throw-ins, we will talk about long kicks from the goalkeeper and not only playing short... all these patterns are back, and crosses are back as well."
Sounds like he wants England to mix it up and play direct sometimes. Good. There's been far too much snobbery in football since Pep emerged, where if you go direct, the keeper kicks it long or you take long throw-ins then you are not playing "football". Southgate fell for all of this and unfortunately for us, Rusty was the ultimate sucker for it.
Now it seems that the tide is turning in football fashions, not just from Tuchel's comments but from others too. I think it's about time. There isn't just one way to play the game.
Hopefully this is what we see from WS's Saints too. We can't always rely on worldie free kicks. By adding players like Fellows and Azaz we add different ways of creating chances. Ideally we'd have a proper centre forward who can get on the end of these chances too, but even if we don't, just by getting good deliveries into the box more, we should score more goals. Perhaps it won't always be as pretty as the idealists would want, but I don't care about that. |  | | |  |
| Fads in football tactics on 22:03 - Sep 7 with 1341 views | Exmiltonroad |
I watched the highlights of Pompey v Saints from the late 80s on Facebook...the style of footy looked alien to me from the 2025 perspective, long ball up to the edge of the box mostly.
Surely the best tactic is to adapt to the opponents weakness, last season it was a case of which weakness to exploit first against us 😂 | | | |
| Fads in football tactics on 23:04 - Sep 7 with 1266 views | PatfromPoole |
One of the problems with England playing high-tempo stuff is that the Finals or tournaments are often played in stupid heat.
Next year in US / Mexico / Canada could be the same.
The next Euros over here could be our big chance. Though we will need to have properly replaced Kane by then. |  |
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| Fads in football tactics on 07:39 - Sep 8 with 1194 views | sledger |
most goals are scored from inside the penalty area so it stands to reason that the more throw ins and crosses you put there the more likely you are to score,its not rocket science | | | |
| Fads in football tactics on 14:25 - Sep 8 with 902 views | Tonyfromdk |
Wimbledons tactics worked. They literally beat the opposition to win.
Vinney Jones, we could do with a player like that…
I wonder how he would have done in a Russell Martin team. My guess is he would of head butted the arrogant pr@tt | | | |
| Fads in football tactics on 16:54 - Sep 8 with 791 views | arfurdent |
| Fads in football tactics on 14:25 - Sep 8 by Tonyfromdk |
Wimbledons tactics worked. They literally beat the opposition to win.
Vinney Jones, we could do with a player like that…
I wonder how he would have done in a Russell Martin team. My guess is he would of head butted the arrogant pr@tt |
I'd pay his legal costs to see that |  |
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| Fads in football tactics on 17:11 - Sep 8 with 765 views | kernow |
Smart guy, built a successful career out of being a thug.
Never got any change out of Jimmy Case though. | | | |
| Fads in football tactics on 17:20 - Sep 8 with 745 views | Tonyfromdk |
I wouldn’t say he’s was a thug. Just a passionate player who got occasionally upset….. | | | |
| Fads in football tactics on 21:34 - Sep 8 with 620 views | saintmark1976 |
| Fads in football tactics on 17:11 - Sep 8 by kernow |
Smart guy, built a successful career out of being a thug.
Never got any change out of Jimmy Case though. |
Nobody ever got any change out of Jimmy Case or for that matter Chris Nicholl.
Brian Robson fancied his chances as a hard man but strangely was always unavailable for selection due to injury when Manure played at The Dell. | |
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