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Thread | Constructive Feedback For The SCFC Coaches & Management
at 11:27 23 Oct 2025
I put the last few performances and general lack of action/urgency/goal threat down to the international break and disruption it causes. The sending off had a big effect granted but after watching the game last night I am growing increasingly concerned we are reverting for whatever reason back to the stale, boring sideways walking paced football that we witnessed under Cooper, Martin and Williams (this was evident before the sending off) - How has this happened again?
Not sure if this has something to do with players wanting 'good stats' or if the coaches are completely oblivious to the fact that we have to play forward to win games? 53% possession and 451 completed passes last night, I would bet that 80% of these were sideways or backwards FFS. We are so easy to play against and counter its become embarrasing, each team we play now keeps 3 up top to press us constantly and squeeze us back resulting in a hoof from Vig, despite this we still play the same passes back and forth which is so predictable its untrue, not to mention very easy to set up against.
Struggling for the life of me to understand where this is going at the moment, so much to address from the management team it would take me months to highlight how easy we are to play against currently.
FAO - Coaches & Management Team
- You are allowed to pass through the centre of the pitch.
- Forward passes are actually still allowed, as is taking on your man
- We can press oppositions back line too....even in their own half
- A press generally involves 3 players (not 1) working together to win the ball back
- There is no time limit on how long you can spend in the oppositions half
- You are allowed to take a shot at goal more than twice a match
- Players can use their pace to go FORWARD as well as backwards
- We dont need to start every move with 8 passes between our centre halves (hate to tell you but other teams have spotted this too)
- Its generally considered more effective to try to make a tackle outside of your own box rather than back off and let the attacker into your box (google 'how to win a penalty' for further info).
- Waiting for 11 opposition players to get behind the ball before launching an attack does in fact make it harder to score.
- If plan A doesnt work then you can move to plan B, this can be done at any point in the game not just after 85 minutes.
- There are no time restrictions on substitutions, these can actually be used from minute 1 onwards if things arent going to plan.
This type of football in the championship doesnt work (check the stats for the last 6 seasons), please for the love of god get a grip on implementing some tactics and shape into this team that actually encourages people to turn up and watch.
This is not rocket science, we dont give a toss about possession stats....all we want is to see is our team competing and actually trying to win a match especially at home.
Must do better than this 100%
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Thread | Time To Blood The Academy Players
at 09:20 28 Jan 2025
Why on earth are we not tapping into our academy when we clearly have a squad that is average at best and more importantly sinking fast? With Grimes leaving and Darling surely gone in the summer, this together with no one of any calibre coming in this window shouldn't we be investing in some our youngsters to give them experience of the championship this season.
I'm not an expert on our younger players but surely we have a few with real promise that we could utilise to give the team something different, just ploughing on with the squad we have makes no sense whatsoever. I honestly don't think we will go down but even if we do wouldn't it be better to invest more in our academy rather than bringing in more average loan players.
This squad needs a boost, get a few promising and lively youngsters in there who aren't crippled with a fear of passing the ball forward. |
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Thread | Our Wingers - Our Weakest Link
at 11:49 28 Nov 2024
Firstly, I must acknowledge that since my last moan on here about walking football things have improved and the football has been far more entertaining to watch, hopefully this will continue to progress and we can evolve further into a decent team.
Whilst we have progressed over recent weeks in a number of areas I think we have big weak spots on both wings which LW needs to address (surely he sees this?). I would hate to be either of our full backs currently with our current wingers in front of me, constantly giving the ball away, not tracking back and seemingly knackered after about 30 minutes every game??
Ronald puts a shift in each game so credit there, but he really needs to work on his hold up play, fitness and defensive work to add real value to the team.
Peart Harris, same as above but far lazier and spends more time walking rather than running - we must have better than this in the academy worth a punt FFS?
If we had 2 wingers with more energy and intelligence I could see us becoming a very good team at this level once again. I would personally prioritise this in the Jan transfer window alongside getting Cabango & Darling tied down.
Overall a much better watch these past few weeks, with better quality wingers we could reach the play offs IMO. |
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Thread | From The Swansea Way To Walking Football
at 13:04 23 Oct 2024
The 'Swansea way' seems to have evolved into a form of slow, tedious, predictable backwards and sideways football that shows no signs of improving. I'm not one for calling for the managers head and believe he does deserve more time but for heavens sake at least try to inject something different into this current system.
Every team we play know we want to dominate possession, most now just let us have the ball and sit deep looking to counter us at pace when we eventually get into the final third. Its just so predictable and means we always have to break down 11 men to score a goal - its not a mystery why we dont score many.
It grates with me when commentators refer to this as the Swansea Way, this is nothing like it. This is slow, passive, predictable and tedious at best and the best we can hope for until something changes is mid table mediocrity at the very best.
The Swansea way had a purpose, it had swagger, it had creative players who actually wanted to attack and cause problems, it had pace, it had excitement - it had all of these things whilst still maintaining the majority of possession.
The Swansea way has eroded into a form of side to side, facing your own goal, walking football. We have to try to evolve the current system & players to build a more effective game plan or we risk losing more fans to boredom.
We have a decent manager IMO and quite a few decent players but it's not producing anything other than good possession and passing stats (of which 90% go backwards or sideways).
Wouldn't it be great to see our wide players actually trying to beat a full back, a few passes over the top into space for the strikers to chase, even a few shots from outside the box - None of this seems to be programmed into the current team so they either aren't capable or the coaching team see no value in this approach?
Something needs to change or we will walk sideways and backwards towards League One with an ever shrinking fan base.
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