I disagree. I think our identity is to capitulate quickly and our style is nondescript.
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[Albion] What is plan B?
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prawnsarnies
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Why are we paying huge sums to have Fati sat on the bench? Makes no sense.
Nobby Cybergoat
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In Marseille, we continued to attack at 2 goals down and got back in the game and drew it.
Easy to moan with the benefit of hindsight.
Nobby Cybergoat
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Because we made a crap signing. This happens. Thankfully it's only a loan
He was the GOAT at that. Receive ball with back to goal, wait for contact, go down. Pressure relieved.
Nobby Cybergoat
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In the current side, we’re struggling with our hold up play.
Ferguson gets routinely scythed and his body can’t yet take it
Welbeck should be doing better I feel with the strength he has
Pedro is easily the best. He has the imagination to see what is around him. He won a great flick against City, only for it to be Gross to be running in behind who got reeled in by Akanji like a thoroughbred chasing down a donkey. Let’s build our attack around him.
This is the main argument against getting Undav back for me. Great in the box, but does he have the all round game to get us up the pitch? I’m not so sure.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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……my favourite song by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Something else (please explain)
Basically, all of the above (1,2,3 and 4).
Basically, all of the above (1,2,3 and 4).
Re-programme the wingers/advanced FBs. At that point (level with, or nearly level with, the eighteen yard line, and a few yards in from the touchline) - you know, the one where they are trained to stop, turn round and pass it back to a team mate who will work it out to the other wing (to repeat the process in reverse) or back to Dunk or the GK - re-train them to ping the ball over, hard and fast, into the GK's corridor of uncertainty.
Never mind thinking about it; never mind looking to see who's there - just do it - it's the responsibility of the attacking players to bloody well get there! If they're any good, once they get the idea that is what's going to happen, they'll bust a gut to get on the end of it.
Never mind thinking about it; never mind looking to see who's there - just do it - it's the responsibility of the attacking players to bloody well get there! If they're any good, once they get the idea that is what's going to happen, they'll bust a gut to get on the end of it.
Plan A needs speedy wingers and a midfield pivot who is comfortable on the ball. Currently we have neither.
Plan 'One Club' needs the men's first team to be playing a style of football where they are very comfortable on the ball and pass a lot, with good possession and shooting stats. This is so that we can play similar styles in the younger teams and produce players who can be sold to great teams who value players who are good in possession, while their replacements come in and are comfortable on the ball.
To play plan 'One Club' successfully you need to move the ball quickly and not make mistakes. For this speedy wingers and a pivot who can hold and move the ball are needed.
We're never, ever going to hire Big Sam or Dyche. Therefore all varieties of Plan A look much like the above.
Simples!
Plan 'One Club' needs the men's first team to be playing a style of football where they are very comfortable on the ball and pass a lot, with good possession and shooting stats. This is so that we can play similar styles in the younger teams and produce players who can be sold to great teams who value players who are good in possession, while their replacements come in and are comfortable on the ball.
To play plan 'One Club' successfully you need to move the ball quickly and not make mistakes. For this speedy wingers and a pivot who can hold and move the ball are needed.
We're never, ever going to hire Big Sam or Dyche. Therefore all varieties of Plan A look much like the above.
Simples!
Albion 4ever
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It is all about evolution.
If you take the best coach at the moment, Pep Guardiola, he has consistently evolved his tactics to make his teams better and overcome problems. It was Pep that started inverting full backs to make an extra player in midfield to compensate for teams sitting back and frustrating them.
RDZ's tactics have been found out. Teams sit back and hit us on the counter attack. He needs to evolve and tweak his tactics. Over to him now. This is make or break. Time to find out whether he is a good coach, or potentially a great coach.
If you take the best coach at the moment, Pep Guardiola, he has consistently evolved his tactics to make his teams better and overcome problems. It was Pep that started inverting full backs to make an extra player in midfield to compensate for teams sitting back and frustrating them.
RDZ's tactics have been found out. Teams sit back and hit us on the counter attack. He needs to evolve and tweak his tactics. Over to him now. This is make or break. Time to find out whether he is a good coach, or potentially a great coach.
Getting up the pitch does not seem to be a huge issue, it's the lack of ideas and/or fannying around when we get there. I'd say a player who is 'great in the box' would be an asset. Let him hang around up field and be someone to look out for in nice positions when the others arrive.
Haven't we already seen plan B in operation this season.
West Ham away, safer in passing and ensuring that we didn't get caught out and concede on a break by West Ham.
West Ham away, safer in passing and ensuring that we didn't get caught out and concede on a break by West Ham.
Cowfold Seagull
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Plan B is . . . Plan A all over again!
Roberto has just the one plan, the letters from B through to Z simply aren't in his alphabet.
Roberto has just the one plan, the letters from B through to Z simply aren't in his alphabet.
Seagull58
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JP has been doing that continually for the last 2 matches, and Welbeck also, and the refs have played on 90% of the time. It seems that going through the back of a player to get the ball (or not get the ball) is back in favour again in PGMOL when you're playing against Brighton
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
A great tune
A great album to be fair.