Team for Saturday

[shedboy71]

we can have 8 strikers on the books and the useless chunt would still play the one and have him and every chunt back at corners

i think there is a utd for dummies book left there somewhere in tannadice - left as a piss take at christmas party 5 years ago and used as a bible now

[LSArab]

i think there is a utd for dummies book left there somewhere in tannadice - left as a piss take at christmas party 5 years ago and used as a bible now

The 4-2-3-1 tactics board picked up in Largs by J Mc

[shedboy71]

The 4-2-3-1 tactics board picked up in Largs by J Mc

Thats the one!

[TerryTheTerror]

Really strange how so many managers throughout football use this system. 🤔

[Arabdad]

Really strange how so many managers throughout football use this system. ��

To be fair EL Tel, some of the managers who have made that formation work have at least had players like Pique, Iniesta, Rakitic, Messi and Suarez at their disposal as opposed to the Edge, Billy King, Rabitsch, Scott McDonald and Lyng.

[TerryTheTerror]

Yeah and a lot of managers who don't have players of that calibre make our work too. But you touch on a very relevant point. Success is more to do with the quality of player a team has in their team rather than the formation the manager chooses.

[Logie_Arab]

Yeah and a lot of managers who don't have players of that calibre make our work too. But you touch on a very relevant point. Success is more to do with the quality of player a team has in their team rather than the formation the manager chooses.

"Success is more to do with the quality of player a team has in their team rather than the formation the manager chooses."

Or who the manager is imho.

[Noddydog]

Agreed TTT. Seen all sorts of formations succeed and fail. A formation is just an approximate starting point for how you want a team to play. Much depends not on what you are asking players to do within that formation - full backs pushing up/quick support to striker etc. and the type of game you are trying to play. And the quality of player available.

[shedboy71]

4231 can be a devastingly effective system. I have nothing against it. Above most cover the key point skill and adaptability of player, managers interpretation and communication.

I dont think we have or had for a while the type of players to play the system especially against the physical opposition we have.

If we did we would be up by now. A simpler system is required with more aggression from this and previous bunch of players.

[shedboy71]

Also other managers seem to adapt to the game. Our previous managers kept going back to largs manual which clearly has no plan in it!