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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Not rocket science is it mon ami.

Not really mon ami, it can't be hard to grasp if thee and me can.

[sinkov]

Not really mon ami, it can't be hard to grasp if thee and me can.

Aye it's about my limit mon ami, anything more technical is beyond my pay grade, all this talk about transitions, channels, second balls, false nines and number tens is gobbledygook to me. When I played full back life was much simpler, if the winger was slower than you, happy days, if he was quicker, a whack or two would slow him down or discourage him, and going over the half way line, except for corners, gave me nose bleeds, there were six players further upfield than me, let them manage the attacking side, besides I was an amateur footballer with limited training time, not a marathon runner.

[Supersub6]

Aye it's about my limit mon ami, anything more technical is beyond my pay grade, all this talk about transitions, channels, second balls, false nines and number tens is gobbledygook to me. When I played full back life was much simpler, if the winger was slower than you, happy days, if he was quicker, a whack or two would slow him down or discourage him, and going over the half way line, except for corners, gave me nose bleeds, there were six players further upfield than me, let them manage the attacking side, besides I was an amateur footballer with limited training time, not a marathon runner.

sinkov, oh yes, that was very much the game I loved too. I was also a full back who loved to overlap but accepted that my main job was to defend and stop the opposition scoring. Simple team formations, simple instructions from the manager and they really seemed to work in so many games because we scored goals and won many more games than we lost.

Modern game is really based on how much possession you can have, how many passes you can make in your own half and the hope that you can bore your opponents into submission.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

sinkov, oh yes, that was very much the game I loved too. I was also a full back who loved to overlap but accepted that my main job was to defend and stop the opposition scoring. Simple team formations, simple instructions from the manager and they really seemed to work in so many games because we scored goals and won many more games than we lost.

Modern game is really based on how much possession you can have, how many passes you can make in your own half and the hope that you can bore your opponents into submission.

It's not working when we play at Turf Moor mein freund.

[FromTheDarkness]

Aye it's about my limit mon ami, anything more technical is beyond my pay grade, all this talk about transitions, channels, second balls, false nines and number tens is gobbledygook to me. When I played full back life was much simpler, if the winger was slower than you, happy days, if he was quicker, a whack or two would slow him down or discourage him, and going over the half way line, except for corners, gave me nose bleeds, there were six players further upfield than me, let them manage the attacking side, besides I was an amateur footballer with limited training time, not a marathon runner.

The basics where still the same back then, you still needed to control the ball, pass the ball. These simple basics seem to be trumped with the need to buy players who can run about like a chicken, as the manager priotises pressing more than quick direct football, with pass and move tactics. Parker wants to bore the opposition into submission and they want to score a own goal to end the dross.