Article on United's Youth Development

[BackRowArab]

https://trainingground.guru/articles...unique-players

Great article, everyone should take 10 minutes out of their day to read it. Scottish football is finally modernising after 30 years of standing still. Good to see United at the forefront of this.

[Steve Finan]

Yep, good article. A club that brings though its own players is a club whose team I'd want to watch. This is the United I recognise.
I remember thinking during the Forfar cup-tie that not once did any player attempt to beat his man. The focus on developing different kinds of players, each focusing on their gifts sounds encouraging.
As an experiment (though it'll never happen) I'd like to see a group of wee laddies thrown a ball, two jumpers for goalposts, given no coaching, no interference, and told just to play football hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Then the "coach" goes back 10 years later to discover he has a dozen Jimmy Johnstones.
Maybe.

[BackRowArab]

Yep, good article. A club that brings though its own players is a club whose team I'd want to watch. This is the United I recognise.
I remember thinking during the Forfar cup-tie that not once did any player attempt to beat his man. The focus on developing different kinds of players, each focusing on their gifts sounds encouraging.
As an experiment (though it'll never happen) I'd like to see a group of wee laddies thrown a ball, two jumpers for goalposts, given no coaching, no interference, and told just to play football hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Then the "coach" goes back 10 years later to discover he has a dozen Jimmy Johnstones.
Maybe.

Would need a big canoe and a ton of beers if that happened

[BudMill90]

Great article. Have seen some negative comments about it this morning but mostly from f ucking dinosaurs.

[BackRowArab]

Great article. Have seen some negative comments about it this morning but mostly from f ucking dinosaurs.

Same people who have held football in this country back for 30 years. You can always tell them though, straight away they bring up 4-4-2 and Saturday 3pm kick offs

[AraBrian]

Same people who have held football in this country back for 30 years. You can always tell them though, straight away they bring up 4-4-2 and Saturday 3pm kick offs

All for saturday 3pm kick off's love my few pints from 12 then match then few more pints after match if I am holding football in scotland back by enjoying that well so be it.Happy with any formation they want to use as long as it works for us.

[stokearab]

Same people who have held football in this country back for 30 years. You can always tell them though, straight away they bring up 4-4-2 and Saturday 3pm kick offs

Leicester won the EPL playing 442 and several top European sides use it to great effect.
It seems to have become 'fashionable' to knock 442 because you rarely see it pre match on Sky but it remains a very effective lineup if you have the players to play it.
(A kick off time won't affect a formation though &#128526

[stokearab]

Leicester won the EPL playing 442 and several top European sides use it to great effect.
It seems to have become 'fashionable' to knock 442 because you rarely see it pre match on Sky but it remains a very effective lineup if you have the players to play it.
(A kick off time won't affect a formation though &#128526

Edit to add, there's plenty of articles on this, I chose this one because it's fairly short and makes my point about 442

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ussocce...4-4-2.html/amp

[tHeArAb]

F*ck aye..... give me 4-4-2 with Appere and Chalmers either side of Fuchs and Butcher every single day of the week ahead of some of the sh*te square pegs in round holes trying to accommodate the three strikers into fancy diamonds we've had to put up with this season!

[BudMill90]

Same people who have held football in this country back for 30 years. You can always tell them though, straight away they bring up 4-4-2 and Saturday 3pm kick offs

I love both of those things