Originally Posted by
InversneckieDob
I think a problem with fitba at all levels is a desire to copy what the Wendy-moneyball guys are doing.
"Playing through the high press" and other such w@nkyisms are commonplace (it's many a year since I was at Inverdee on a Saturday, but it wouldnae surprise me to see Pep wannabees espousing this in that arena) but if you have players that are nae that comfy on the ball, it's a recipe for disaster.
In this league, and let's nae beat around the bush........it's sh1te, if you put round pegs in round holes and ask players to do what they're capable of doing, you can get into the top six, and push for top four, relatively easily.
Look at what Martindale's done at Livingston, that team has nae right being where they are.
But he keeps it simple.
Dinna get me wrong, it's eye-bleeding fare and Aberdeen as a football club should be capable of hitting a substantially higher level.
But the basic premise is the same, get players in roles they're capable of playing and dinna ask them to do what they canna do.