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Powmill-Naemore
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@deleriad 

Great post. I suspect you are right in your thinking. Quite a few people have commented previously that the real issue is not necessarily the tactic per se, but having the players of the right quality to be able to play to that tactic. But this begs the different question about how the team is set up and how the players are asked to play. Is it a good decision to ask players who are not up to standard to play that way to do so? If we don't have the players good enough to make that style of play work why persevere with it? Perhaps it has never been about this season. Perhaps this season has just been another stepping stone. We have some players in who we expect to develop as they are coached and played in a system. We also know we have some that will need to be replaced, as they are not suitable to play the game the way the coaches want to, but fewer than last close season.

Perhaps the project really will bear fruit in 1924/25.

 

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@powmillnaemore 1924/25 a bit late for that I think 😂😂😂

Come on BORO.


   
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Posted by: @exmil

@powmillnaemore 1924/25 a bit late for that I think 😂😂😂

Come on BORO.

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@deleriad 

 
I strongly agree with your analysis.  I think that the real decision that any player in a defensive situation is faced with, is not whether to play a short or a long ball, but whether to make a pass directed at a team mate or to kick it in a direction without any certainty about whether it will end up with a team mate or with the opposition.
 
It's blindingly obvious,of course,  that the former is preferable, and is what keeps possession. It also blindingly obvious that when it goes wrong, the consequences can be horrible.
 
I don't think it's the case that our players haven't got the skills to do it. It may not be the Premier League, but I think our players, like all Championship players, operate with outstanding levels of skill. After all, if they're "playing out from the back" they're mostly being asked to make short passes, well within the skill set. What makes it all work is organising other 10 players so that the player in possession has plenty of options
 
That's more down to coaching to ensure that every player knows where they need to be in each situation, so that the player in possession has options. The other key skill is for the player in possession to be able to recognise when there are no safe options. At that point they need to "go long" and probably give the ball away, trading possession against the risk of a defensive disaster, but as a last resort.
 
To me, the benefits of playing out from the back are obvious, and the route to doing it successfully are coaching, practice and persisting with it till they get it right.
As I write this I'm aware that in the next 90 minutes or so, we might well see one of those defensive disasters.

   
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