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This season I've only seen him down the left.

Interesting. I suspect they've seen how Tino tires...throw on a fresh Traore against a tired Tino and it may not end well.

Yep. Too many people prefer an erratic winger who'll lose the ball more often than not. Fortunately Ralph has more sense.

Our best available XI for me. Fancy this today. 3-1.

Exactly that. Crane can expensive and he needed Lancs to be chasing a bigger target. To get as close as we did with such a poor batting line up is pretty amazing.

I dunno, Bohemian Rhapsody is great. That said, I voted leave, so what the fuck do I know.

Ditto. I don't think he had any injury when he went to Eastleigh, he just struggled to get a club but went to Eastleigh saying he just wanted to play, but he isn't getting a game.

Jake Hesketh still can't get off Eastleigh's bench in the national league. Sad to see how bad things have gone for him and Josh Sims. Two talented players.

Nice. He's a talented lad, and seemingly his face didn’t fit with Ralph. Good to see that he's getting regular football and doing OK up there.

Yep, and his legacy lived on after he retired; the Liverpool way. They played brilliant football. I'm good mates with Paul Walsh and he went there just after Paisley retired. They were given real freedom to play and destroyed teams. I believe that the current Liverpool squad playing in the style and system from those days (albeit with current fitness levels) would do no worse than the current team playing as they do.

I appreciate that mate. Looking back, I've been a bit unnecessary in my comments to you. Apologies.

You're now mixing up passing lanes with other stuff. Movement, passing, players rotating and assuming new positions in the match etc, isn't new. Sure, Pep has honed it to an extent but your desperation to come across as knowledgeable is getting a bit much, and you've not persuaded me that you have much understanding. I'm off for an Indian. You enjoy your evening.

Keep posting please MB, your posts on the younger teams in particular I find really interesting. On the face of your first post it looked like we didn't field any subs, and given the shambles that our academy is, it's understandable that you queried it.

Do you honestly think that passing behind players or into channels is a new concept that never happened pre Pep? That giving it a name makes it something new? I appreciate that you're passionate about this, I respect that, but you've shown me in our exchanges that your understanding is very limited to the point that I don't see any point in carrying on an exchange with you.

Yep, passing into space for runners, and blocking off. You've convinced yourself that this stuff is something new. It isn't. Yes it has a name now, but it's happened since football was first played. Sure, the organisation of the runners and the pre planned strategy is more sophisticated than it was, but we're not seeing anything radical as a concept.

Passing lanes used to be called gaps between defenders/players. Read this. https://www.empirecityacademy.com/blog/creating-and-using-passing-lan Anyways, I'm not sure how this helps a discussion, or how it's felt to be anything new. Players have always passed into space. Other players have always ran into space to receive the ball. Defenders have always tried to cut off the space. Theres absolutely nothing new in that, regardless of how much paint Pep may have put on a pitch.

People can use terms if they understand what they mean, but have the courtesy to explain what they mean as the masses won't recognise the jargon. That said, in my experience (and its a generalisation) people who use jargon usually don't really understand the subject - real understanding means a person can avoid jargon and explain something technical in simple parlance. Anyways, unless and until anyone posts anything insightful about the evolution of tactics or similar, I'll shut up.

Coffee

Normally I'd agree, but Jota is in my fantasy team!

Haulage issues are a global problem. BAT are seeing a shortage of drivers all over Europe and beyond, and prices for hauliers has doubled. Poland, Romania and Turkey have big issues. But we're not hearing about this in the press here.

Brentford look a good side. Lots of size and pace too. Plenty of goals in this game I think.

Look at this in a different way SOG. On this thread, TWar uses phrases without explanation. Assuming there's an understanding, there's no insight given so it doesn't actually help. That said, it's obvious what the terms mean, and the point many have made is that they describe nothing new. You're no hipster (no offence), and like most people on here you'll refer to gaps between players as exactly that, not passing lanes to try to make yourself sound clever. I'm interested in the discussion but when someone seeks to suggest that a 442 never has 2 defensive midfielders (that you must refer to as a double pivot, of course), or that you can't have attacking full backs in a 442, I tend to think that they don't really have much knowledge.

Ha!! Manicured beards. Hipster. New words to describe nothing new. Hipster. And pointless.

Personally I'd rather read an opinion relevant to the topic, even if I disagree with it, than someone whingeing about those opinions but making no actual contribution. What's the issue with describing hipster phrases as hipster phrases? It's what they are.

Your contribution hasn't added much to the topic though has it.