Ensure you mark off 3-4-2-1 if you've got it on your card because we'll never see it again. Saturday will see yet another badly thought through, ineffective and illogical system that we've worked on for about an hour with 3 or 4 personnel changes. By the time the players begin to get used to it we'll be 2-0 down and Poya will make a couple of subs changing the formation entirely yet again. Where he'll play Styles is anyone's guess. The smart money is backing sweeper.
Bloke totally clueless, another coach out of his depth and another awful appointment by conman. Says it all that we havent even took the lead in a league game under him never mind a win.
I don't understand the Styles multi position thing he keeps doing or formation changes, I thought he had settled on a 4231 then last night changes again to 3 at the back. As much as I want him to succeed he isn't helping himself. Last nights team as happy as I was with it initially did seem to be a last throw of the dice desperate selection.
He could take his pick of 11 players from any teams in the world and not win this guy. Still to see what hes actually trying to do as in system and plan to win a game. The play looks as if hes picked 11 an hour before kick off with no plan.
We looked ok with 3 at the back to be fair, still inept going forward and prone to the odd gaff. When he changed it to 4 something something (no idea what the actual formation was, and I’d guess neither did the players) we looked unorganised and lost all shape. Every substitution was the wrong one.
When I looked at my bingo card and saw that it had 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 on it, I almost chucked it away. Now I reckon it could be a winner.
I've got an idea. Since 1918 BFC have got it wrong. They've employed footballers who have absolutely no idea of formations. So with this in mind let's sign pilots from the RAF, and change our name to the Red Arrows. At least we'll have some employees who know a thing or two about formations and stick to them.
And give em all a pipe and a scarf and make sure there's at least one Roger and one Chalky in the squad..
Whatever the formation is it’s confusing the opposition as well otherwise they’d be scoring four or five .
Poya to me seems like a 'book coach" - he's read all the manuals, he's followed all the training videos, been to all the coaching training sessions and then he's trying it out for real. But the real world is not the same, the real world has opposition coaches who might not be following the same manuals or any manuals at all. The real world has player confidence and temperament and oppositions crowds baying for your blood. The real world isn't like the coaching manuals. Some coaches, like Pep Guardiola are clever enough to rewrite the manuals and bend the football world to your way of doing things and it helps if you have the resources he has had at Barca and Man City. I think that is where Val was successful, he worked on what we had available, a young fit eager squad, 5 subs and he worked on the psychology of the players, making them better than they were.