I know it's late, or early depeinding on how you see it but I have a sort of question/query/statement type thing. Basically i've just tried to get through that PDF and not fall out of bed laughing. On one of the first pages it mentions winning the ball back 6 seconds after losing it. Now i'm not suggesting that in League One that is an achievable aim consistently as players aren't as good so they give it away without being tackled, but just going on today's evidence (even though now I sit here and think it's been all this season) when have we actually tried to implement this? I cannot honestly think of a time where we had players hunting in packs and trying a really high press where Watkins, shuts the full back down, Winnall cuts off all avenues to centre halves, Scowen gets right up the backside (if that's what he's into) of their central midfield option. Crowley or whoever is out on the left makes it obvious that he will close down the switch to the right back so the player in possession has to play it to the goalkeeper and then he smacks it upfield and we can win it back that way or he launches it up to his front man where we have two centre halves who win more than their fair share in the air (i'm a poet). We never ever do that and apparently this was a big part of LJ and his teams 'philosophy'. I mean sometimes it doesn't work and you might come unstuck but christ we are in League One, we aren't going to get cut open from quick incisive Barcelona-esque football, what will happen is that other teams will get edgy and nervous because they can't cope technically with our team in their faces and it will force mistakes, get us the fans off our seats and excited and in turn give the players confidence. A lot of goals these days come from forcing mistakes out of other teams, it doesn't always come from bomb alley or POMO, whatever the **** they are.
I've seen Scowen press plenty of times but after every one he then looks around & moans cos no one else has
