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The club expectation was a nonsense, and so was the removal of Nigel Pearson. The expectation of changing the Manager mid season, expecting him to change the approach of the team, and promotion are crass. Jon Lansdown in football terms is ignorant and stupid. The man doesn't even have entry level qualifications for coaching kids football. Never played. Never coached. Never Managed. But takes far reaching footballing decisions for BCFC. That is ignorance and stupidity. My expectations for the man ignorant and stupid employs is that his team continues on its path of lows and highs to the end of the season. The team has clear limitations in key positions. Players aptitudes are not synching with the football Liam Manning wants to play. The team will not be relegated. Liam Manning deserves a summer, additional players and that time of the grass to demonstrate he is the fit BCFC said he is, and Nigel Pearson evidently was not.

An answer would be the head coach develops and leads. As you are using the parallel of business. Liam Manning is clearly unskilled clearly, the team has lows, and highs, so this is not all chance. He is in that business arc of change, problems in change, challenges have to be expected, unless we believe these players are capable of promotion. My expectation was bottom half. Transition. Challenges and problems. Learning who can reach expectations, who can develop, who can cope, who progresses, and those to replace and bin because they can't, or won't meet the expectations of his big pictures vision. Any coach, super or otherwise, has big problems here if they are viewed versus months while, implementing a differing direction.

The belief is silly. No able coach coaches solely out of a text book. All football is based upon theory. And experienced and inexperienced managers apply their systems of ideas (theory) to football. Theory will tell a coach that magnets on a board are not the best means of communication for all players. Experience and theory will also tell a coach how to use differing learning styles of visual, aural, reading, kinesthetics etc (VARK).

The poster made a points about overloading players with information, flight or flight, got that wrong, I guess ... Yes it was very difficult to understand, It is all over the place. There was a sweeping assumption that Liam Manning has learned everything from the text book, the manual like there is one book guiding all learning. The coaching badges Liam Manning gained are not achieved in that manner. Aspects of badges focus very much on have you got skills, your solutions and being able to demonstrate this - Its the individual displaying their knowledge and expertise not the answers from a text book. There are coaching modules covering psychology, communication and learning styles and neurology. I made posts about the lack of the Director of football wise old owl at BCFC ten years ago. Now think of clubs that BCFC could have been considered our peers, the successes and their development. BCFC undervalue this role.

I would not argue that Liam Manning instructs what he wants the goal keeper coach to focus on with the keepers, I would not argue that Liam Manning also conducts meetings with goal keepers, and units, and the team, and why focus has been placed on starting positions and interventions.

People in fight flight are generally not reading anything Dave. The parasympathetic nervous system post fight/flight might help you read a text book. Nope. Struggling with that one as well.

You post a lot. Could you highlight what Manning ball is? Your last paragraph barely makes any sense. The sympathetic nervous system does not make an individual revert to a text book.

What are you referring to?

I have seen this refereed to as 4-2-5.

Looking at my typo that's one way of getting at teams getting behind the ball.

Having a footballing goal keeper gives Ipswich a consistent overload at the back, and he can with ease take part in the patterns of play, he also can pop balls efficiently over the top into team mates. When you have that behind the lines providing balance it makes teams bolder. They can ping it about, and put their foot on it, and their CBs can drive to release. he lays off and someone else makes the pass instead, but it’s done quickly - Up back and through. It appears relentless. If they don't go up, second season may see teams letting them have it. 4-2-4-1 they have quite frequently five players behind the ball, let them have it.

Ipswich have more possession than opponents generally, but its not high. The teams approach differs through the thirds starkly. Their keeper is very good on the ball, they use a double pivot in a 4 - 2 -3 -1 and build up play in the first third that guarantees possession. This intent alters in the second and last third - They become aggressive looking to play up back and through quickly, quick combinations attempting to penetrate, and play a lot of bounce passes bringing opponents onto them and hitting spaces in behind.

Two players there who would vastly improve Bristol City tactical flexibility because of their key technical qualities in key positions. Think of good possession teams, and great ones, and their systems as ask yourself which ones don't have above average on the ball throughout that spine from GK - CB - CDM - CAM? It will be a short list. Thats where Liam Manning is. Working towards a model without yet his quarterbacks, the numerous players to dictate play and uphold the principles. BCFC's football is forming, its in an early developing stage.

BCFC don't have a clear possession based identity. Limitations are very much to the fore in the first third, and second. Its not clear who at this point will be the teams leaders and architects are who will uphold the teams possession system in the longer term. The team does not have high passing ability in key fundamental positions throughout the spine of the team. Average yes, high, good? Err one, two. Liam Manning won't establish a clear identity in 3/4 months.

Top coaches say a lot of things. You can have the best players and be underperforming for years. A former top team in the EPL assemble top top players together and do not win regardless. The best teams have structure. Liam Manning is creating it, forming and establishing. Building towards a model and identity. Its interesting to see how this progresses when he is inhibited by players limitations in key positions.

You could be describing the best teams in the Country.

Compression increases blood flow. This player is?

There are increases now in certain injuries. One is injuries to the achilles. Sports scientists put this down toboots providing less support around the achilles and the very high use of 4G pitches (they are harder). Seems logical enough. I really don't like many modern boots, and particularly gimmicky boots with sock fitting. Its anecdotal but I have lost count of the number of kids I see suffering with blisters, and at times severe blisters caused by the ill fitting sock. Puma Kings are still a popular boot, still particularly wide fitting. Still well protected, and still soft. If you return to football in some form do not wear Kings on 4G unless they are King astro trainers, the soft leather wears out remarkable quickly v the synthetic grass.

Yes there are obvious negatives. Benefits ? None. Players tend to have routines v superstitions. Very familiar routines to govern nerves and focus. Routines that look like ritual and superstitions but have a psychological value.

There is a condition called Haglunds where a bony spur forms where the achilles is attached. There is a benefit to altering the boot to a miniscule number of players. Cutting holes in socks is supposedly done to reduce pressure on the calf, which in turn reduces risk of cramp. There is no medical basis for it, players cutting holes in their socks get cramp as well!

If you interested in this type of thing, to improve goal focus in sport we remove unnecessary thoughts from our brain (pre frontal cortex governs attention, focus etc) to improve function. The PFC is minuscule, and can be thought of as a like a bucket in its mechanics, and putting things into the the bucket leads to overflow, and being distracted from that primary focus - Performance on a football pitch. So, yes we can surely create minor distractions.

None of the points will improve goal focus. The focus of winning a football match.

Man City could easily get an upgrade to Edersons modest shot stopping ability. His passing ability? No. Not only does Ederson skills base fit Man City's key possession principle he advances the sub principles as to how they will play e.g. width and extreme depth and playing positionally. Man City made a compromise to advance their football by putting a exceptional talent with the ball at his feet in one of the fundamental positions for a team playing possession and positional football.

The passing to the what are wide positions is due to the intent of the team, they are part of the build up patterns as an out ball. The low success % playing to flanks (30 -35M) is still more advantageous than playing longer centrally (+40m) where the % success for O'leary is notably very low and the risk from lost possession increases. In possession the team is opening out, numerical superiority is conceded centrally and if the ball is then played centrally the team is in a very poor position to defend against a counter attack. In regards to accuracy its a competency you would expect a keeper in a possession based team to have. O'leary's passing range (length x variety of pass) and its accuracy is on the low side, and very low v Keepers playing in teams playing out through the thirds.

There would be no change to the laws of the game. Even Bishop Sutton languishing at the bottom (no wins) of the tool station have time to coach players to time waste etc. The recently departed foreign sounding coach had some long player meetings, and sessions. Their players do not get £30 a game.