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This performance should be no surprise it was Australia again. Nigeria played tactically like Australia did who England are familiar with. Get high, overload the pivot/pivots and cut the pitch in halves, screen and press and England struggle to play through the second third. Today the retention of the football in the second third was far below what should be expectation. Walsh and Stanway are above 70%. Russo, James, Daly gave the ball away far more than they kept it. Lucy Bronze was World player of the year and she has team mates who do not pass consistently to her. The patterns of England's possessional positional play do not exist when players are not releasing the ball. Positonal patterns can't exist when the third player is losing the ball 70% of the time. Switches do not occur to take advantage of dragging players out of position if James/Russo fail to release the ball. England have the tools to do better, but they need to be following the principles of their football. Today was a mixture players playing well to expectation and the carrying team mates whose performances fell well below what the teams approach requires. The team collectively wont play that badly again.

No surprise. She has been playing her own egotistical game not the positional game of her team mates. A lability in possession and a passenger out of possession. She should have been subbed as she was blowing out of her arse and knackered due to her ineffectual running. England can still win this. There is opportunity to play Hemp or Kelly in behind the opponents. Keep it, move and knock it in behind when necessary.

Bronze, Stanway and Walsh might as well sit down when Russo and James have the ball. They have a different page to play with and it doesn't involve passing to team mates.

Attempting to clear the ball by heading it is deliberate play. At this point Bronze is onside, and the incomplete clearance is irrelevant, the defender has deliberately attempted to head the ball clear.

They have been together as a team, and teams have life spans and cycles. This teams best football could be behind it now and the European win (getting it together) was their zenith. The team has been on downward trajectory since the game v USA. The team are attempting to play possession football, with width and depth and individuals are not following the model. A team cannot play possession football if several individuals in the team lose the ball 50% of the time they have it and players in the first third lack technical ability to progress and retain the ball. I fear England are going to progress towards a hammering.

Transitions are coach speak. The moments when moving to attack after gaining possession is a transition, and the moments when moving to defend after losing possession are a transition. The game is looked upon as having five elements. Attack, defend, set pieces, moving from defence to attack, and moving from attack to defence. Haiti were adept at transitioning (counter attacking) from defence quickly. That was Emma Haynes in the studio, I don’t know why but females coaches and commentators dwell on and mention transitions a lot. Emma Haynes and other female coaches sometimes mention the transitional transition, and only they know what they are!

Its deliberate, when Colwill moves it slowly and puts his studs on the ball he is inviting pressure but creating a trigger. Players drop in off the trigger into patterns and this moves the opposition to create space in advance of the ball to hit, or if the opposition don't react an overload to advance the ball.

There is an irony here. Society has a obsession with EDI. Humans are diverse, we have diverse challenges, we have diverse learning styles, we have diverse communication. Striving for equality and inclusion should mean progress is more person centred not less. The progress towards a one sized fits all digital society cannot be equal, diverse and inclusive.

Unlikely as she has not had a pro licence long enough to gain the additional diploma level.

You will be aware that the ability to learn decreases as we age. You might be aware that we all have differing learning styles (VARK). Technology is not natural, in the case of the internet it will omit peoples learning and communication styles. You have misunderstood the point about the internet. Your workplace in 2005 was not every bodies home, and care home. Because the internet was part of your life its not been part of all lives. I have been working in social care from well before 2005, and we were not working digitally then and in many service users homes we are still not because it excludes individuals due to a spectrum of reasons from understanding to eyesight. Who talks about todays pensioners like their Vera Lyn? Your post might be missing a willingness to display empathy for others. Might.

Hardly surprising when the method of survey was conducted by phone. Age UK would be a better source of information. They have policy papers on digital inclusion. OAP's won't have lived a third of their lives in the internet age, if you mean using the internet. Millions of OAPS don't use the internet for months, and significant numbers do not, and cannot.

Your one or two. Digital exclusion numbers for those over 65 are in the millions - Tackling digital exclusion in older people | Mental Health Foundation

You have used feedback from clubs. What is the feedback from individuals with disabilities, and organisations that support individuals with disabilities? BCFC introduced ticketless in 2015 (?) the feedback they received from a disabilities charity and support workers and individuals with disabilities was this was not easier. The individual I supported loved buying tickets, he loved the interaction in the shop with familiar staff and loved his routine of buying tickets. His easy was taken away, and he stopped attending. You again used your perception here - it's actually simplifying the whole process If a service is digitalised who could have difficulty accessing digitalised services? The elderly? The disabled? A one sized fits all digital service can be discriminatory. The disabled people I support cannot use them. Age and disability are protected characteristics (equalities law) and making services more difficult for the elderly and disabled to use is discrimination. We both know, or are familiar with Arny highlighted in the second post. He is right to be guarded about digital season tickets. BCFC are offering alternatives, and they should, going down a one sized fits all approach is not inclusive.

I used to support a disabled supporter who found that problematic. The replacement service was cold, unfamiliar and more time consuming due to this individuals disability. He stopped attending. A club that moves to a digital only system would be involving itself in a discriminatory practice. Your use of easy there is a perception. Easy for you is not everybodies easy.

"Open your mind". "Lets do some blue sky thinking". "BLUE sky". "Who play in blue?" "Europe's best play in blue". "Join hands, shut your eyes, lets visualise together, think best in Europe, look like the best in Europe, train like the best in Europe, Be City".

Driving is a brilliant parallel. Driving is a task humans do over and over again till it become subconscious. Its the parallel my coaching mentor used. Our eyes send information to the brain as they look at the road and its signs. The football pitch is a road with its own signs.

System one is the result of two at any level. Training is the creation of skill. Skill is performed on demand, and is frequently subconscious, its flow state, its unconscious competence. This is an aim of training I's where we attempt to Internalise training by Integrated Intense training. The training becomes internalised to a degree where the brain creates football memories, the more we train the more the memories become permanent and myelination occurs improving the memory and its neural pathways leading to our brain from its training to instantly respond to the football patterns it sees on the pitch, moving our body to relation distances to the ball, the play etc, and the performance of skill.

There is the expectation within a timescale (24mths?) players live in the vicinity of the academy. Southampton do provide assistance with relocation to live within that radius. They are also a club that provides private schooling, which continues if a player leaves their academy for a year.

John Stones is playing in midfield.

Bristol City were using trackers from stats sport.

Catapult was formerly playertek. I have used the standard GPS tracking products from what was playertek. I have a mixed opinion of their standard products, they were limited, and not always efficient. Bristol City won't be using just standard.

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He was at Bristol Inner City till 14. He has played up years and down. His progress from BIC to now is remarkable.

I will answer at a later date, but in the meantime.

A trip to Tilburg, makes more sense than going to Latvia etc. Dutch football is different to English football or was. Many teams in England use models of play that are Dutch like. Burnley played like a team from the Netherlands. English football has undoubtedly been influenced by the Netherlands. Our national youth development and academies are again undoubtedly influenced by the Netherlands. Bristol City FC have been formerly approached, and evidently its a non starter.