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Its a bit different. Daly doesnt play as a centre forward, she plays as a false nine. She also plays wing back. If you look at the goal England lost the ball playing out. They are not effecient playing through the first third. Players dont drop in to create options and numerical superiority. Bronze is very good on the ball but was struggling all night as what was in front of her was playing in concrete sox. Northern Ireland had some success stopping England, and another level Spain had a lot of success playing with an overload in the centre out of possession v players that were static. Spains goal came from Mead failing to come short and Spain knicking the ball. That was coming all night, its not great defending but it was a collective error, Daly was left isoloated 1v1 after England lost the ball and players didnt get back in shape. Bronze was isolated on numerous occassions by team mates not getting goal side. or tucking in.. Mead and Hemp turned over alot of possession all night, far too much. They were not that keen on defending the possession they lost. Bright was superb, and needed to be. You dont play that badly and win twice. I doubt they will be that poor again.

The fixtures for the AYL start 4/9/22. The AYL would be able to implement rules changes and refereeing rule changes via the Somerset and Gloucs FA's would be done in that time? The AYL league AGM was two{?) weeks ago. A shift would be needed to put this in place!! U12 level is a development level obviously but its no longer the foundation stage. Expectation being in a competitive league with scores and results and tables has altered. Is that rinse and repeat and defeat fun? What actually is fun? For some its playing with mates, for some its learning new skills and some its winning. None of those answers are wrong. Fun is intrinsic and extrinsic. Playing football and good attractive football is subjective. Looking at local leagues the top divisions are frequently sides who dont play through the third etc. That playing footbal and good attractive football is not their fun winning football. We see risk averse football. We see practical football. We also sees coaches understanding what they have as they dont play out because they have players without the aptitude, and skill to do so. There are degrees of utopianism in this good football ideal. We would still be trying to put an emphasis on playing good attractive football, but that can't come overnight with such varying degrees of ability and potential .. How about from U7 this become a reality in a long term. Say this team will finally start playing out efficiently by U14 onwards - That development vision needs to be shared at the outset, and the risks and reward isnt for all. The FA want us to remember who we are coaching, why and what we want to achieve. This cant be the same for every team and Coach. In the US there are indirect free kicks for heading in leagues with no heading rules. I dont know anything past that. The cynic in me instantly looks at how advantage can be created, % long football could become more efficient. Will be interesting to revisit this once all information is released .. I would like to watch some games of it.

Its a trial and as far as I know this doesnt include local leagues here. Leagues are being invited to take part by the FA, and the Avon youth league AGM has just passed and it was not proposed then. Its an interesting proposition. The devil is in the detail. Non heading non aerial football is utopian. Kids nature is to smash it, whether by desire or stress. At u12 kids have gone into competitive leagues, and focus is there overtly on winning, and an obvious theme of risk averse forward and up first play.

The U12 nine a side pitch is up to 80 metres long. At U12 they are using the AYL as an example frequently teams going back to front. Twelve year old players (some) can have a lot of range with a size four ball at that age. I certainly have had kids at that age scoring from headers, kids scoring from thirty and forty metres, and seen keepers go box to box.

Yes. Alex Scott was housed by City with a family.

There is a study conducted by John Doyle on age relative age effect (RAE). Taking 1000 pro players as a sample there should be a 25% spread across birth dates v the four quarters of the year. The first half is always highest represented, the last quarter the lowest. Take the worlds 100 most valuable players and the same RAE theme is evident. Working backwards the RAE themes are present at pro U18, EUFA AND FIFA U tournaments. The theme of age related effect is there from grass roots level to the pro game,

This is for the business of VAR. Those sat in the VAR gallery get a juicy carear out of this. The impact on the game. We have and have increasingly two tiered rules. The trend here is to remove decision making from the ref and assistant refs. Assistant reffing at the top is in decline. The assistant ref does less and less. The assistants get to check the nets, flag for a throw in, flag for goal kicks, corners but cant be trusted with much else. Science is taking over the big stuff. Reffing in general is in decline and technology is removing opportunity to progress upwards. You wont be needed that much fellas and that will have an impact at every level.

Because the game is physical and mental. A player cannot physically maintain physical fitness for an entire season, or an extended season. Fitness morphs over months. Fitness over a season diminishes frequently. Pre-season training involves threshold training. Players will be exerted over normal physical norms to gain a physical peak at the start of the season. This training to attain that physical peak cannot be endured physically season long, the body will fail, and players bodies over a season have to fatigue. With respect the game of football cannot be compared to normal employment. I work in an industry that is extremely stressful, but the stresses cant be compared to football. I don’t go into work expected to be in a aggressive intense challenge state. My work doesn’t fill my body full of performance and stress inducing hormones. I do not experience extreme highs of emotion in my work. I also do not have employment that strips me of my autonomy in the same manner as foootball does to individuals. To play football you effectively surrender aspects of your personality to a coaches/Managers direction, to a game. I loved football and train train game at Tiverton train train game at Taunton ****** my head months into a season. .

No is not silly to call Southgates formations a back seven. Their starting position are deep. Its not width depth and dispersal. And his two or one hm/cdms are deep with focus on reserve principles etc. Phillips holding is no player maker. He is no pivot. He does not make key passes =Problem =Expectation. Screaming out for no different players? No idea. I would expect attempts to improve upon high possession low chance creation. In the 3CB's, 2WB's, 2DCM's there is an obvious problem it was obvious in the Euros and it become more obvious now. England cant play out efficiently. High possession low chance creation has already failed. Performance indicators were there, and this form was in the post. The different players have not altered MrSouthages shapes, or intent, its still focussed on building play out in the same manners. Hungary dropped off and lapped it up twice. Its a coaching flaw not one of the players making. Same same= Again.

Working on passing patterns to get the ball out of his back seven. Hopefully he wont continue thinking Phillips in front of the multiple CB's is a player maker. Possession is well and good but by the time the ball enters the final third, if it does at all it has moss on it.

Thats not a simple answer. With Mr Southgate in plate spinning mode, changing systems and at one point playing two eights was a time to see how Grealish performed with Foden. Englands key performace indicators of high possession but low chance creation need to be changed. Englands results were not going to continue in the same form, and have not. Possession of 60 -70% without chance creation becomes possession for possession sake.

The former has increased ball rolling time. Regarding restarts (goal kicks) the latter. DELAYING THE RESTART OF PLAY Referees must caution players who delay the restart of play by: appearing to take a throw-in but suddenly leaving it to a team-mate to take delaying leaving the field of play when being substituted excessively delaying a restart kicking or carrying the ball away, or provoking a confrontation by deliberately touching the ball after the referee has stopped play taking a free kick from the wrong position to force a retake

Your referring to what is termed anchoring. Your experiences anchor your affinity and support emotionally. Lessen the experiences and your affinity and sense of belonging to BCFC diminishes. This is not exact because the same does occur to fans who attend for a variety of reasons. An example can be what has happened to atmosphere, standing and fan behaviours. As these behaviours have been controlled, managed the less visceral football experience effects fans, and some fans don’t come back.

Mr Southgate doesn't rate him tactically. There is no guessing. Mr Southgate has stated openly what the doubt is. Tactically the player in Grealish has to improve. Last night Grealish broke lines, had more touches in the opposition box than any team mate and had a very high level of ball retention. This has been a feature of his performances. Saka meanwhile does a lot less of the above but does run backwards a lot and get in shape. If I were Grealish I would question if the coach wants the Jack Grealish at all. In a team of 3 CBs, 2 FB's/WB's, 2 CDM's there is scope to have Grealish playing tactically as a freer eight, or free ten as his skills dictate. The point there is England are low on chance creation v possession. Tactically that costs the team in its biggest moments. Scoring one goal and attempting to concede nil has failed the team.

You are underestimating identity. Its relevant to many. Having white arms is not a bit more. Its a change that has not occurred for decades. I doubt the football world would be in shock about anything little Bristol City. I do think they would think a red shirt with white arms belongs in North London, and some would wonder why BCFC now look weirdly like Arsenal.

So you would put BCFC in blue quarters? If you answer no you are placing a value on identity.

Bristol City have an identity. If individuals were asked, say fans of other clubs what characterizes BCFC in regards to it kit its red shirt, white shorts .. The identity there changes when the shirt is red shirt white arms. Joe public any football fan will feel that identity is associated to other clubs, and in particular the big proper one in North London. You stated each to their own. Identity is very important to many fans, we identify as football fans, the club kit, traditions and culture are part of identity. This Arsenal identity identifies the small-time nature of BCFC. The club kit, traditions and culture are of no interest to the likes of those behind that design. The kit is for marketing gimmicks, make sure its red and that is it.

Not being able to sign players and not being able to implement his own football would be more than a few challenges.

In 2016 Lee Johnson said he wanted his teams to press as part of the clubs identity, HE had signed Lee Tomlin to press. Its illustrates my point. Perfectly.

Maybe he can explain in his book how HE signed Lee Tomlin wanting to buld a side around him, then months later how he wanted the team to press high up the pitch ..

Integrity.

Then its NOT a model of play .. He should have resigned.

Klopps players are brought into to fit a model of play. This vision, that identity was created by Jurgen Klopp. Lee Johnsons identity ... He didn't have one.

Referees are promoted and demoted, or not retained on the basis of their decisions. This starts at level eight and goes through thirteen levels (there are 2a/2b etc). No referee gets away with terrible refereeing time after time at any level. If you are poor you do not get retained, above level three you get demoted.

Do large groupings of males from obvious socio-economic groupings go to the theatre? Human behaviour develops differently across society. Behaviour is affected by setting, its environment and peer group and emotions, and these incidents wouldn't be witnessed at the theatre, as the dynamics are different. In regards to your first line behaviours we see at football can also be parallel to gigs, demos, festivals. There is a phrase demo fever, it is a heightened state of mental arousal, people at demos display behaviours they do not demonstrate elsewhere because of the intensity of the event and the actions of the participants .. A similarity to some peoples more extreme behaviour at football.