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And here they could be benefits beyond being terse. This is the team Mr Pearosn manages and coaches. He has have been in the job for a significant periods. That team is a reflection of his Management and ideas. Self reflection and explaining how improvement will be made, how his principles and standards will drive this improvement is Management. Its quite a normal form of Management where the Manager shares what his team will be good at. Mr Pearson arrived with a reputation of being a organiser. Expectation would his team could defend corners .. Well recently its been shit. It appears difficult for fans to highlight what BCFC are consistently good at, or how they are going to improve. Want fan buy in, support, improve yourself and that team Mr Pearson.

The interviewer could have responded with its not a totally different system/complete change because literally it is not. The alterations are significant but not total or a complete change in system. You pulled a player out of here to create more obvious numerical superiority here, but why is that? Information sharing with fans, getting fans to buy into and support playing approach (team identity?) is a good thing. Zonal marking - Defending masters Arsenal under Graham marked zonally at set pieces. A point there for Mr Pearson as Arsenal fans knew what their team was about.

Thats a challenge I wont answer. Its a hybrid of differing things and not a general 4-4 etc. The different system is five instead of three players centrally occupying the space the team have been conceding (x3) recently from.

Your question was regarding successful clubs. The majority of clubs, and indeed sportsmen are unsuccessful because in sport they have to be. The winners are the minority. In football the game obviously has three results. Psychology applies to losing teams. Sean Dyche employs psychologists at Burnley, a team whose success can be measured by their existence in the Premier league, and a team who in reality cannot win regularly. Burnley's mental challenges will not be the same as Man City’s and defeat will have to be kept in perspective and managed.

Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City .. And in the Championship the leaders Fulham.

The underlined player is there to effect the delivery of the ball. Inswingers. Citys zonal defenders are taking positions parralel to the above player. To defend an area where the ball is not be delivered to as the underlined effects the delivery. Its weird defending principle. Positioning themselves zonally higher effects where the team is conceding goals. The players can still drop a metre for inswinging crosses. It can be four and four, four and five (no short), four and six a hybrid of zonal blocking and man marking. Or the "four" can continue being all over the show and allowing the opponents to boss their house, their box like ... They should be insulted by being second. It is a mess. Bouncing balls in the box is kids football. The Manager, coaches and players might want to reflect on how poor that is.

Sorry they are too deep. Literally they are. Here is another goal conceded. Couple of weeks ago. The zonal defending, I hesitate to call it that is not defending the zone around the edge of the six yard box. One metre, two metres up higher and these chances will not be conceded.

Citys players are deeper than that. First goal. Second goal. If the players were zonal starting at the edge of the six yard box Barnsley do not score either, or the ball certainly will not be allowed to bounce as it did x1. A bouncing ball in the box from a corner is a sin, balls dont bounce x1 like that in u15 games. Manager, coaches , players hang your heads. Pathetic for pros, beyond poor.

There are differing measurements for that. That is explosive energy. These players are not necessarily fast over twenty metres as they will not be able to reach actualisation (sprinting). Actualisation is reached at around sixty metres and players cant dribble with a football and sprint. Fastest with the ball have been Bale and Bellerin over fifty metres. Bales dribbling could take seven big strides between touches of the ball with minimal impact on his stride length. Flint isnt fast in all directions. He is slow as a sprinter. His foot patterns backwards and sideways are faster than peers. Players in differing positions practice the differing foot patterns.

Your rugby parrallel is irrelevant. Procedures in the stand at football matches apply to football matches. With respect the poster didn't pile over any seats. The poster is providing a view. He purchases his season ticket as do others for a stand that is home fans only. What occurred should be expected if BCFC allow away fans to purchase tickets with home supporters, provide inadequate stewarding and allow fights to occur.

That is a health and safety issue. Health and safety issue. The club should have risk assessments that make violence less likely (nothing can be 100%), not measures that allow it to happen. Minutes. In a modern a stadium there are legal guidelines in place that identify how many stewards are necessary per block v spectators. It cannot take minutes for a steward to arrive at an incident. That is a safety failing and a lack of provision of stewarding. If this is what occurring BCFC are being negligient.

Football rules include the subjective. Error and disagreement has to be a consequence. Refs will not all agree with your verdict on the Man City handball. Clear and obvious would be below the elbow, and it wasn't. Above the elbow has elements of the subjective.

Kids football has lost a third of its referees in less than ten years. Ten years ago there were thirty thousand plus refs now its twenty two/three thousand and dropping. There was detail collated across national FA's on the abuse of refs. Top was England. Nowhere in Europe are grass roots refs more likely to be abused, intimidated and worse than England. The % v the Netherlands was 40% higher. Its worse than that at local grass rooots level. I cant go into specfics but things go beyond intimidating. Local here is everywhere, every regional FA sees widespread poor behaviour at grass roots level. I have reported a U12 Manager who was in his forties for abusing a fourteen year old ref. Challenge can be difficult. There are parents at some clubs drinking on the pitchside at kids games. Pissing it up while kids games are on! I know one coach who challenged a parent and the police had to be called to protect the coach. The game was U10. The respect campaign has to include all. It has codes of conduct but they do not apply to all levels. No codes for the pro game. The disrespect shown to refs at the zenith of the game contributes to the behaviour at every level. Players and Managers and players need to look at their own behaviour, but the game and authority should be reflecting their behaviour and its impact back at them. Pundits should be reminded that their words actually can have impact elsewhere, kids mimic the behaviour of stars and look at pundits as authority .. The pundits who very very frequently preach on TV about the rules of the game they do always understand, and pundits who condone cheating.

In our own Avon Youth League the regional FA has been withdrawing referees from kids games at U12 level. Entire leagues have been told they will have no refs on weekends because of the abuse and threats refs including children are receiving. Refeering in this Country is in crisis nationally. There is a link to the constant criticism refs receive in the media to what occurs at grass roots level. The FA should be telling the whiny Lampards, coaches, players, the pundits that you are adding to a refereeing crisis and your behaviour is contributing to the abuse of children refereeing games.

20 -21. What's new in 2020/21: Handball Laws (premierleague.com)

I used conclusively. If its not conclusive = No offence. What could be improvement is that if its deemed the ball hits any part of the red area = Its a penalty. This was not deemed handball either.

Handball x EPL x VAR. Using Var there is an assessment of does the ball hit a red area = offence or green = non offence. According to guidance a players arm does not start at his shoulder. The red area starts above the elbow and so does the green. The pictures on this thread show a ball striking the green/red area = Its not conclusively a penalty = No clear and obvious error = Its not a penalty.

The full back occupies a zone none of his team mates are in. They look like they intend to get compact but the defensive shape starts lopsided. After the first pass its still lopsided and Coventry have an extra player in a third of the pitch. After two passes its not apparent what the defensive lines (four and?) are and whether they are attempting to deny space, delay passes or dictate where the next pass goes via screening as a unit defending two zonal lanes. The underlined is a major ask if the teams shape doesnt slow the oppositions possession down.

If the defenders step up a metre to defend their zones the blocking player on Bentley moves. He can take that position due to the depth of City. Whatever Citys zonal markers were not first in their zones. Set up like the above and it should be a the opposition cannot score from where they do. From behind the goal it looks worse. Zonal defenders got bossed in their zones by a player who totally lost his marker. Poor x 2.

In answer to your question Jordan didn't talk about an alternative strategy for BCFC. He spoke about the flaws in the BCFC model. Mr Jordan made reference to Bristol City constantly spending well past turn over on wages. City have done this for years. And buying low to sell high. Spending past turn over + a non guaranteed cash flow is a flawed sustainable model. That strategy was likely to fall off a cliff (SJ words), its on the edge.

Turn over that Bristol City constantly spend past on wages prior to covid.

Mr Jordan stated you cannot underpin a business on things that may not happen e.g. buy low sell high. It is not a guaranteed cash flow.

Having three v four players means there are more variables to cover and players need broader qualities to cover tasks. The team is conceding a few (??) and that could mean the team is finding the shape complex. A sympton of players being overburdened by complexity is poor decision making and disorganisation - Bristol City may be displaying those behaviours.

The players are following a pattern. There are very simple principles across the pitch. The team avoids having more than three players in a line across vertical and horizontal lines. The base formation to support their possession is 4-3-3. It creates more triangles and diamonds across the pitch to support the possession football.

What was your question?