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Many in BS3 objected to the superstore. Mr Lansdown did not need to sell Ashton Gate to Sainsburys for twenty million pounds. Mr Lansdown has spent tens of millions of pounds more redeveloping Ashton Gate. It was a spurious claim - A few bad signings and wages over seasons and City make plenty of those.

You are making points about coaching using links to coaches and mentioning standards - These will with respect apply to coaching. The lack of resources would affect standards of coaching and opportunity. Its hard to see how doing something that would be highly impractical would equal improvement. I do not understand your point. I posted something like females playing on the same sized pitches makes logical sense. It makes sense because there are not the resources to do otherwise. Yes. And corners overlap. All corners overlap with the psychological. Age related phases are based on understanding humans have. The coaching at the foundation stage should be technical and fun because kids brains are not developed enough to understand the tactical or complex. I have not said anything different. Coaching methodology will mean and should that training takes in many forms - Small sided games in tight spaces/ coaching in units etc are forms of the constant.

The article states the average height of women in the UK is 5.3. That is not the average height of UK female goal keepers. The England Keeper Bardsley is 6.0 tall. In your last sentence you make a point about enjoyment and watching. That is not a coaching point. Implementing goal and pitch sizes would necessitate a huge overhaul of facilities. A impractical massive overhaul as experience and evidence shows within the age related phases in the male game those changes will not occur. At the U14 level kids play on adult pitches with adult goals because there were/are not the resources to support different. Age related phases are just that, the coaching and educational phases apply to both males and females, they are not phases solely based upon the physical but very much the psychological. Males and females playing on the same sized pitches, using the same sized goals, using the same coaching methods makes logical sense. The female game to improve it further needs more equivalence to the male game not less.

At U12 as was the intent of Mr Johnson. If the club has a long term identity forming the technical (skills) base through play rather than intensive coaching can start at early ages. In regards to playing multiple styles that can lead to less rounded footballers. It leads to episodic coaching v periodized coaching and deeper learning. Models that increase the technical base and regularly stress players create more rounded players. A technical ball player has more opportunities to problem solve, the technical feeds the tactical, that well rounded. 4-3-3 is a multitude of styles pivot, double pivot and is used world wide due to its flexibility = It creates more rounded players. Its move one over, drop one to increase learning not throw it up in the air .. Humans learn more slowly without repetition. What Mr Johnson was doing does not mirror excellence in the UK or Europe. For a supposedly modern thinker and modern coach his methodology was utterly bewildering. His trips abroad studying ignored the models he visited. A club set up in the manner Mr Johnson was painting initially replaces head coach to head coach. The coach is selected to fit the identity - its principles and values remain intact.

For months. Its an example how ill planned Mr Johnson football was. The transfer window saw him recruit players alongside others within his squad who could not progress that football. Not only did he not progress the high tempo game, he in months put it onto reverse. Bristol City went from a high possession, short passing, high tempo team to a low scoring , low possession side that played counter attacking football at home. His biggest failing is frequently over looked. In 2016 he stated that his intent was to create a footballing identity that ran through the club. Mr Johnson frequently mentioned, this identity, the painstaking recruitment process that ensured the dna of the players fitted the project. Within a season of his tenure it was clear that he was talking bollocks. Despite years at the club and record resources he never put in place this identity. The team had no identity. The pathway from academy to XI was faltering. The developmental philosophy was unclear to non existent i.e. the academy and U teams were playing different formations and systems to the XI ,and it would have been impossible for them to develop players for an XI that went from long ball to short ball to high press to medium block to low block x seven formations over astonishingly short timescales. This was not storming and norming it was a man out of his depth. To not put in the keystone behaviours of this fabled playing identity over a period of four years is a dismal achievement. He there damaged the potential of the FC. Nice bloke, don't think he is a bad man but for a supposedly modern coach and the FC the above is a disgrace.

Keep a diary. Keep a short record why the energy was great and when it was not and what each experience felt like. When you feel negative refer to when the energy was great. Visualize how great felt. Create a short script. Why do I run. What do I want to achieve. What is my target. Again if you feel negative refer to the script. It is more than possible to alter your mindset of threat (I wont enjoy this) to challenge (I am going to succeed/improve/enjoy this). The above is basic psychology. Its not mumbo jumbo. Your mind has more negative thoughts than positive ones. It is self preservation mechanism. These thoughts are called ants - automatic negative thoughts. We all have them but you really can choose to alter them, not let them take over.

Harry. Start with a 350 ml running bottle for longer runs. And then experiment with a bottle 100ml bigger. You may be able run efficiently with a bottle larger again. Many can't if they run pocket to socket for instance as it will affect momentum.

I used to run the towpath series. It was the standard of a good club runner. I was sometimes five minutes behind the County runners.

But that is again the club deciding the players worth. We view that as a nonsense, or maybe we don't because its a industry standard, it is not unusual. Football clubs and in this case the owner Steve Lansdown chooses to run his club in that manner. It should be a nonsense but it isn't. Fans widely expect the club to lose money and spend beyond its means because the overwhelming majority of clubs do.

Its relative to the industry. It is what the industry considers to be his worth. The players worth increases or decreases accordingly.

That is not a perhaps. Humans, or most of us are not wired to be constantly confined. After we meet physiological and safety needs it is essential, for humans, beyond the superhumans to have other needs met beyond the physiological, or it can mentally and physically damage us after relatively short terms. Sport can be a need, so can being creative etc. We all have differing connections with life. For some sport is part of oneself. It is a very significant part of peoples defining inter relations with the world and their motivational systems.

I work in a front line service. You are not being supportive. Scotland is considering fines for those not following guidelines. I was not joking about the fines ..

Yes you are. We need you to stay at home. You will be supported to stay at home. And you could be better supported than those who work in front line services. Auxiliary nurses, care assistants rarely earn more than £16000 a year. Frequently far less. Read the above again. You want more. Personally I would like to see a series of fines for the selfish and stupid bell ends in society who will put the staff of the NHS at risk. These bell end fines can then be used to pay the NHS staff bonuses once this is over as a small means of saying thank you for what is being done on behalf of society.

You are being supported. How much do you think front line care staff e.g. auxiliary nurses, care assistants, support workers are paid to possibly put their lives at risk.. Try less than you will get as a damp proofer to stay at home.

Somerset FA Council, Staff Please be advised that following the announcement by the Prime Minister at today’s press conference asking everyone to limit unnecessary social contact the Board of Directors have decided to suspend all football in Somerset with immediate effect. This will of course include SFA county cup competitions. At present this suspension is indefinite, we will advise you if and when there is a change to this situation. We do not make this decision lightly and are aware of the importance of sport and football in general to everyone, however it does not compare to the wider picture and everyone’s welfare, therefore this is we believe the correct course of action.

My age and injury means running longer distances can be problematic. So I started setting myself smaller goals. Try the Cooper test. Google it. I found the test/tests beneficial as I could set myself targets realistic to my age and physical condition (thirty years of football and running injuries), which gave me a peace of mind where I proved to myself I was still very fit with an age appropriate target to go further, which I achieved.

Best 10k was 34 minutes, half marathon 1.24 I no longer take part in races due to age meaning I was far off my best and I had little motivation to run as slowly as I was, and was becoming . Still run several times a week but just to maintain a level fitness.

May interest ..

That's a mammoth post. Defending. Defending narrow makes sense. It makes sense with the players the team has and the way the team plays (at times). When full backs push up and it is lost, get compact, delay and look for depth its logical. You are posting about having a more combative midfield = A lot of change. Playing out - You want, or appear to want creative mobile midfield players. Its not necessary for Pack to be highly mobile at all to receive, retain, release and repeat as I put it in another post to keep possession but also be able to make penetrative passes, he can and does this. To play out a team will take risks. It requires being bold and brave. Risk and reward it will go wrong and at times the ball will get lamped. Inches … Yes improvement can be inches because Bristol City cannot buy the best in each specific role. City have to improve by inches. Hunt? Ball playing improvement? Maybe. Webster? Yes. Keeper? Yes, not hard. That is possibly marginal gain. Pragmatic and practical v budget. I would agree with stick or bust. Play out and be bold and brave, recruit and develop towards that approach.

If you want a player to drop in and receive, retain, release and repeat, when the CB's split and full backs push up the receiving central midfield player has to be assured and composed on the a ball that player in City's squad is Pack.

A point I have made about errors is due to the sides lack of cohesion without the ball. A flaw of team selection and its changes x time in preparation. Regarding touches, it is the Manager who should be setting the tempo of the side = Quick, simple, fast. It is the Managers selections/tactics which sees sides with several defensive minded midfield players killing each other's space. Indirectly Lee Tomlins frustration (your point) is also part of the same killing of space ... When he drops he closes down the teams options to move it quickly. City become congested, you do not need two and three players to do what one quick switch will. That is a muddle of the Managers making. In answer to your quesstion. A team with this much talent, this much money spent on it, with a rising star worth tens of millions should be capable of more than three points out of?? And if Mr Johnson and his coaches sent them out better prepared, minus the constant tinkering I sincerely believe the wheels would not have fallen off this season as spectacularly as they have.

Again you are over critical of Joe Bryan. Look through the last months goals. Joe Bryan has frequently made positive contributions. Unfortunately for Joe Bryan he is constantly shifted from opposition to position. Mr Johnson appears to think he is Phillip Lahm. The lethargy of City's play is due to the balance of team selection. Mr Johnson's team selection. The wide players are not as at fault ad you. The ball arrives too slowly through the thirds, too many touches, too many players killing each others space by dropping. Bryan is clearly playing (peculiarly wide) to instruction to create width and space.

Thank you for the replies. It was a simple question Spudski. How do Bristol City defend? Your answer was in numerous ways. The answer should be; As a well organised team. In answer to your later " you know what they are meant to be doing" ... At times I cannot see it because it changes so frequently, and the consequences of constant changes are disorganisation. Here I disagree with your consistent criticism of Joe Bryan. If the team was not subjected to the numerous changes in direction players would be more at ease in roles. The tinkering tactics are ruining players who do have talent. Bristol City under Lee Johnson are failing to prepare correctly. The constant changing in tactics and personnel = preparing to fail. Teams like Brighton and Reading have clear methodologies City look like they are a team of " ok boys this week I think!" And if it is a case of players simply not doing what they are told ... Mr Johnson was involved in buying them. He has been backed financially. His skills in Managing the players, motivating the players to follow instruction are wanting. Defending is not difficult. Eight/nine/ten men behind ball, one presses ball let's call him the first defender, if it's cleared, second jobs - trigger, in that zone let them have it, screen ... You know what I am getting at. That gets ever harder when the game is turned into alchemy (numerous ways of playing and starting XI' s). People state Lee Johnson over complicates football ... I agree.

If City are playing that deep the full backs should be tucking in and leaving the midfield to press the ball. The opposition then have two lines of four to play through. And City have four (at least) players to defend the cross into the box. The reality has been no pressure is being put onto the ball. Second balls go straight to the opposition as City sit in their box. Pressure onto more pressure is invited onto the defence. City are wallowing the opposition to have it in some half arsed attempt at screening and attempting to nick the ball back. What is evident is City are not attempting to press with energy above the half way line and push up. The opposite was true v Reading. Let them have it, get goalside, screen, nick ... There is a word there energy. Some players trundle back, it's languid, there is a lack of leadership stating we stay here, press here, hold there, Flint does it, the rest ... They do not know thoroughly what they are doing = Lee Johnson's tactics.

What your are describing is a team in a malaise. There is no clear defensive strategy present as a team. If somebody asked me how do BCFC defend I could not describe clearly what is being attempted. Have a go Spudski ... How are BCFC setting out to defend? ..