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Two thirds of a keepers game is generally played with the feet. Liam Mannings play may increase that to far past two thirds. Whats your keeper like at the overwhelming majority of their game? Reasonable. Teams playing variants of possession based football don't go with keepers that are reasonable, average etc .. Distribution has to be good, very good, and better. Technical feeds the tactical, and lesser technique creates tactical inflexibility.

Players generally can only throw the ball accurately 18- 25 metres. Exceptional and accurate is 25 - 30 metres. Past that their called Rory. Defending teams drop and will have numerical superiority and are +1/2 to cover, and should be. Forward throws are contested. The variables favours the defending team heavily by going forwards with throws.

Ederson is not one of the best shot stoppers, he is magnificent with the ball at his feet. A decision was made there of what was needed to progress Man City's football. Keystone behaviour (!!!) is that a team that prizes possession to play positionally can compromise shot stopping ability, but the principle of possession for their keeper and the ability to distribute the ball, and that cannot be compromised. Similar can be adopted at lower levels.

Throw ins are a free pass. There are about 22 per team in a game in the championship. Multiply that by amount of games played that's hundreds of opportunities. Taking risks and losing the ball generally diminishes opportunity. Thrown ins that go lateral or backwards increase opportunity because statistically possession increases massively, and it is massively. A thrown in backwards to team mate is in pro football successful 99% of the time, and the team can build from this. Success drops to below 50% going forward, and that's first contact, second contact frequently also goes to the opponent.

Because if Mr Manning wants to progress football that builds from the back the team will be tactically limited (it is) by the footballing ability of the keeper.

People forget Russell Osmans football frequently because so many ceased to attend. City's gates dropped to 7000 with Russell Osman in in charge. The away support collapsed to fourth division levels. At Portsmouth for a Saturday 3PM kick off the away support was in the low hundreds, half of who walked out in protest at half time with the score 0-0. The reason? The stupefyingly boring football.

There are formations and expectations across stages of play - Game is five elements and each element has its response and differing formations. In possession as the ball is progressed through the thirds, the team can fall into differing shapes which are relational to where the ball is e.g third, or zone. Players move in patterns in accordance to where the ball is across zones, and the teams formation alters as players drop one, move across one which means the formation is effectively altering. Out of possession, the process reverses, behaviour (!?) sees the team shutting down, getting compact, like a flower shutting, and when the ball is regained the flower transitionally opens. There is no traditional one formation. Its fluid, but fluid in relation to who has the ball, and where it is.

There is no football gene. Mother nature didn't give us a football gene to help defend us against beasts that would eat us, nature gave us the primitive and intelligent brain, and our fight and flight response. Children do not come out of the womb with the ability to scan the pitch, and trap a football, then make a calculation in a millisecond as to how and what will occur next with a ball. Those skills are learned. 100% created by repetition and experience. Related to football your post is about the non physical. Mindset. Growth mindset. Challenge state. That is a differing thing. These mindsets help individuals to take the physical and develop skills to for some exceptional levels. Football vision is developed, it has to be. Our mindset feeds ability to learn. And here yes we display different propensity and aptitude. In regards to your last sentence. Your right because players skill levels differ. Competency through levels massively differs, and so will the players limits. A highly skilled player will operate in a flow state, tasks are dealt with subconsciously and efficiently, stick average in the same drills as the elite for months they won't become elite, they play in a different level, conscious competence, not elite frequently unconscious competence. The players thought process and vision will reflect their ability, we don't see instantly solutions in football in football time we can't perform.

How would you have it? Footballers brains react differently to the general populaces to football. Not a remarkable statement, but what occurs is that footballers use differing parts of the brain in reaction to football. Highly skilled players brains react differently to footballing stimuli, and thus display different vision and thinking x performance v lesser skilled players. Players at the very top can use executive function - Parts of the brain switch off dedicating more space, and more function to faster football thinking and vision. Elite players, display elite levels of ability to process information. None of that is a just have, its learned, and to a very high degree taught.

The game is five elements of defence, attack, transitions, and set plays .. Nine sessions is very little. Patterns of play are not internalised by one or two sessions. Players will need months of focussed integrated training to reach competency. Coaching frequently is inflexible. Coaches should not be jumping across multiple elements as this decreases learning and efficiency.

Any team can be coached to be possession based. Possession football is prioritizing ball control in differing manners. Children's teams can be taught to prioritize possession and build play in patterns. A team building play through the first two thirds and looking to penetrate quickly in the final third and frequently losing possession is still possession based. Possession is the means to provide Mehmeti opportunity and if he turns possession over quickly the team is still possession based, possession based teams can alter principles/priorities across differing zones and thirds of the pitch.

This individual may be on the DBS barring list now, not the Polices. Due to person being suspended from what is a regulated activity and the reasoning, and that the FA are the supervisory authority, the FA have a duty to report the individual and the safeguarding issue to the DBS.

Information beyond convictions can be included on enhanced DBS checks, enhanced checks include teachers, PE teachers etc.

Effectively he has been banned for life from working in football. The suspension means he loses his coaching badge status, he can't coach, he isn't a coach and he would have to in four years time - Find a club to support him to regain his qualifications. Apply to the FA. No club is going to support him as he is safeguarding threat, and the FA do not have to allow him any opportunity to regain qualification due to his safeguarding issues.

Missed this post. The distribution will be significantly differing to route one. If the keeper cant sweep, they cant play in the unit in and out of possession, and the team can't play. If your team is pushing up high, and as good a competent pro Fielding was he didn't not possess that dominant skill set to sweep outside the box, or join in resetting possession and being an outfield option. Confident and dominant are also psychological qualities in possession.

You may already know this, but its simply in order of the four corned model that starts in a non alphabetical order from T for Technical and tactical, and P for physical, psychological. The specific why is it in that order beyond its following the FA? No idea. Goal keepers are not signed all the time if they don't possess primary skills. If a keeper does not possess the listed technical distribution skills that club will not look at the player, let alone sign them. Its a must HAVE skill, not a skill set to create. Academy players frequently are signed on the basis of TIPS and TAPS. The acronyms are really the same for tactical, technical, athleticism, intelligence, physical, psychological, skill etc. If a keeper doesn't have the skills to play the ball with multiple surfaces, and possess a range of passes at a certain age many academies wont be interested in the player.

It is an interesting topic. Distribution is for a keeper in modern football a primary skill. Here is a basic outline of Key qualities of a keeper. This is for a club with an intent to be possession based, play a high pressing game with high defensive lines. Its from the FA and coaching at EUFA A level, and the qualities that club expect potential targets to exhibit. Take away distribution skills .. Any keeper without those keystone skills would not be signed. Tactical Interventions outside the box Understanding of team shape Technical Catching and punching crosses Distribution skills Shot stopping Physical Agility Reflexes Strong Psychological Communicates Concentration Confident Dominant Mentally tough - Recovers from mistakes

You answered a post about Onanas distribution and Man Utd's build up play.

Everything is relational to the ball. Defenders and keeper. The ball was going backwards. it was ten metres from the half way line, the defence should not drop into the box, and they were not that deep, the CB's are ten metres outside the box = They were not in a position to head the ball = O'learly steps up and he catches that ball, which travels far further than it is from the six yard box to the penalty spot . Onana clearly does make routine saves for Ajax, Inter Milan and Man Utd. The point was distribution is fundamental to a keepers game. It is primary at some clubs.

Keeper primary roles are based upon hands and feet. Coaching courses teach us two thirds of a keepers game is played with the feet. For a team attempting to play like Man Utd that 66% is increased. The signing of Onana was primarily to improve Man U ability to play out, for Onana to join in and for a CB to join in to midfield forming a trendy box midfield and Man U to play in 3-5-2, 3-4-3, 2-3-5 shapes etc in possession with the GK having a role in building possession. These tactics have proved problematic for two Keepers of International class. A reasonable observer could think the keeper playing as a auxiliary CB, and bounce passes being made wide into central midfield (Brighton like with differing verticality) are too complex for Man U's players and their keeper.

Mr Manning likes principles. Applying defensive principles like D for denying space, and D for dictate O'leary was not stood still, he was stood in entirely the wrong place in relation to where the ball was. When the ball, is that far from goal if he starts from the penalty spot he denies space to the opposition behind the CB's, and dictates what occurs in HIS box. To concede a goal to a long pass travelling 35 metres plus landing on the penalty spot for an opponent to control it with their feet, without intervention of a CB's head, or the keepers gloves is kids and and Sunday league stuff.

I will have a pop at that one, Onana is not a clown, and neither was De Gea. Onana's abilty with his feet is high, very high, Onana is struggling with Man U's build up play and so did De Gea. It could be that its Man U's tactics, the complex build up play that is fundamentally problematic for Man Utd.

Caught a long ball played from fifty metres away from goal and was met by a West Ham player twelve metres from goal. If Max O'leary's starting position was not extremely deep (in the six yard box) he catches, or punches that ball.

It can be dependant on what your consideration of perfectly good is. For a team playing out through the thirds, playing a form of possession football, and using varying formations in possession O'Leary's passing accuracy is low. Its not Frankie Fielding low, but it is low, and this could inhibit the teams efficiency and tactical flexibility.