City to ditch 3-5-2 Saturday

[Hillzider]

And go for a more attacking 2-1-7 formation ....

 

 

[EstoniaTallinnRed]

Yes!  that looked great, but, knowing our luck,  we would hit the post and Reading would break and score.  0 - 1 DOWN.

[Curr Avon]

I prefer the Directory Enquiries formation; 1-1-8.

[Lack of Action Man]

We played 2-2-6 against Hartlepool in the play offs for about ten minutes if I recall rightly...

[Gert Mare]

We played 1-1-8 loads under GJ in the Championship last time around and we almost went up!!!!

[Aizoon]

Didn't the Gas play 3-2-2 a few years ago?

[cheshire_red]

They did and one of the 3 was rush back

[Up The City!]

I have often wondered a few things like this. Could you not have 11 men stood on the goal line to defend? Couldnt you also form a circle of players around the ball and move towards the oppents goal?

[EmersonsRed]

I have often wondered a few things like this. Could you not have 11 men stood on the goal line to defend? Couldnt you also form a circle of players around the ball and move towards the oppents goal?

I believe - and somebody with refereeing qualifications at the highest level should know that the latter is illegal due to obstruction and the former would be overturned as a 3-0 loss for not trying...

[Worthingexile]

I have often wondered a few things like this. Could you not have 11 men stood on the goal line to defend? Couldnt you also form a circle of players around the ball and move towards the oppents goal?

I often had this conversation with my father, I reckoned that it was my unbeatable way into football management. I called it 'the human shield' (before the BBC coined the phrase for Saddam Hussein in 1991)

Wisen old fella pointed out that whilst probably unplayable, with 2 weeks every team would do it, and football would be reduced to a sorry spectacle of one crab like scrum scoring followed by the opposition and again and again etc. he said he tear up his season ticket and watch rugby instead!

i am a school teacher now, and often wonder whether I could keep this manoeuvre up my sleeve for a local schools final!

[Leveller]

I often had this conversation with my father, I reckoned that it was my unbeatable way into football management. I called it 'the human shield' (before the BBC coined the phrase for Saddam Hussein in 1991)

Wisen old fella pointed out that whilst probably unplayable, with 2 weeks every team would do it, and football would be reduced to a sorry spectacle of one crab like scrum scoring followed by the opposition and again and again etc. he said he tear up his season ticket and watch rugby instead!

i am a school teacher now, and often wonder whether I could keep this manoeuvre up my sleeve for a local schools final!

my option would be for two players to embrace each other firmly, with the ball lodged between their chests, walking resolutely over the opposition' s goal line.

but it would probably be disallowed for ungentlemanly conduct, as with any other such clever business.

 

 

[Drew Peacock]

My option would be for the players to wear very sticky hair gel so the keeper could put the ball on a team mate's head who could then run up the pitch and into the opponent's net.

[Up The City!]

I often had this ideaonversation with my father, I reckoned that it was my unbeatable way into football management. I called it 'the human shield' (before the BBC coined the phrase for Saddam Hussein in 1991)

Wisen old fella pointed out that whilst probably unplayable, with 2 weeks every team would do it, and football would be reduced to a sorry spectacle of one crab like scrum scoring followed by the opposition and again and again etc. he said he tear up his season ticket and watch rugby instead!

i am a school teacher now, and often wonder whether I could keep this manoeuvre up my sleeve for a local schools final!

I sorta got the Idea from the film Mighty ducks where they form a V shape to score which I suppose is similar. Defo worth trying out at ameture level especially in a cup final.