How hard do you believe it is to pick up and/or modify?
I am not asking with the notion it's a piece of pish, nor am I claiming to have the foggiest idea, but - and it is a big but - almost anyone who has been coached as even a single digit youngster knows the tenets of passing the ball and immediately moving into space to receive it again. It is intrinsic to the point of dogma as you rise through the levels, whether at school, regional or picked up by a top class outfit that is miles away from PL standard (when you're making your way, semi-pro, for example, is a massive leap most will never make).
The same drilling and coaching of movement away from, and off, the ball takes place from a very early age and, one would think, become staples of the pros we see before us. I believe the best modern coaches have mastered progressing play up the field in a multitude of ingenious ways that other coaching teams can't get to grips with let alone mimic or replicate unless you poach actual staff from the respective clubs, but there, I've drifted off into world class territory, which this thread isn't about.
What I am trying to get my head around is, how we sometimes put together some of them most intricate passages of play in the league (no, really) and at [most] other times we are completely static, like our players are meeting each other for the first time and don't know what to do to best interact with a team mate 20 meters from them. With or without coaching from our staff when it comes to movement, how is it that the players themselves haven't bred a comprehensive understanding of each others' game? Do you believe that is an age issue, a lack of experience, or both things having a factor? Why are they being extricated for a failing that should, at the least, be partially apportioned to them?
Coaching has its part to play and there is no question that a well-drilled side simply know what to do in times of crisis, such as take up specific positions or activate failsafes they no longer even have to think about, but on the attacking side of the game, some of the best sides to step on a football pitch are renowned for their players figuring things out for themselves, that goes as far back as: River Plate of the 40's; Real of the 50's & 60's; Brazil of 1970; Liverpool of the 80's; Barcelona of the 90's and so on. Point being success for these sides was not down to ceaseless coaching, but also their ability as a unit to do the fundamentals well and figure things out for themselves.
I notice on here the players are essentially absolved of all their failings in not passing and moving, as if it is solely in the hands of the manager and staff to get these players moving in the way they were taught at the numerous academies they graduated from - on that alone, you would be hard-pressed to refute our own academy doesn't have better movement and fundamental understanding of why it's needed than our first team. Surely one should argue that our players should be much further down the line in terms of familiarity than they are and that this, as much as not learning any nuance from an esteemed and lauded coach or staff, is to blame for our dysfunctional football?
I am not asking with the notion it's a piece of pish, nor am I claiming to have the foggiest idea, but - and it is a big but - almost anyone who has been coached as even a single digit youngster knows the tenets of passing the ball and immediately moving into space to receive it again. It is intrinsic to the point of dogma as you rise through the levels, whether at school, regional or picked up by a top class outfit that is miles away from PL standard (when you're making your way, semi-pro, for example, is a massive leap most will never make).
The same drilling and coaching of movement away from, and off, the ball takes place from a very early age and, one would think, become staples of the pros we see before us. I believe the best modern coaches have mastered progressing play up the field in a multitude of ingenious ways that other coaching teams can't get to grips with let alone mimic or replicate unless you poach actual staff from the respective clubs, but there, I've drifted off into world class territory, which this thread isn't about.
What I am trying to get my head around is, how we sometimes put together some of them most intricate passages of play in the league (no, really) and at [most] other times we are completely static, like our players are meeting each other for the first time and don't know what to do to best interact with a team mate 20 meters from them. With or without coaching from our staff when it comes to movement, how is it that the players themselves haven't bred a comprehensive understanding of each others' game? Do you believe that is an age issue, a lack of experience, or both things having a factor? Why are they being extricated for a failing that should, at the least, be partially apportioned to them?
Coaching has its part to play and there is no question that a well-drilled side simply know what to do in times of crisis, such as take up specific positions or activate failsafes they no longer even have to think about, but on the attacking side of the game, some of the best sides to step on a football pitch are renowned for their players figuring things out for themselves, that goes as far back as: River Plate of the 40's; Real of the 50's & 60's; Brazil of 1970; Liverpool of the 80's; Barcelona of the 90's and so on. Point being success for these sides was not down to ceaseless coaching, but also their ability as a unit to do the fundamentals well and figure things out for themselves.
I notice on here the players are essentially absolved of all their failings in not passing and moving, as if it is solely in the hands of the manager and staff to get these players moving in the way they were taught at the numerous academies they graduated from - on that alone, you would be hard-pressed to refute our own academy doesn't have better movement and fundamental understanding of why it's needed than our first team. Surely one should argue that our players should be much further down the line in terms of familiarity than they are and that this, as much as not learning any nuance from an esteemed and lauded coach or staff, is to blame for our dysfunctional football?