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Posted September 10, 2013 16:13 · last edited September 10, 2013 16:13

Big Pete 65 wrote:
Jeff Vader wrote:
Seb wrote:
number8 wrote:

The real question is, what's left of the momentum from the 2010 campaign? Are the AW playing better football then four years ago? Can we see improvements when we watch those games: style of play, introducing youth, tactics, fitness? Coaches always have a philosophy, the next step, what is Ricki's plan, did he talked about it? Why is Fenton, Boyd not playing?


I fully agree. I feel like we are sufferring from a serious lack of foresight and long term positive vision.

This question needs to be asked after November because how would that team have gone today with Marco, Wee Mac etc and had Ricki picked his best side rather than trialling players in positions. To be fair, they may not have done better, but those two are key pieces in our team (plus others) Ricki may have asked them play a certain way to test something (which clearly did not work)

Game was a debacle - but could all be part of some genius secret master-plan to confuse the potential opposition come November who would've been scouting these games in Saudi.

Ricki did say during the week that he won't be revealing his tactical plans in these games...

I remember that in friendlies before Bahrain, Ricki kept his real formations for training sessions and then sprung them on Bahrain....


Didn't he play 3,4,3 in the game in Jordan, which was our real practice game?That was the first time he played that system

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AucklandPhoenix edited September 10, 2013 16:13
Big Pete 65 wrote:
Jeff Vader wrote:
Seb wrote:
number8 wrote:

The real question is, what's left of the momentum from the 2010 campaign? Are the AW playing better football then four years ago? Can we see improvements when we watch those games: style of play, introducing youth, tactics, fitness? Coaches always have a philosophy, the next step, what is Ricki's plan, did he talked about it? Why is Fenton, Boyd not playing?


I fully agree. I feel like we are sufferring from a serious lack of foresight and long term positive vision.

This question needs to be asked after November because how would that team have gone today with Marco, Wee Mac etc and had Ricki picked his best side rather than trialling players in positions. To be fair, they may not have done better, but those two are key pieces in our team (plus others) Ricki may have asked them play a certain way to test something (which clearly did not work)

Game was a debacle - but could all be part of some genius secret master-plan to confuse the potential opposition come November who would've been scouting these games in Saudi.

Ricki did say during the week that he won't be revealing his tactical plans in these games...

I remember that in friendlies before Bahrain, Ricki kept his real formations for training sessions and then sprung them on Bahrain....


Didn't he play 3,4,3 in the game in Jordan, which was our real practice game?