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Southern Football (incl Southern United) (Part 2)

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Posted June 22, 2015 01:13 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:43

NorthernFC Tiki-taka tippy-tappy passing wrote:

So let me get this right because I care about the development and improvement of contemporary football - you're telling me that you are endorsing the notion of encouraging an outdated football style that works literally nowhere apart from Dunedin? A style of football that rely's on very few facets - the ability to win headers, speed, and manipulating poor to average Dunedin center backs? This is simply ridiculous. It denies many young players from developing individually, and forces them to regress their possible skill level and replicate how the "best" players here in order to be able to participate in games and gain recognition from managers, with no way to even attenuate this? Each to their own I guess. 

Ok nice rave.  But:

1. What's contemporary football about in a region's top tier?  Answer = winning. Read the FIFA code of conduct Point 1 and have a think and then read the FIFA code of conduct Point 7 and have a laugh.

2. And what's development and improvement of contemporary football about for a region's top tier teams about?  Er...that would be about youth football.  6-16 years olds mainly. 10,000 hours.  Lot's of touches on the ball.  All that sort of stuff.  Winning not the focus but neither would be getting the snot beaten out of you every week.  That puts most kids off playing.

3. There is a style of football in Dunedin that works nowhere else but Dunedin?  Really?  You need to travel more or watch the EPL on telly.  Direct football works all over the world, actually and any half decent coach will tell you the BEST passing option you can take is the most direct and penetrating.

4. Young players are being stopped from developing because of what happens in the FSPL on saturdays?  No they aren't that's just plain silly.  There will be very many local lads that are being hindered in their development - but that's because they don't have good coaches and they don't train anywhere near enough right from an early age.  And those training habits carry on to the FSPL level - you can't be any good if you only train twice a week. If anything getting belted around on a saturday in the FSPL is really good for a young player's development - no amount of technical wizardry is going to help you if you're a cry baby.

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NorthernFC Tiki-taka tippy-tappy passing wrote:

So let me get this right because I care about the development and improvement of contemporary football - you're telling me that you are endorsing the notion of encouraging an outdated football style that works literally nowhere apart from Dunedin? A style of football that rely's on very few facets - the ability to win headers, speed, and manipulating poor to average Dunedin center backs? This is simply ridiculous. It denies many young players from developing individually, and forces them to regress their possible skill level and replicate how the "best" players here in order to be able to participate in games and gain recognition from managers, with no way to even attenuate this? Each to their own I guess. 

Ok nice rave.  But:

1. What's contemporary football about in a region's top tier?  Answer = winning. Read the FIFA code of conduct Point 1 and have a think and then read the FIFA code of conduct Point 7 and have a laugh.

2. And what's development and improvement of contemporary football about for a region's top tier teams about?  Er...that would be about youth football.  6-16 years olds mainly. 10,000 hours.  Lot's of touches on the ball.  All that sort of stuff.  Winning not the focus but neither would be getting the snot beaten out of you every week.  That puts most kids off playing.

3. There is a style of football in Dunedin that works nowhere else but Dunedin?  Really?  You need to travel more or watch the EPL on telly.  Direct football works all over the world, actually and any half decent coach will tell you the BEST passing option you can take is the most direct and penetrating.

4. Young players are being stopped from developing because of what happens in the FSPL on saturdays?  No they aren't that's just plain silly.  There will be very many local lads that are being hindered in their development - but that's because they don't have good coaches and they don't train anywhere near enough right from an early age.  And those training habits carry on to the FSPL level - you can't be any good if you only train twice a week. If anything getting belted around on a saturday in the FSPL is really good for a young player's development - no amount of technical wizardry is going to help you if you're a cry baby.