@Voice of Reason, I have little interest to waste my time on people with a dangerously low intellect level like you, alas, I shall anyway. You are advocating a very dangerous idea through what you've written thus far. I quote: "that's why you'll never see their teams trying to string passes around on the edge of their own box" - do you watch football yourself? I'm guessing you don't because passing the ball from the back is exactly what all teams of a professional background do in this day and age. Anything else is considered an amateur style of football and is rightly not taken seriously. It would have done you many a favor to observe the recent Under 20 world cup and learn a thing or two about how possession football works.
Ah dude you have managed to exceed even your own levels of ignorance. If you are going to quote someone quote them correctly. I said, "...that's why you'll never see their teams trying to string passes around on the edge of their own box IN DUNEDIN'S WINTER MUD AND SLEET". So yeah either learn how to read or quote correctly. And also there's this little point also that you seem to have missed. Football in Dunedin is not professional. And it's not at the level of the U-20 WC either. So to advocate the local players try to emulate that level of football is just...well...I'll let the forum readers put their own words in there. In fairness to your stupidty I've most likely coached at a higher level than you ever will and had the privilege to train players who were the best in the country in their age group. And you, most likely, are just another retard. Look, I'm an advocate of possession based football but I'm more an advocate of winning. There's just no balance in your argument at all. There's no reason to press for Barcelona-esk football in the FSPL. Most players can't do it and never will be able to do it. But they dig it out every week in horrible conditions at times and I like that. I honour that. But you don't give that any honour at all. You just sound like a whinging scumbag. Dunedin football is actually worth a lot. And every now and then the region will produce a Joel Stevens. And that's probably as good as it gets.