Actually the problem isn't with defenders knocking it ong at all n my opinion. Only in New Zealand will strikers try and chase dow every goal kick or play out from the back in a hgh pressing - wins nothing mentality. The reason that football overseas is played out from the back so much is that strikers are their to score goals not make every tackle in the attacking 3rd - they couldn't give a shark about a team playing out from the back. Technically you should be playing around this attacker but you get what you get with players in NZ the technical coaching was never there. Hopefully with a fully functional FTC programme kids in the future with their learned 'playing out from the back' style will we see improvements- it'll just take time and good coaching. As for you talking about the league being crap - it is what it is, there's more teams competing for the title this year than previously so it is improving- but there's no money at all down here so again - you get the awesome people that make it what it is - which is brilliant. There's only a select few coaches who know how to take adult players and break down their game for them technically and tactically - Brett McMurdoch is one of the only ones I've met - UEFA A licensed coach. Your Northern tiki-taka-whatever posts are embarrassing. By the way I'm over 30 and can play out from the back and be comfortable with my feet to not have to kick it long... so your statements are really quite untrue.
Actually the problem isn't with defenders knocking it ong at all n my opinion. Only in New Zealand will strikers try and chase dow every goal kick or play out from the back in a hgh pressing - wins nothing mentality. The reason that football overseas is played out from the back so much is that strikers are their to score goals not make every tackle in the attacking 3rd - they couldn't give a shark about a team playing out from the back. Technically you should be playing around this attacker but you get what you get with players in NZ the technical coaching was never there. Hopefully with a fully functional FTC programme kids in the future with their learned 'playing out from the back' style will we see improvements- it'll just take time and good coaching. As for you talking about the league being crap - it is what it is, there's more teams competing for the title this year than previously so it is improving- but there's no money at all down here so again - you get the awesome people that make it what it is - which is brilliant. There's only a select few coaches who know how to take adult players and break down their game for them technically and tactically - Brett McMurdoch is one of the only ones I've met - UEFA A licensed coach. Your Northern tiki-taka-whatever posts are embarrassing. By the way I'm over 30 and can play out from the back and be comfortable with my feet to not have to kick it long... so your statements are really quite untrue.