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Posted April 05, 2016 13:44 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:43

The Voice of Reason wrote:

[/quote] how is he an idiot? For pointing out bad displays of football? Or lack of football

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Perhaps by forgetting Football's code of conduct:

  1. Play to Win

    Winning is the object of playing any game. Never set out to lose. If you do not play to win, you are cheating your opponents, deceiving those who are watching, and also fooling yourself. Never give up against stronger opponents but never relent against weaker ones. It is an insult to any opponent to play at less than full strength. Play to win, until the final whistle.

    You play to win. It's the first thing in Football, everything else comes after that.  Football isn't about playing pretty, it's about winning and there are very many strategies to do that.  If you can win and play pretty well good job.  But if you prefer to play pretty and are happy to lose, change the way you play because by putting prettiness before winning you are cheating yourself and your opposition.  And if you like to play pretty but can't deal with long-ball football then you just aren't good enough.  This is the crux of it in Dunedin I think.  Teams aren't good enough to beat certain other teams and so they take up the high-brow argument, "They only win cos they play long, but we play 'better' Football".  That's just a load of old cobblers.  The best Football approach is the one that wins.  And I'm not talking about kids playing u-5s so don't go there - I'm talking about competitive Football.

What are you even on about? No shark everyone plays to win.. 

Yes I would agree if you can't deal with the long ball you aren't good enough but at the end of the day I am certain that just having the ball at the back under no pressure what so ever and just kicking it long is just shark, don't see any decent teams outside of Dunedin doing this do you? Ever wonder why southern united playing route one got them a solid last place? How can you people even think people that just hoof it long are good players. Mosgiel play simple ball to feet and they play much better football than that, think the 4-0 win shows that, hopefully from now on teams defend better against it and show that real football wins games

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The Voice of Reason wrote:

[/quote] how is he an idiot? For pointing out bad displays of football? Or lack of football

[/quote]

Perhaps by forgetting Football's code of conduct:

  1. Play to Win

    Winning is the object of playing any game. Never set out to lose. If you do not play to win, you are cheating your opponents, deceiving those who are watching, and also fooling yourself. Never give up against stronger opponents but never relent against weaker ones. It is an insult to any opponent to play at less than full strength. Play to win, until the final whistle.

    You play to win. It's the first thing in Football, everything else comes after that.  Football isn't about playing pretty, it's about winning and there are very many strategies to do that.  If you can win and play pretty well good job.  But if you prefer to play pretty and are happy to lose, change the way you play because by putting prettiness before winning you are cheating yourself and your opposition.  And if you like to play pretty but can't deal with long-ball football then you just aren't good enough.  This is the crux of it in Dunedin I think.  Teams aren't good enough to beat certain other teams and so they take up the high-brow argument, "They only win cos they play long, but we play 'better' Football".  That's just a load of old cobblers.  The best Football approach is the one that wins.  And I'm not talking about kids playing u-5s so don't go there - I'm talking about competitive Football.

What are you even on about? No shark everyone plays to win.. 

Yes I would agree if you can't deal with the long ball you aren't good enough but at the end of the day I am certain that just having the ball at the back under no pressure what so ever and just kicking it long is just shark, don't see any decent teams outside of Dunedin doing this do you? Ever wonder why southern united playing route one got them a solid last place? How can you people even think people that just hoof it long are good players. Mosgiel play simple ball to feet and they play much better football than that, think the 4-0 win shows that, hopefully from now on teams defend better against it and show that real football wins games