Given all the controversy over AWs playing style in PNG, I thought below article was an interesting read.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/8...
The Northern Irish acknowledge they have a squad of limited talent (though they do have 5 EPL players to our 1!) . As their gaffer Michael O'Neill states
"We are going to have to be horrible to play against," he said recently.
"We are going to be really good without the ball, run further than any other team, drill all the statistics back in their face. Sixty-five per cent possession? We don't expect to have that."
Lets be very realistic, on a world scale the AWs have a tiny pool of players to pick from. A bit of the above attitude won't go amiss, next year in Russia and playoffs v 5th placed South American side.
We have been doing that forever and guess what it really hasnt moved us forward. So how about just for sharks and giggles we try something different. It cant be any worse than whats gone before. Just for fun lets try and get the players to play the type of football they were learning as kids and youth players?
Why keep repeating the same mentality and approach when its not progressing us?
Lets have a go for a few years, you never know we might surprise ourselves but if it still fails at least we will have tried something different from the usual.
