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Gareth tells Ricki how we play?

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Posted December 31, 2012 00:07 · last edited December 31, 2012 00:08

Ryan's Rovers wrote:

Tegal wrote:

They also didn't just wake up one day and decide to play this way. They've been working on it since preseason. 

Weren't we playing 4-1-3-2 during preseason? We started off like that but changed back to a 4-3-3 (4-5-1)  after a few games.


Not necessarily purely formation. But they were certainly trying a more fluid positioning during a couple of preseason games that I saw. This is imitate to the 'total football' everyone is talking about now. It looked horrible and messy during preseason (though they still beat Miramar 9-0 etc) but it looked good on Thursday. It'll be interesting to see how we go against a stronger side, I remember during preseason thinking they must be trying sometng new and that if we play like that during the season, we'll get ripped to shreds. 

I genuinely think this is something they've been working on all season, rather than something Gareth dreamt up one night a few weeks ago and told ricki to adopt immediately. 

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Tegal edited December 31, 2012 00:08
Ryan's Rovers wrote:
Tegal wrote:

They also didn't just wake up one day and decide to play this way. They've been working on it since preseason. 

Weren't we playing 4-1-3-2 during preseason? We started off like that but changed back to a 4-3-3 (4-5-1)  after a few games.


Not necessarily purely formation. But they were certainly trying a more fluid positioning during a couple of preseason games that I saw. This is imitate to the 'total football' everyone is talking about now. It looked horrible and messy during preseason (though they still beat Miramar 9-0 etc) but it looked good on Thursday. It'll be interesting to see how we go against a stronger side, I remember during preseason thinking that if we play like that during the season, we'll get ripped to shreds. 

I genuinely think this is something they've been working on all season, rather than something Gareth dreamt up one night a few weeks ago and told ricki to adopt immediately.