forevertufc wrote:
I'm a very approachable person, I like having a laugh and joke, sharing opinions, I have the ability to change my opinion when a valid point is made, and the realization strikes, I have it wrong. The bit highlighted in blue just proves to anyone reading this, you simply do not have the first clue what your talking about.
Firstly, as pointed out by Danny, Dan Lavercombe's positing for that free kick was as bad as I've seen, if he'd been any closer to the far post he would have been touching it, all the Bromley player had to do was get kick over the wall, on target and it was in all day long.
Secondly. You would have advised him to get someone to drop back on the line as the kick was taken Really ? are you actually being serious ?
only someone with the mind of mad man would do that.
What the consequence of doing that ? yes, exactly, you would play every single Bromley player on side from the taken free kick, giving them the opportunity to flood the box, that is why, if you could get close enough, you would hear a properly coached keeper, if a free kick was say 18 yards out, shouting at his defenders prior to kick taken "HOLD 18" reminding the defenders to hold the defensive line.
I agree with your second paragraph.
When your in a professional club you get a person who you trust, to watch the opposition or do it yourself,I have done this for a Conference club, you are then aware what is going to happen in a game. If you know that the free kick against you is going to be a bit special you take special steps to deal with it. I would have not been in the game this long if I did not know what I was on about. Coaching now a days is putting pen to paper. The free-kick Dan had to deal with was special and you knew as soon as they had it there was a big problem. The wall was so wide and just outside the six yard box with their players in it Dan could not see I was on the opposite side to you and yes just before it was kicked Dan bent over to try and see the ball, the Bromley players were blocking his vision, if you were a keeper you would understand. A player is then close enough to drop back to the goal line just before the referee blows his whistle.
Don't ever stick to a coaching manual as you learn in football from every game and the the administrators then put it in a book. I was at Bristol Citys first game they played 4-4-2 in 1960 ish everybody thought Peter Doherty the manager was mad but now most sides play it but now the game is changing again.
Did you think that the formation should have been changed after twenty minutes yesterday or would you have left it the same. It's easy to watch a game and make comments as I do but when your in a dugout making decisions it's a different situation as you tend to wait a while to change things as it's difficult making changes in front of a 1000 people I'm afraid yesterday Ramshaw proved why he is an assistant. Dean, I just do not know what he was doing there.
There are a couple of managers in the area who would do a good job for Torquay and they both have years of experience at this level. SG not me!
The best keepers are naturals and don't need coaching they need little bits of pinching other keepers brains, I could tell both keepers a good way to have a good chance of saving penalties which works, Howard Radford of Bristol Rover taught me that and Harold Young of Newport County taught him and thats not in the coaching manual. I think Howard is still alive living in Chudley.
Oh and my 16 year old grandson is a keeper playing mens football at a good standard and our generation played at 15 and a lot more keepers made the grade then and were hardened up by the time they were 18.
Not many make the grade under the new system.
