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I would prefer a cultured passing game where possession and skill on the ball are highly valued. What do you think? Should the club lay down its preferred style of play and select coaches, support staff and players that suit that style or should the style be left up to the coach of the day? Add comments |
25th March 2009 | 9 |
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Tazztellposted at 2:35AM on 25th Jan, 2009 Put simply. a Tasmanian team should play a style of football where they finish the game with more goals than the opposition ! Each style of play has its own merits ,but I suspect it will take a while before Tasmanian discovers a style of play which will prove successful. ntguyposted at 4:37AM on 25th Jan, 2009 Tazztell, your comment raises some interesting points... The winner of the game is decided by scoring the most goals but is the game all about winning or is it about entertaining? Is the purpose of a Tasmanian team in the A-League about winning the competition or is it about introducing to an uninformed public the beauties of a game that requires athleticism, skill and brains?Tazztellposted at 10:37AM on 25th Jan, 2009 I agree with you entirely ntguy. However, in these hard and cynical modern times, sponsors and fans prefer winners to losers.As many a coach has stated, they would rather their team have a "ugly win" than an "entertaining loss". Sadly, the bottom line nowadays is the way money dictates sports whatever the code. I really wish it didn't but there you are. The reality is that if a team has a run of poor results, people lose patience and leave in droves, hence reduced income for the club, etc...,Give me a win or draw anyday. ndireenposted at 12:46PM on 26th Jan, 2009 So whatever happened to the joga bonito?... are you guys saying you ?really? preferred Italy to beat us in the 06 World Cup round of 16? Grosso did "whatever it takes" to score more goals than us. But it was ugly football, and not something you would want to get your kids to emulate. I hope Tassie never goes the biff a la Muscat or Tiatto, and never goes the dive. ntguyposted at 8:39PM on 26th Jan, 2009 I certainly don't support the idea of win at all costs ndireen. I deplore shirt pulling, diving and overly aggressive defence and think it is a blight on the game. I would much rather watch a game where my side played with individual skill and a high level of co-ordination and lost than watch a game they won but played outside the spirit of the game. I dislike the continual disputing of referees decisions and overt niggling of ones opponent on the field. There is nothing more beautiful to watch than to see a player display their football brain and read the play to make a crucial interception, to see the skill of a defender a they time a tackle perfectly and waltz away with the ball at their feet, to see a midfielder put a perfectly weighted pass through or over a defence to put a wide player in behind the defence, to see a rapid interchange of passes that puts a striker in on goal or to see a striker shimmy through a defence and bang the ball into the back of the net or lay off a pass to his teammate for a tap in. One of the beauties of the game is that a team can play like this but still lose. So be it but if a Tassie team plays like this I reckon we will see kids around the state with a ball at their feet in a park with a few mates trying to emulate what they have seen their heroes do. Isn't this what having an A-league team in Tasmania is all about?
ndireenposted at 1:12PM on 27th Jan, 2009 ntguy -ooh-ya!! I'm pretty sure we are on the same page here! I think if we (meaning powers that be = coaching staff and club $$$ managers) can get together a decent team of local + Oz+ international talent in both playing and coaching depts, and for example we have a more “Dutch” passing+ control philosophy, or a South American “individual skills on the ball” philosophy or even an African “counter-break + athleticism” philosophy, as opposed to an EPL/ SPL “biff defence+ long ball” philosophy or a Serie A “dive when you can get away with it in attack” philosophy, and we stick to it: then we (TUFC) will score more goals than the opponents (who are largely following an EPL regime right now e.g. MVFC, QRFC, CCMFC, NJFC). Golly it would stir things up in the A-league if we had a Ghanaian, Cameroonian, Senegalese or Ivorian coach + approach!! What are the odds? And finally -come the time when we finally have TUFC Supporter's Day on the park (Now, there is an idea, Admin: when / where is that going to be??): before the sausage sizzle and beer, in the dads vs kids scratch match - ntguy, can I pick you on my team? And what position do you prefer to play?? :D stoogestposted at 9:09AM on 2nd Feb, 2009 I would have thought the playing style would be determined to a large degree by the squad they have at their disposal? It's ok to have a coach that wants to play creative, attacking football, but if this is at odds with the players talents then it's not going to work. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for an attractive style of play. but in reality the salary cap, player pool and desire to get results (ie. draws or wins) is going to force the management team to temper attacking flare with a bit of grit through the midfield and defence (with probably a greater emphasis on defence in their first season or two). |
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posted at 10:26AM on 24th Jan, 2009
Hm, I think that is going to depend largely on who is appointed as inaugural coach, and what "materials" he (she??) has to work with, both local and imported. Our style will emerge from the mixture of the two; I've only seen a few local club games, and what seemed to be emphasised there was a pretty physical encounter, without the cultured passing... maybe Tassie needs to call in a few Durch relatives (heck knows, there are lots of great Dutch families living down here in Kingbororugh), and recruit a coach from that school? Heaven help us if we end up playing a Kevin Muscat- style "taunt then biff the opposition" kind of game... very unedifying, and not good to take the kids along to see.
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