| The FA.....fit for purpose? 07:55 - Jun 28 with 3810 views | windowsbug |
After the root and branch enquiry after the Brazil debacle, what's next.
Project deforestation?
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 07:59 - Jun 28 with 3802 views | KenBoon |
They do a root and branch enquiry every other year.
PL Academy teams in the FL will fix all this. There is nothing to be concerned over. |  | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 12:41 - Jun 28 with 3671 views | D_Alien |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 07:59 - Jun 28 by KenBoon |
They do a root and branch enquiry every other year.
PL Academy teams in the FL will fix all this. There is nothing to be concerned over. |
One of their proposals - for five divisions of 20 teams - is sure to get a further push now, although I'm not sure how that helps premier league players. Ours looked totally knackered (mentally) last night. Others: such as Payet, Ozil & Hazard, don't.
Looking back just a few weeks to the friendly against Germany, we looked like a young team with skill, pace and real potential. Yep, it's different in tournaments, but what's the difference? It's got to be psychological.
The FA set the tone for the whole national game with conservatism, bureaucracy and badges on blazers. The only England manager who's ever stood up to them is Alf Ramsey. |  |
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 13:01 - Jun 28 with 3614 views | dingdangblue |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 12:41 - Jun 28 by D_Alien |
One of their proposals - for five divisions of 20 teams - is sure to get a further push now, although I'm not sure how that helps premier league players. Ours looked totally knackered (mentally) last night. Others: such as Payet, Ozil & Hazard, don't.
Looking back just a few weeks to the friendly against Germany, we looked like a young team with skill, pace and real potential. Yep, it's different in tournaments, but what's the difference? It's got to be psychological.
The FA set the tone for the whole national game with conservatism, bureaucracy and badges on blazers. The only England manager who's ever stood up to them is Alf Ramsey. |
Its definitely got to be psychological. All week all the players would have read and heard about is how we've never won a knockout game over 90 mins in the history of the Euro's. Add that to no experience of this type of tournament pressure before for the likes of Smalling, Walker, Rose, Alli, Kane and Dier. A manager who didnt know his best team or system didnt help either. Iceland didnt even have to be that good to beat us - we handed it to them on a plate. At least previous defeats have been against the likes of Italy and Uruguay to send us home - Iceland is a whole new low. |  |
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 13:26 - Jun 28 with 3569 views | 49thseason |
Successive England Managers have been more concerned with what the press will say and have felt obliged to play the teams selected by them. Let's be honest, you could have picked a team of Championship players that would have thrashed Iceland last night. The idea that you change your team and formation for every game is total gateux.
The FA haven't lost the plot, they have never had one. There is insufficient money to support the grass roots game properly. Amateur football is collapsing for lack of affordable, playable surfaces. A town like Rochdale should have dozens of artificial surfaces for all standards of football, instead, we have sodden, uneven, unmaintained men's pitches where game are constantly called off and which cost too much for many teams in any case.
Did you know there is not a single grass pitch in Rochdale suitable for the RAFC academy team? Not one.
It's the old story - no thought-through investment by people who have never kicked a ball in anger and as long as getting their Cup-Final tickets and trips to World cups is at the top of the agenda, nothing will change. |  | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 15:12 - Jun 28 with 3485 views | pioneer |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 07:59 - Jun 28 by KenBoon |
They do a root and branch enquiry every other year.
PL Academy teams in the FL will fix all this. There is nothing to be concerned over. |
and the FL clubs will roll over and accept it for a few more pieces of silver (and the cup final tickets etc that someone else mentioned).
Most of those academy teams are filled with non english players anyway |  | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 15:46 - Jun 28 with 3457 views | dingdangblue |
Roy set to front a press conference at 4pm. Should be quite tasty.
Or as Paddy Power put it:
He'll be clutching at more straws than a masturbating scarecrow. | |
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 15:54 - Jun 28 with 3438 views | D_Alien |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 15:46 - Jun 28 by dingdangblue |
Roy set to front a press conference at 4pm. Should be quite tasty.
Or as Paddy Power put it:
He'll be clutching at more straws than a masturbating scarecrow. |
Maybe he's going to ask for a second go against Iceland?
it was a close margin, after all  | |
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 17:32 - Jun 28 with 3358 views | ColDale |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 07:59 - Jun 28 by KenBoon |
They do a root and branch enquiry every other year.
PL Academy teams in the FL will fix all this. There is nothing to be concerned over. |
I assume now we'll be looking to adopt the Icelandic approach, or is there another buzz team that we can pin all our hopes on? |  | | |
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| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 18:23 - Jun 28 with 3307 views | DiddyDave |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 13:26 - Jun 28 by 49thseason |
Successive England Managers have been more concerned with what the press will say and have felt obliged to play the teams selected by them. Let's be honest, you could have picked a team of Championship players that would have thrashed Iceland last night. The idea that you change your team and formation for every game is total gateux.
The FA haven't lost the plot, they have never had one. There is insufficient money to support the grass roots game properly. Amateur football is collapsing for lack of affordable, playable surfaces. A town like Rochdale should have dozens of artificial surfaces for all standards of football, instead, we have sodden, uneven, unmaintained men's pitches where game are constantly called off and which cost too much for many teams in any case.
Did you know there is not a single grass pitch in Rochdale suitable for the RAFC academy team? Not one.
It's the old story - no thought-through investment by people who have never kicked a ball in anger and as long as getting their Cup-Final tickets and trips to World cups is at the top of the agenda, nothing will change. |
An excellent viewpoint that just about sums up the English game in its entirety. The Alf Ramsey era is a shining light amongst the crap that`s been served up for decades before and after his years as England`s coach. Yes,the whole FA system needs ripping apart and starting anew,but I think we all know that ain`t going to happen any time soon. But like somebody has already said,a new coach will be found,the new season will get underway,World Cup Qualifying will start,the hoards of brain dead "supporters" will keep going along and this latest shambles will be consigned to the history books of English football mediocrity alongside the above dross. | | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 18:27 - Jun 28 with 3303 views | KenBoon |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 17:32 - Jun 28 by ColDale |
I assume now we'll be looking to adopt the Icelandic approach, or is there another buzz team that we can pin all our hopes on? |
It was Brazil. Then it was France. Then it became Spain and I think it's still Germany now. These Euros have been poor so no idea if the obsession will change. Maybe if Belgium win it their model will be the future. | | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 19:55 - Jun 28 with 3240 views | pioneer |
So the new manager will be chosen by a panel with no top level playing or managerial experience. But they will know the best type of Gin to put in their tonic. | | | |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 21:40 - Jun 28 with 3163 views | AtThePeake |
| The FA.....fit for purpose? on 18:27 - Jun 28 by KenBoon |
It was Brazil. Then it was France. Then it became Spain and I think it's still Germany now. These Euros have been poor so no idea if the obsession will change. Maybe if Belgium win it their model will be the future. |
I do hate how the media/football hipsters consistently tell us we have to base our model on the current success story, but I did read something about the Belgian youth system that I liked before the last World Cup and I've just found it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/06/belgium-blueprint-gave-bir
The idea of implementing a 4-3-3 tactic in every Belgian youth team seems so simple but it really does seem to have worked. When you look at their squad now you can see where this has paid dividends, the players all fit into that system and have all gone through their development playing the same position in the same formation. You might argue that it limits their flexibility but I would argue that their shared knowledge of this system definitely helps them perform as a team on the bigger stages. They just need to produce a few full-backs.
They are lucky to have a few phenomenal players too of course, but it's something the FA should think about, even if copying their model wholesale (as it was suggested we should do with Brazil, France, Spain, Germany etc) is naive and futile. |  |
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