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Unfortunately marra you play to your strengths. We've tried to play another way and totally failed. We should now bUIld on what we are good aT.

But we don't. Our strength is to play high tempo, harry the opposition (higher up the field the better) and force mistakes from the opposition before they get comfortable.

Time and time again though we end up starting slowly against any half decent side, let them get passing going and we then resort to hitting long balls to the good old target man who is isolated because we're too deep.
 
I'm still completely lost ........... are you saying we play like the continentals play now or how they used to play 2 decades ago?
I'm saying we play now how they played 20 years ago.

we still think its the modern way of playing when in reality no fucker else plays like this now.

But we don't. Our strength is to play high tempo, harry the opposition (higher up the field the better) and force mistakes from the opposition before they get comfortable.

Time and time again though we end up starting slowly against any half decent side, let them get passing going and we then resort to hitting long balls to the good old target man who is isolated because we're too deep.
Exactly, but we dont do it. Youre agreeing with me!
 
Nonsense. Have you been watching Spain for as much as a second? They don't play direct at all. They pass the ball around and patiently create openings.

Tiki-taka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki-taka

I cannot believe you posted what you did above, if you've watched any recent international football at all.

I'm struggling here to be honest.

I've no idea what "they go for it big style with quick pacy footballers" means.
 
Nemo our defenders have played this "tappy lappy passy the parcel game" along the back for years and got us nowhere. someone mentioned AC Milan and they played like this 20 years ago. The football world has moved on but we havent.

We shouldnt try and play football this way as it has become boring, sterile and totally predictable.

It literally take us 5 minutes to get the ball into the opposition box.

I mentioned Milan, they played English style, direct football using Van Basten as an old fashioned English style centre forward. They didn't fuck around for five minutes, they pressed and went after teams.
 
I'm struggling here to be honest.

I've no idea what "they go for it big style with quick pacy footballers" means.
You dont? :eek:

Maybe its just me who has heard of Xavi and Iniesta. :eek:

I mentioned Milan, they played English style, direct football using Van Basten as an old fashioned English style centre forward. They didn't fuck around for five minutes, they pressed and went at teams.
They did - 20 years ago. Perhaps its time to go back to that style for England?
 
I'm saying we play now how they played 20 years ago.

we still think its the modern way of playing when in reality no fucker else plays like this now.

Exactly, but we dont do it. Youre agreeing with me!

If I remember correctly Germany and Argentina played in the final and England resemble neither of those styles of play.

You dont? :eek:

Maybe its just me who has heard of Xavi and Iniesta. :eek:

They did - 20 years ago. Perhaps its time to go back to that style for England?

I don't understand what you mean about 'going for it big style'.

Spain are a very patient side who gradually push up from midfield and keep the play up where mistakes are made and their forwards can profit.
 
I'm saying we play now how they played 20 years ago.

we still think its the modern way of playing when in reality no fucker else plays like this now.

Exactly, but we dont do it. Youre agreeing with me!

Do you ever watch Barcelona? Do you admire the way they work like Trojans to get the ball back and generally they do it high up the pitch recover the ball then pass to feet to try to keep the ball and create openings? Spain do similar.

Nothing wrong with playing a high tempo game - it doesn't mean lumping aimless balls to a big man then fighting for the second ball though.
 
Do you ever watch Barcelona? Do you admire the way they work like Trojans to get the ball back and generally they do it high up the pitch recover the ball then pass to feet to try to keep the ball and create openings? Spain do similar.

Nothing wrong with playing a high tempo game - it doesn't mean lumping aimless balls to a big man then fighting for the second ball though.

You've hit the nail on the head.

When England have lost the ball, forever, we've dropped back behind the ball and tried to win it back ....... this means that every attack starts from the useless punting keeper or the useless punting defence.

We rarely seem to win the ball high up the pitch and attack with numbers in the way Barcelona do ......... lumping the ball up to a target man who flicks it to the opposition defence will waste another 10 years.
 
So apart from the Scum which other PREMIER clubs are adopting "roy of the rovers" tactics with a big target man
 
You've hit the nail on the head.

When England have lost the ball, forever, we've dropped back behind the ball and tried to win it back ....... this means that every attack starts from the useless punting keeper or the useless punting defence.

We rarely seem to win the ball high up the pitch and attack with numbers in the way Barcelona do ......... lumping the ball up to a target man who flicks it to the opposition defence will waste another 10 years.

Remember Sunday? ;)
 
Remember Sunday? ;)

Dead right Wastid, we won by playing football and the last goal was typical of pressing high up the pitch ........... the 2nd goal was exactly the kind of football England should have been playing tonight.

We had 6 players up in that attack and Henderson doing what he never had the chance to do tonight ...... he was up in the final third rather than smashing the ball up to Carroll.

Since KJ has gone our style of play is generally better to watch I'd say.
 
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Are Newcastle purely and simply a one dimensional long ball side?

didnt mention LONG BALL mate far from it

the scum get their full backs forward with ease thats what murdered us

England tonight didnt

Im really asking MBH which clubs we can now look to for "Billly Whitehursts"

we spend all this fuckin manger gettin a foreigner in as a gaffer and then av to resort to the Old fashioned game
 
didnt mention LONG BALL mate far from it

the scum get their full backs forward with ease thats what murdered us

England tonight didnt

Im really asking MBH which clubs we can now look to for "Billly Whitehursts"

we spend all this fuckin manger gettin a foreigner in as a gaffer and then av to resort to the Old fashioned game

Little wonder PD, a lumbering centre half and a young lad who's barely had a game this season. My patience with Pat is exhausted, Time to bring Harry in as gaffer.
 
Little wonder PD, a lumbering centre half and a young lad who's barely had a game this season. My patience with Pat is exhausted, Time to bring Harry in as gaffer.

Carrol was askin for the game to be took to him time and time again


he won one decent header because it was a decent delivery
the rest were on the run flicks to nowhere
 
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