The Highland Tour - Elgin

[foggy dewhurst 0]

a wins a win cant go much wrong if we keep winning matches .

[reaper 0]

Mate said it was a lot of punts up to Daly.

[chilledbear 16]

Mate said it was a lot of punts up to Daly.

 

I heard that as well, hope it isn't our plan for this season . . . but !!!!!!!

[Zappa 0]

We knew as soon as the name Daly was first mentioned that signing him would probably result in a lot of long ball stuff when he plays. There's a time and a place for it like every tactic, but playing long ball punts up to a lone striker regularly is a poor way to play football, very poor indeed.

[der Berliner 3,245]

We knew as soon as the name Daly was first mentioned that signing him would probably result in a lot of long ball stuff when he plays. There's a time and a place for it like every tactic, but playing long ball punts up to a lone striker regularly is a poor way to play football, very poor indeed.

 

While it will be regarded as a hilarious comparrison, Bayern Munich ruled European football last season playing one striker up front. Sure, they had Robben and Ribery in support, plus Müller et al, but we "only" need to beat SPFL 3 teams this season. I have no problem if we try the long-ball game every now and then, if we have people like Clark, Templeton, Little and the like to feed of Daly's ability to keep the ball up the park. By default, we should be able to play various systems during one game and each of these systems should be trained to be "perfect".

 

BTW, there seems to be a tendency to hype up every long ball out of defence or up the park as a sample for our "dire and ancient-style long-ball" game. You'd wish people just sit back at times (sic!) and accept that long balls are part of the game and if you watch other teams play, you will quite often see that they use the "long punt up the park" quite regularly too - if it suits them. Be it Bayern, Dortmund, Brazil or Spain.

 

There is no doubt that we shouldn't make it our trademark system and with people like Macleod and Law, I doubt it will be.

[UCF2008 0]

While it will be regarded as a hilarious comparrison, Bayern Munich ruled European football last season playing one striker up front.

 

You said it mate

 

BTW, there seems to be a tendency to hype up every long ball out of defence or up the park as a sample for our "dire and ancient-style long-ball" game. You'd wish people just sit back at times (sic!) and accept that long balls are part of the game and if you watch other teams play, you will quite often see that they use the "long punt up the park" quite regularly too - if it suits them. Be it Bayern, Dortmund, Brazil or Spain.

 

I agree. There's a time and place for it. When you've got four or five sitting in midfield with one man stranded up front on his own against a back four or five, it's not exactly the best tactic to use though is it?

[Zappa 0]

BTW, there seems to be a tendency to hype up every long ball out of defence or up the park as a sample for our "dire and ancient-style long-ball" game. You'd wish people just sit back at times (sic!) and accept that long balls are part of the game and if you watch other teams play, you will quite often see that they use the "long punt up the park" quite regularly too - if it suits them. Be it Bayern, Dortmund, Brazil or Spain.

 

Last season I think probably somewhere between 80% and 90% of Neil Alexander's distribution from the back consisted of a punt up the park. Bayern, Dortmund, Brazil, Spain and other good football teams don't distribute from the back in that fashion on a regular basis with those sort of statistics because punting the ball from the back into your opponents' half is not a clever way to play football.