My mate has started doing some scouting for Bromley and on a report he wrote recently, he put ‘decent first touch, good range of passing but bit of a bottle job’ - apparently bottle job isn’t a term used any more !!!!
Haven't been on here since Friday and genuinely delighted to see that it's all arguing about calling players by numbers and whether that's dumb. It is! But everything is! Descriptions of players by position, number, talking about rigid formations is all reductive and stupid anyway because the game is more complex than it ever was. Thierry Small was a 2 for us. But also a 7. But also both and neither. Was Campbell our 11 or our 10 given he was our main creative threat and the likes of Berry and Anderson were more traditional 8s at the same time as Docherty. Coventry was our 4 or our 6 depending on how old you are and how European you are. If you're arguing about whether a player is a 4 or an 8 then congratulations on losing your mind. Players aren't constrained by these simplistic descriptions. They get assigned them for ease but it's all meaningless, like everything.
Bravo Garry, 👏🏻
Two years ago sitting around me were scouts, coaches and agents at Whyteleafe (near Purley) at a trials match for different young age groups. A 70 year old Scotsman now working for Hibernian would only say attacking midfielder, box to box or "Makelele" for the defensive midfielder.
Whereas a young guy who said he was a coach and did scouting for Stevenage was talking about numbers so much it was like an episode of Countdown by Rachel Riley 😍
I bet her talking about "2 from the bottom", "5 from the top" and "an inverted T" has all the keyboard coaches scrambling around.
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