Tony_Kaufman
Here's a truck stop instead of St Peter's
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Something I've often questioned is if some modern footballers are over coached to the point where all their decisions are made for them and they can't use instinct unless the manager gives them free reign to do so?
Quite often you see players try the same pass over and over despite it having not worked all match and opponents countering it easily. Often this happens when there is a better and more obvious pass to make. But despite it not working they keep doing it. They then get subbed and their replacement does the exact same thing. Then in another match against different opponents it works. Oli Norwood is a prime example of this last season. Do they just do what they're told to do all the time despite knowing that it won't work because they've been coached to do this all the time?
I've always felt that youngsters are more of a threat when they first burst onto the scene as they haven't been over coached yet, so when they get a chance to play they often do what instinctively comes to them. In some cases they end up being brilliant, hence Harry Maguire, Kyle Naughton, David Brooks and Iliman Ndiaye having such huge impacts when they first made it into the starting line up.
Should teams nurture players and adapt formations and tactics to encourage players to play instinctively rather than setting out a formations and tactics where players must do x, y and z all match, instead of taking this away from them and turning them into programmed drones?
Quite often you see players try the same pass over and over despite it having not worked all match and opponents countering it easily. Often this happens when there is a better and more obvious pass to make. But despite it not working they keep doing it. They then get subbed and their replacement does the exact same thing. Then in another match against different opponents it works. Oli Norwood is a prime example of this last season. Do they just do what they're told to do all the time despite knowing that it won't work because they've been coached to do this all the time?
I've always felt that youngsters are more of a threat when they first burst onto the scene as they haven't been over coached yet, so when they get a chance to play they often do what instinctively comes to them. In some cases they end up being brilliant, hence Harry Maguire, Kyle Naughton, David Brooks and Iliman Ndiaye having such huge impacts when they first made it into the starting line up.
Should teams nurture players and adapt formations and tactics to encourage players to play instinctively rather than setting out a formations and tactics where players must do x, y and z all match, instead of taking this away from them and turning them into programmed drones?