Long ball team

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We are a long ball team @ReadingFC. You should prepare for this game by only practicing your heading and clearances. Don’t worry about our midfield as they are completely bypassed every week.

Kind Regards,

All at SUFC
 
Grandmanasty said:
The ignorance is quite staggering .
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It is based on their statistical 'analysis' which shows:

"The style may not be pretty to watch and won’t work against everyone, but results have certainly been consistent of late. In terms of those stats, they play 340 short passes per game as well as 77 long balls in each match."

So a long pass is by inference a hoof then? Somebody ought to tell Paul Coutts that.

Wankers!
 
I should coco said:
It is based on their statistical 'analysis' which shows:

"The style may not be pretty to watch and won’t work against everyone, but results have certainly been consistent of late. In terms of those stats, they play 340 short passes per game as well as 77 long balls in each match."

So a long pass is by inference a hoof then? Somebody ought to tell Paul Coutts that.

Wankers!
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Was just about to paste the same quote. Journalism at it's utter worst.

Tossers.
 
I should coco said:
It is based on their statistical 'analysis' which shows:

"The style may not be pretty to watch and won’t work against everyone, but results have certainly been consistent of late. In terms of those stats, they play 340 short passes per game as well as 77 long balls in each match."

So a long pass is by inference a hoof then? Somebody ought to tell Paul Coutts that.

Wankers!
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I suspect I might be one of the first to throw stones if my Hoofometer started bleeping. It’s been inactive since September 2016.
 
For years and years when we were on tv and we won a free kick, we were referred to as ‘set piece specialists’.

We weren’t. Our set piece work was awful. I don’t know where that reputation came from. It was just lazy to keep trotting it out.

Mind you, after Flecks goal against the bouncing bastards, maybe the tag needs resurrecting.
 
I should coco said:
It is based on their statistical 'analysis' which shows:

"The style may not be pretty to watch and won’t work against everyone, but results have certainly been consistent of late. In terms of those stats, they play 340 short passes per game as well as 77 long balls in each match."

So a long pass is by inference a hoof then? Somebody ought to tell Paul Coutts that.

Wankers!
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The bit that everyone gets wrong is the distinction between a long pass and a long ball. A long pass is merely any pass that is over 35 yards. They have incorrectly inserted the term long ball implying it’s booted very long with no particular destination in mind. Pathetic.

Long ball is synonymous with a defender booting the ball into a space where a forward may latch on to it.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a long pass, we from time to time use this to switch to a wide position where we’ve had a lot of joy. Certainly if we complete such passes they can be a thing of beauty.

You’ll be amazed at the player in our side that makes the most long passes per game. Yes, it’s Couttsy, but probably because he passes much more than anyone in the side and he passes successfully and he can move with the ball and retain possession. He can do everything so he does.

Whoever wrote the article probably hasn’t seen us play and doesn’t understand what passing stats mean. Which isn’t much unless you include successful pass rates and chances created.
 
we can play the way we are for years to come, but unfortunately Sheffield United will live in the shadow of its own casting people still think and will think we are a hoofball team, fuck em let them learn about us the hard way!
 
Pinchy said:
Perhaps someone more adept than me could send them the Brazil ‘70 style 17-pass goal video that swept all over Europe? Didn’t we have a 13 pass one as well?
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Lundstrams goal v forest was equally as good as Freeman's v Swindon. You could argue with the oppo being better, it was superior.

We're a phenomenal side at this level when you talk pass and move.
 



For every supporter giving it the 'direct team, ugly football' spiel on their way to match, there's a potential defeated, sunken figure quietly leaving the lane having watched their team get dicked on.

Long may it continue.
 
Brings to mind the old adage 'Lies, damned lies and statistics'....
 
Scooter_mcgavin said:
Lundstrams goal v forest was equally as good as Freeman's v Swindon. You could argue with the oppo being better, it was superior.

We're a phenomenal side at this level when you talk pass and move.
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Agreed. You simply will not see a better 3 minute period of continuous “total”football as the first 3 minutes at Florest, anywhere in Europe.

Blew me away to be honest.

UTB
 
Pinchy said:
Perhaps someone more adept than me could send them the Brazil ‘70 style 17-pass goal video that swept all over Europe? Didn’t we have a 13 pass one as well?
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I lose count of the countless number of countless pass goals we score
 
I hadn’t realised how standard the number of passes over 35 yards per team per game was until I’ve looked at it! They are virtually meaningless.

Another way of putting it is “every single Championship side plays a pass of over 35 yards on average every 60 to 90 seconds or thereabouts”.

They are very closely clustered. His figures are out of date, we’re 11th with 76. The average is 74 which is Wendy’s score by the way. Fifteen sides are in the 70s, Reading highest at 84 and Fulham lowest at 58.

How you can make any conclusions on style from that is beyond me.
 
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