Sydie Peck

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Yes, I'm aware that's where it stems from, but the specific reason for number 4 or number 6 dropping back is what I'd like confirmed. I have Jonathan Wilson's book Inverting the Pyramid, and I may have a look there later. There is some logic in that either a right footed number 4, or the left footed number 6 dropped back to make a full back four.
I found the thread where this was discussed, ten years ago exactly. AgaMonkey was the one who explained the above to me:

 

Good in the transition = counter attack
Low block = sitting deep
Breaking the lines = can skin a man

All stupid millennial dribble...
Breaking the lines = passing forwards 😂

It's the football version of bullshit bongo you play in the office - 'blue sky thinking' etc. You could definitely play a football version, especially when Jenas or fucking Keown are commentating
 
We've mismanaged the development of a few promising youngsters more recently. Peck is one I'd be keen to really get right, so that he sees his future as here with us.
 
A ‘double pivot’ helps ‘play through the thirds’ 🙂

My niece’s son has started playing for a team, he’s eight. I asked him what position he plays and he said “false number 9”…..
My son has decided he's a striker. I've had to explain what "boglining" means because there's no other explanation for his positioning.
 
I found the thread where this was discussed, ten years ago exactly. AgaMonkey was the one who explained the above to me:

Wow…well remembered Bergen Blade! I’d forgotten all about that.
My dad was a 2-3-5 man…he couldn’t get his head round the new fangled 4-4-2 at all 😂
When I first started supporting Dem Blades our centre backs were Flynn (4) and Colquhoun (5) and then Trevor Hockey, our midfield terrier, was no 6.
I remember Man Citeh at the time whose centre backs were Tommy Booth (5) and Alan Oakes (6) and their midfield destroyer was Mike Doyle (4) Flynn was right footed, Oakes was left footed.
The numbers weren’t always fixed. Teams often did mix them up just because they could and if confused the opposition well, that was a good thing.
No 7 was usually the right winger and no 11 the left winger. Our left winger was usually Geoff Salmons (no8) and Gil Reece the second striker was 11. Alan Woodward our no 7 was notionally a right winger but he was much much more than that…
It’s complicated.
These days you’re most likely to find me enthused by Tiago Motta’s 2-7-2 but that’s another story altogether
 
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Wow…well remembered Bergen! I’dMy dad was a 2-3-5 man…he couldn’t get his head round the new fangled 4-4-2 at all 😂
When I first started supporting Dem Blades our centre backs were Flynn (4) and Colquhoun (5) and then Trevor Hockey was no 6.
I remember Man Citeh at the time whose centre backs were Tommy Booth (5) and Alan Oakes (6) and their midfield destroyer was Mike Doyle (4)
These days you’re most likely to find me enthused by Tiago Motta’s 2-7-2 but that’s another story altogether
It was either 4-2-4 which was popular in the 1970s or Ramsey's wingless 4-3-3.

4-4-2 was later
 
Wow…well remembered Bergen Blade! I’d forgotten all about that.
My dad was a 2-3-5 man…he couldn’t get his head round the new fangled 4-4-2 at all 😂
When I first started supporting Dem Blades our centre backs were Flynn (4) and Colquhoun (5) and then Trevor Hockey, our midfield terrier, was no 6.
I remember Man Citeh at the time whose centre backs were Tommy Booth (5) and Alan Oakes (6) and their midfield destroyer was Mike Doyle (4) Flynn was right footed, Oakes was left footed.
The numbers weren’t always fixed. Teams often did mix them up just because they could and if confused the opposition well, that was a good thing.
No 7 was usually the right winger and no 11 the left winger. Our left winger was usually Geoff Salmons (no8) and Gil Reece the second striker was 11. Alan Woodward our no 7 was notionally a right winger but he was much much more than that…
It’s complicated.
These days you’re most likely to find me enthused by Tiago Motta’s 2-7-2 but that’s another story altogether
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"I'll tell you honestly, I'll love it if I can get an extra couple on the back of this shirt..."
 

Remember when wilder was riding on the crest of a wave, he said football is a simple game that's been made complicated.

Noise and nonsense.
 
How about 'in transition'?
Moving between attack and defence. Particularly relevant when players have more fluid positions, for example Alexander-Arnold at Liverpool moving between right back and central midfield.

Could someone answer this followed by a "slide rule pass"
Old reference to the pre-calculator days. It's a pass so exact it had to be measured perfectly. I'm pretty sure my mum still has a slide rule in the loft somewhere from her teaching days.

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Remember when wilder was riding on the crest of a wave, he said football is a simple game that's been made complicated.

Noise and nonsense.

Ironically the system that made him so successful at that time was the most finely tuned piece of tactical artwork I’ve ever seen.

Blackwell’s interpretation was genuinely simple football.
 
In Dinno, it was always 'shit-lining', although the posher types may have said 'goal hanging'.
Bog lining in South West Sheffield’s leafy suburbs (in the 80’s) where the sun always shines and course language was frowned upon in case a lady was present.

Probably all changed as traditional values splintered and kids seek silly bright pink boots instead of the revered adidas copas or puma king. That and it seems to be illegal to meet up for a game of Wembley doubles these days.
 

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