You cannot compare PJ’s side to Cookies. The game has changed and today players are injured more because they are expected to do a lot more. PJ had 2 strikers supported by wide men so the workload wasn’t as strenuous. Todays forward is expected to be a target man cum winger cum midfielder. The full backs are expected to be racehorses so its no wonder most clubs have massive injury lists. It isn’t just us. Todays tactics and formations put a hell of a strain on players and that’s why the really big boys have so much strength in depth we haven’t.
Give me Jewells team, formations and tactics any day. Modern one is shite.[/quote]
I would agree hundred percent vat but there isn’t a lot we can do about it as fans. British coaches and managers are getting few and far between so the good old fashioned up and at em British style of play has been replaced with the more technical foreign approach.[/quote]
The one up front and crowd the midfield is a tactic from the Italian league of the 80s and 90s.
Even Barcelona have changed the way they play, switching to more of a 433 formation than the one up front and supportive players.
I always believe in at least 2 up front. Your first line of defence. We let teams play out from defence, playing a high line and putting us on the back foot. Basically, we play in every game, a style that used to be one employed by teams away from home, trying to grab a point.
