On-field communication

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emb said:
You know he has Tourette's, right? Not saying that has anything to do with him yelling at defenders, but he's pretty public about it.

(Tourette's is neurological as well as psychiatric so no idea what it's like to live with psychologically compared to stuff I have more experience of)
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No...but that just confirms my conjecture.
 

Tim's Tourette's symptoms have never been verbal. He has some facial tics and throat clearing. It is a neurological condition that causes involuntary muscle tics. There are no psychiatric symptoms associated with Tourette's.
 
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Talkers need listeners to listen

They also have to have a clue what they're talking about

Those 2 proviso's don't leave us with many options left on or off the field
 
Azzurri said:
Some things I've noticed:

Howard's really quiet for 89 minutes and 50 seconds of a game but has a random 10 second spurt where he goes absolutely mental at his defence.

Coleman does a lot of gesturing with his thumb.

Jagielka tilts his head to the side when talking to refs, much like a dog.

Distin is always telling people to calm down by doing that thing like Ross on Friends.

McCarthy has murder with opposition players every game.

Pienaar makes this face when someone misplaces a pass to him that looks like he's about to cry/has tasted something horrible.

Lukaku tells teammates he wants a pass to feet by bending over and placing both palms out with his hands towards the floor.

Eto'o tries to get people booked by card waving/getting in the ref's face for 3 seconds then smiling and laughing when an opposition player clocks on.

Martinez does a lot of talking with Barkley. Seriously, watch it. Whenever there's an injury Barkley's over there having a drink and getting advice.
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Mate I've never seen a Dog talk to referee mate.
 
Mr. F said:
There was a manager here in Norway that had a theory about this, he wanted to get all his players communicating constantly and thought that would improve the teams performance. He included it in training sessions in order to get the players used to being vocal. Turns out it didn't make any difference.

I can see goalkeepers doing some shouting otherwise it's probably not all that valuable.
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Kinda strange when you consider that it's a massive factor in lots of other team sports.
 

At premier league level, I don't think communication is that important. Players already know what they are going to do before they even get the ball.
They should also be intelligent enough (in a football sense) and structured enough in their positioning to know what is happening around them when they don't have the ball
 
Tree13 said:
Kinda strange when you consider that it's a massive factor in lots of other team sports.
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Yes. I think part of the problem in that case was you got too much communication, plus some players aren't comfortable communicating when they play.

Football is arguably the most demanding game because of the mental effort, you have to be constantly alert and react fast and basically you're reading the movement etc of players on the other team as well as your teammates.
At the highest levels the game is so fast you wouldn't have the time to communicate effectively verbally, I think visual communication like gestures is easier to process quickly.

There are exceptions obviously but in open play talking isn't vital.
 
Ryan Ledson, 17 years of age, had no problems whatsoever the other night ommunicating, throughout the game, with
players twice his age.i think he just understands what football is all about and it will be more easy for him the more he
plays, couldn't believe how good he was.
 

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