TheVelourFog
Player Valuation: £6m
Animosity towards this fella is just bizarre
Was thrown in the deep end well and truly
Was thrown in the deep end well and truly
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Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
Sorry outside backs and the term shut outs drive me nanas
I think you mean "Americanization".Outside backs??? The Americanisation of our national game gathers pace!
carolinablue232
Player Valuation: £70m
I’ll never type it again. Just for you.Sorry outside backs and the term shut outs drive me nanas
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
Really? It's not wing back? Do you know the difference? That's why you write outside back, genius.
That why some of you sound like morons when you call certain players winger when they are inside forwards. Thankfully us Americans are here to correct you.
In reality, the level of coaching and soccer knowledge is pathetic in the US, so I don't have a ground to stand on, but that doesn't make some of these comments any less stupid.
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
Eh, they might pay a minimal fee and negotiate a new deal perhaps. But yeah, might be a stretch, true. He can serve a ball and can play CB in a pinch at the MLS level. The level is getting better, but he can still be a decent player in the league.
Actually they are inverted wingers, inside forwards are a different type of player.
An inverted winger is a modern tactical development of the traditional winger position. Most wingers are assigned to either side of the field based on their footedness, with right-footed players on the right and left-footed players on the left.
So wingers for short, wing forwards if you like, not inside forwards at all.
Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
I know perfectly well what term means doesn’t mean I have to agree with it. You lot have history with butching the English language for no apparent reason.
carolinablue232
Player Valuation: £70m
Oh I agree he’d be decent. But no one would notice him either way really. Which is far better for everyone.
I suppose I would never call them inside forwards due to it being an older term from back in the day.
Wiki explains it pretty well.
The position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre-forward, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him or her with passes. The role is broadly analogous to the "hole" or second striker position in the modern game, although here there were two such players, known as inside right and inside left.
WM Formation: the inside forwards (red) occupy a more withdrawn position supporting the centre-forward and outside right and left
In early 2–3–5 formations the inside-forwards would flank the centre-forward on both sides. With the advent of the "WM" formation, the inside forwards were brought back to become attacking midfielders, supplying balls to the centre-forward and the two attacking Outside forwards – known as the outside right and outside left.
In the modern game, inside forwards have either been pushed up front to become out-and-out attackers (in 4–3–3 formations) or one has been switched back into midfield and the other up front (in 4–4–2). Many teams, however, still employ one of their strikers in a withdrawn role as a support forward for the main striker, in a role broadly similar to the inside forward.
Not many teams play a 2-3-5 anymore, which is a shame.
Wiki explains it pretty well.
The position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre-forward, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him or her with passes. The role is broadly analogous to the "hole" or second striker position in the modern game, although here there were two such players, known as inside right and inside left.
WM Formation: the inside forwards (red) occupy a more withdrawn position supporting the centre-forward and outside right and left
In early 2–3–5 formations the inside-forwards would flank the centre-forward on both sides. With the advent of the "WM" formation, the inside forwards were brought back to become attacking midfielders, supplying balls to the centre-forward and the two attacking Outside forwards – known as the outside right and outside left.
In the modern game, inside forwards have either been pushed up front to become out-and-out attackers (in 4–3–3 formations) or one has been switched back into midfield and the other up front (in 4–4–2). Many teams, however, still employ one of their strikers in a withdrawn role as a support forward for the main striker, in a role broadly similar to the inside forward.
Not many teams play a 2-3-5 anymore, which is a shame.
Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
I have played and watched football my whole life but haven’t once heard the term outside back to describe full backs or wing backs. I’m fairly sure you’ve made it up.
Azzurri
Player Valuation: £70m
I suppose I would never call them inside forwards due to it being an older term from back in the day.
Wiki explains it pretty well.
The position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre-forward, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him or her with passes. The role is broadly analogous to the "hole" or second striker position in the modern game, although here there were two such players, known as inside right and inside left.
WM Formation: the inside forwards (red) occupy a more withdrawn position supporting the centre-forward and outside right and left
In early 2–3–5 formations the inside-forwards would flank the centre-forward on both sides. With the advent of the "WM" formation, the inside forwards were brought back to become attacking midfielders, supplying balls to the centre-forward and the two attacking Outside forwards – known as the outside right and outside left.
In the modern game, inside forwards have either been pushed up front to become out-and-out attackers (in 4–3–3 formations) or one has been switched back into midfield and the other up front (in 4–4–2). Many teams, however, still employ one of their strikers in a withdrawn role as a support forward for the main striker, in a role broadly similar to the inside forward.
Not many teams play a 2-3-5 anymore, which is a shame.
I say it occasionally, to differentiate between winger wingers like Sane, and wingers who wish they were strikers or no. 10s like Sanchez.
Ste Naismith was an inside forward.
Yeah but your a yoot.
Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
I’d class inside forward as a particular role ie deep lying playmaker, sweeper keeper, target man ect
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
The term was used correctly. Agree or disagree.
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