Philosophy

[degsy]

Went with the cheese option.
None of the above - yet all of the above and then some...you'd think it was Everton that played a lower team midweek for 120 mins, then lost on penalties. Yet Southampton managed to put it all behind them and show us up without getting into top gear

Just get something that maximises, if possible, what we have.
Bit of this, bit of that, some running, tackling, passing, shooting, attacking the ball in both goal mouths, marking the man, effort, commitment, intensity.

If not you Silva then somebody with a bit of flexibility

And no 'kin philosophies either

 

[davids]

...it’s the way to go, it’s called a playing strategy. Encouraging.

Thing is you need players to fit how you want to play and we probably don’t have that yet.

Which is a very strange way to go.Finding a way to play to suit the players you have might be more sensible.

 

[NCLBlue]

Is the the poll they put in the dressing room on match day and players just pick what they reckon?

I remember my mate being so bad at driving the instructor joked he’d be boss if no other cars existed. That’s our players. Good 11 vs 0.

Jokes aside, I want to win. And I want us to try to win and not play for 0-0 or 1-0 or any other chod - unless we were controlling the game and still moving forwards. It never felt like a win when we scraped them under BSA.

 

[LydiateLee]

We play with so little belief and intensity in final third, no midfielders breaking in to the box, no dynamism.

It's painfully frustrating to watch, we must be the easiest side in the league to set up against.

 

[Eggs]

Which is a very strange way to go.Finding a way to play to suit the players you have might be more sensible.

...I think that’s what you have to do in the short-term, so the team model might be a hybrid for a while but ultimately there should be a playing strategy that we’re trying to achieve. Without a playing strategy you have a disjointed transfer policy.

 

[diggerdestroyer]

Irrespective of the preferred formation, we need to play with belief, confidence, guts, pace, passion and a never-say-die attitude.

And this is exactly what we dont do. We havent since martinez second season.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Different situations calls for different strategies. The manager should be able to change players, philosophy etc. as each game is played; and the season, for that matter, as players injuries and form indicate.

Our philosophy should be whatever philosophy will work on a given day. If we stick with a singular style of play, we will become predictable. And very beatable.

It remains to be seen whether or not Silva is capable of adapting.

Already happening mate.

Someone said the other day, we’re that predictable Bielsa at Leeds wouldn’t have to spy on us.

 

[diggerdestroyer]

We play with so little belief and intensity in final third, no midfielders breaking in to the box, no dynamism.

It's painfully frustrating to watch, we must be the easiest side in the league to set up against.

The lack of intensity starts at the back. We can judge evertons performance for the match on the first 10 mins when you see the slow passing game we adopt at the back and midfield. This then runs through the team. As if its ..lets play ourselves into the game for first 70 mins. Its groundhog day. Players are there to be 7th at least inthe league.intensity wise we are a group of dozy .....

 

[Parker]

Football philosophies are cyclical, there is a dominant style and the next dominant style will be what was successful against the former. Mourinho's organised defensive style that made Inter and Real Madrid so successful gave way to Pep's possession which in turn is weak against the all action, high pressing direct nature of what was popularised by Klopp and Sampaoli. The next style will be what works against that imo. Which could even be the organised defence like Simeone does with Atletico.

 

[davids]

...I think that’s what you have to do in the short-term, so the team model might be a hybrid for a while but ultimately there should be a playing strategy that we’re trying to achieve. Without a playing strategy you have a disjointed transfer policy.

We just seem to employ one stubborn manager after another.Surely Silva can see what we are all seeing yet he continues with this odd idea that players far from suited to the system he wants to employ will some how miraculously get it.

 

[davids]

And this is exactly what we dont do. We havent since martinez second season.

Hate to have to say this, but under Allardyce at least we showed some resilience.

 

[peteblue]

I am old school. False pivots and all that do my nut.

Keeper. Brave, decent, can command his box.

Back 4. Thou shall not pass attitude.

Midfield. Buzzer, breaker and a passer.

Wingers. CF.

It’s always worked before. It also needs a bit of belief and confidence......

 

[peteblue]

...it’s the way to go, it’s called a playing strategy. Encouraging.

Thing is you need players to fit how you want to play and we probably don’t have that yet.

And yet.... Keeper Ok, full backs Ok, cb’s Ok, midfield Ok, wingers Ok, striker- well when we finally buy one we might be Ok.......

 

[Blues Harp]

Consign "philosophy" to the dustbin of history please....we had enough of this under martinez. Personally I would put Socrates in midfield, with Descartes as a deep lying thinker...

 

[Jonte]

How about option no. 7?

Bin the notion of DOFs and spend the savings on players instead. It’s all a bit ‘Emperor’s new suit if clothes’ for me.