Throw in despair.....

[Oh HughieHughie]

When I'm bored at the game (which is quite often let's be honest) I count to 5 from when we take the throw in and see how often we still have possession...the answer is not very!! It's alarmingly poor.

 

[Big 1]

It's nowhere near good enough for a Championship club and hasn't been for a long time now. TBF Ryan Lowe can only work with the shit he has, but surely the coaching/tactics could be much better.

 

[Me]

We take so long over a throw-in it's like we're shithousing even when we're losing - nobody wants the ball.

 

[Thracia]

I used to watch Swansea training when Mike Marsh was coaching. They used to train at the local David Lloyds gym with open football pitches alongside. They used to spend a huge amount of time working on their 'shape' defensively and then bringing the ball out from the back and playing long diagonal balls. It tended to be 45 minutes of intense repetition, with coaches restarting phases from different areas. They'd play 8 v 8 or 9 v 9 on a full size pitch. One team would attack for five phases and then they'd switch. I was impressed by the organisation and discipline. I didn't know much about Lowe when he was appointed but I though Marsh would be a safe pair of hands.

This ties in with what the Telegraph reported about how they organise training here:

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"Marsh and Lowe divide coaching duties with the former Preston midfielder Paul Gallagher, the other first-team coach. On Thursday, Marsh worked the players hard on what to do against Spurs out of possession. Today Lowe will take them through what they need to do with the ball."​

Then later:

"Lowe observes and then it is his turn. He sets the players out to work on creating chances and finishing. On Thursday, when the team became clear, it was Marsh’s domain and defensive shape: staying compact, showing Spurs the outside, pushing them wide and away from goal. Now it was about how Preston can win the tie."​

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The whole article was interesting in the way we demarcated defensive and attacking units, but didn't seem to link them together - because that's also I think what we see in practice, disjointed tactics, where turning defence into attack is a big problem.

'They're on our turf – we have to compete': Behind the scenes as Preston tried to shock Spurs

From the training ground, to the dressing room and the half-time team-talk – we followed every step of the Championship side's preparation

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Regardless]

Which takes me back to my previously mentioned point, what do Marsh and Gallagher teach the players in training during the week ??

This should be a thread all in its own 😁