(07-30-2019, 04:36 AM)bratblue link Wrote:Training has changed significantly, there's more hands on the footy than mind numbing drills. Its easy to see that its paid off on cleaner ball handling. I notice that the short passes are going lower making it difficult to spoil. We used to be such big turnover merchants now we're not.
You mean Disposal Efficiency, that's the one stat that has changed! :o
We could attribute that to a deliberate change in training, but it's also correlated to the older guys moving back into their traditional roles displacing some of the less efficient kids.
They may well have changed training emphasis from tactics to skills, but that doesn't mean the tactics weren't already being rehearsed. Thinking it has assumes too much and it would be too much change in too short of a time period to come together like it has, it's even a little naive to think it's possible!
It's dead easy to pick a bit of this stat or a bit of that stat and make it a cause when it may just be a correlation. Like fans discussing the change in SoJ, is his current influence a cause of change or an effect of some other change, we don't get to know because we are outside the inner circle.
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