Good teams have set systems and styles

injuries haven't helped, but Smith doesn't actually know whether to go 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 (diamond).

He'll say he's being flexible, and it's fine to mix it up for a specific opponent, but you have to have core principles for players to know what's expected of them. They won't gel as a unit otherwise.

Once he'd got it sussed, at Champ level at least, Farke never deviated from 4-2-3-1 apart from the odd switch to 3 at the back if we were chasing a game. That's why, in 20-21 specifically, we were such a machine.

Posted By: jamesward on November 16th 2022 at 12:19:44

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Baileys podcast saying Smith reiterated the fact they let the players come up with game (NCFC) - thirsty work, Nov 16, 10:13:54
- Do they come up with their own training too? (NCFC) - usacanary, Nov 16, 13:45:19
- Anyone ever questioned (NCFC) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 16, 13:01:57
  - Maybe if he wrote it on an obscure website and linked to it from Twitter for you? (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Nov 16, 13:42:43
    - Obscure? (NCFC) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 16, 14:02:00
      - Cry more. (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Nov 16, 15:28:18
        
        Good one Lee? (NCFC) - ParrotPuncher, Nov 16, 15:37:10
  - Is "The Athletic" actually a thing (NCFC) - KevinBond, Nov 16, 13:17:21
  - Dean Smith has said as much himself in the past (n/m) (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 13:11:48
- brexit version of sven goran eriksson (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 16, 12:56:32
- Early on it was reported that Smith liked player-input (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Nov 16, 12:29:18
- Bailey's mentioned it a few times (NCFC) - 51eve, Nov 16, 12:14:51
- Need the army wallahs to chip in but sounds like mission command principles (NCFC) - CWC, Nov 16, 12:03:16
- So Guardiola, Arteta, Conte et al All Coach Their Players & Teams....? (NCFC) - Martin Peters, Nov 16, 11:52:58
  - OMG UNCAPITALISED WORDS FROM ED IN THE MESSAGE TITLE (NCFC) - Old Git, Nov 16, 12:11:33
    - Ideally They'd Have Been In Italics I Guess! (NCFC) - Martin Peters, Nov 16, 13:07:16
    - Lollers. (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Nov 16, 12:41:56
    - Only pesky foreign words though (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 12:12:42
- Surely it’s not as blatant as that and he guides them to want he wants, thus giving them (NCFC) - DH Yellow, Nov 16, 11:26:34
  - Not according to Bailey. He says he pushes the responsibility onto them (n/m) (NCFC) - thirsty work, Nov 16, 11:47:21
  - I'm sure he doesn't do nothing (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 11:39:09
    - Yep, especially as it’s clearly not working what he’s doing (n/m) (NCFC) - Bravo win or die, Nov 16, 12:01:08
    - I agree with you 100%. And I’m not trying to be argumentative, but. If it’s a guided (NCFC) - DH Yellow, Nov 16, 11:57:16
      - Good teams have set systems and styles (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 12:19:44
        
        Look I agree. I just don’t think ‘he’s doing f all and leaving up to the players’ (NCFC) - DH Yellow, Nov 16, 13:18:49
        
        Agree (n/m) (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 13:20:26
- It’s ridiculous especially in a season when we… (NCFC) - loz, Nov 16, 11:04:05
- Yes, in my new Jim role this season, it's been a concern to me for a while (NCFC) - Bravo win or die, Nov 16, 10:50:27
- Yeah Smith has mentioned it before. (NCFC) - jAC, Nov 16, 10:27:08
- that would explain how in some games ... (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Nov 16, 10:21:12
  - It been (NCFC) - Ghost Ship Belly, Nov 16, 12:02:43
  - As Bailey said, that’s ok developing an U18 or U21 side but not a supposedly promotion (NCFC) - thirsty work, Nov 16, 10:24:51
    - It's really odd (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 10:29:33
      - That's pub football. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 16, 10:31:02
        
        It's the kind of thing you discuss in the video analysis sessions (NCFC) - jamesward, Nov 16, 11:06:20
        
        Yep,it's basically an admission that he doesn't know his job. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Nov 16, 11:18:48
        
        and it looks like it some games (n/m) (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Nov 16, 10:32:13
        
        Yeah, Ber Streete Gates B Team (n/m) (NCFC) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 16, 10:54:34
        
        Talented players expressing themselves...world in motion innit (n/m) (NCFC) - KevinBond, Nov 16, 10:53:02

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