Press Conference Week 6

BamBam wrote:1. What do you think of last week's result - Seems fair overthought my tactic

2. Who do you fear in your opponent's side this week - no one at all cos haven't looked who im playing yet

3. Who is the favourite for the league at this stage - Olly since he keeps winning

4. Who do you think is best set for season 2 - Anyone with a big ticket player i imagine Hero

5. How far do you think England will get in the WC - Quarterfinals

6. Who is going to be the biggest January transfer in real life - Alexis to Citeh

7. On a scale of 1-10, how glad are you that there's no international football until March - 1 i quite like international tournaments not friendlies tho

8. Are you watching a TV boxset at the moment? If so which one - Porters on Dave

Trebs wrote:1. I think that one person did some very good, well thought out feedback which I appreciated. That's the sort of thing that would makes me advocate doing one person predicting on each game.

Holymiky wrote:Ive said this already Trebs, its your choice of certain players not your tactics

Afro wrote:Its the age old thing of how important each element - players, tactics - is. For me its 50/50, but then you also need to have the right players to carry out the tactics.

But it is easier to just look at the teams, glance over the tactics and then decide, and I think this is a trap a lot fall into.

Ultimately I agree with Trebs. More consideration should be given for tactics, as quite often a poorer player with a set game plan gets the better of a mopre skilful player (Maffio on Ronaldo/Messi, Gomez on Neymar, Soddy on that school girl, Viva with that lady in the chinese)

Hero wrote:Quite often?
I'd say it was in reality 95% of the time the better player rises to the top but it's the moments a lesser player does well that people then remember.
Take the FA Cup as an example, the lesser side pretty much always takes it more seriously, puts more effort into the tactics and for the bigger clubs it's often a distraction from the league. Who usually ends up winning the cup? It's not the one full of the plucky underdogs with the great tactics.

Trebs wrote:

Hero wrote:Quite often?
I'd say it was in reality 95% of the time the better player rises to the top but it's the moments a lesser player does well that people then remember.
Take the FA Cup as an example, the lesser side pretty much always takes it more seriously, puts more effort into the tactics and for the bigger clubs it's often a distraction from the league. Who usually ends up winning the cup? It's not the one full of the plucky underdogs with the great tactics.

It's not like we're doing Lincoln City v Man United though.
If we want to compare it player wise, I'd say it's like an Everton vs Arsenal.

Hero wrote:Generally though even in the Premier League it's the team with the better players that wins more than the team with worse players. Leicester is the anomaly rather than the rule.

Afro wrote:

Hero wrote:Generally though even in the Premier League it's the team with the better players that wins more than the team with worse players. Leicester is the anomaly rather than the rule.

This overlooks the fact that often the best team with the best players, also have the best managers tactically.

Stick an average manager in charge of United, with broadly the same players, they won't do as well (i.e. fergie v moyes)

I don't think anyone is saying more weight on tactics than players, but both are important. To be completely accurate, its having the right players performing the right tactics - so in your example, using Joe Bloggs (sorry Bam) to mark Messi won't work, but sticking Gomez on Neymar might if people considered the game the other day.

Hero wrote:

Afro wrote:

Hero wrote:Generally though even in the Premier League it's the team with the better players that wins more than the team with worse players. Leicester is the anomaly rather than the rule.

This overlooks the fact that often the best team with the best players, also have the best managers tactically.

Stick an average manager in charge of United, with broadly the same players, they won't do as well (i.e. fergie v moyes)

I don't think anyone is saying more weight on tactics than players, but both are important. To be completely accurate, its having the right players performing the right tactics - so in your example, using Joe Bloggs (sorry Bam) to mark Messi won't work, but sticking Gomez on Neymar might if people considered the game the other day.

Even with Moyes they still finished ahead of the lesser teams, they were just the worst of the good teams.

Trebs wrote:I just want to point out that my squad have had depressed Trebs leading them in training this week.
Squad morale is a very important factor (worth 6 slots on ja I believe) and think that should be accounted for when predicting this week. My team will be very determined not to let me down again.

TwisT wrote:

Trebs wrote:I just want to point out that my squad have had depressed Trebs leading them in training this week.
Squad morale is a very important factor (worth 6 slots on ja I believe) and think that should be accounted for when predicting this week. My team will be very determined not to let me down again.

Really trying everything to get a result against me this week right

My team are fine despite the loss. They know they aren't led by a dictator on Prozac. They will play to their potential and what will be will be.

Trebs wrote:

TwisT wrote:

Trebs wrote:I just want to point out that my squad have had depressed Trebs leading them in training this week.
Squad morale is a very important factor (worth 6 slots on ja I believe) and think that should be accounted for when predicting this week. My team will be very determined not to let me down again.

Really trying everything to get a result against me this week right

My team are fine despite the loss. They know they aren't led by a dictator on Prozac. They will play to their potential and what will be will be.

Can I ask what sort of demeanour you had leading your players in training this week.