Subject: [Old] Canada Senior NT Discussion

We have a bit better than equal chance to win I think but sofas we got nothing. Only been two games do far though. Like old time hockey said, first game was a shame.

Just wondering why we aren't playing very high like our opponents--what are we saving energy for?

Boo, hit the net already boys... last shot to win the game... over the bar...... booooooooooooooo

We got 2 best strickers in the world and they can't score not even hit the target????
And yes why not playing very high, everyone else is playing very high and we like save energy for I don't know what.

Yves Todd bailed us out of this one, holy crap. Sucks that we couldn't hit the target, but that's a victory for our goal tending.

Not everyone is playing very high, a lot are playing high/very high (if they aren't winning).

Very high even for 2 or 3 games can destroy a teams energy. Unfortunately we didn't have our easy games first, then we could have just gone stark wild against our harder opponents.

If this helps any.... I notice that our midfield is not the strongest in the game, just like mine... So I had to switch to longball to get my forwards the ball a little more... The midfielders get less shots and my forwards more. Since our D is solid and our forwards are the best, perhaps we could try some boot and chase ball.

even just Normal could work too yeah

Our mids are better than our defense, what we have is really strong forwards.

the problem I noticed today is that some of our mids training has gone off kilter, I feel their ratings could be higher with a change to their training. Not that rating is everything, but its all we got to check.

If we don't do well in the friendly this week I will switch to long ball.

If our midfield was clearly our weakest link I would switch to long ball.

speaking of training and and ratings I can't get Marquise campbell above 10 no matter how much he trains... he should be better than that with his stats

Likely energy related or one of his secondaries aren't high enough. I have him scouted, one second.

Marquise Campbell

My guess is heading is too low. While it is a "small" secondary it trains closer to a medium secondary to get better ratings. Test that for a few weeks.

ok, I'll give that a try

With the friendly today there was a chance to experiment something with the line-up and or tactics maybe some subs but I just saw a same line-up and tactic.

Ohhh yaaa, sorry, you changed match importance.

I decided that I would see how the current tactics faired against a weaker opponent. People often change something based on one result. Like as if someone who won on 7&2 in texas hold'em once and decided its the best hand ever. Or lost with pocket Aces and decided never to bet strong with it again. It's statistics.
The first game was a write off, so other than that we had 2 games against tough teams. One tie, one loss. Nothing to base any information on.

If they didn't win against a weaker team with this strategy after a 3rd game, then I determined I would change it. 3 games isn't even enough really, but we don't have forever.

You might think I could have experimented with less consequences today, but if something had not worked then would we have decided after 1 game it was wrong? That makes no sense either, so trying the new tactic this next game when our opponent won't be able to see what it is is actually better.

I am not above reproach or explaining my theories and in every case I have, we don't need sarcasm to ask a question.