Quote Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung View Post
Meh, doesn't say much for the "technical" skills of the players or the "tactical" minds of opposition coaches if they can't coach their teams to defend a long ball. Quite easy really. If they do it as frequently as you say they do, why don't coaches (the non atrocious ones) adapt to the tactic?

The opposition coaches must be more atrocious, to lose every game against such a tactic.
This is actually a great point...peeps havin a shot at olympic coach re tactics but not for the opposition countering. But hey lets all hail the curriculum...sad really