Tuesday 31 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 14

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 14 saw me turn on my mistakes, buying Lukaku, Ozil and makeweight Stanislas decisively.

Monday 30 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 13

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 13 was an opportune moment to punt against Leicester, Stoke, Villa and West Brom and it backfired almost completely.

Friday 20 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Lessons Roundup, Part 3

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. For Lessons Roundup, the past moves, Good and Bad, will be compiled & crystalised for future reference. Part 3 looked at Gameweeks 9 to 12 where I undid 3 weeks of hard work in 1 cursed GW12.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 12

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 12, just before yet another international break, saw an extremely low scoring gameweek which made the actual goalscorers have a HUGE influence on proceedings... 

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 11

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 11 served as the "biggest mistake of my life" where I took the Sunderland win over Newcastle too literally, deterring me from picking Lukaku up.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 10

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 10 came with big fixtures think and fast, where ARS/EVE, MUN/MCI and WHU/CHE all played into everyone's thoughts.

Thursday 19 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 9

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 9 just after the international break marked the beginning of the period Aguero-less - what would life turn out to be?

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Lessons Roundup, Part 2

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. For Lessons Roundup, the past moves, Good and Bad, will be compiled & crystalised for future reference. Part 2 looks at Gameweeks 5 to 8, concluding with the second international break.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 8

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 8 was the prelude to yet another international break; some key rests also caused lot of havoc, which I thankfully survived (and gained 800k rank int he process)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 7

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 7 had some epic clashes at the top of the table that produced some horrid results for me.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 6

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 6 saw the start of European games having an effect on teams in the Champions League as well as the Europa League.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 5

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 5 was the first gameweek after the international break as well as the close of the summer transfer window.

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Lessons Roundup, Part 1

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. For Lessons Roundup, the past moves, Good and Bad, will be compiled & crystalised for future reference. Part 1 looks at Gameweeks 1 to 4, concluding with the first international break & the closure of the transfer window.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 4

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 4 served as the result of my Wildcard picks which was a dangerous move considering the 2 week international break offering more potential hazards.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 3

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 2 is a post-mortem of the results in order to utilise the 2FT available pre-GW3.

Monday 16 May 2016

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 2

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is part of a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 2 is a post-mortem of the results in order to utilise the 2FT available pre-GW3.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 1

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight is part of a series that forces me to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 1 is a post-mortem of the results, as well as picking out numbers to monitor for GW3-deadline action.

Premier League 2015/16 Lessons In Hindsight, Gameweek 0

With the season at a close, it is time to do a post-mortem of the season so that has been absolutely disastrous. Lessons have to be learnt so it is time to look at the ugly face in the mirror and determine what to let go of past history and what to bring into next season. Gameweek 0 talks about the final team leading up to GW1 of 2015/16 and any expectations of the season.

Friday 18 March 2016

Coach Bain Mused: Central Dribblers, Lateral Movers, Positional Play

Courtesy of Mr. Bain's blog, I have come across three concepts that have characterised the movement of the modern central midfielder. With some elite players as examples, chances are that similar movement is seen across European leagues - the post serves as a clear definition of these movements, hopefully used as reference in future conversation when talking about the modern influential central midfielder.

For concept emphasis purposes, red highlights are myths or drawbacks in the current game, blue highlights are triggers used by central midfielders throughout a football match, and black highlights represent actions taken by the said central midfielders as a result of their trigger/blue actions.