pardsisalegend 9:13 Sun Jan 18
Diamond
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What a surprise, we played our better football in the second half with a diamond.
Where Downing and Valencia can play in ther best positions, where Cresswell and Jenkinson are liberated to roam forwards.
The diamond has transformed this team. Why does Allardyce keep reverting from it?
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Takashi Miike
9:14 Sun Jan 18
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first letter C, fourth letter T
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BigLump
9:16 Sun Jan 18
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Clot?
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Whitester.
9:17 Sun Jan 18
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I always use the same basic curry sauce Recipe i have done for years as it is the bollocks but sometimes I like to try different herbs and spices to see if I can improve it.
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fraser
9:21 Sun Jan 18
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So he can boast over and over again how he's a tactical genius when he switches back to it after we've been getting cunted in the bastard
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jack flash
11:28 Sun Jan 18
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I agree & find it a real mystery
The diamond easily suits us best, it's more effective & the football more pleasing on the eye
You have to wonder if it's a ploy to grind down the opposition (as we did in the 1st half) then unleash the diamond later
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The White Horse
7:26 Mon Jan 19
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Whitester 9.17
I always used the same basic curry sauce Recipe I have done for years as it is the bollocks but then I put a gigantic dumpling in it (Nolan) and a fucking pansy (Carroll)
It tasted like shite and everything that was so good for that time all went to the dogs. I failed to see that putting the dumplings and pansy in it basically made it stodgy. I was stubborn when people starting telling me it wasn't working as these new ingredients while related each other well on the cooking board did not compliment each other when used. My curry was going down the tubes and people started getting angry cos I changed the recipe and it was no longer a success. .
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Coffee
7:28 Mon Jan 19
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Amazing how curries and dumplings can feature on a thread about formations.
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Monk~koknee
7:32 Mon Jan 19
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It is due to Homeostasis and, therefore, outside of anyone's control.
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Lovejoy
8:13 Mon Jan 19
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I fancy a curry now.
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Coffee
8:23 Mon Jan 19
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Lovejoy 8:13 Mon Jan 19
Home delivery?
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Lovejoy
8:30 Mon Jan 19
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Coffee 8:23 Mon Jan 19
Work above a food court in a shopping mall. Will go down in about a hour for a curry lunch.
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Coffee
8:32 Mon Jan 19
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Dangerous workplace. Like working opposite a doughnut shop.
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Lily Hammer
8:34 Mon Jan 19
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If only we'd lost, then we could really let rip on this thread. The cunt only made the changes to win so he could piss us off, what with him hating us and tryint o get the sack.
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Coffee
8:43 Mon Jan 19
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Lily
Your customary balanced demeanour is under attack from parties unknown. Suggest immediate remedial action.
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Monk~koknee
8:48 Mon Jan 19
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Exactly, he lost the dressing room in the first period but found it again at half time.
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Lily Hammer
8:53 Mon Jan 19
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Coffee
I only try to bring balance to the larger argument. If I seem unbalanced, it only shows how far the scales have been tipped in the other direction.
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dicksie3
9:21 Mon Jan 19
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pardsisalegend 9:13 Sun Jan 18
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pdbis
4:27 Tue Jan 20
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BFS only plays Nolan to wind up the fans.
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Alex V
5:13 Tue Jan 20
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The reason is that the diamond has weaknesses (it's too narrow, and it involves huge energy to cover the gaps it creates on the flanks). That's why, despite a surge in popularity, no truly successful team that I can name play a diamond in midfield.
Earlier this season a lot of Prem teams were trying the diamond, and almost all of them have abandoned it (I'm pretty sure we're the only one still using it). We also had the good fortune that the first few times we played it, the opposition also played a diamond at the same time, so it's inherent weaknesses were not exposed early on.
I can see the diamond's advantages in the short term. It gets Downing in the middle, and gets Valencia or Sakho in the team up front. BUT unless we're riding the crest of a wave of some sort of revolution in effective tactics, long term it will be exposed.
We also had massive success in the short-term with the diamond under Zola. It had a novelty factor, and I think that't the same with us this year. But after a while teams learn to exploit its weaknesses.
I actually totally agree with Sam's approach. He is starting with a more conventional formation, and using the diamond as a strategy to introduce in games where plan A isn't working. Good idea.
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