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The Autopsy thread: Which England team members are for the chopping block?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hulkster" data-source="post: 756757" data-attributes="member: 73237"><p>I get the impression Lancaster and his team have tried to replicate and adopt something of an NFL style approach to coaching and setting up the team.</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong I'm sure there is a hell of a lot that can be learned from NFL, but while it is a physical collision sport, it is fundamentally different.</p><p></p><p>The most relevant difference being that it is a play-by-play game: play stops and everyone gets back into position after every tackle. There is no real broken play.</p><p></p><p>I get the impression that England are coached to within an inch of their lives, that they try to try to adopt an NFL style whereby the players are meant to he stand in the exact place the coaches tell them to in defence and use attacking moves from a set play book. </p><p></p><p>That would explain why so much emphasis is placed on what has happened in training, and why players who are more 'solid' and likely to stick to the play book seem to be preferred over more instinctive players.</p><p></p><p>Not saying this is the magical explanation to England's problems or anything like that, but I do get the impression that this is the style a lot more so than in other teams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hulkster, post: 756757, member: 73237"] I get the impression Lancaster and his team have tried to replicate and adopt something of an NFL style approach to coaching and setting up the team. Don't get me wrong I'm sure there is a hell of a lot that can be learned from NFL, but while it is a physical collision sport, it is fundamentally different. The most relevant difference being that it is a play-by-play game: play stops and everyone gets back into position after every tackle. There is no real broken play. I get the impression that England are coached to within an inch of their lives, that they try to try to adopt an NFL style whereby the players are meant to he stand in the exact place the coaches tell them to in defence and use attacking moves from a set play book. That would explain why so much emphasis is placed on what has happened in training, and why players who are more 'solid' and likely to stick to the play book seem to be preferred over more instinctive players. Not saying this is the magical explanation to England's problems or anything like that, but I do get the impression that this is the style a lot more so than in other teams. [/QUOTE]
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