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Dylan12 said:
Great news to hear.

Whilst some of his match day coaching IMO is questionable, you cannot fault the unity and stability he has brought to the club and is just the nurturing father figure many of young players need (not that he won’t give them a serve when required).

Couldn’t think of a better person at the helm and I honestly would’ have any other coach in the league over Coach Fagan.
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My sentiments exactly.

RE Match day, I also agree.

But I always think, he has assistants around him who would be suggesting complicated tactical ideas and making suggestions for game plan and positional changes etc.

I don't think it is the case that he just lacks tactical nous and if even if he did, assistants could fill in the gaps.

I believe that he has made a conscious decision to make it as simple as possible, simple game plan, limited changes to line up, over the summer basically only working on contested ball etc.. I think as we develop he will ask more tactically of the group.

It was his mandate coming in because a big part of the feed back on Leppas coaching was how complicated and confusing it was, I think he has gone the other way.

His line ups for example - don't always suite the task at hand, but he puts stability first, that's a choice not just him ignoring match ups or not having the intelligence or support to know the best possible line up that week.
 
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lioninthesand said:
My sentiments exactly.

RE Match day, I also agree.

But I always think, he has assistants around him who would be suggesting complicated tactical ideas and making suggestions for game plan and positional changes etc.

I don't think it is the case that he just lacks tactical nous and if even if he did, assistants could fill in the gaps.

I believe that he has made a conscious decision to make it as simple as possible, simple game plan, limited changes to line up, over the summer basically only working on contested ball etc.. I think as we develop he will ask more tactically of the group.

It was his mandate coming in because a big part of the feed back on Leppas coaching was how complicated and confusing it was, I think he has gone the other way.

His line ups for example - don't always suite the task at hand, but he puts stability first, that's a choice not just him ignoring match ups or not having the intelligence or support to know the best possible line up that week.
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This is what i believe. Keep things a simple as possible and slowly build from there
 

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lioninthesand said:
My sentiments exactly.

RE Match day, I also agree.

But I always think, he has assistants around him who would be suggesting complicated tactical ideas and making suggestions for game plan and positional changes etc.

I don't think it is the case that he just lacks tactical nous and if even if he did, assistants could fill in the gaps.

I believe that he has made a conscious decision to make it as simple as possible, simple game plan, limited changes to line up, over the summer basically only working on contested ball etc.. I think as we develop he will ask more tactically of the group.

It was his mandate coming in because a big part of the feed back on Leppas coaching was how complicated and confusing it was, I think he has gone the other way.

His line ups for example - don't always suite the task at hand, but he puts stability first, that's a choice not just him ignoring match ups or not having the intelligence or support to know the best possible line up that week.
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cheekyLionsFan said:
This is what i believe. Keep things a simple as possible and slowly build from there
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Spot on:thumbsu:, build the solid/simple to understand foundations of the game plan/style and then bring in the subtle nuances as we build.

Chris Fagan is the perfect coach for us at this point of time in our history. I am also confident he will be the one to take us to the ultimate prize.
 
jason pm said:
Spot on:thumbsu:, build the solid/simple to understand foundations of the game plan/style and then bring in the subtle nuances as we build.

Chris Fagan is the perfect coach for us at this point of time in our history. I am also confident he will be the one to take us to the ultimate prize.
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Eithet way, im in for the journey.

As the players would say #lovethisclub
 
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I think the biggest hint as to Fages' tactical coaching came after one of our close losses (can't remember which one).

In the post match presser he mentioned that we haven't really trained how to win when it's close in the last five minutes yet, because to this point in time his focus has been on training the basics and getting the team up to scratch. That's the reality of what he's walked into - he's had to take quite a holistic view rather than an intricate tactical one at this stage. I'd expect the next two seasons will give us a much better sense of how good he is at that side of coaching.
 
PattyKwasagun said:
I think the biggest hint as to Fages' tactical coaching came after one of our close losses (can't remember which one).

In the post match presser he mentioned that we haven't really trained how to win when it's close in the last five minutes yet, because to this point in time his focus has been on training the basics and getting the team up to scratch. That's the reality of what he's walked into - he's had to take quite a holistic view rather than an intricate tactical one at this stage. I'd expect the next two seasons will give us a much better sense of how good he is at that side of coaching.
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I think we're pretty fortunate to have Daly and Noble by his side on game day - they've been involved in some very successful clubs/systems which will only aid Fagan as the team is ready to try more intricate things as you said.
 
This is great news for all involved. And a very strong and early endorsement of the 5yr plan thats underway. Every one on the same page, the club, the coaches, players and supporters, looking forward to the next 3yrs. Then success and stability after that. Here's hoping.
 
Dylan12 said:
Great news to hear.

Whilst some of his match day coaching IMO is questionable, you cannot fault the unity and stability he has brought to the club and is just the nurturing father figure many of young players need (not that he won’t give them a serve when required).

Couldn’t think of a better person at the helm and I honestly would’ have any other coach in the league over Coach Fagan.
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*BOOKMARKED :D
 

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Loving what this man is doing for our club/players. His ideology, subliminal and real philosophical life and football education is something I, even as an almost 60 year old wish I was more intermatly a part of.

To paraphrase his yak with Cam Rayner, guess I will just have sit back and be thankful he is at my club and enjoy the journey.
 

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