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Yes some may say it is way too early to say that, however I have been listening to TappaTalk over the past few months and just hearing how his football mind has opened up beyond the instinctually right thing to do!
Like most of us as schoolboys it was all about last minute all night swotting to pass an exam after not doing any work throughout the term that has been our approach to international football for the most part. It works to get by but you never achieve anything close to excellence and you just never can beat the mexico's and US teams much less Hond and CR with any consistency, well it is clear that Tappa's mind has really been extremely fertile and open to everything to improve the team and all the moves make it clear, the talk about guys coming to play for Ja and can't run 15 minutes hard, the poor concentration, picking players who want it!!! picking players looking at aptitude first and foremost, leaving out those with the lack of the right approach, yeah i love this all the time we wasted over the past 15 years arguing over guys who were prima donnas who ended up achieving nothing, yet people still want to call their name as if they did something (thank god that track and field is a sport that every performance is clearly measured and their is no doubt who the best is otherwise some of us would probably have some sprinter with perfect form running for jamaica and Bolt would be home in Trelawney farming yams), even the recent article on them carrying their chef to Brasil shows a different approach, a benchmarking of the best approach, total process improvement in all phases of the games is the ticket to Concacaf domination and it is this approach that is the start of a new era!!
The game against Grenada is just one game, but I have never seen us play Grenada like that, the thing I have always loved about top class ball when it is played really well on the defensive side is how committed teams can just shut down opposing sides with close marking and team defense.
The game that comes to mind was the Brazil vs France game the year France won the world cup, Brazil came in the fancied side and France just shut them down, Brazil could not string three passes together for most of the game, I saw some of that yesterday by Ja and it was incredible.
I also saw what I call the blitz on the opposing team defense when they were trying to move the ball in their half, i first saw that with Argentina in a game and they pressed the defense so hard they created a number of chances in the first 5 to 10 minutes of the game, ja was doing some of that, especially in the first half, this defensive domination was almost perfect in the first half and fell off somewhat in the second, as Grenada was actually able to move the ball a little in our half in the 2nd, we also saw Grenada's midfielders being consistently beaten to open balls and even just having our guys just take the ball from them literally "boxing shyte out of hog mouth", I even started to wonder what the hell had gotten in them; they were unusually aggressive and consistently anticipated the Grenadian players moves.
Is just one game still but man if a game could tell a story, this one definitely tells me something has changed and I haven't even talked about the attacking side of the ball, anyway I leave that to everyone else, except to say the score should have been 8-0 .
Excellent game, that is the way to play Grenada!!!
Like most of us as schoolboys it was all about last minute all night swotting to pass an exam after not doing any work throughout the term that has been our approach to international football for the most part. It works to get by but you never achieve anything close to excellence and you just never can beat the mexico's and US teams much less Hond and CR with any consistency, well it is clear that Tappa's mind has really been extremely fertile and open to everything to improve the team and all the moves make it clear, the talk about guys coming to play for Ja and can't run 15 minutes hard, the poor concentration, picking players who want it!!! picking players looking at aptitude first and foremost, leaving out those with the lack of the right approach, yeah i love this all the time we wasted over the past 15 years arguing over guys who were prima donnas who ended up achieving nothing, yet people still want to call their name as if they did something (thank god that track and field is a sport that every performance is clearly measured and their is no doubt who the best is otherwise some of us would probably have some sprinter with perfect form running for jamaica and Bolt would be home in Trelawney farming yams), even the recent article on them carrying their chef to Brasil shows a different approach, a benchmarking of the best approach, total process improvement in all phases of the games is the ticket to Concacaf domination and it is this approach that is the start of a new era!!
The game against Grenada is just one game, but I have never seen us play Grenada like that, the thing I have always loved about top class ball when it is played really well on the defensive side is how committed teams can just shut down opposing sides with close marking and team defense.
The game that comes to mind was the Brazil vs France game the year France won the world cup, Brazil came in the fancied side and France just shut them down, Brazil could not string three passes together for most of the game, I saw some of that yesterday by Ja and it was incredible.
I also saw what I call the blitz on the opposing team defense when they were trying to move the ball in their half, i first saw that with Argentina in a game and they pressed the defense so hard they created a number of chances in the first 5 to 10 minutes of the game, ja was doing some of that, especially in the first half, this defensive domination was almost perfect in the first half and fell off somewhat in the second, as Grenada was actually able to move the ball a little in our half in the 2nd, we also saw Grenada's midfielders being consistently beaten to open balls and even just having our guys just take the ball from them literally "boxing shyte out of hog mouth", I even started to wonder what the hell had gotten in them; they were unusually aggressive and consistently anticipated the Grenadian players moves.
Is just one game still but man if a game could tell a story, this one definitely tells me something has changed and I haven't even talked about the attacking side of the ball, anyway I leave that to everyone else, except to say the score should have been 8-0 .
Excellent game, that is the way to play Grenada!!!
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