Physical & well organized!! Defiant, combative!

[Stonigut]

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...ca-in-friendly

All right the last one is mine, but when last have we heard these things said about Jamaica playing against a top ten team. Probably never, maybe once in that gold cup draw with Brazil.

Physical, well organized, I am loving it, this is what I have been talking about.
We can be a very competitive team playing such a game with fast skillful attacking players and physical well organized players that can also pass the ball.

Good performance too bad we didn't get the draw. France is a incredibly talented team with upside, they are also underrated coming into the cup, we will get a hell of a game.

Good job team, good job Herr Schafer.

[Karl]

Physical? Yes! Well organised? Well yes if...

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...ca-in-friendly

All right the last one is mine, but when last have we heard these things said about Jamaica playing against a top ten team. Probably never, maybe once in that gold cup draw with Brazil.

Physical, well organized, I am loving it, this is what I have been talking about.
We can be a very competitive team playing such a game with fast skillful attacking players and physical well organized players that can also pass the ball.

Good performance too bad we didn't get the draw. France is a incredibly talented team with upside, they are also underrated coming into the cup, we will get a hell of a game.

Good job team, good job Herr Schafer.

Physical? Yes! Well organised? Well yes if...
...statement of areas of the field within which each player operated on most occasions is what is being spoken of.

Good performance too bad we didn't get the draw?
In the context of top quality football: Sorry the performance was awful!

..but here are the redeeming features:
a) We have now played two games on the tour and this performance is a vast improvement on that shown in the first. A performance way less awful than that seen in our first match.

We played against a TEAM that in the match under review showed that they were 5 or more goals better than our current - I use "current" in the context of currently where TEAM organisation and performance is concerned. I certainly saw enough to know these same players have the potential to improve to a level equal to and better than the Switzerland TEAM faced.

b) The players showed good quality:
i) pace across ground;

ii) quick feet;

iii) technical skills;

iv) effort.

So the raw athletic ability is there=TALENT ABOUNDS!

Question: What then prevents this current bunch from playing TEAM game equal to or better than the TEAMs just recently faced? ...why are those TEAMs 5+ goals better than our REGGAEBOYZ if as group the BOYZ can match or surpass the TEAMs faced on "i", "ii" and "iii" above?

On "iv" although 'good' is was not 'good' enough. ...but we know our players can immediately match the TEAMs or even surpass them on "iv". So it is merely a matter of instilling belief and supplying motivation to improve "effort". So, that is a big thing that can be easily solved.

Let us move on - The great big lacking ingredient is, understanding the game/knowing on conscious level what is required to create TEAMplay= to create top quality TEAM.

That understanding of what it takes to make TEAM can be, I think, easily taught over the next few months.

Caution: The reason for having reservations is...all of our past National TEAMs have had that same lack of understanding of how the game is played and I have always thought that teaching/coaching=exposing those past very talented athletic players to that 'topic' and having them understand same and act on same an easy thing to do...yet that progression to top quality TEAMplayers and top quality TEAM never materialized.

[Stonigut]

One step at a time Karl, one step at a time. I have always fundamentally believes that any team with decent athletes can will itself to draw even the most skilled opponent assuming the skilled opponent is not superior from man athletic standpoint.

We have a good reservoir of athletes so our challenge is firstly fitness and discipline, they go hand in hand. Clearly Schafer believes this as well. Second challenge is creating a team committed to competing, fighting Everytime, one bad apple and the domino sequence of spoilage of the lit is on the way. Get those things done throughout the entire team, program, set the table for clubs etc then as we move along we start building the skill and technical level. Right now we just need to learn to fight on attack and especially on defense as that alone can get you many draws, it us about competing not looking pretty and sexy and jogo bonito and this foolishness.

I like what I am seeing thus far. One step at a time, we have to reimage the hard drive of all of our players and reset expectations of what type of player and what type of work effort will succeed going forward so we never again see lazy prima Donna skilled ballers who execute on seal ion trick every three games and every body scraping face on the ground saying, you are the next coming of something.


Btw I though it interesting that we played 4-3-3 and held the Swiss scoreless for so long.

[Tilla]

I agree with you Stoni. As the saying goes, "Rome wasn`t built in a day". We are playing top quality competition and of course their quality and better preperation will show up the areas in which we are lacking. The coach can now look at areas where we need to do work and make preperations/adjustments accordingly.

We need to have some patience and allow things to work.

[Rockman]

Just seems playing against France has to be taken into context,I guess the real test.Our Boyz should never rsise the white flag.I will be watching closely for two things;how we collectively defend,and how well we keep shape.

[Mosiah]

Just seems playing against France has to be taken into context,I guess the real test.Our Boyz should never rsise the white flag.I will be watching closely for two things;how we collectively defend,and how well we keep shape.

Hmmm, any word about how we looked in attack? Were we creating scoring chances?

Oh, sorry! One step at a time!

[Karl]

One step at a time Karl, one step at a time. I have always fundamentally believes that any team with decent athletes can will itself to draw even the most skilled opponent assuming the skilled opponent is not superior from man athletic standpoint.

We have a good reservoir of athletes so our challenge is firstly fitness and discipline, they go hand in hand. Clearly Schafer believes this as well. Second challenge is creating a team committed to competing, fighting Everytime, one bad apple and the domino sequence of spoilage of the lit is on the way. Get those things done throughout the entire team, program, set the table for clubs etc then as we move along we start building the skill and technical level. Right now we just need to learn to fight on attack and especially on defense as that alone can get you many draws, it us about competing not looking pretty and sexy and jogo bonito and this foolishness.

I like what I am seeing thus far. One step at a time, we have to reimage the hard drive of all of our players and reset expectations of what type of player and what type of work effort will succeed going forward so we never again see lazy prima Donna skilled ballers who execute on seal ion trick every three games and every body scraping face on the ground saying, you are the next coming of something.


Btw I though it interesting that we played 4-3-3 and held the Swiss scoreless for so long.

Re: One step at a time
Agreed!
I am just wary of this assemble of talented youngsters like the others before, again disappointing. Like all...Yes I said, ALL!...the talented squads that came before all the ingredients are there save that concentration on playing that simple sensible game.

Look Pele, Maradona and many other great players in their games rarely...Yes, I said, RARELY...attempted to beat one-on-one during each game but the two or three times in a game that the greats did beat someone one-on-one that is all our players, coaches and fans remember...and our local players in their games for the majority of times they have the ball/they are on the ball each attempts a one-on-one beat!!!

Our players...and coaches do not see that for the greats it is for vast majority of playing time it is pass and move/move and pass...sensible passing and sensible movement/sensible movement and sensible passing!!!

Aaaaah, Stoni: I wait with bated breath that this time...this time my heart will not once again be crushed!!!!

[Karl]

...but we did create scoring chances?
...in the context of how we moved and passed did you expect more than the 3 or 4 chances we created? ...and were you disappointed that most often we took too long to get off a shot when on passing we were equally slow in/on getting the pass off?

[Mosiah]

Look Pele, Maradona and many other great players in their games rarely...Yes, I said, RARELY...attempted to beat one-on-one during each game...

Just not true.

[Mosiah]

Who is asking the questions?!