[ENG] Premiership 2009/2010 (12 Viewers)

[Bjerknes]

Watch out for Everton's match against Birmingham. Better hope Donovan won't play on that match.

Yeah, seriously. I'm not exactly liking that prospect.

I just hope he can stay healthy and not totally fall off form like he did at Leverkusan, coming back home in disarray.

This move is risky in my view. Might as well just play the first two months of the MLS season.

 

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[Nicholas]

Yeah, seriously. I'm not exactly liking that prospect.

I just hope he can stay healthy and not totally fall off form like he did at Leverkusan, coming back home in disarray.

This move is risky in my view. Might as well just play the first two months of the MLS season.

Andy,

On a serious note mate, what is the football like in America? fast paced?

 

[Enron]

Depends on the team and the coach. Some teams play fast, others hold the ball. American football doesn't really have a signature style.

 

[Bjerknes]

Much of it is played at a fast pace though, certainly the majority. The college game is all pace and strength, and much of what you see in the MLS is like that.

At the club level in the teenage years, the top coaches do stress possession and their teams play pretty good football. It's just that the college game is really rough and tumble.

 

[Enron]

Much of it is played at a fast pace though, certainly the majority. The college game is all pace and strength, and much of what you see in the MLS is like that.

At the club level in the teenage years, the top coaches do stress possession and their teams play pretty good football. It's just that the college game is really rough and tumble.

That's DI. DII and DIII are completely different, mostly because there are more foreign players and coaches involved. DI does have the best American players though. The team I played with focused on defense and countering, 3 of the back line were on the NZ U-21 squad. We played teams that tried to press forward for the entire game and then there were some that tried to hold the ball all game.

NAIA on the other hand is a totally different beast.

 

[Bjerknes]

That's DI. DII and DIII are completely different, mostly because there are more foreign players and coaches involved. DI does have the best American players though. The team I played with focused on defense and countering, 3 of the back line were on the NZ U-21 squad. We played teams that tried to press forward for the entire game and then there were some that tried to hold the ball all game.

NAIA on the other hand is a totally different beast.

Yeah, that's true. And also great teams like Indiana have played a European style. The DIII team I played with at a visit to their school, Allegheny College, didn't really seem to have a style. Millersville in PA, one of the top DII soccer schools, kept the ball pretty well from what I've seen, and they could probably beat many DI schools. But much of what they come up against is pace and strength, athleticism.

 

[Enron]

But it's true the better MLS teams do tend to run a bit.

 

[Bjerknes]

That's why at times you see shoddy passing -- some of those guys can't play at that high pace and still keep decent control of the ball.

 

[Enron]

The coaches could do with a change that's for sure.

 

[Firestarter]

That because I assume there's more emphasis on physical fitness, pace, strength than thecnique, a good example would be Jozy I guess.

 

[Enron]

Yeah, the fitness thing. That's a staple of American footie. No matter the style we grew up with the majority of us can run for days. I guess it's the 4th quarter mentality. To the point where many EPL teams and even Klinnsman's 2006 Germany team took on US fitness trainers and methods.

 

[Bjerknes]

And it only gets us so far.

 

[Nicholas]

Cheers guys.

 

[Fred]

Poor Dean Ashton was forced to retire because of his recurring injuries.

 

[Byrone]

Sad but its not like he's a janitor that lost his hands.His bank account will carry him long enough.

 

[The Curr]

That is sad. He would have been big if it wasn't for the injuries.

But yeah, he's sorted financially.

He'll probably be joining Jamie Redknapp on Sky Sports.

 

[Fred]

Ya, but i feel bad for him as he's barely had a chance to show his real worth, he has always been plagued by injuries, in the past 3 seasons he hasn't played much.

He could have been a quality striker, i personally always rated him.

 

[Byrone]

That is sad. He would have been big if it wasn't for the injuries.

But yeah, he's sorted financially.

He'll probably be joining Jamie Redknapp on Sky Sports.

My thoughts exactly!

Or he'll go for his uefa coaching badges & take up some shitty non league team.

 

[The Curr]

My thoughts exactly!

Or he'll go for his uefa coaching badges & take up some shitty non league team.

You don't need UEFA badges to coach a non league team.

 

[Byrone]

You don't need UEFA badges to coach a non league team.

I know that but who's gonna offer him a job? He doesn't have enough hype around him,had he played for one of the big four & won some silverware it would have been another case.