siddled":157w7fa8 said:I have noticed over the past few seasons, that Luke has been beaten a few times by a lob. Could it be that Bitner also knows this and passed that on the Newport squad?
Voice_of_Reason":y09jkav9 said:Can i just point out why Luke stands so far off his line, its not neglect, laziness, stupidity or any other such notion.
My pretty solid assumption would be its that as a team/management - we would know one potential weakness we have is a lack of pace at centre back, so rather than defend too deep, we still have our centre backs pushed reasonably high up the field and our goalkeeper positioned so that he has the option of clearing any balls played over the defence.
It wont always work, it will on occasions mean that Luke might be not in the perfect position, but its done in the best interests of teams make-up, if he was glued to his line and Sonny was on the halfway line, that would be a pretty big gap to dink a pass into.
foreigner":39aguz1s said:Voice_of_Reason":39aguz1s said:Can i just point out why Luke stands so far off his line, its not neglect, laziness, stupidity or any other such notion.
My pretty solid assumption would be its that as a team/management - we would know one potential weakness we have is a lack of pace at centre back, so rather than defend too deep, we still have our centre backs pushed reasonably high up the field and our goalkeeper positioned so that he has the option of clearing any balls played over the defence.
It wont always work, it will on occasions mean that Luke might be not in the perfect position, but its done in the best interests of teams make-up, if he was glued to his line and Sonny was on the halfway line, that would be a pretty big gap to dink a pass into.
The voice of reason.
All goalkeepers nowadays are expected to play to a large extent as a sweeper behind the back four which necessitates an advanced starting position.Voice_of_Reason":304y0mn2 said:Can i just point out why Luke stands so far off his line, its not neglect, laziness, stupidity or any other such notion.
My pretty solid assumption would be its that as a team/management - we would know one potential weakness we have is a lack of pace at centre back, so rather than defend too deep, we still have our centre backs pushed reasonably high up the field and our goalkeeper positioned so that he has the option of clearing any balls played over the defence.
It wont always work, it will on occasions mean that Luke might be not in the perfect position, but its done in the best interests of teams make-up, if he was glued to his line and Sonny was on the halfway line, that would be a pretty big gap to dink a pass into.