Obsolete footballing positions?

[Kinowe Soorie]

Could the newer modern style of football, make certain positions obsolete?
Thinking about Enzo’s comments on Thomas and Kristiansen.

Edited 20 August 2023 by Kinowe Soorie

[Mark_w]

Doubt it

[Staff]

I thought you was talking like missionary, reverse cowgirl etc

[Kinowe Soorie]

3 minutes ago, Staff said:

I thought you was talking like missionary, reverse cowgirl etc

They are obsolete when you’ve been married/together for a few years!

[Kinowe Soorie]

7 minutes ago, Staff said:

I thought you was talking like missionary, reverse cowgirl etc

Edited the title, due to your filthy mind!

[davieG]

It's not too different to how it was played back in the day pre-60s

 

 

 

Move the Centre half back and you're almost there.

 

Wingers disappeared after Alf Ramsey and the '66 World Cup but seem to be back in favour although with a much more defensive hat on.

 

The big difference is players are much more multi-skilled to fit into different formations.

 

 

 

[Danizen]

The CAM position seems to becoming obsolete. It's a luxury few tactical systems can afford and the only defenses that pure CAMs would be effective against would naturally sit too deep for it to work and against a defence with a high line, the ST-CAM-CM column would be too compact to allow the necessary space for a CAM to operate in.

Edited 20 August 2023 by Danizen

[fazzyfox]

We dispensed with the Goalkeeper position last season and instead fielded a guy called Ward who just took up strange random positions in his box offering no protection of the goal - a radical move that unsurprisingly failed.

[evil jack]

Defenders acting as sweepers is pretty much gone now isn't it?

[David Hankey]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

It's not too different to how it was played back in the day pre-60s

 

 

 

Move the Centre half back and you're almost there.

 

Wingers disappeared after Alf Ramsey and the '66 World Cup but seem to be back in favour although with a much more defensive hat on.

 

The big difference is players are much more multi-skilled to fit into different formations.

 

 

 

I started my playing days at primary school at half-half then move to right-back before a longish career between the sticks.

 

Were they trying to tell me something, I've often wondered?

[SkidsFox]

Isn't it all numbers nowadays?

[moore_94]

Not positions but maybe styles of players, especially at the top level

 

More and more teams only want ball playing goalkeepers and centre backs

 

Full backs now can’t only be for defending, they need to be able to contribute going forward

 

I don’t think you are ever likely to see an established Premier League team always setting up like we did in the title winning season, maybe for a one off against the likes of Man City, but their main game plan across a full season won’t be like that

[Zear0]

Got to be a Danny Ward related joke in here surely?

[Nalis]

On 20/08/2023 at 14:43, evil jack said:

Defenders acting as sweepers is pretty much gone now isn't it?

I was always surprised it was even a thing considering its so easy to beat an offside trap

[Nalis]

Some are cyclical. Things like inside left sounded really old hat when I was a kid but they've come back in other evolved guises. The two 'wingers' in a 4-3-3 usually cut inside so often they're more like inside lefts/rights as opposed to out and out wingers.

[Finnegan]

On 20/08/2023 at 14:15, davieG said:

It's not too different to how it was played back in the day pre-60s

 

 

 

Move the Centre half back and you're almost there.

 

Wingers disappeared after Alf Ramsey and the '66 World Cup but seem to be back in favour although with a much more defensive hat on.

 

The big difference is players are much more multi-skilled to fit into different formations.

 

 

 

 

No such thing as new ideas, everything is always a rehash. How many times you seen flairs come back in your lifetime davie? 

[Kinowe Soorie]

Will we ever see, an out and out target man again?

[davieG]

44 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

No such thing as new ideas, everything is always a rehash. How many times you seen flairs come back in your lifetime davie? 

Too many.

 

If I'd have kept all my old clothes I wouldn't need to buy new ones for every new fashion.

 

As an 18yr I took some suit trouser to a tailor to get them reduced from straight to 14" bottoms - Italian suits were in vogue. I'm now wear similar stuff 

[davieG]

3 minutes ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Will we ever see, an out and out target man again?

They could get by now with the emphasis on wingers and getting crosses as well as angled pass backs into the box.