It's happening. In the next two cycles vast majority of our first XI will be playing in top 5. No doubt.

Look I really hope so. Think that after this WC some players will move up and hoping they get regular playing time. However even Cabo...

I think you need a full xi in either the big 5 or champions league level (e.g. psv) for attacking football to be a net positive. I guess...

Of course not, as I said I can hardly blame him to an extent. What I'm saying is FFA had at one stage a long term plan to move the...

I guess what I was trying to get at is that he isn't setting us up to play attacking football, but part of the blame also rests with his...

The old NC outlines proactive, possession football with creative attackers. It was based on analysis of the teams in the 2006 WC that...

My problem is he seems to have few ideas on how to win games, other than relying on individual players to jag a goal, but is busy making...

Thanks mate. I really appreciate you reading my stuff, let alone the kind words.

We need the AIS back. One of our many huge fuck-ups along the way.

Japan, but also found out today Belgium as well. Seems the FA has identified a successful style like 17 years ago, but then didn't...

Japan

So if they binned that approach from the original ntc was it replaced with anything? Was it flawed? I found a nc from 2013 that...

This was the playing style from the FFA NC they now binned "A pro-active brand of football, based on effective possession, with the...

We did in a way but the first ntc was just a bunch of principles and the 2nd had how to implement them If the ntc is right that the...

Haven't we had a national curriculum since 2009 based around a 4-3-3 Dutch model? Don't know, might be a few years old, did it change...