ToffeeWeb - Season 2009-10

The Mail Bag

The grass is greener

How many wins against the top 4 in the last 5 years? 1 or maybe 2? Isn't it about time a new strategy was unleashed aginst the likes of the Ssky 4 (or 5)?

My strategy is simple and straight forward. Tell the groundsman to leave the grass slightly longer than usual. This would stop teams from passing the ball smoothly and easily and would suit our non-footballing team to lump it up field and hope for the ball to hold up in the grass to give the oppositions defence (who like to pass it around) a choice. Either boot it back or play it around at your peril.

Well anythings better than the tactics that were employed against Arsenal. We don't like to play football so it would suit our "style". If we still lost we can make the team mow it after!
Antony Matthews, Darwen, Lancashire Posted 18/08/2009 at 18:59:39

back Return to the Mail Bag

Comments

Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer

Jason Lam
1 Posted 19/08/2009 at 08:01:19

Whilst we’re at it, make the pitch narrower.

Chad Schofield
2 Posted 19/08/2009 at 08:02:52

And put some landmines in.

Steve Carter
3 Posted 19/08/2009 at 09:33:36

Obviously you’re also a cricket fan, Anthony: you’re copying England’s ’by far best chance of success' tactic.

Ste Boyle
4 Posted 19/08/2009 at 14:21:57

Whilst we are there, let's see if ’Big Fash’ is for sale and get him and Mick Harford upfront.

Gerard Gillen
5 Posted 19/08/2009 at 06:41:17

The fact of the matter is, on Saturday, we lost. The score seems to me, as it has done on every opening day, to be quite irrelavent, our season must start on September the first. Personally, I would regard the transfer period so far as refreshing, in that I mean at least for once we have something to talk about! But I must say, to refuse £20M for a centre half, even one as classy as Mr Lescott, is almost criminal. At the end of the day, one game — one loss is not as bad as it sounds. From here the only way is up.

Matt Traynor
6 Posted 19/08/2009 at 17:04:22

The season will start on 2nd September Gerard. The league have extended deadline day to 1 September due to the bank holiday Monday.

Add Your Comments

In order to post a comment to the MailBag, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site.

Log in now

Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and MailBag submissions across the site.