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Old 15th May 2018, 10.51:51   #30-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: Central Defenders under threat

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Originally Posted by Jebudo View Post
You don't have to be a great ball playing centre half any more though. If Ricketts is a modern coach he'll get his 2 centre halves to split and get a central midfielder to drop deep for the ball and start our moves, a lot of clubs practice this, even Mills did this with his Gateshead team, it also allows the full backs to push further up the pitch, it's all about being brave and confident on the ball, a lot would depend on the quality of centre mid Sam recruits to do that though.
Mills did it with us too with Moke, he was good at building play then Mills started to drop him around Christmas and we started to falter if I remember right.
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