Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
The Sam Allardyce fanboy thread
- Thread starter MikeH72
- Start date
- Status
Elong
The fire rises
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
You want Newcastle down like me?
USABlue
Player Valuation: £70m
think everyone but newcastle fans wants newcastle to go down
I also love Big Sam. I'll love him even more if Sunderland stay up, especially as it will relegate Newcastle. Imagine their whingeing fans when they're scrapping in The Championship whilst Sunderland and, hopefully, Middlesbrough, are coining it in above them!
Then of course there's the FSW connection
Then of course there's the FSW connection
Everyone talks about him as if he's a buffoon, but he's actually one of the most advanced managers in the game.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...rdyce-manager-bolton-wanderers-premier-league
"Prozone was a young but growing sports analysis firm that had first made inroads into English football with Derby County, where a young Steve McClaren used it before he was brought to Manchester United by Alex Ferguson midway through the 1998-99 season. As assistant manager at Old Trafford, McClaren insisted the club use Prozone. In return Prozone insisted upon receiving a fee of £50,000 if Manchester United picked up a trophy that season. They won the treble.
Not long after, but at a lower level, Allardyce began to consult Prozone at Bolton. The use of such technology was rare in English football at the time and very few managers used it to supplement their strategy, as Allardyce did. He developed a system of play based around what he called “the fantastic four”. These were tenets of the game he had found through data analysis that would serve Bolton well in their fight for Premier League survival and beyond. Bolton had to stop the opposition from scoring in at least 16 of their 38 league games to avoid relegation; if Bolton scored first they had a 70% chance of winning; set-pieces accounted for almost 33% of all goals scored; in-swinging crosses were more effective than out-swingers; and they had an 80% chance of avoiding defeat if they outran their opposition at speeds above 5.5m per second.
The system was almost comedically precise, but it worked. Through the meticulous study of matches, Allardyce was able to organise his team to achieve maximum efficiency on the pitch. It may sound robotic, but he literally had exact positions for players to gain the best possible chance of scoring. This knowledge was applied primarily to throw-ins, free-kicks and corners, where Allardyce placed great emphasis on something called POMO, or “Position of Maximum Opportunity”. If a player failed to appear in the required position for one of Bolton’s famed long throw-ins, he would not forget it in a hurry. Allardyce would make sure he knew a scoring opportunity had been passed up.
Nowadays, most Premier League clubs use Prozone as a method of scouting, tactical planning and assessing past performances. Allardyce’s Bolton led the way in changing how English football and data correlated. The game has historically been viewed as one of the heart: a sport of emotion, love and trust. Allardyce’s ideals may not have echoed with those romantic notions, but they worked and in so doing proved those notions to be wrong. English football began to be self-conscious in new ways. It was now a game of the head, a science; a problem to be solved, and Allardyce wanted to solve it."
http://www.theguardian.com/football...rdyce-manager-bolton-wanderers-premier-league
"Prozone was a young but growing sports analysis firm that had first made inroads into English football with Derby County, where a young Steve McClaren used it before he was brought to Manchester United by Alex Ferguson midway through the 1998-99 season. As assistant manager at Old Trafford, McClaren insisted the club use Prozone. In return Prozone insisted upon receiving a fee of £50,000 if Manchester United picked up a trophy that season. They won the treble.
Not long after, but at a lower level, Allardyce began to consult Prozone at Bolton. The use of such technology was rare in English football at the time and very few managers used it to supplement their strategy, as Allardyce did. He developed a system of play based around what he called “the fantastic four”. These were tenets of the game he had found through data analysis that would serve Bolton well in their fight for Premier League survival and beyond. Bolton had to stop the opposition from scoring in at least 16 of their 38 league games to avoid relegation; if Bolton scored first they had a 70% chance of winning; set-pieces accounted for almost 33% of all goals scored; in-swinging crosses were more effective than out-swingers; and they had an 80% chance of avoiding defeat if they outran their opposition at speeds above 5.5m per second.
The system was almost comedically precise, but it worked. Through the meticulous study of matches, Allardyce was able to organise his team to achieve maximum efficiency on the pitch. It may sound robotic, but he literally had exact positions for players to gain the best possible chance of scoring. This knowledge was applied primarily to throw-ins, free-kicks and corners, where Allardyce placed great emphasis on something called POMO, or “Position of Maximum Opportunity”. If a player failed to appear in the required position for one of Bolton’s famed long throw-ins, he would not forget it in a hurry. Allardyce would make sure he knew a scoring opportunity had been passed up.
Nowadays, most Premier League clubs use Prozone as a method of scouting, tactical planning and assessing past performances. Allardyce’s Bolton led the way in changing how English football and data correlated. The game has historically been viewed as one of the heart: a sport of emotion, love and trust. Allardyce’s ideals may not have echoed with those romantic notions, but they worked and in so doing proved those notions to be wrong. English football began to be self-conscious in new ways. It was now a game of the head, a science; a problem to be solved, and Allardyce wanted to solve it."
Big sam knows what he's doing
- Status