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Everyone knows why Dunk stands still and puts his studs on the ball. He's 32. He's knackered. He's thinking: 'Christ I need a rest. If I put my studs on the ball, fans, pundits and Joe Cole will think I'm trying to entice the opposition to challenge me for the ball, and open up space further...

That's a good post. I agree with all of it; the buy-in and ability to adapt etc is a good point. Interesting point about the wide players. I'll look out for that in future. As you say, there must be other options that we try when plan A doesn't work. What we need is a birds-eye view as the game...

I know that was your point, and I'm sure it's valid. But the fact is Everton, Chelsea and Liverpool couldn't stop us scoring for fun. Were they all shit, or did we make them look shit? I suspect it's some and some. What - I think - I've noticed, is that without checking the stats, many of our...

Ah yes, but were Chelsea, Everton and Liverpool shit? ****pregnant pause****

Opposition teams are only going to fall into the same trap a finite number of times. What we need (and what we've probably got) is a number of different traps. What was interesting in the Middlesbrough game, was that although Carrick was clearly aware of our tactics (Boro didn't fall for the...