“His versatility will allow us to tactically flex and play with fluid rotation within the games. He has the technical and physical attributes to execute the game model"
This is a genuine quote from the club website, it’s ridiculous how much useless jargon has come into football lexicon.
I’m sure Tilley will prove to be an astute signing.
But watching that video it’s quite easy to mistake him for some pissed-up 45yo wannabe raver wandering back for the hotel breakfast from a night out on the beaches of Magaluf.
To be fair, my biggest issue with us towards the end of the season is that we did not tactically flex and play with fluid rotation within games, and I felt like the game model was crying out for someone like Tilley.
Agreed, @aloysius. When are we going to welcome a new signing with a sitting-in-an-armchair-with-their-favourite-Penguin-novel video? Long overdue.
Maybe we are the first completely AI run club? 
Based on what exactly hes a league 2 player at best not good enough for top 6
Whooah, who left the gate open at the twat farm
Ok mug
Great to have your valued insight into the ability of this signing. Hopefully we can all benefit from your words of wisdom on each new player!
A little taste of what to expect from James Tilley.
I enjoy your posts but your comment of Dodds preferred 3/5 at the back I have to take issues with. Surely, something wrong with your math?. Isn’t it 7/9 at the back and hoof to 1 from the master tactician.
A Wimbledon supporting friend reckons he’s a good player with decent delivery.
Primarily played LWB last season.
One they would prefer not to lose.
he will only be a squad plauer , he is 27 and only played at highest league 2 standard , does not shout out ambitious signing .
We get it, you’ve posted the same thing multiple times. You’d be better off on the fb in all honesty.
Well, without boring everyone again with a detail analysis - we are both right.
3/5 at the back is his preferred system. But the way we were playing it last season meant the opposition were able to force us into a 7/9 formation as we either didn’t have the tactical nous on the managerial side to combat it, or the players were square pegs in round holes.
Lots of people think it was the former, personally I think the problem was the latter - or at least exacerbated by it(particularly when it came to the wingbacks). You need extraordinarily fit and versatile wingbacks to pull it off imo. The big question is if we can get them in (and fit) or recognise it as an issue and switch formations back to 4 at the back.
I’m reserving my right to change my view on the problem until around 10 games into the new season.
I have many, many hills I will die one - an entire mountain range if you will - one of them being that this makes 100% sense in the modern game.
Rigid formations and strict 442 with solid lines are a thing of the past in football.
A team needs multiple formations and players able to seemlessly transition between them depending on being both in and out of possession if not more detailed on depending where on the pitch you are playing and what phase of an attack you are in.
That’s where the words “trigger”, “pivot” and “transitions” are applicable in football even if they seem like trendy buzz words.
When possession changes, your pivot is the central fulcrum in which the rest of the team transitions from a defensive formation to an attacking one for example.
A season of watching Peter Taylors lectures (they were NOT entertainment) made me look deeper as to what was actually was happening on the pitch. Because the games were fucking dull otherwise.
Well this is very underwhelming signing whatever way you look at it no ambition from the owners look at wrexham and birmingham last season at least they had that.
Can someone do a glossary of modern football parlance (or point to a good one) for those of us rooted in the dark ages?
I keep seeing these terms and despite 40 years of watching live football, I haven’t got a clue. Would be good to have a read one morning with a few coffees inside me.
useful squad player but that is about it
What exactly is wrong with it?
Jargon is technical language which means little or nothing to the average man. Accountancy speak, for example.
‘Versatility’ and ‘rotation’ are not what I’d call jargon.