| Modern jargon 07:38 - Dec 13 with 4171 views | muccletonjoe |
So much I hear in interviews and match analysis just makes me laugh these days. You hear about game management , transitions, double pivots and the list goes on and on and on.
Let's be quite clear to those who haven't got the first idea of what they are talking about. Keeping possession IS game management, whichever way you look at it , if you have the ball and do not give it away, that is game management. A double pivot is the players who operate between the defenders and strikers, THE MIDFIELD. The transition is from defence to attack , something which town take multiple passes to accomplish on a regular basis.
So let's be quite clear about the jargon , next phase , new wave , its still rock n roll to me. |  | | |  |
| Modern jargon on 21:22 - Dec 13 with 1026 views | Whos_blue |
"Entitled to go down".
The worst by a long way.
Previously known as "diving c unit" or RVN for short. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 21:27 - Dec 13 with 1002 views | WeWereZombies |
| Modern jargon on 19:09 - Dec 13 by HighgateBlue |
I suppose language changes in proportion to how much it is used in public. Football is discussed and dissected in all corners of all media, constantly. Plus, there is much more data than in years gone by, to allow more and more supposedly technical analysis, which relies on categorisation and hence jargon.
I must say that my personal least favourite is "baller". I always found it odd that the Americans used that term, because it spectacularly fails to make clear which sport it's referring to. But having worked out what they were on about, it was with horror that I first started to hear British people refer to footballers as ballers. I suppose it's just me getting old, and I can't help that! :/ |
Oh for the simpler times of Total Football and Zonal Marking... |  |
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| Modern jargon on 21:56 - Dec 13 with 972 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Modern jargon on 21:19 - Dec 13 by Whos_blue |
My personal favourite........ |
You say that now.... |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 22:27 - Dec 13 with 962 views | HighgateBlue |
| Modern jargon on 21:27 - Dec 13 by WeWereZombies |
Oh for the simpler times of Total Football and Zonal Marking... |
If the point you're making is that there's always been eccentric jargon that's not necessarily accurate or necessary, then it's a fair point! |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 22:44 - Dec 13 with 951 views | durhamj |
The relatively recent change from the simple phrase 'club' to 'football club' when managers/players/pundits are quite clearly talking about a football club, as opposed to the local Ice hockey club or whatever, really grips me to an unreasonable degree. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 23:12 - Dec 13 with 922 views | Swansea_Blue |
100% this. Double pivot always makes me chuckle. Do you remember we went through a spell about 15 years ago when ‘jockeying’ was the in term? Everyone was talking about jockeying this and jockeying that, as if they had the first clue what they were going on about. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 23:37 - Dec 13 with 904 views | ronnyd |
| Modern jargon on 21:19 - Dec 13 by Whos_blue |
My personal favourite........ |
Certainly brought you a touch of fame. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 00:01 - Dec 14 with 894 views | Whos_blue |
| Modern jargon on 23:37 - Dec 13 by ronnyd |
Certainly brought you a touch of fame. |
"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me" | |
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| Modern jargon on 00:02 - Dec 14 with 892 views | Whos_blue |
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| Modern jargon on 00:18 - Dec 14 with 867 views | Vaughan8 |
I can't get my head around Low/high block. Isn't that just deep and pressing? | | | |
| Modern jargon on 01:12 - Dec 14 with 825 views | StNeotsBlue |
There's "clear contact" so it's a foul, often regardless of who initiated the contact. It's a contact sport so please let the game flow.
Obviously if the "clear contact" is from an opponents boot bashing your ballbag to smithereens then that isn't on. Example of which was that Shef Wed trying to kick David McGoldrick's crown jewels into the stand. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 02:08 - Dec 14 with 789 views | ronnyd |
| Modern jargon on 00:01 - Dec 14 by Whos_blue |
"Infamy. Infamy. They've all got it in for me" |
i thought that when i typed it lol. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 03:12 - Dec 14 with 760 views | urbanblue |
| Modern jargon on 11:43 - Dec 13 by ArnieM |
We’re not very good at that “ gamesmanship” are we. I lose count of the number of times an opponent at the slightest touch goes down clutching his head, and rolls over and over, and yes, over. Our player subsequently gets booked. Our players don’t go down when they should do, and if they do get fouled, no card is given to the offender who took him out. |
You missed out the one that really gets me, which is the thumping of the fist or hand on the ground when a player goes down ...
Really gets my goat.
Seems so common but trying to think whether I've ever seen a Town player do it. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 07:44 - Dec 14 with 686 views | muccletonjoe |
| Modern jargon on 03:12 - Dec 14 by urbanblue |
You missed out the one that really gets me, which is the thumping of the fist or hand on the ground when a player goes down ...
Really gets my goat.
Seems so common but trying to think whether I've ever seen a Town player do it. |
Personally I would rather our players didn't adopt these sort of histrionics.
The fact that referees regularly get fooled into giving free kicks for these sort of things just goes to show the mental capacity of so many of them. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 08:14 - Dec 14 with 674 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Modern jargon on 19:29 - Dec 13 by Mercian |
A "Double Pivot" is a system where two primary defensive midfielders are employed the most common being a 4-2-3-1 formation like we play most of the time. A 4-3-3 formation is normally played with a single pivot but can be played more defensively with two CMDs or more offensively with two Number 8s and an attacking midfielder. |
What was Eric gates? The first ever '10', even though he wore 11. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 09:13 - Dec 14 with 638 views | Len_Brennan |
"Sweet left foot".
Doesn't matter how good a player is with his right, it'll never be said that he has a 'sweet right foot'. | | | |
| Modern jargon on 09:44 - Dec 14 with 612 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Modern jargon on 12:40 - Dec 13 by SE1blue |
I am not sure if it's been mentioned on here much but 'draught excluder'. |
Someone should make a thread about them. |  |
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| Modern jargon on 09:55 - Dec 14 with 595 views | Blue_Heath |
Turnover seems to be the current buzz word, I swear they must be on commission for using it! | | | |
| Modern jargon on 10:01 - Dec 14 with 590 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Modern jargon on 00:18 - Dec 14 by Vaughan8 |
I can't get my head around Low/high block. Isn't that just deep and pressing? |
Two banks of four we used to call it. But I suppose now you can have a 5 in either defence or midfield or makes sense to have a better name for it. Low is just say back and high is just pushed up a bit more making it easier to initiate a press.
Teams seem so much better drilled these days off the ball. It can make for a bit of a predictable/dull game imo. | |
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| Modern jargon on 10:09 - Dec 14 with 586 views | north_stand77 |
My personal irritation, watching a tv game and instead of Subs 'coming on' and Players 'going off', they are now 'player in' and 'player out'
Just wrong. |  | | |
| Modern jargon on 11:22 - Dec 14 with 556 views | WeWereZombies |
| Modern jargon on 10:09 - Dec 14 by north_stand77 |
My personal irritation, watching a tv game and instead of Subs 'coming on' and Players 'going off', they are now 'player in' and 'player out'
Just wrong. |
Although it might be fair to say that a defender up against Delap is a player shaken all about. | |
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| Modern jargon on 12:23 - Dec 14 with 528 views | Whos_blue |
| Modern jargon on 09:44 - Dec 14 by ITFC_Forever |
Someone should make a thread about them. |
Nah.
No one would be interested in that. | |
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