Forget XG, we now have "Compact State"

[Shengus Malengus]

I don't understand why people get so offended by new terminology. It's just how all aspects of life develops.

These tactical things are also aimed at marginal gains, nobody claims they're more important than fundamentals like having good players.

I don’t know why people overuse the word “offended” when it really doesn’t apply.

Nobody is offended.
“Compact state” is a wanker’s term that is mildly irritating to some.
“Offended” is pushing it.

 

[Bear84]

I don’t know why people overuse the word “offended” when it really doesn’t apply.

Nobody is offended.
It’s a wanky term that is mildly irritating to some.
“Offended” is pushing it.

There are people on this very thread having a tantrum about it.

 

[Shengus Malengus]

There are people on this very thread having a tantrum about it.

They aren’t offended and I think you know that.

 

[Monkey Butler]

All that’s been done here is that the somebody has put a number to marking or covering space.
As with most things, is not exactly new.

Yep, Charles Reep was doing this kind of stuff way back in the 1950’s - you might not agree with it, but the idea that it’s some kind of recent “hipster nonsense” is in itself nonsense.

 

[Wordy_Rappinghood]

Is the only insight digestible Alan Hansen style patter that just repeats what we saw?

"Good goal but the defending. Terrible. Gotta get closer to your man."

 

[Shengus Malengus]

I blame David Pleat.

He started it all with vomit inducing, co commentary jargon filled shite.

 

[BlancaBear]

Any modern approach to the game tactical, scouting, analysis etc is utterly ridiculed as 'computer gimp shite' up here yet most other countries embrace it.

It's so fucking weird, it's like people are proud of being old fashioned as %^*& and anything that involves something beyond a calculator is 'overcomplicating' when in reality it's just they are too thick to understand some things and aren't willing to admit it.

Watching the analysis of an NFL game would probably give them a heart attack.