Quote from: blooter442 on September 29, 2018, 05:59:52 PM
Have to say I don't get why Amherst had Bryce Johnson doing flip throws on seemingly every throw in (defensively and offensively). Attacking, I get it, it's like a corner, but making it a whole production to chuck it up the sideline when in the defensive half of the field seems a bit futile to me.

I said that last season. It's a pointless tactic period. Bereft of any creativity and just encourages kickball.

Quote from: nescac1 on October 10, 2017, 08:15:13 PM
Man, when you beat the two toughest opponents on your schedule via own-goals, it may just be your year ...

Actually it wasn't an own goal. Looks like a pretty good finish to me, from a tight angle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuoeEKgbEE&feature=push-u&attr_tag=pu7wn4wM7yFzjQ7P-6

Dinosaurs are not extinct. Justin Serpone is living proof. Over the past two years his sides have actually tried to play football but the way he has set up his side this year is a reversion to the bad old days of the Bubba van Wie long throw. They appear to have recruited Bryce Johnson purely for his ability to complete the ridiculous flip throw. These create a completely static approach to the game. Last week against Middlebury he completed over 20 throws. Opposition teams just stack the box and wait for the ball to approach from its impossible trajectory and then clear it.

The flip throw is the football equivalent of the broomstick putter in golf and is impossible to carry out in most major football stadiums in the world. There is a reason that teams don't rely on such an outmoded strategy it's just bad football. It sucks the dynamism out of a team and any degree of creativity. Last year one of the most creative Amherst players was Dane Lind. He created goals and scored them too. Last week he would have been lucky to have 20 minutes of game time. The other reasonable period Amherst had was when senior Kieran Bellew was on the field he actually passed the ball on the ground and ran at players and, like Lind has in the past, created opportunities.

The other dinosaurian feature of the Amherst game plan this year is the hit and hope long ball that completely bypasses the midfield. It's reminiscent of the ugly days of Vinnie Jones and Wimbledon in the EPL. Any free kicks have become set piece long balls and the corners are devoid of any variety.

You can't win football games when you set up like this. If Amherst continues to approach games in this one dimensional fashion there is no way they will fashion the type of record they have over the past three seasons.