BertieWoostersDonsClub wrote:
1. As we are discussing style of play, you seem to be stating that playing a passing style makes us more "principled". Does that mean you think the big clubs in each country are more principled than the smaller clubs, and that the farther down the league you go the less principled they become as they play an ever decreasingly technical game and much more pragmatic?
no, i'm talking about setting out a specific way of doing something and sticking with it through bad times as well as good.
what those principles are can vary from case to case. luckily for me, our club has generally aligned with my personal ideals (progressive football and young, local talent given a chance).
however, that said...
BertieWoostersDonsClub wrote:
2. You ask what's the point of becoming a team like Preston? Well, Preston are basically the same as most teams outside the biggest 10 or 20 in England? So you are basically dismissing most clubs in England, and most football clubs in general. What on earth would be unprincipled about doing what almost every other club does, trying to win games in a perfectly legal but slightly more pragmatic way?
...yes, i totally believe a large number of clubs in the football league are insular, lacking ambition and primarily interested in self-preservation. that's partly down to the way the football league is as a system and partly just a cultural thing in england. luckily, the fact that it has become readily apparent at the top level that a lot of other countries are much smarter than us is starting to trickle down the pyramid.