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Has keepball had it's day?
at 18:45 23 Nov 2020

Well we didn't play this way last season but that was just about keeping us up and he inherited a pretty poor squad. At the end of that season he released a huge number of players and totally built his own squad. With all the changes it took us a few games to gel but now we have we're playing well.

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Has keepball had it's day?
at 14:10 23 Nov 2020

Yeah, I was curious about Rochdale fans' thoughts of the teacher vs pupil match on Tuesday between Beech's Carlisle and Hill's Tranmere (admittedly it won't really be Hill's team yet).

Carlisle have among the lowest average possession percentages in L2, but among the highest number of shots of target, around the lowest number of passes in defence and sideways passes and one of the top one or two in terms of opposition passes forced back and time spent in the final third.

Beech's philosophy is all about pressing and winning the ball high up the field. Defenders at this level who are being asked to play out from the back when they aren't really comfortable with it struggle immensely when the opposition attacking players are trying to tackle. I think this is the next wave of thinking, Klopp-ball perhaps, that everyone will be doing in a year or two's time and Beech has taken the opportunity to get in early while some teams still have no way to deal with it.

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Has keepball had it's day?
at 13:25 23 Nov 2020

Interestingly, the main proponent in L2 of playing without posession and probably the person who most successfully exploits teams playing tikka-takka is none other than Chris Beech.

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