Comments for What I Learned Last Night at http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3 , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:37:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/component/option,com_myblog/show,What-I-Learned-Last-Night.html/Itemid,96/#comment-236 I'll reiterate what I said above. We need to implement a *-*-2 system. *I don't care as long as the '2' is up top. - Ben Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:22:42 +0100 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/component/option,com_myblog/show,What-I-Learned-Last-Night.html/Itemid,96/#comment-235 Regarding Barrett & the Fire's needs. If Chicago is looking to play Barrett as target forward, then he is not the player to do that, nor will he ever be. Nor has there ever been in his skill set or shown to play that way with UCLA or any of the U-XXX teams Neither was Ante Razov when Bruce Arena tried to shoehorn him into that role when McBride was unavailable. Its' foolish to ask a player to play a role that they don't have the physical tools to play. That being said, why have we gone to the lone (target) striker system when we neither have the players to play it (skill set or physically) and have allowed those that do or have the potential to to leave? (Jaqua). Even when teams successfully employ the "lone striker" mode, they run the risk of having the service starved to their target player, or as in most cases these days, the lone player doesn't have primarily have crosses played into him for headers on goal, but has them played to feet for distribution to players making runs towards goal or draws defenders away so that players can run into the space being played. McBride, for all the hopefuls, may be an answer to that need, but he is far from the long term answer unless there are target forwards looking to retire here or there are some being developed in the youth/college ranks that we have our eye on. And even then, it will require that we also find players that can effectively combine with a target forward, which I do not believe that we currently have. - Mike S. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:10:33 +0100 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/component/option,com_myblog/show,What-I-Learned-Last-Night.html/Itemid,96/#comment-231 Your comments on Mapp are 100% correct. I'm still going to give CJ time to work out his troubles though. He missed training and isn't necessarily match fit. 4-4-2 is needed soon, unless we can find a way to play a 3-5-2. - Ben Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:03:03 +0100