Squad Numbering

[Guest smoggeordie]

The best thing is when a wannabe number 9 gets "1+8" 

[Optimistic Nut]

Hahaha, good old Zamarano.

[Dogmatix]

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7          4            8          11

 

            9           10

 

Looks strange when its written down - do you thing the first guy who set it up knew the numbers but could not remember the order?

[Guest smoggeordie]

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[Raconteur]

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            9           10

 

That's the way I've always done it - both in FM and when picking my squad in my coaching days. I've always been a bit of a nazi about numbers, and things like the Cannibal wearing number 9 gets on my goat.

 

In response to the initial post re contract negotiations, I remember when Denis Bergkamp demanded the number 10 when he signed for Arsenal - Paul Merson being stripped of it. And I imagine Mickey Owen would have been "requested" to shift to number 9 this season only to stubbornly stick with number 10 for commercial reasons (For me, number 10 is a playmaker, number 9 is a striker. You're a number 9 Mickey! )

 

[Cajun]

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7          4            8          11

 

            9           10

 

This, anyone who says different (ie 4 at centre back) should fuck off right back to their own country!

 

 

 

tbh

[Rob W]

This is the classic.

 

 

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...2......4.......5..........3

 

.7.........6.....10........11

 

..........8.....9...............

 

only for 4-4-2

 

 

I'm old enough to remember when it

 

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no bloody subs, no stupid Yuropean formations and no names on players backs either - you were supposed to be able to recognise your own side....................

 

 

"peanuts, tanner a bag!"

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[Nobby]

This is the classic.

 

 

................1................

 

...2......4.......5..........3

 

.7.........6.....10........11

 

..........8.....9...............

 

wrong

 

This is the classic.

 

 

................1................

 

...2......5.......6..........3

 

.7.........4.....8........11

 

..........10.....9...............

[Rob W]

more foreign 4-4-2 rubbish

 

and the choice of 4 or 6 to play in the midfield depended on how good the wing halves were

 

Stan Anderson played midfield as a 4, Jim Illey as a 6

[Optimistic Nut]

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2          5            6           3

 

7          4            8          11

 

            9           10

 

That's the way I've always done it - both in FM and when picking my squad in my coaching days. I've always been a bit of a nazi about numbers, and things like the Cannibal wearing number 9 gets on my goat.

 

In response to the initial post re contract negotiations, I remember when Denis Bergkamp demanded the number 10 when he signed for Arsenal - Paul Merson being stripped of it. And I imagine Mickey Owen would have been "requested" to shift to number 9 this season only to stubbornly stick with number 10 for commercial reasons (For me, number 10 is a playmaker, number 9 is a striker. You're a number 9 Mickey! )

 

 

I remember a quote at the time from Bruce Rioch that he gave Bergkamp the number 10 because, "with no disrespect to Merson, Bergkamp is class and I always associate the number 10 with class".