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Great to see the progression this tactic has made Tyler.

Will probably give v4 a spin now on another game and compare it back. Great work all round.

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To dominate possession Tyler, I think you only need to reduce the tempo of the team. That's all I've really done, kept the (roughly) same passing length and width, and we regularly dominate possession, really dominate.

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Crawley were 6th in the BSP as well. Very happy how it turned out and still edged the game with only 10 men.

Still playing the V1 version with a few tweaks. Loving every minute of it.

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Now, bare in mind that Northwich are in a league above:

I can safely say WooT on this one! \o/

Also through to the Conference League Cup Final with a penalties win over Histon. Never should have got to pens, 2 of their goals were clear offsides.

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So long as they can play CM they should be fine - provided they have the right stats. As Tyler has said and having experienced it myself now, I'd say those stats would be a high rating of passing, workrate, stamina, strength (especially) and probably tackling/positioning, but not as much.

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Another update:

Including a recent 5-0 win over Droylsden, who were 2nd at the time:

Only real blemish is the Wycombe result. Again, we had chances to win it, but can't be majorly disappointed.

We've got an FA trophy 4th round tie and a Conference League Cup semi at home back-to-back now against Northwich and Histon, both in the BSP. Be interesting to see how we fare.

Also, I'm happy to report my right striker is the top scorer, not a goal-hogging corner centre back

Although, I must admit, I do score a fair bit of corners. But you're right, we do create a lot of corners with this tactic.

The tactic is going from strength to strength atm, so I haven't touched V2 yet, still going with my minor tweaks. Made up with this team predicted to be bottom! Been using the team talks suggested as well, by the way.

Managed to get Mark Davies in on loan from Bolton, as I switched parent teams from Tranmere to them and they offered him out, so it'll be hopefully a good move.

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Can't speak for Tyler, but I'm personally not using any OI (which shaves a great deal of time off the game)

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^^ Along with what Mr Hough was saying, I've yet to come across a match where we haven't been in it or have been outplayed, which I think is the most pleasing thing about this tactic.

No doubt that's down to your idea of closing down, no fwd runs etc., Tyler. Always seem to be competing at every part of the pitch.

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Great feedback Bubsa, keep us informed of how you're season goes.

My pleasure!

Just been continuing with it, coming into November now:

Chuffed to bits with my FA Cup run - Eastbourne Boro are in the division above and it was an even game which we just shaved.

I've only made 1 major tweak to your tactic, Tyler (well, 2, technically, but I see them as linked). I've lowered the tempo down to about 9 notches and upped the passing by 2 notches (might even be 1, but still below halfway). This is purely down to the quality of my squad: They're not too cut out for an up tempo game and intricate passing, so I gave them a bit more time to get their breath back. Ideally, I think I'd keep the same settings as you and, in time, the squad may be fit enough to do so.

The only other tweaks I made were very minor: I changed my left mids corner settings to stay back, as my left back takes corners, and I also changed my keeper's distribution to defender collect, as his kicking is a whalloping 1/20, and it also seems to fit the slower tempo.

To the chap on about mentalities: I firmly believe a global mentality is the way forward. You shouldn't have to worry about your defenders riding into the alamo so long as their other settings (freedom, RWB, fwd runs) are small.

As some sort of proof for this tactic not to be branded as 'defensive', so far, I have this record:

Which is pretty nice reading.

Thoroughly enjoying this save and this game again as a whole, which I put down to patch 9.3 and this tactic, Tyler. Thanks again!

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From my (limited) experience, I wouldn't call this tactic defensive, to be honest. I see a lot of possession, which will always create chances with good players. Whenever we lose the ball, we seem to be on top of the opposition and get it back quickly, to attack again.

With that in mind, with more powerful teams or against weaker opposition, you might want to put tempo down a bit to truly dominate a team.

I'm currently experimenting with dropping tempo with Vauxhall, but for different reasons. To put it simply, my part-timers aren't cut out for a quick game!

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Happy to say that, thus far, this tactic appears to be lower league compatible.

Started a game with Vauxhall Motors, Blue Square Conference North, predicted to come 22nd (out of 22). Here is the result so far:

I was particularly impressed with the Tranmere game, given that I was given odds of 25/1 to win, and they're a reasonably high League 1 club. The match stats are even more impressive:

Probably could have won the game!

All this was done with the original squad as well, since then I've added a couple of kids from the trial games and big Darren Barnard, who you may remember was the Barnsley left back in their glory days. Hoping his set pieces can pinch a few goals.

Top stuff for Vauxhall thus far, mate. Good work on the tactic!

(And yes, before anyone asks, the manager's name is Zinedine Zidane, picture, D.o.b, everything. The fun of it all)

Edit: I should add that the Welling game was with back ups and the Gainsborough game should have been a win: keeper cleared the ball, hit a defender, striker left with an open goal to equalise. Ah well!