I was watching our game on ESPN and noticed how quiet the stadium seemed via TV. The audio feed was obviously somewhere near the dug outs because you could quite clearly hear the majestic control of TP, directing his recruits with such accuracey and effeciencey that it looked like a scen out of BABE! I used to sit in row 4 at the Brit (right to the side of the home dug out) and could hear every word the tactical genuis said and I realised where he had been getting his reading material from: The Working Sheepdog Website? You may scoff, you may laugh but look at the commands below: Come-bye: Move the sheep in a clockwise fashion - This is very effective when trying to move the opposing back 4. Away/Away to Me: As above but in an anti-clockwise fashion - Again also effective as above. Stand: Confusing because it can be used to mean Stop or Slow Down, the dog must learn that the sharpness in the command infers the actual command - Very effective in directing our team in defence and closing down without going to ground. Get Back: The dog is working to close - useful in moving our squad over to one side of the pitch to make full use of the eind whilst playing hoof ball. In Here: Commanding the dog to seperate the sheep - Commonly used when trying to seperate the opposing back 4 (on the half way line) from the rest of the team - normally implimineted by our sole striker. Lie Down: To slow the dog down - Often used to prevent our chasing striker from burn out. Look Back: To locate new sheep - Used to inform all our players where the ball is so we can defend a little more. Take time: Slow the dog down and create distance between the sheep - Yelled before a player kicks the ball back to the opposing team. That'll do: Stop the dogs task - normally used when more than one of our players make the half way line. There: Used when the dog has successfully completed its task - Not heard this one yet! Outrun/Drive/Fetch: as they say - used constantly with Walters, Ethrington & Pennant There are more but another one I havent heard is - PEN: This is to gather the sheep into a gateway approximatley 15ft wide - abit like a goal!
That explains his wooly thinking on selection and tactics our lam(b)entable performances and his sheepish look when interviewed Bet he is still wearing his wellies and keeps mount(a)in goats Our lack of attempts on target reminds me of the difference between the constipated owl and the poor striker (KWJ ??? ) The owl hoots and cant S**t The striker shoots etc SiS PS Potts Will send the promised PM soon been busy praying re this Thursday
Forgot earlier I watched the ESPN stream and heard Pulis several times yelling Stay on Your Feet John He obviously realised that Walters is Kn*****ed and did not want him to collapse until the end of the match in case we got another pen Or he thought Woody was playing RB and was getting skinned everytime as usual SiS
S I S No problem with the PM matie.. let me know after the Valencia game what you thought of it lol.. I'll be at a friends house watching it on ESPN. I also heard T.P. shouting FIVE, keep it at FIVE? What the heck that means only he knows.
Probably means no more than 5 players out of our own half at any one given time during the game Potts!
Thats on a par with a classic I heard at a home game last season! It was a set play (facing the away end) and Pennant was taking a free kick about 15 yards down from TP. The grand master said - and this is no word of a lie "Ryan, Ryan - try and score" - WTF?
