Instead of using game simulations and "effort " running to practise skills, we should be using skills training to get fit and work game patterns. These game plans/patterns go out the window as soon as pressure is applied anyway, and the good sides have players who have trained hard at passing the footy to a teammate, handballing in front of a running player, reacting instinctively to a change in what is happening instead of trying to work out what the game plan is when some interfering opponent spoils, tackles, bumps our player.
There are plenty of video clips and stories of Lyon halting training/practise matches to lambast a player who, when things are not going according to the training plan, has done something instinctive. And that is what our team looks like. A group of players who have had every footy instinct trained out of them. Thank god for Walters & Hill.
