
And picked blokes who refused to fill a hole in the zone or close down space at a stoppage etc. There's more to a defensive game plan than telling players to tackle.I can only assume you didn't watch us very closely then.
First season we played a simple high pressure gameplan, with guys like AMT and Snelling fit and providing pressure.
Second season he tried to ramp up the complexity of the system (basic high pressure only takes you so far) with both AMT and Snelling not playing, it didn't work.
You often type a lot of words, but don't seem to read a lot in return. ant555 has posted at length about how we played, and whilst you might disagree with his conclusions, I don't see how you can gloss over the whole thing - repeatedly - and pretend Rutten didn't attempt to play a defensive gameplan.
We played a simple high-pressure game, we drafted two-ways runners, we tried to ramp up the complexity to build a system capable of standing up in finals.
Rutten may have wanted to play a defensive gameplan but it is far from what we got, and he kept ticking off the way things were going.