I think I am coming ON because I was hypersensitive to the amount of calling last night, and I guess what it amounts to or what I gleaned was that if you are calling for it means that you think you are better than anybody else and that only you should have it.
I thought we were the team that was trying to play this right, dont get me wrong I know you have to have patience because it may take a few passes before the ball gets to you.
I guess I am a bit frustrated I managed to play the whole night without deliberately calling for it once (that doesnt include forcing the defence to clear now and again) so it can easily be done
Am I the only one feeling like this, if so I will STFU
That said we did play some good stuff at times with some nice interchanges and good goals from individual and team play
I hope I'm not included in the calling bonanza, I tend to only call for the ball of the defence if they're struggling and I'm out wide to receive it, the same on occasion from the goal kick as we lose the ball a lot given the CPU's poor distribution. If I am I apologise as it's not my intent.
I do however agree with you, I don't want to say no calling as there are times when you really should call. That said every so often I take a look at the 'Player Ratings' after the match, some people have 10-20 touches on the ball, others have 30-50 touches. In addition, we had one game last night with 80%+ passing accuracy and that was the one with the least calling.
On top of this, we still need to keep our shape, too often the midfield are crowding the attack and run the ball from deep rather than pass, which eats up space and slows us down. More importantly I turn around and often my only pass back is a 40 yards pass to Red. Red sits in and mops up, but whoever else is playing midfield only one should be getting right to the box, the other needs to be roughly half way between Red and the edge of the box. In the 80th minute when we're 1-0 down, let's push up more but it shouldn't be the default. The attack needs to play it's part and keep the width and pressure on their back line, I just think we need to keep thinking about the shape and making use of the radar as much as possible given we can't talk to each other.
We played without calling and good shape last night and won 3-0 without giving them much of a sniff.