It's about working as a unit though isnt it?

There's some story I remember hearing about Queen at Live Aid. While some other bands, like Led Zep (who I love, but still), just turned up and had a go and sounded dreadful, Queen wanted to stand out. They, apparently, practised for weeks and weeks to get ultra tight, and to hone their set to make absolute maximum use of the 20 mins they had. Even though they'd been performing together for years and years and knew all the songs inside out. They performed as an amazing unit and then Mr Mercury could do the rest.

Queen had it easy though, as nobody was trying to kick Brian May up in the air when he was playing a solo, and there were only 4 of them, and they had been playing together for more than a decade.

Quality defending is about learning to work as a unit, knowing where you should be, covering for each other, not exposing team mates, and I don't think we can write the new lot off because they haven't got it after a few weeks. Its an entirely new unit after all. It's going to take time for everything to gel and become second nature, muscle memory.

Posted By: Under soil heating, Aug 23, 14:11:17