Defensive coach required?

Strange... I was wondering the other day whether Sami would get fired given the bad run Brighton are having and I thought then that I'd welcome him back as a defensive coach. His management career hasn't really been fantastic but that doesn't necessarily mean he's a bad coach. I thought he was harshly sacked by Leverkusen and it also sounds from the article that Brighton were sorry to see him resign despite their poor results. With us though it could be a case of whether he would accept not being the head honcho after a couple of years of being a manager...

Do teams actually have defensive coaches? There are coaches who were defenders for whom defending would perhaps come naturally in their coaching methods, but as far as I'm aware most, if not all other teams do not have actual defensive coaches that works solely on defending.

With Marsh and Pascoe both being midfielders in the there may be an argument that perhaps a more defensive minded coach is needed but an actual coach just for defending? It doesn't really happen.

Coaching and playing are two completely different disciplines so the idea a good defender would be a good defensive coach doesn't make any sense anyway.

Brighton have kept a joint low of 4 clean sheets this season, so he hasn't done their defence much good.

comment by righteous1 (U7048)
posted 6 minutes ago
Coaching and playing are two completely different disciplines so the idea a good defender would be a good defensive coach doesn't make any sense anyway.

Brighton have kept a joint low of 4 clean sheets this season, so he hasn't done their defence much good.
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They've conceded one more than the average amount of goals conceded for the Championship... which suggests the defence isn't the problem, they just aren't scoring enough goals (remind you of another team?).

A mate at work is a Brighton fan and he says that this summer they sold a lot of their creative players who got them into the play-offs last season and never replaced them, which is the root cause of their problems.

No to Sammy I'm afraid and Rodgers won't be getting any coaches in either I wouldn't have thought.

How refreshing is it to see a manager resign rather than wait to be sacked. Sami has had a shocker at Brighton. Hopefully he can bounce back from this.

Brighton kept 20 clean sheets last season, the highest in the division, conceding the 2nd fewest number of goals.

Hyppia has come in, they have got about 50% worse in terms of defending statistically.

Great qualifications to be our defensive coach

Let's get Rio Ferdinand in as social media expert and Nigel Farage as race relations officer for good measure.

I doubt very much that Rodgers a defensive coach, he would have done it by now if he did, but in the slim likelihood of it happening then Tony Pulis surely has to be high up on the people to ask.

His Palace side were the best in the league at defending set pieces.

Since he left they are conceding a shed load from set plays.

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