We haven’t done one of these in almost a month but this game deserves a closer look. In terms of the style of play it was very different from what we were expecting from a Mark Briggs team. Most...
Once again, apologies for getting this out late this week; with the Three Sparks having a 10-day stretch with no game we felt justified in being lazy. That being said, unlike most games where we dig i...
With a brand new head coach coming in this week you may wonder: why bother with an analysis of the tactical approach in the last game? Well, two reasons. First, it takes time for a coach to install hi...
The oddity in the initial formation was that Dawson McCartney was playing at left back. He is of course mostly used as a winger. I assume he was put in at fullback faute de mieux, as it were, gi...
OK, so this is rather late in the day, but bloggers have real lives too and most of you were on spring break this week… The past week was a crazy one for the Legion with three games being played...
There were at least four different problems evident in the Legion’s loss last Saturday, both old and new, and some just perplexing. Let’s go through them in particular order. Player availabi...
Usually in this series we look back at what happened in the last game, or in some cases the last two games. Not wanting to dwell on bad results, we are flipping the script and looking ahead to the las...
I cannot recall the Legion ever previously using the so-called “Christmas Tree” formation. But in a season that has become an exercise in not just experimentation but also in maximizing de...
Apparently, the Legion and Switchbacks want to keep as many statistics between the two teams as even as possible. The most important stat – the result – is perfectly balanced. It stands at...
While it was certainly pleasing for the Legion to keep pace with the Stallions in blanking a team from the Alamo City, the 3-0 win has to get something of an asterisk. San Antonio has been on a disast...