Exclusive part three: Wilder talks tactics, analysis and fellow managers watfordfc
The football media seem to love a label – anyone who watched the great Watford teams under Graham Taylor will have been sick to the back teeth of hearing them described as ‘long-ball merchants’.
“There are many different ways of playing but you have to put your best players in their best positions. You put round pegs in round holes,” he said.“I’ve got to get players who can win games of football at the top of the pitch. “I won promotion at Oxford United playing 4-3-3. We got 99 points at Northampton playing 4-2-3-1. At Sheffield United we played 3-4-1-2 and we got 100 points, then we tactically changed it when we got to the Premier League.
“I’ve coached every different shape and we’ll put the team in a shape we feel allows the boys to express themselves, put themselves in the best positions but while keeping a nice balance as we have to recognise there are two parts to the game.” “And because I want my teams to be physically strong, win headers, win tackles, be the fastest, be competitive and want to win, that comes first. It’s my upbringing, and it has defined my career.
“If you speak to players we’ve coached and managed then, yeah, we’re demanding. We expect high standards. People talk about head coaches, what they do, how much time they spend on the grass.
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