Can you make a bad player better?
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I'm a bad player. Never been much good. I'll run around a lot, reasonable fitness and strength, but my close control and reading of the game is piss poor.
It's too late for me at my age, and whilst I know a good coach and lots of practice would make me better, could it ever have made me actually any good?
Not good enough to get paid for it, but good enough to hold my own on a Sunday morning.
Transpose this across to someone like Pidge. Great at much of what he needs to do, in the top 1% of footballers if you include all steps of the game, but can he be taught better decision-making and passing? Or has he reached the ceiling? (This is *not* a knock at him, just using him as an example)
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 11:35:08 on 14th January 2026
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