The problem with 'tippy tappy', jameshill, is the predictability of it. By all means have it as your basic style of play, but what drives so many of us mad is that it is practised relentlessly, thus completely removing the element of surprise. Surely one aspect of good management is to occasionally do the unexpected and keep the opposition guessing. instead of which RM seems to regard it as the football equivalent of a virility symbol.

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Redwight correctly points out one of the problems with tippy tappy, but there are many, many more. Some of these are:

- It's dangerous. Passing the ball around your own box used to get defenders dropped. Now it's all the fashion. Go figure.
- It's slow. By the time you get up the pitch, the opponents have closed down the space.
- It leaves you exposed to the counter attack because you end up with the majority of your players in the top third of the pitch.

I could go on, but the biggest point for me is that tippy tappy works if you have the best technical players. So it could work for us in the Championship because we have relatively good players for this league. But if we get promoted it's a whole different story. So I wonder what the point of developing this style is, if it only means that we come straight back down.

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