Semi-pro · player, coach, evaluator

Tactics

Five volumes, two counting drills, a review, a match log, a scouting form — and a coach that has read all of it. Built for one player entering a semi-pro league who also intends to coach, run a team and evaluate talent.

Read
The Tactics ManualFourteen sections, from first principles to set pieces, with a number 10 dossier, a method for scouting inference, and a verified source list. Theory — Volume TwoTwelve chapters on why the ideas exist: space and time, positional play and relationism, pressing taxonomy, the schools compared, what the metrics hide, and what is still unsettled. The Nine — Volume ThreeStriker play from first principles: the offside line as a negotiated boundary, the three jobs nobody has all of, pinning, what the finishing evidence actually says, and how to evaluate a nine when his best work is invisible. The Ten — Volume FourYour position, theory-first: the seam as a failure of responsibility, the dilemma engine, why the classic ten nearly died and where it survives, and why semi-pro is the best habitat it has left. The Seven — Volume FiveWinger play as manufactured isolation: what the touchline costs and buys, the two geometries, the theory of the duel, turnover geography, the delivery menu, and the far-post ghost.
Train
Count TrainerEndless generated shape matchups. Read the picture, tap two numbers, get graded on accuracy and speed. Count DrillTen fixed reps with worked answers, including the two that catch everybody. Round 3 ReviewSix shape-reading situations drawn out, with the counts staged one at a time on the pitch.
Ask
The CoachChat with something that has all five volumes loaded as context. Quiz yourself, argue with a chapter, or ask what the manual does not cover.
Work
The Match LogFour lines after every match, plus the eight-week plan and the counters that are your real scorecard. Scouting ReportThe inference method as a working form: claims, rival explanations, the matches that separate them, a conditional verdict.