Victor Meldrew Snowball,
To compare Long with Walcott in your earlier post is plain crazy.
Walcott is an ernomous talent with brains who I think has already scored something like 7 goals this season at the top level and doesn't play every week-Shane Long is a workmanlike lower division footballer.
Goalscoring is not something you can teach-you can create a greater calm in a player but a sense of positioning and awareness is something that players either have or haven't when they are strikers.
Long has shown that he can place a dead-ball penalty along with the best Premier League strikers but his finishing of a moving ball is strictly 3rd division.
Victor why do you and so many others fall into this stupid response-set? Not a word of my post suggested Long is in the Walcott camp. NOT-A-WORD.
The post was an example of a player maturing and learning/being taught to be a more clinical finisher
It was in response to someone saying that can't be taught. Of course it can.
When I was playing in the RAF (pretty crap but very fast) a coach took me aside and told me ONE tiny thing I was doing wrong. He said this. "You are bombing in on the right when the inside left or centre-forward is going for goal... that's good, but you always STOP as your team-mate shoots. DON'T STOP RUNNING. You'll get 5-10 goals a season from either the ball hitting the post, the keeper saving it and it drops to your feet, or someone clears it off the line, or even a shot gets screwed and is going wide."
That was all, don't stop running. It did get me a lot more goals.
Just an example. You can never teach genius, but geniuses don't play long in the CC.
You CAN teach craft and enough craft is art. It's what I do in my day job.