you have to train them as poacher, and dont swap the position, use "pick off where you last time" (assertive) always
Amazing tactic and great work. I mean no disrespect, but that is a fallacy. Regardless what role you train him at, you won't see any type of attribute increase over the coarse of the season. So, it has zero impact on the immediate success of the tactic. Plus, there is no proof that you need to train him as a poacher, unless you ran two separate saves, both of which you kept identical keeping variable between them to the minimum, keep the same starting 11, run one save where you train your strikers as poachers and have the other save where you train your strikers at F9s (or whatever role), THEN run them for 3+ years, and then some how compare the two results solely based on production from being trained as a poacher and production from being trained as a f9. Even that would be very difficult, but the only way to support your argument of having to train your strikers as poachers.
General and individual training have ZERO immediate impact on the player's attributes, let alone the productivity of the entire tactic. You training him as a poacher wouldn't show you ANY type of development until a year or two down the road. And again, unless you ran the save exact save with you training him in a different role and used that to see how it compares, there is no way you could have reached the conclusion of needing to train as a poacher. Whether that is true or not, you wouldn't have see it MANY years down the save...and again, you would then have to run the same exact save with him training in a different role to see if training as a poacher is that much better. So, that is a fallacy.
So, my theory is that you by mistake had your strikers set to train as poachers. You didn't realize it and then went the whole season getting great results, then at the end saw that your strikers were being trained as poachers this whole time and then just assumed that is why you were getting great results. No question, your players are still going to develop into good players assuming they have potential to grow. But your tactic calls for F9s. You are going to want your players to develop the skills needed for your tactic right? No question there are attributes in poachers that overlap with F9s, and no question that non key attributes play a significant role. But, with this tactic, you are going to want a guy that can play the F9 role. And you are going to want to trainer your youngsters into being good F9s.
Plus, again, aside from all of that, it makes me laugh any time someone mentions general or individual training (especially individual training) when they talk about tactics. Training is for the long term development of your players, not for the immediate/short term success of your tactic.
But again, not trying to be disrespectful. Just find it very misleading telling people you must train your strikers as poachers in order to reach full effectiveness of this tactic. That is completely false.