Pretty much. I have been gigging the last two nights and fine tuning my Edinburgh Fringe show as well, so i've been busy but the spare time is spent with my lad or doing this. "This" being how I relax.
The big thing i've been wrestling with is creating a tactic that scores goals without exploits vs a tactic that maximises opportunities to exploit said exploits.
The Traditional FourFourTwo gets goals without exploits but also creates enough set piece opportunities organically that if they are added adds efficiency to the tactic, without it being OTT. That's the balance I am trying to seek in doing this.
I've studied and tested other tactics at length to find out what works in terms of team and player instructions, player roles, combinations and strategies.
Then the challenge is to create something that is just plug and play, so then I test the game and do nowt as a manager, zero team talks just plug it in and use the shouts "demand more" every 10/15 minutes.
If it then cuts the mustard then i'll try it with a high level team then a lower level team. My two test teams at present are Man City and Bournemouth for clarity for half a season each (without transfers) to show people what can be achieved.