Kyle Boas

Kyle Boas

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Author of @tacticsjournal.com, analyzing football tactics. tacticsjournal.com

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I made a tactics board you can use: - Draw with real squads and kit colors - Ball, arrows, zones, text, and more icons - Smooth zoom, pan, and flip - Autosave, export PNGs, and transfer between devices locally - And much more Try it for free! board.tacticsjournal.com

board.tacticsjournal.comTactics BoardBuild and export football tactics boards with players, arrows, zones, text, teams, saves, and custom pitch views.

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Football errors often look obvious but stem from different underlying causes. A four-category framework helps coaches separate execution, choice, spacing and body-orientation problems when reviewing the same broken sequence. tacticsjournal.com/research/202...

tacticsjournal.comA four-category framework for diagnosing football error in coaching reviewFootball errors often look obvious but stem from different underlying causes. A four-category framework helps coaches separate execution, choice, spacing and body-orientation problems when reviewing t...

After months of research, I am finally shipping something. 🎉

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Tactics Journal research is live and the website has been completely redesigned. Research is free through May 31st. No credit card required. Here is what is new. tacticsjournal.com/opinion/2026...

tacticsjournal.comEverything newTactics Journal research is live and the website has been completely redesigned. Research is free through May 31st. No credit card required. Here is what is new.

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The next big tactical trend in football is happening now, in a language you don’t speak or a league you don’t follow. Tactics Journal research tracks 200+ international sources hourly, spots it first, in any language, and delivers a daily report. tacticsjournal.com/research/

tacticsjournal.comResearchTactics Journal research monitors more football content than any person could, across leagues, languages, and cultures, and autonomously writes reports on what it finds. Join the waitlist.

I am super excited to get this shipped.

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I dropped everything to research agentic AI for three months because I saw the impact agents will have on individuals. Not chatbots. Agents. Autonomous systems that work for you, day and night, at near-zero cost. I built one for football. tacticsjournal.com/2026/03/24/t...

tacticsjournal.comTactics Journal research. Get ahead of the game.I dropped everything to research agentic AI for three months because I saw the impact agents will have on individuals. Not chatbots. Agents. Autonomous systems that work for you, day and night, at nea...

I wanted to catch you up on what I have been working on. A live chat for football, a place you can build a community, and a social network to share your thoughts and work. All in one. I was too excited not to share this.

syncd.chatThree ThingsI wanted to catch you up on what I have been working on.

Syncd instead of SyncdChat

If this link doesn't work (which it should) syncd.chat syncdchat.com

syncd.chatSyncdNever let a text ruin a goal again.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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Group channels dropdown >>>>

Desktop is almost fully functional. 95% there

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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Desktop will get a column layout so you can monitor multiple matches at once. (work in progress image)

Cleaner link preview syncdchat.com

syncdchat.comSyncdChatNever let a text ruin a goal again.

Finding that the thing that makes or breaks a website is the animations. If the animations aren't there it doesn't feel premium.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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This will be formatted better, but I have added lineups!

Fantasy sports will be linked to your profile page. - FPL points in chat - FPL leaderboards for team and group communities - FPL tab in the match chat - And more features are coming The possibilities are endless, only limited to imagination. Pages are a work in progress. (Ignore my rank)

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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I have plans to make a mobile app one day but for now it is a web app. You can add the page to your home screen though on your phone.

I'm adding the ability to create channels within each group to better organize conversations and offer a way for Group owners and moderators to customize things.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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I am adding features based on feedback from users. All feature requests are welcome.

During the match, match event messages are sent by the system for kickoff, half-time, full-time, substitutions, yellow cards, red cards, goals, etc.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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And there is a feed to keep up with who you are following.

And yes, it will have dark mode. It's not feature complete yet.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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The team pages act as their own group chats for supporters to chat between games.

You get your own profile. (All of this is still a work in progress)

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

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During a live match you can filter messages by group to never miss a message from friends or people you follow.

This is the reason why it is called Syncd. You can sync the clock in the chat to your TV or stream. If you have your delay set to 20s, it's 10:20, it will only show you messages sent at minute 10:00. You can finally look at your phone during a match without worrying about a goal being spoiled.

I have created a social media platform for football. Two big features: - Delay Sync: Sync the chat to your broadcast delay to avoid spoilers. Never let a text ruin a goal. - Group Chats: Talk to other members between games. You can sign up now for free. I'll share my progress here. syncdchat.com

syncdchat.comSyncdChatNever let a text ruin a goal again.

The Trending and Favorites tabs are fully functional. Trending shows the top favorited matches, to show you where the next conversation is going to happen. You can favorite individual clubs and their upcoming fixtures will be added to your own favorites tab.

You can create individual group chats, and either make them public or private to join. If they are private you have to request to join. All groups will be accessible either through their own group page or on the home tabs. Here is the link to the @tacticsjournal.com group: syncdchat.com/groups/1

CHATGPTactics kyleboas.com/2025/11/02/c...

kyleboas.comCHATGPTacticsJamie Hamilton: But the outrage masks complicity. ‘Tactical analysis’ has been on course for this moment for decades, maybe over a century. Ever since its formalisation, football thinkers have tri...

I do not like the Dodgers but the Blue Jays had several opportunities to end the game.

Ecological Football: not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of) kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/e...

kyleboas.comEcological Football: not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of)Mark O’Sullivan: Constraints were first categorised by Newell in 1986 (14) (see Figure 1) as: Individual (e.g., height, speed, cognition, emotions and motivation,) Task (e.g., specific...

PewDiePie created an army of AI chatbots that colluded against him among other inspiring things kyleboas.com/2025/11/01/p...

kyleboas.comPewDiePie created an army of AI chatbots that colluded against him among other inspiring thingsThis video makes me want to experiment with local open-source AI models and ditch the $19.99 subscription to ChatGPT. The video is inspiring because I never knew any of that was possible right now on...

The taker is the most important player in the set piece kyleboas.com/2025/10/31/t...

kyleboas.comThe taker is the most important player in the set pieceAhmed Walid for The Athletic: Speaking from his (and Odegaard’s) home country of Norway, Morten Gamst Pedersen says he rates Arsenal’s attacking set pieces as the best in the league, with their de...

Jamie Hamilton on embracing chaos kyleboas.com/2025/10/30/j...

kyleboas.comJamie Hamilton on embracing chaosJamie Hamilton on the Training Ground Guru Podcast discussing the differences in embracing chaos between positionism and relationism: […] Again, people might be familiar with Jonathan Wilson’s boo...

Premier League set piece delays cause lowest ball-in play percentage on record kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/p...

kyleboas.comPremier League set piece delays cause lowest ball-in play percentage on recordOpta Analyst: The result, however, is less actual football than in any other season in recent memory. The ball has been in play for a lower percentage of overall match time (54.8%) than in any oth...

Many Real Madrid players are frustrated with Xabi Alonso kyleboas.com/2025/10/29/m...

kyleboas.comMany Real Madrid players are frustrated with Xabi AlonsoThe Athletic: Several such sources said players were upset to find they now had little freedom to express their qualities on the pitch, contrasting Alonso’s more demanding and rigid approach to th...

How to coach relations in football kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/h...

kyleboas.comHow to coach relations in footballI’m convinced that relational principles will shape the future of coaching in football and we’ll need more guides like this.

Long-throw trend prompts Ifab to consider time limit for taking throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...

kyleboas.comLong-throw trend prompts Ifab to consider time limit for taking throw-insPaul MacInnes for The Guardian: The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has discussed the possibility of limiting how long a player can spend on a throw-in, in a bid to increase the am...

Liverpool are losing second balls kyleboas.com/2025/10/28/l...

kyleboas.comLiverpool are losing second ballsDavid Segar for Opta Analyst: Virgil van Dijk has won at least seven more aerial duels than any other player in the Premier League this season (46 of 59 – 78%), while his centre-back partner Ibrah...

Three rule changes the Premier League should consider to nerf corners and throw-ins kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/t...

kyleboas.comThree rule changes the Premier League should consider to nerf corners and throw-insI don’t want to watch teams play to win corners and throw-ins and then take their sweet old time taking said corners and throw-ins. I want the ball in play. I don’t want to see players descend into th...

Pau Cubarsi on what makes learning in La Masia so special kyleboas.com/2025/10/25/p...

kyleboas.comPau Cubarsi on what makes learning in La Masia so specialPau Cubarsí on what makes learning in La Masia so special: All the coaches focus a lot on teaching the small details, showing you the big difference they make in our game. For me, hiding my passes...

It's amazing how much better your team is when you trade Garnacho and Hojlund for Sesko, Mbeumo, and Cunha.

Free water kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/f...

kyleboas.comFree waterWater should be free and this is an incredible concept for a real problem. This company, FreeWater, packages water in a carton and sells it free to the consumer. Each carton of water is paid for by a...

Manchester United complain to Premier League over number of midweek fixtures kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/m...

kyleboas.comManchester United complain to Premier League over number of midweek fixturesThe Athletic: In the 12 weeks between October 5 and December 25, United will play only one home match on a weekend — against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. During that period, United have ...

Arteta: I envisioned set-piece goals 10 years ago kyleboas.com/2025/10/24/a...

kyleboas.comArteta: I envisioned set-piece goals '10 years ago'James Olley for ESPN: Asked when he realised set-pieces would be such a pivotal part of his approach, Arteta said: “Ten years ago. I wasn’t here but 10 years ago, I said ‘it is a massive thing to ...

Amazon offers a more advanced NFL broadcast kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/a...

kyleboas.comAmazon offers a more advanced NFL broadcastThis is the future of sports, not just the NFL. With artificial intelligence we should be able to get live action analysis to tell us what is happening, even before it happens. It should be something ...

The Premier League is stale kyleboas.com/2025/10/21/t...

kyleboas.comThe Premier League is staleJamie Hamilton: Maybe the stakes are just too high for anything interesting to happen. The potential losses are simply too catastrophic. Football, like film, has become an industry allergic to ris...

This wasn't written about West Ham but it could be.

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We put too much emphasis on the manager’s role in the game. Sometimes the players are the problem, and sometimes they are the solution, but they are first. They are the reason the play happened, not everything is by design. tacticsjournal.com/2025/10/20/p...

tacticsjournal.comPutting makeup on a pigWe put too much emphasis on the manager’s role in the game. Sometimes the players are the problem, and sometimes they are the solution, but they are first. They are the reason the play happened, not e...

Jamie Carragher thinks Salah should not start every match kyleboas.com/2025/10/19/j...

kyleboas.comJamie Carragher thinks Salah should not start every matchJamie Carragher on Sky Sports after Liverpool’s 1-2 loss to Manchester United: I do think watching Mo Salah this season, and I absolutely love him. There’s a tactical setup with Mo Salah in that h...

Manchester United are improving defensively a little bit. Don't get excited yet.

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It is easy to oversimplify Ruben Amorim’s attacking tactics. On the surface, Manchester United look predictable because they just get the ball and attack, direct play. That impression has fed the perception that United lack a sophisticated plan. tacticsjournal.com/2025/09/23/r...

tacticsjournal.comRuben Amorim's Manchester United attack is more complex than it looksIt is easy to oversimplify Ruben Amorim’s attacking tactics. On the surface, Manchester United look predictable because they just get the ball and attack, direct play. That impression has fed the perc...