Rotations: Advanced Tactical Guide To Understanding Movement Among Players At The Highest Level

This book was well written and one of the most technical soccer books I’ve ever read. It gave me a great understanding about the significance of a formation, transitions, and last but not least player movement. My only critique is that the diagrams are all in gray and different shades, extremely small, and very very difficult to see. I would like to see a reprint that was a little larger and more defined as far as the diagrams go. Perhaps even the book itself being larger in dimensions?

I agree with a lot of other reviews that it really needed a proofreader and editor. Feels like it was rushed to print. But the info is good, the diagrams are good, and it’s a concise summary of the concepts. And they’re thought provoking concepts at that.

There are no practices to show in the book and it’s more about a theory on positional play. I would not recommend as much but it’s useful to understand the idea from James perspective.

I really enjoyed James's first book. Rotations is a well-written book with visuals that hammer home the concepts he discusses. This is an excellent book for players and coaches.

This book started off really strong and I decided to buy it after reading the sample on the Kindle. Once I got a little deeper into it I quickly regretted the purchase. It may just not be what I was hoping for and this book may work for some people but I found it rather confusing and not helpful to understanding tactics in ways I had hoped to. I was determined to find some new knowledge I could grasp into and was able to better understand certain rotations and when to use them in general but I don’t feel I truly have a grasp of it. I would not recommend this book. I am not even sure who it is for. Not really for beginners, not for intermediate fans (which I would classify myself), and not for experts. It seems to be a mix between beginners and intermediate, but doesn’t do a great job in either place.

Good quality and arrived on time.

Really good book!! Quick read, very informative and fast shipping.

There are a few nuggets of information in the book, but it is poorly organized and poorly written. The price isn’t too high, so if you have never seen rotations it gives a good overview of what they are, and how they look in the structure of a game. No practices or implementation concepts are provided.