Our wide players stay wide even when the ball is on the other side

The far-side player does not need to stay on the touchline just because you have coached width. Width is useful when it stretches the opposition or gives the player on the ball an option. Once the ball is established on the opposite side, the weak-side player can start asking what the next action needs. Sometimes that means staying wide because a switch is available. Sometimes it means arriving inside the far full-back or getting closer to the striker. I’d give them a reference rather than a fixed movement: “Can you stay connected to the attack and still give us a way to switch?” A good practice is a directional game where goals count normally but you occasionally freeze your own observation afterwards and ask where the weak-side space was. The aim is for the player to read the picture, not replace one rigid rule with another.