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Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:33 pm

Is the worse ive seen in years very rarely do we beat the first man on the front post.
I see u16 players putting cracking corners in on saturday mornings why cant the likes of whitts and bellers do the same?
Absolutely shocking corner taking today we might aswell had just given peterborough a goal kick

Re: Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:50 pm

jinks-rct wrote:Is the worse ive seen in years very rarely do we beat the first man on the front post.
I see u16 players putting cracking corners in on saturday mornings why cant the likes of whitts and bellers do the same?
Absolutely shocking corner taking today we might aswell had just given peterborough a goal kick


come on they are normally spot on and causes danger everytime! but you are right today it was obvious their goaly was up to it, and we should have varied the way we took them! but cant win them all! :D

Re: Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:59 pm

I think they have been the best for a while this season.

Today's were hit and miss but we were still unlucky on a few.

Re: Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:15 pm

jinks-rct wrote:Is the worse ive seen in years very rarely do we beat the first man on the front post.
I see u16 players putting cracking corners in on saturday mornings why cant the likes of whitts and bellers do the same?
Absolutely shocking corner taking today we might aswell had just given peterborough a goal kick


I have always said we are poor at corners. Other teamed against us always look dangerous. I would prefer corners blasted in the area as you never know where the ball will land up with so many players in the area we never looked dangerous today. I'm sure we must have had over 20 corners today.

Re: Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:07 pm

Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box

Re: Our corner taking

Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:22 pm

I Bleed Blue wrote:Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box


I think sometimes when you put the ball on the spot and its not moving it ent always easy to get the lift on the ball so Conway goes over to try and take a touch and curl one in.. But short corners are the most annoying thing ever.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:30 am

Nonsense

We are scoring more goals from corners / wide free this season.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:32 am

I Bleed Blue wrote:Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box

Thats to drag one of their players out of position :roll:

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:35 am

Mario Polotelli wrote:
I Bleed Blue wrote:Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box

Thats to drag one of their players out of position :roll:


That's fine but we had Witts taking a corner and he took it short to Kev to cross in, that makes no sense.


People always go on about us defending corners as well, how we don't leave anyone forward but we rarely concede at corners.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:37 am

I think our corner tactic has been great this season, you can tell it's something the squad have been working on in training.

Our overall performance was crap yesterday, the only positive I could take from the game is Marshall keeping the scoreline down because we could've been hammered.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:38 am

2blue2handle wrote:
Mario Polotelli wrote:
I Bleed Blue wrote:Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box

Thats to drag one of their players out of position :roll:


That's fine but we had Witts taking a corner and he took it short to Kev to cross in, that makes no sense.


People always go on about us defending corners as well, how we don't leave anyone forward but we rarely concede at corners.

Well its not Whitts fault Kev is crap its something that should have been addressed in rhe summer

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:48 am

Aim to get the corner to reach somewhere near the penalty spot not the defender at the front post :twisted:

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:37 am

Mario Polotelli wrote:Nonsense

We are scoring more goals from corners / wide free this season.


Spot on, to be fair.

Normally our dead ball attacks are shit hot.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:42 am

Mario Polotelli wrote:
2blue2handle wrote:
Mario Polotelli wrote:
I Bleed Blue wrote:Been hit and miss all season, we do have a few from corners on the tally but a lot of the time Whittingham's cant even beat the first man, Bellars seem to have much more power from them. What I hate is Conway ALWAYS goes over for a short corner, just get in the box

Thats to drag one of their players out of position :roll:


That's fine but we had Witts taking a corner and he took it short to Kev to cross in, that makes no sense.


People always go on about us defending corners as well, how we don't leave anyone forward but we rarely concede at corners.

Well its not Whitts fault Kev is crap its something that should have been addressed in rhe summer


Witts has played with kev for many a year, he knows Kevs capabilities.

Re: Our corner taking

Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:45 am

I think we have been great from dead ball situations this year. We have scored quite a lot of headers or goals from knock downs that have come from set pieces.

Didn't Connolly come out last month and praise Whittingham for his dead ball delivery?