Short Corners

[Beach Hut]

FFS STOP DOING THEM - WASTE OF TIME

 

[Goring Gull]

Waste of time at leats if pumped across the goal all multitude of cockups can arise.

 

[London Irish]

Got us the goal at Burnley. With no height in the box, what's the alternative.

 

[brighton2win]

every time we do them we either win a THROW IN or get the ball in DEFENCE


RESULT!!

 

[Scarface]

They are onbly worth doing if they are taken quickly and there are no defenders nearby, like at Burnley. Every one taken today they waited til everyone was ready and there were two defenders 10 yards away before they took them.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I think we need to work on set pieces in training, and the sooner Dodd is back then the better.

 

[London Irish]

The problem isn't the delivery, the problem is the targets - which at the moment is the quicksilver gnome Jakey and Leon standing with his hands on his hips somewhere outside the box.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

and Leon standing with his hands on his hips somewhere outside the box.

Specifically, by the corner flag, perhaps, given he takes the corners?

 

[Easy 10]

The problem isn't the delivery, the problem is the targets - which at the moment is the quicksilver gnome Jakey and Leon standing with his hands on his hips somewhere outside the box.

Uhhh...I'd say delivery is a big problem. Forget the targets - if we can't even get the ball past the first defender, it doesn't matter whether we have Jake, Leon or Crouch waiting for the ball.

I just don't geddit. You have a chance of slinging the ball into the box, with no-one challenging, no-one allowed within 10 yards. So what do we do ? Play it short and end up having to try to beat a couple of defenders to get the ball over.

Pointless. Pointless. Pointless.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Why can't McGhee come up with some different alternatives to the short corner

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Jimmy Greaves said he dont know why bother with short corners as its a free cross from the byline. UNMARKED

I would have to agree...

 

[London Irish]

Why can't McGhee come up with some different alternatives to the short corner

I wasn't quite a short corner - but almost, got the winner at Upton Park last year.

Then we had Virgs, Guy, DC and the many-club man competing for the header. We have Guy, maybe McShane and that's it today. We need more targets.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

They are ok when neccessary, but too many times do we seem to be knocking balls into the feet of players who are being marked about 4 yards away. It's stupid.

When appropriate, they can be great, but there's no point sending the whole team up and failing to get a cross in

 

[Robot Chicken]

I wasn't quite a short corner - but almost, got the winner at Upton Park last year.

Then we had Virgs, Guy, DC and the many-club man competing for the header. We have Guy, maybe McShane and that's it today. We need more targets.

Why can't they come up with a corner where there are a couple of guys waiting unmarked just outside the box, one controls the ball and leaves it for the other one running in to wallop it into the goal. The other players are aware of this and make sure they keep onside. We could only do this once but we had so many corners we need to vary what we do.

Trouble is every time someone has a shot outside the box the ball is skyed over the top. If it's on target it'll be in.

 

[Curious Orange]

I'm not worried about the short-corners, I'm more worried about the way teams are walking straight through the middle of us to score!!!

Now that certainly needs some work in training.

 

[Del Boy]

I personally hate short corners, think they are a waste of time and generally lose posession. Put the ball in the box where it is most dangerous! I'm sure all defenders are please when they see a team taking short corners.

 

[Robot Chicken]

I personally hate short corners, think they are a waste of time and generally lose posession. Put the ball in the box where it is most dangerous! I'm sure all defenders are please when they see a team taking short corners.

Of course, taking short corners brings a couple of defenders out of position

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

At least we've stopped conceding goals from our short corners. Which is progress of a sort

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Don't like the short corner at all. Just get it in the box, throw yourself at it and see what happens. Nine times out of ten they end up being cleared or sent back to the halfway line

 

[dougdeep]

At one point this afternoon we had a corner and Cardiff had nine in their box to our five. Then one of our five went over to stand by the corner taker who then crossed it into the box. What was that about?