HantsSeagull
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why are we so crap?
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HantsSeagull
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its been the same all season and all last season - can't hit a brighton player for love nor money
Conways corners were much better
RexCathedra
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Set-pieces have been BHA's Achilles heel since approximately when Noah shut the door on the Ark.
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Does any club have a good conversion rate of corners/chances/goals? I'd be interested to see the stats. I reckon they are very low globally.
dougdeep
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I've been asking that for 50 years.
RexCathedra
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BoF, your intuition is sound.
More statto madness on the goal value of corners than you've got weekend left to read and digest, here.
The goal value of any given corner is pretty much nil.
"The yield from corners ranges from 0 to .07. On average, the data show that a corner is good for (drumroll ....) 0.022 goals. This means that the average EPL team scores 1 goal from a corner about every 10 games.'
More statto madness on the goal value of corners than you've got weekend left to read and digest, here.
The goal value of any given corner is pretty much nil.
"The yield from corners ranges from 0 to .07. On average, the data show that a corner is good for (drumroll ....) 0.022 goals. This means that the average EPL team scores 1 goal from a corner about every 10 games.'
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Nice find. Just as I suspected. We'd be better off punting it back to the Pole (or the Slovak).
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
We have NEVER been good at corners. Even under Mullery, when we used to score 4 or 5 goals a game for fun, we tried short corners, and I don't recall scoring from any of them!
RexCathedra
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There's a revolution coming to soccer/football. Because most everything we know is wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/s...eking-truth-in-statistics-of-soccer.html?_r=0
I iived through the sabermetric revolution in baseball. Eventually things change, because the need to win never changes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/s...eking-truth-in-statistics-of-soccer.html?_r=0
I iived through the sabermetric revolution in baseball. Eventually things change, because the need to win never changes.
TheJasperCo
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Ideally if we could get more shots in the back of the net, we wouldn't need to take any corners full stop.
tigertim68
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because lopez can cross the ball for toffee
clippedgull
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The best corner belonged to Birmingham though, when he passed the ball straight to one of our players 
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In the Premier League today...
I think it was 1 or 2 goals from a total of 86 corners.
I think it was 1 or 2 goals from a total of 86 corners.
Thunder Bolt
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Didn't Upson score the winner at Middlesbrough from a corner?
JOLovegrove
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Didn't Upson get back to back goals from corners this season? Barnsley/Boro? Or was the Barnsley one form a free-kick? (Wasn't at the match)
bWize
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We have been for at-least 3 seasons now... Needs looking at
dougdeep
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I didn't think he could.