Corners! A waste of precious time?

[Titanic]

I honestly think we'd have a better success rate if, for every corner, we chipped it to the edge of the D for Bridcutt to VOLLEY into the top corner, a la Scholes or that Turkish bloke. We'd have banged in at least one by now.

THIS is almost certainly true!

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

Whilst we are all ready to have a laugh about it either on here or at the game it frankly is a bloody joke. I can't recall ever seeing a team getting so many corners and doing jack with any of them. Can't believe that with the coaching set up we now have that no attention seems to be paid to set pieces. If the amount of corners we have produced recently (in what has been a poor time points wise) resulted in a couple of goals it may well be the difference between sitting 8th or 2nd. Someone somewhere needs to get a grip of this and make sure that we take advantage of set pieces. Worringly you never seem to hear either management or players lamenting the lack of result our set pieces produce.

 

[Giraffe]

How many goals have we conceded from opposition corners this season?

None.

But have scored two or three depending on whether you count CMS at Burnley as from a corner, otherwise it's Greer at Burnley and El Abd at Millwall.

So none at the AMEX this season from either side. So we are defending corners very very well.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I've long wondered why we don't try lifting players up like in a rugby LINEOUT.

Think about it. Orlandi swings the corner in, El Abd and Crofts grab Barnes, lifting him high into the air above the opposition defenders, and BOOM - he crashes a downward header into the corner of the net.

Give me one reason why that WOULDN'T work at least 15 times a season.

Er, because it would be disallowed.

 

[Munkfish]

Er, because it would be disallowed.

Why?

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Why?

Unsporting behaviour (previously known as "ungentlemanly conduct") - the catch-all that referees use for anything they don't like. In this case a player is seeking to gain an unfair advantage. Although none of the laws of the game specifically prohibits it, this is a staple of football quizzes and "You Are The Ref" columns.

 

[Munkfish]

Unsporting behaviour (previously known as "ungentlemanly conduct") - the catch-all that referees use for anything they don't like. In this case a player is seeking to gain an unfair advantage. Although none of the laws of the game specifically prohibits it, this is a staple of football quizzes and "You Are The Ref" columns.

So it could legally be allowed...?

Not that Easy 10 was being serious in the slightest.

 

[Easy 10]

Unsporting behaviour (previously known as "ungentlemanly conduct") - the catch-all that referees use for anything they don't like. In this case a player is seeking to gain an unfair advantage. Although none of the laws of the game specifically prohibits it, this is a staple of football quizzes and "You Are The Ref" columns.

I'm not so sure. Its not an unfair advantage, the other team could do exactly the same to defend it if they so choose (and it would make corner kicks bloody hilarious).

There's all kinds of little rulebenders that are still within the laws. I've seen a player take a throw-in by bouncing the ball off an opposing players back straight back to himself. Nowt wrong with that.

Why should hoisting one of your own team-mates up be illegal ?

 

[Stat Brother]

How many goals have we conceded from opposition corners this season?

None.

But have scored two or three depending on whether you count CMS at Burnley as from a corner, otherwise it's Greer at Burnley and El Abd at Millwall.

So none at the AMEX this season from either side. So we are defending corners very very well.

Fact and logic have no place here.

You both should be ashamed of yourselves.







Thank you for the very good point.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I'm not so sure. Its not an unfair advantage, the other team could do exactly the same to defend it if they so choose (and it would make corner kicks bloody hilarious).

There's all kinds of little rulebenders that are still within the laws. I've seen a player take a throw-in by bouncing the ball off an opposing players back straight back to himself. Nowt wrong with that.

Why should hoisting one of your own team-mates up be illegal ?

It would be very brave of any defender to do it, as they would risk conceding a free kick in a dangerous position. I was speaking to a qualified referee earlier today as it happens and I asked her what her decision would be. Indirect free kick for seeking an unfair advantage, she said.

But you're right - it would be entertaining. Of course, having got an extra three or four feet height advantage, the next trick is to head the ball down into goal rather than over the bar...

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I'm not so sure. Its not an unfair advantage, the other team could do exactly the same to defend it if they so choose (and it would make corner kicks bloody hilarious).

There's all kinds of little rulebenders that are still within the laws. I've seen a player take a throw-in by bouncing the ball off an opposing players back straight back to himself. Nowt wrong with that.

Why should hoisting one of your own team-mates up be illegal ?

It would be very brave of any defender to do it, as they would risk conceding a free kick in a dangerous position. I was speaking to a qualified referee earlier today as it happens and I asked her what her decision would be. Indirect free kick for seeking an unfair advantage, she said.

But you're right - it would be entertaining. Of course, having got an extra three or four feet height advantage, the next trick is to head the ball down into goal rather than over the bar...

 

[severnside gull]

almost every one of our corners today was played short then either square across the area or deep to vary the angle for a cross

we didnt score but we looked way way more dangerous