[Albion] Corners, throw ins and free kicks..

[slimes]

Nfl have special teams people..

Watching our free kicks, throw ins and corners today.

Should we think of getting a specials team? And strive to be the best at it?

 

[Springal]

Pascal gross was peak Dean Cox today for not beating the first man.

 

[Hovegull]

I always find our corners painful to watch. What is our conversion rate?

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

17 corners today,law of averages says we surely must do something from one of them.....

 

[Sheebo]

Piss poor on corners today - 17! If we’d had Ward-Prick we’d have prob won

 

[KZNSeagull]

Do we want to turn into a Tony Pulis team? No thanks.

 

[Albion 4ever]

Against Luton and Wolves we varied up the corners. Today against a team of 6 foot+ ers we decided to sling every corner in to the 6 yard box. No brains.

 

[Ratso2005]

Corners = not all that useful (albeit yes, moreso if you beat the first defender).

 

[trueblue]

Nfl have special teams people..

Watching our free kicks, throw ins and corners today.

Should we think of getting a specials team? And strive to be the best at it?

We’ve already got a specific set-piece coach. The TV coverage showed him during the US tour.

 

[The Fits]

I suspect they're very low on the priority list in training.

 

[doogie004]

Our set pieces for last last few seasons have been beyond embarrassing. Struggle to understand why this is never addressed always the same old Gross arm up hits first man pathetic

 

[WhingForPresident]

Our corners were laughably shit today. Was surprised we only went short once, lumping it in was utterly pointless.

 

[METALMICKY]

Our corners were laughably shit today. Was surprised we only went short once, lumping it in was utterly pointless.

We just didn't lump it hard enough! Virtually all of them only just made the near post. Don't we have some horrendous stat about scoring from corners which is ironic since in recent times we've had some big players who you might expect to get their head on it?

 

[BN41Albion]

I always find our corners painful to watch. What is our conversion rate?

0.000000000000000001%

 

[RexCathedra]

If there's one thing you can count on at NSC, good times or bad, for twenty years, it's grousing about our set pieces.

Something that's obvious to all of us, yet gone unaddressed by -- counting quickly -- nine different managers?

 

[Giraffe]

I doubt our conversion is even close to this?

Season	Goals from corners	Goals from corners (%)
2018/19	146	13.6%
2019/20	134	13.0%
2020/21	132	12.9%
2021/22	146	13.6%
2022/23	151	13.9%

 

[Mr Bridger]

Gypsies, tramp & thieves

 

[macbeth]

i would sooner rather give the opposition a goal kick than let us have a corner. seriously. we stand a much better chance of winning the ball back and creating something than we do scoring from a corner

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

As others have said, don't get why we are so shit at corners. Always have been.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I doubt our conversion is even close to this?

Season	Goals from corners	Goals from corners (%)
2018/19	146	13.6%
2019/20	134	13.0%
2020/21	132	12.9%
2021/22	146	13.6%
2022/23	151	13.9%

I'm not sure that's right. I've always understood that roughly one in 20 corners convert (not with us). The analysis on my link suggests 4% with less than 2% resulting in goals directly from the corner. Those stats feel more realistic than the Prem ones above (I guess you have to ask what they include in their analysis, and how long after the corner they include a goal).