I'm sure someone will correct me if I am incorrect but I seem to recall that back in our Prem days we went more than a season without scoring from a corner or at the very least virtually a whole season.
I think Bryan Hughes took the corner that eventually broke our duck.
What I will say about corners is even at Sunday league level it is hard not to either over or under hit them. My technique was to hook my foot almost sideways round the ball and if it was hit right it would end up between he six yard box and the penalty spot but floated as opposed to whipped.
I played with a guy who could whip them in and all you had to do was look at the ball and we would score, we must have got 25 goals from corners that season, the only reason I took them was that guy was also our centre forward and a greedy bastard who would have took the goal kicks as well.
If he'd gone off or hadn't scored he just trot into the box and wait for me to trundle up from right back to drift one in. He'd then have a paddy if it went over him and demand he took them until he got bored!
What I'm making a long deal about saying here is whipping corners in is the way to go. Hard to defend and easy to attack but also a fucking hard technique to get right and also the reason so many deliveries hit the first defender as if you get whip but not height it fails.
If you get it right and we've had a few players who could deliver a good corner over the years, it is bread and butter for someone who attacks the ball like Jackson to make a keeper either produce a save of a lifetime or to make the net bulge.
Drifted corners are ok but easier to defend, one of our problems is Jackson has a brilliant technique for delivering corners but is also amazingly our most threatening player to attack them.
All they have to do is have a player from the defending team standing next to corner taker. This should stop the throwing. If it does not stop then increase the number of defenders standing by the corner taker. Sorted.
Kinsella tried his best by always placing the ball an inch or so outside the designated quadrant. Never the best corner taker but wound up the away fans big time!
Didn't that Holmes chap seem to have a bit of a clue about taking a corner that reaches the goal area and causes a bit of confusion for the goalie and defence. Whatever happened to him ?
Didn't that Holmes chap seem to have a bit of a clue about taking a corner that reaches the goal area and causes a bit of confusion for the goalie and defence. Whatever happened to him ?
He scored from one earlier in on the season. Slade wasn't happy.
Didn't that Holmes chap seem to have a bit of a clue about taking a corner that reaches the goal area and causes a bit of confusion for the goalie and defence. Whatever happened to him ?
He scored from one earlier in on the season. Slade wasn't happy.
Precisely. Holmes scored direct from a corner against Shrewsbury.
Then, tbf Holmes was swinging the corners too close to the goalie, so Slade gave the corner taking duties to Lookman, who has been pretty much pants from the off.
This is what I don't get with Slade. If it's clearly not working then change it. It's called managing.
Didn't that Holmes chap seem to have a bit of a clue about taking a corner that reaches the goal area and causes a bit of confusion for the goalie and defence. Whatever happened to him ?
He scored from one earlier in on the season. Slade wasn't happy.
I swear we can't even get our corners over the first man 90% of the time, surely we could resort to taking more short ones? I mean no team likes to have men dragged out of their box when defending a corner..
I swear we can't even get our corners over the first man 90% of the time, surely we could resort to taking more short ones? I mean no team likes to have men dragged out of their box when defending a corner..
Noooo please not short corners... they ALWAYS seem to result in ball being passed back to the Defender on the Half-way line, back even further to the Goalkeeper and then hoofed forwards to the opposition Defender!!
In another place, I would assume Lookman was the best at taking corners in training. Sadly, with this manager, he probably regards only 3 defeats in the league as promotion form, and doesn't want to risk a change.
Today Lookman had 2 corners which swung off the pitch before swinging back in. What dross. So stupid. There is also a very basic mistake in where he positions it on the arc. He positions it (from the right wing quite close to the goal line). It is quite basic to position it on the arc on the sideline. This would allow at least an extra foot of swing before it was given as a goal kick. Who the hell is coaching him this crap!
Today Lookman had 2 corners which swung off the pitch before swinging back in. What dross. So stupid. There is also a very basic mistake in where he positions it on the arc. He positions it (from the right wing quite close to the goal line). It is quite basic to position it on the arc on the sideline. This would allow at least an extra foot of swing before it was given as a goal kick. Who the hell is coaching him this crap!
He also hit at least one that went out of play towards the east stand when taking from the south west corner.
All that blithering idiot Slade did was stand with his hands in his pockets, and continued to allow Lookman to take corners.
Didn't that Holmes chap seem to have a bit of a clue about taking a corner that reaches the goal area and causes a bit of confusion for the goalie and defence. Whatever happened to him ?
He scored from one earlier in on the season. Slade wasn't happy.
Precisely. Holmes scored direct from a corner against Shrewsbury.
Then, tbf Holmes was swinging the corners too close to the goalie, so Slade gave the corner taking duties to Lookman, who has been pretty much pants from the off.
This is what I don't get with Slade. If it's clearly not working then change it. It's called managing.
I agree with the above poster.
Lookman can't even keep the corners on the pitch now. Pathetic.
Of course its really difficult to practise corners, the way that they are all different shapes and distances, and keep movin around and all.
It may seem unrealistic, but if only there was some way to organise a form of training session in which a player maybe with a sack of balls and a couple of colleagues to aim at, could practise corner kicks, perhaps on a daily basis on a new state of the art pitch at some local training facility.
By the way I noticed that Maginnes seemed to be providing some form of feedback (positive I assume) to Lookman after one particular effort.
The worrying thing is, we spotted that Lookman cant take corners at least a month ago, the players waiting in the box may have noticed this shortly afterwards, so how slow does Russell have to be to spot it and do something about it. Perhaps he has been waiting for the data feedback from Mowgli.
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I think Bryan Hughes took the corner that eventually broke our duck.
I played with a guy who could whip them in and all you had to do was look at the ball and we would score, we must have got 25 goals from corners that season, the only reason I took them was that guy was also our centre forward and a greedy bastard who would have took the goal kicks as well.
If he'd gone off or hadn't scored he just trot into the box and wait for me to trundle up from right back to drift one in. He'd then have a paddy if it went over him and demand he took them until he got bored!
What I'm making a long deal about saying here is whipping corners in is the way to go. Hard to defend and easy to attack but also a fucking hard technique to get right and also the reason so many deliveries hit the first defender as if you get whip but not height it fails.
If you get it right and we've had a few players who could deliver a good corner over the years, it is bread and butter for someone who attacks the ball like Jackson to make a keeper either produce a save of a lifetime or to make the net bulge.
Drifted corners are ok but easier to defend, one of our problems is Jackson has a brilliant technique for delivering corners but is also amazingly our most threatening player to attack them.
Oh.
Then, tbf Holmes was swinging the corners too close to the goalie, so Slade gave the corner taking duties to Lookman, who has been pretty much pants from the off.
This is what I don't get with Slade. If it's clearly not working then change it. It's called managing.
Clueless
Btw Elfsborg loves him
Sums Slade up.
All that blithering idiot Slade did was stand with his hands in his pockets, and continued to allow Lookman to take corners.
Lookman can't even keep the corners on the pitch now. Pathetic.
CHANGE IT SLADE !
allowing for the arc of the ball.
sensible ploy would be for the left footed player to put it into the six yard box.
no doubt this has been worked on in training by the management
It may seem unrealistic, but if only there was some way to organise a form of training session in which a player maybe with a sack of balls and a couple of colleagues to aim at, could practise corner kicks, perhaps on a daily basis on a new state of the art pitch at some local training facility.
By the way I noticed that Maginnes seemed to be providing some form of feedback (positive I assume) to Lookman after one particular effort.
The worrying thing is, we spotted that Lookman cant take corners at least a month ago, the players waiting in the box may have noticed this shortly afterwards, so how slow does Russell have to be to spot it and do something about it. Perhaps he has been waiting for the data feedback from Mowgli.