Serious question and something I have noticed over the last few years so not a new thing.
Why can we not taks throw ins.
You watch other teams and 8 or 9/10 throws go to there team mates, you watch us and 8 or 9/10 throws go to the other team.
As I said I have noticed this for a few years now so different players and managers but the same outcome
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Terrible movement from the other players doesn't help the thrower though. I sometimes wonder if players forget that they can't be offside from a throw!
I cant believe how many of our throws go backwards when we are 30 yards from goal. As pp said, it's the only time you cant be offside so fgs make the most of the that fact. A forward should be as near to the byeline as possible & the ball thrown to him. This does 2 things. One it immediately gets you further up the pitch & 2 it drags the opposition back towards their goal. Seems a no-brainer to me.
And if you are thinking about "leaving space behind you for the opposition to exploit" then you aren't the manager for me.
Perhaps this is why we have the least shots at goal of all 24 teams in this league. Not attack minded enough.
I'm still yet to see another team in this league get a free kick in the oppositins half, play 5 passes and ends up playing it back to their own keeper.
We do it at least once a game.
They should and they should be throwing the ball down the line, not across our goal.
Roland can't even throw the towel in.
You can't be offside from a goal kick either - unless it has changed in the last couple of years.
I was also told you cannot be offside from a corner, which if the corner taker places the ball on the very edge of the quadrant furthest from the touchline and the players arranged themselves in some bizarre way and the corner taker passes the ball forward and one of his team-mates taps the ball in it would be offside (and the opposition strangely do nothing to defend the pass) - but I doubt it would ever happen. So difficult to prove but was told corners are never offside.
I'm sure VAR would sort it out.
Another example of how to do it. Mourinho praising the ball boy for his quick thinking, as he quickly gave the ball to Aurier, who took a quick throw which led to the equaliser.
When was the last time we actually threw the ball forward quickly to find a player in space? Instead we either go backwards or take an eternity so that the opposition are all in place.
Having inventive throw ins which enable you to keep possession and work the opposition helps with the rest of the team, it relieves pressure and gets you higher up the pitch.
I know a lot has been spoken of him since his arrival, but Rooney said on Sky Sports after playing against Barnsley how he noticed as soon as he came into Derby that throw ins are something they needed to work on. It’s the same for us.
The same way we work on attacking and defending set-pieces, we need to work on attacking and defending throw ins. This is something that has been poor for us for a long time and is definitely something I look to bring up and question the next opportunity, hopefully at Bromley Addicks when someone we can speak to in the team, player or management right now, for them to work on in future.
Finer details and small margins are often the difference between winning and not, especially in a competitive league like the Championship. So why do we abuse or overlook the fact of throw ins?