I watched the video of Leeds in the 1991 - 92 title winning season and Howard Wilkinson was in charge he said when it gets down to the last games you gotta think only about what you can do as a team and not think what is going on elsewhere that calmed the nerves of the players , that's what I think we need right now .
Part of our Plan XYZ needs to be 1) a new goalkeeping coach, 2) a setpiece coach and 3) a heading coach. We score chuff all from our freekicks and corners as no-one seems to be able to get the ball to anyones head and even then no one can head the bloody thing into the net. I'm sure Aski will point out the error of my ways.
Oh, and 4) a coach on how to defend setpieces. I always get nervous when we concede a corner and even more so when we get one as we usually fail to score and immediately get counter attacked.
Size of vast number of our squad has a lot to do with both problems you pointed out. Just too many 5 footers in and around penalty box defending corners or attacking frees. How can they possibly get up to head anything. It's no coincidence that Struyk is our only danger at set pieces. He's a big lad
When the opposition has a corner, put DJ on the halfway line stood on the touch line, and Solomon on the other side. Just watch the opposition panick wtf is going off, they need at least 3 to mark them maybe more, very disruptive? But there again that we have the Frenchman who can’t catch a ball and if he does his distribution is poor, piss poor to be exact.
Ok I hadn't looked to deeply into this data previously, as we all know that we dont score many from dead ball situations, nor do we score many headed goals, and havent done for years. So I went into looking at the data with the same mindset as yourself Brizzle. Only 5 clubs in the Championship have scored more headed goals than ourselves. We have scored 8. Coventry have scored 18, both QPR and Derby have scored 10, whilst Blackburn and WBA have scored 9. The average number of headed goals this season per club is 7. Norwich Preston and Hull are the lowest scorers of headed goals with 3. Sheffield United are the next lowest with 4. 32% of all of Coventry's goals have been scored with the head. The average number of headed goals scored per team as a percentage of total goals scored is 15%. We have scored just over 10%. The average number of goals scored from dead ball situations (ie corners and free kicks) is 10.7. We have scored 10, the same as Sheffield United, and 1 less than Burnley. Derby have scored the most goals from dead ball situations with 17, followed by Coventry, Luton and Oxford all with 14 goals. Norwich and Blackburn have scored the least with 6 goals each. Derby, Oxford, Millwall and Luton have all scored over 30% of their goals from dead ball situations. Norwich are the only side not to have scored 10% or more of their goals from dead ball situations. We have scored just under 13%, compared to Sheffield United with 17%. Ourselves, Norwich, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough are the only clubs who have scored more than 40 goals from open play, with Luton and Derby the only clubs to have scored less than 20 goals from open play. 85% of Sheffield Wednesday goals come from open play, whilst Norwich score over 75% of their goals from open play. We have the 6th highest % of goals from open play, just behind Middlesbrough, WBA and Blackburn. Derby score less than 40% of their goals from open play. We are the only club to have scored 10 goals or more from counter attacking moves. Sunderland and Sheffield United are the next closest, both having scored 7 goals from a counter attack. Just under 13% of our goals come from counter attacks. Stoke are the only club to have a better %, with 15% of their goals coming from counter attacking football. WBA are the worst, with just 2% of their goals coming from counter attacks. All numbers in BOLD means it is better than the average for the league this season Coventry I would say are probably the most rounded with the various ways they score goals, although they are weak on counter attacking goals
Ha ha made me laugh , so what your saying is you need some head , could do with a few girl coaches giving some head LOL
Yes we definately need some extra plans when we get corners hardlyever do our players get their head on the ball maybe it was because we used to have a policy of buying midgets as strikers.
The thing with struyk is he attacks the ball in the penalty area , same like jannson used to do and I hate to mention captain capitulate Cooper one of the worst at panicking in defence used to attack the ball in the opponents box and score , and we only seem to have struyk that does this , where are the others doing it ? Run in as the ball is crossed in from the corner or freekick get pressure on the goalkeeper and defenders don't just stand there riveted to the spot.
We don’t mix it up, it’s same old every time we get a corner. Why not all our players stand on the 18yd line, one infront of the keeper to obstruct him and drop the ball into the area so we can run at it to head, be a defenders nightmare, we don’t have any imagination, same old all the time.
Well, thanks Aski for putting me right. Maybe I'm picking up lack of goals from corners as a percentage of the corners. Dunno, possibly I have the run-in doldrums again.
It comes down to the coaching staff to give them ideas like this , makes you wonder what they are coaching them , and farke should be taking note at what the coaching staff are doing but I don't think he does.
