Corner Watch!! (Only for those with a strong stomach!!)

138 after the Derby home game, 0 goals, but apparently we're getting better!!

If we don't make the play-oofs this season we've only ourselves to blame!!!

 

Encouraging that we have created so many corners but embarassing that we haven't converted any

 

Was the last goal direct from a corner Leeds at home last season? If so that's nearly a year ago now....

 

You can have a half for that seeing as it was really second phase and I thing only first phase should count.

 

It's 1 goal from 138 but that's depressing enough. If you also add in the number of saves we've forced from corners, I reckon the number might climb to about 3 out of 138. Throw in a ton of set pieces too and you'll probably make something like 200 deliveries, 5 goal threats.

The coaching staff are trying to work on it but we just don't have the threat.

What I find remarkable is that the same (small) team defend set pieces superbly. how does that work?

 

even more frustratng that about 137 of those have been exactly the same delivery....

surely its time to try something a bit different, drop it at the front post for a runner like spurs to with bale, work it to the edge of the box and either deliver it from that angle or shoot from there?
or we could just toss it high into the mixer another 138 times and see what happens...

 

Are we creating them through pressure or are we just being allowed more? Are teams aware that we're ****e at them and not so concerned about giving them away, when was the last time you saw an opposition defender chasing after a ball that was going for a corner so they could put it out for a throwin?

 

I know we are pretty bobbins at corners but I take you are joking?

 

With 138 corners would Michael Turner be our 15 goal a season striker??

 

We're trying. Have you not heard the moans everytime we take a short corner?

That was our tactic for over a year. You know all those corners that were hitting the first man? They were supposed to be for Hobbs to flick on.

 

the set piece situation would benefit with someone like Hammill behind the ball

 

From free-kicks maybe. Koren, Cairney and Brady have taken plenty of good corners in the past 18 months though. Even before that, Dean Marney used to deliver great corners and once Turner left, we had no threat from them.

 

Why? We went to Stoke and intentionally gave them corners instead of throwins to reduce the threat of Delap. If I was an opposition defender with someone like Stewart or Brady running at me I'd consider it intelligent play to conserve my energy and let us have the corner that we're **** at so that the next time Stewart or Brady ran at me and actually posed a threat I wasn't jiggered.

 

I would be highly surprised if any manager in any league, against any team told his players to deliberately let a ball go for a corner instead of a throw in near the corner.

Our threat from corners might be small but I dare say it's even less from a throw in?

 

S*hit me

I've been banging on about this for months !!!

Not a headed goal or player that is capable of scoring a headed goal in our side with maybe the exception of Garcia

 

Correct. Chester. But only because they totally left him.

Everyone moans if we play one short, or do anything other than knock it in the box.

Strictly speaking Koren's goal at Southampton was headed, so what THETIGERSHULL says isn't true. But it was from about 2 yards out with no one around, so the part of his body he used was pretty irrelevant.

 

they only moan because theres never a plan, somebody comes short takes the ball, ****s about with it and then gets tackled, they have all week to work on set moves and it always appears they just make it up as they go along..

 

We did one yesterday which didn't go into the box at all but ended up with us in possession on the other wing. I thought that was better than lumping it into the box with no chance of a goal, but there was a massive groan around the ground.

 

Spontaneous then?

"Such was the Hull concern at what has become Stoke's major source of goals that goalkeeper Boaz Myhill turned and surrendered a corner rather than concede a throw when pressured..."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=242889&cc=5739

You identify the opponents threats, ours are Stewart and Brady running at you, and Koren 25 yards away from goal. Allowing a corner rather than a throwin produces less of an increased threat than busting a gut to save the corner and then being exposed by Stewart or Brady's pace not long after does, or indeed the threat of being exposed later in the game by their pace when you've been sprinting everywhere every game.