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  1. jaffaklopp

    jaffaklopp Well-Known Member

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    When was the last time we scored from a corner? Feels like years have passed since the last
     
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    The artist JerryChristmas "Massive old member"

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    We've been **** from corners for years, we even had a fanzine called "Another Wasted Corner" many moons ago <ok> Players put a red shirt on and suddenly any ability they have ever had to swing a ball in disappears. Plus the other problem is.....we are still **** at defending them as well.
     
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  3. If we have no decent corner takers, how can we truly practice them? Both pensively and defensively?
     
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  4. The artist JerryChristmas

    The artist JerryChristmas "Massive old member"

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    I get like that every time we take one <laugh>


    Let Milner train in a City shirt maybe? <whistle>
     
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    The 13/14 season is the last time we put in some quality corners and buried them.
     
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  6. organic red

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    Its clear we need Charlie Adam back, or better still................Iago Aspas.....now he could take a corner.........<doh>
     
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  7. jaffaklopp

    jaffaklopp Well-Known Member

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    I always used to think for every 10 corners or so you should probably have scored, but over 200 corners later, we still havent scored.
     
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    Heard some stat which claimed that you are no more likely to score from a conventional corner than a short corner. Don't know weather this is
    true or not but we need to mix it up a bit. It's not only LFC that can't get passed the first man, I see it happening regularly in the prem. <yikes>
     
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    Jimmy Squarefoot Well-Known Member

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    The probability of scoring from corners is very low to be fair - but the problem I have is that our corners are so poor, like we have no chance of scoring.
     
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  10. organic red

    organic red Well-Known Member

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    Any professional footballer should be able to put a corner near post/penalty spot/far post fairly accurately .........I don't understand how
    decent player's cannot do it <grr>
     
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  11. Milk not bear jizz

    Milk not bear jizz Grasser-In-Chief

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    I remember thinking Gerrard and all his bloody short corners were the reason we were crap at corners... But hes gone and we're still crap at corners.

    I remember screaming at Rafa on the TV to assign a different corner taker.

    It's been at least a decade since we were good at them.
     
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  12. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    FFS <yikes>
     
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