Corners
Corners
According to Michael Stone on twitter, we had more corners than than any other team in the league last season. That statistic annoys me even more given our inability to take a decent corner. I'm glad they've been working hard on getting set-pieces right in pre-season though.
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Not to devalue your post, but this fact cropped up quite a number of times on the board last season.
I agree with you though, there is a whole debate that corners lead to massive false promise when really very few goalscoring chances actually manifest from them but I for one always crap myself when the other team has one.
I agree with you though, there is a whole debate that corners lead to massive false promise when really very few goalscoring chances actually manifest from them but I for one always crap myself when the other team has one.
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The problem is apart from the fact the delivery was not that great we also had very few taller players so it made marking them easier on the whole although Leach & Kamdjo did score from corners in the run in.
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I'm more concerned with the ones at the other end of the pitch, there were times last season when i felt the opposition were going to score every time.Managers always say they are disapointed when they concede from a set piece.that being the case then no one should score from corners. I'll settle for the not conceding side of corners.
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The same logic is relevent at the other end too, we have too many small players to properly mark all of the tall players most LG2 teams employ.
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There were times under the Stimson era I was worried when we had a corner that the other team would go down and score (it did happen a few times).Mickbee wrote:I'm more concerned with the ones at the other end of the pitch, there were times last season when i felt the opposition were going to score every time.Managers always say they are disapointed when they concede from a set piece.that being the case then no one should score from corners. I'll settle for the not conceding side of corners.
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Whilst I already knew the stat, I like the fact we're working on them. Simple & effective sounds like a good approach - I can't remember the last time I saw someone try something "different" from a corner and it actually be effective.MichaelStone100 wrote:Working hard on corners, simple & effective. #thebees had more corners than any other League 2 team last season.
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Perhaps we could lobby the football league for a penalty corners system like in Hockey, where we lob on all our tall players for a set piece then haul them off afterwards. Jude Stirling would definitely have benefited from that system!
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Much as it pleases me that MS announced that they had been working on them, (and then TK commented too)......
1. I posted evidence in one of the other threads that suggests that the opportunity to score from an attacking corner is significantly over-rated.
2. I have seen info in the past which suggests that actually you are more likely to concede a goal in the 120 seconds following an attacking corner than you are to score yourself, (granted it was a few years ago mind).
3. I think that the PR machine at Barnet is starting to finally crank into gear. We have commented in here a LOT about corners and although I do not agree in the benefit of them particularly as a goal threat, (especially with a small team), I do think the fact that we practice anything that we are particularly poor at significant, (and we have been historically poor at both attacking and defending corners). I think MS is quite an adept user of Twitter and I would not have thought that his comments on training were made flippantly.
1. I posted evidence in one of the other threads that suggests that the opportunity to score from an attacking corner is significantly over-rated.
2. I have seen info in the past which suggests that actually you are more likely to concede a goal in the 120 seconds following an attacking corner than you are to score yourself, (granted it was a few years ago mind).
3. I think that the PR machine at Barnet is starting to finally crank into gear. We have commented in here a LOT about corners and although I do not agree in the benefit of them particularly as a goal threat, (especially with a small team), I do think the fact that we practice anything that we are particularly poor at significant, (and we have been historically poor at both attacking and defending corners). I think MS is quite an adept user of Twitter and I would not have thought that his comments on training were made flippantly.
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