54 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 The shot that hit the bar The corner the followed it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Just whip a corner in with pace into an area which the players will attack, is that asking too much? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 It's absolutely laughable, and bordering on criminal, that a top division side is almost zero threat from set pieces as we are. There is no excuse for it whatsoever. We're forfeiting about 5% of our chances of scoring during a game the way we go about our corners and free kicks. Losing much more than 5% IMO. http://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/2/Seasons/3389/Stages/6531/TeamStatistics/England-Premier-League-2012-2013 http://i.imgur.com/JreS7bi.png Average of all those percentages is about 24%, so we're well down on the amount of goals we should be scoring via set pieces. Wouldn't matter so much if we were scoring more generally, like most of the teams down the bottom with us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 What I don't understand is how he's such a good short and long passer of the ball, has a very good shot on him whether it's in open play or from a free kick, but give him the responsibility of whipping in a free kick and he doesn't do it. Surely he must be being told to drift it to the far post? His corners when he first arrived were very good as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Even those stats are a bit misleading - one is Colo hauling the ball back into the box against Man City after a cleared corner, one is Elliot from his own half against Southampton, two are direct free kicks - struggling to think what the other one is but our conversion from your typical corner/crossed free kick is absolutely non existent. Worrying thing is that it wasn't even any better when Cabaye was out despite Marveaux and Anita trying their luck plenty of times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Even those stats are a bit misleading - one is Colo hauling the ball back into the box against Man City after a cleared corner, one is Elliot from his own half against Southampton, two are direct free kicks - struggling to think what the other one is but our conversion from your typical corner/crossed free kick is absolutely non existent. Worrying thing is that it wasn't even any better when Cabaye was out despite Marveaux and Anita trying their luck plenty of times. must be close to 300 corners with no return. Ba, v Wolves in 2011 was last success from a corner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 must be close to 300 corners with no return. Ba, v Wolves in 2011 was last success from a corner. The best we've done from a corner was when Ben Arfa picked it up and ran into the box to win a penalty, at least I think it was from a corner against Spurs at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Baffling that for someone so good on the ball his corners are so utterly atrocious. Our corners are just ridiculously bad, everything about them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Said this before but I don't understand how corners can be that bad when they aren't the type Robert used to put in. They are just really shit. These are quality footballers at the top of their game who train pretty much every day in how to play football. If you gave average Joe decent Sunday league player that many corners I am sure more would cause danger than we currently manage. It's baffling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 We do too many floated balls. We're never going to be the best at corners, we just don't have any great headers of a ball, so just drill it in and see what happens. Do some short ones to add some variety. The closest we've come to scoring from a corner this year, was when Ben Arfa tried to score one against West Ham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Yeah what's with them being floated in, there's never any fucking pace on any of them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Are we all agreed that he must be being told to float them in? Anything else seems unrealistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 When Cabaye first came to the club last season, I remember his corners being really good for the first six weeks. No idea what has happened since then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 The delviery is horrendous. then when the delivery is good. Nobody attacks it. I'm more concerned about his challenges. Seems to have a borderline red almost every league game now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Are we all agreed that he must be being told to float them in? Anything else seems unrealistic. Course he is. The Long Tayl is our 'speciality'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 So much for developing the 'perfect corner' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JS Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 The delviery is horrendous. then when the delivery is good. Nobody attacks it. I'm more concerned about his challenges. Seems to have a borderline red almost every league game now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VanBarduck Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GIURWkBeM2E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Sexy man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Not sure why I've just sat through a whole 2 minutes of what was effectively a male photo-shoot like, but I did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Not sure why I've just sat through a whole 2 minutes of what was effectively a male photo-shoot like, but I did. I got a stiffy while watching it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliassenfredrik Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 I have no regrets watching it twice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 If you don't have a bit of a mancrush on Cabaye, then there's something wrong with you tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GIURWkBeM2E Not watching that. Way too early in the day to have a tug. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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