Short corners are useless.

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Originally Posted by LaughingMagpie

You're quite right. We don't have a big man to aim at which begs the question as to why Brooks kept hoofing the ball up the field and losing possession on most occasions

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LW explained this in his post match interview. Dorking went man for man 2nd half and playing longer was the best % play as our attackers were 4v4 at the top end of the pitch

I like the thinking about the corners, but not the execution. Plus it's mind-numbingly dull each time to see us appeal to the ref about the 10-yard encroachment....

When I think of great short corners I think Kenny Dalglish around 1980...either taking or receiving, not short or long corners but canny passes into the box, back or around the angle of the box.
We should be seeing some interesting variations. If not, it's reduced to just voluntarily trapping ourselves in a corner of the pitch. Corners come from something attacking or promising, we can't then turn that into diddly squat and an argument about what 10 yards is about 10 times a game.

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

Lol what the **** is a proper man's corner.

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Here’s a few….with one finished off by a proper legend!😊 https://youtu.be/WyqTlRl1VNE

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Originally Posted by drillerpie

I can also see why we don't as we don't pose much of an aerial threat, but watching Wrexham be successful from set pieces makes me wish we had more of a valid alternative.

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Makes me worried about defending them against Wrexham.

Our approach to corners makes me think we’re more worried about the counter attack than we are scoring from them. The two Dagenham goals show this is a valid concern, would be lovely to score from one soon though.

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Originally Posted by 1955pie

Makes me worried about defending them against Wrexham.

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Yeah. Just better hope Rawlo is on his game for that one.

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Originally Posted by i961pie

Short corners are fine but let's have a bit of variation now and again, surely we can work out a few moves on the training pitch.
The other thing that bugs me about them is how much time we take over them, we moan about the opposition wasting time and please let someone else take throws instead of Nemane, he takes ages to throw the damn thing.

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Why we let him take throw-ins in the first place is a mystery, because he cant throw it..

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Originally Posted by LaughingMagpie

You're quite right. We don't have a big man to aim at which begs the question as to why Brooks kept hoofing the ball up the field and losing possession on most occasions

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He was targeting the diagonal ball towards their right back which wasn’t successful until CLE came on and him and Bostock started winning headers and giving us control again
LW explained that they pressed us to stop us playing out and left 4 defenders v 4 of our attackers.
A lot of people complained especially with IB style that we didn’t have a plan B and we carried out the same tactics second half v Wrexham at home - the key to it is winning the 2nd ball and then being able to play our football further up the pitch

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Originally Posted by 1955pie

Makes me worried about defending them against Wrexham.

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Dont recall too many times we have conceded from set pieces. Wrexham are not the only team to be tall in this league.
Plus if we have the ball 80% (wishful thinking) of the game then hopefully their 20% will be taking goal kicks in their half.

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Originally Posted by Notts78

Dont recall too many times we have conceded from set pieces. Wrexham are not the only team to be tall in this league.
Plus if we have the ball 80% (wishful thinking) of the game then hopefully there 20% will be taking goal kicks in there half.

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We’ve conceded the fewest goals from set pieces in the division. Some improvement from last season.

Dunno how I feel about the short corners really. Can be frustrating but we’re a short team with only really Cameron who you feel is an attacking threat in the air when the opposition is set, so it makes sense. Our goals come from shifting the angle of delivery etc so Langstaff and others can find space, but it’s annoying when it doesn’t work. Guess you can’t quantify how many goals we’ve scored from ‘keeping the pressure on’ playing it short, but never feels like we’re much of a threat when we do swing them into the box tbh.