Who's responsible for our set piece training?

[Brin]

They are clueless! I have never seen such a shambolic attempt for the set up from a dead ball situation, be it from a free kick or a corner.

Corners - What's all this gung ho s.hit of staying out of the box and charging in at the last minute? IT DOESN'T WORK!!!
Farcical was the scene yesterday when not once but twice they hung back whilst the corner was sent in. I bet their centre half was laughing his head off as when the ball got into the area he had a free header to launch it away. Our 'attackers' hadn't even reached the penalty spot when the ball was cleared....an absolute joke!

Staying with corners, same old same old. Why do we attempt to bang the ball to the back post area? Always too hard I may add and it ends up with a goal kick to the opposition that merely loses an opportunity to attack. Warne needs to watch a Prem game to understand and see how all the attackers are in the box waiting for a corner to be sent in and not some stupid idea that he uses of late. Can anyone tell me of any other team that attacks corners like we do? I've not seen another team as inept as ours.

Who tells the team to fire a shot across goal at 90 miles an hour? Time and agin we saw balls hammered in when they needed floating where a player may have got on the end of one.

Hastie takes the best corners for us but, we know there's an issue of late where he's not given enough game time to do so, should we get a corner. Yesterday, Vassell takes one and blasts it high and too deep, why?

Warne said mid week they were working on set pieces, really! If so, drop the clown who conducted these and get someone else doing it and pronto!

[rolymiller]

Our free kicks aint been too bad of late Brin a la MK Dons but agree our corners are woeful. Not even troubling the keeper from 8 corners yesterday is piss poor. Their goalie was plucking them out of the air unchallenged. It wasn't till late on we put Crooks on him to stop him collecting the ball. I'm not against varying it a bit at corners but we only need to vary it if our corner routine isn't working ie we aint getting any headers on goal. The problem with having a lot of different routines in a game is thet players get confused what they are doing and who is where.

It could also be argued 2 of our bigger players ie Robertson and Crooks aren't getting up so well for corners because they are semi knacked. Both only looked half fit yesterday in general but if we knacker em up in training what can we do?

[LittleSquirt]

As Ronnie always says, corner kicks should go to the penalty spot. At least have the keeper make a decision whether to come for it or not.

[Brin]

As Ronnie always says, corner kicks should go to the penalty spot. At least have the keeper make a decision whether to come for it or not.

Those that made the penalty spot, the goalie claimed them all. He had a great game but we made it too easy for him.

[mikemiller]

Got to be our worst ever season for free kicks and corners that I have seen , and I've been watching since the 1962/3 season! You would have thought that a dead-ball specialist might have been targeted as a signing when the 2019/20 squad was assembled. Don't think that McDonald took any free kicks either, on the rare occasions that he has been fit enough to play. We need to get one, or get some of the others trained up to the right standard. Worth quite a lot of goals. Plus we have missed at least two (three?) penalties this season too.
The alarm bells should have been ringing after Ipswich away last season. In the second half we were getting free kicks every few seconds... and never really troubled their keeper. Much needed points thrown away.

[caytonmiller]

Think it's more likely we don't have the right players on the pitch for dead ball crosses... Neither Ike, Robertson or crooks are the best in the air, even when fit. Wood and smith are the best two
Last season we looked really strong at set pieces though we had smith woody ajayi and vaulkes who all were good in the air.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

It’s a huge assumption that we ever practice set pieces