Article on our set pieces

[itsinyerblood]

Excellent piece. I wouldn't worry about this having the appearance of scouting for the opposition, other teams will study us and have an idea of what we're capable of. Just nice to know how much thought goes into planing each situation.

 

[ucandomagic]

If Knilly devised investment strategies based on share price movements with the same depth of analytical insight he could be a very rich man.

For those people who move big money around it’s all about deception and timing in exactly the same way, to create that moment to strike.

People on the autism spectrum are really good at this sort of analysis - such as in The Big Short.

Absolutely Fascinating

 

[Tom Bott]

So when we are setting up one of our set pieces I wonder how we communicate which one to all our players ???

In American Football the Quaterback calls out the plays in the huddle, I think the plays can be called in to the QB by radio.

 

[Ricky]

The only thing wrong with that corner at QPR was that it landed on O'Connell's boot and not his head!

 

[Beans]

Excellent piece. I wouldn't worry about this having the appearance of scouting for the opposition, other teams will study us and have an idea of what we're capable of. Just nice to know how much thought goes into planing each situation.

Plus if Knill / others are good enough to come up with and implement these routines in the first place, they'll be good enough to flip to something else when it becomes apparent that opponents are wise to it. It's really interesting that the article highlights that in the QPR game we tried the same routine twice in the same half, because it was so successful first time in terms of creating a clear chance. It may even be that we already have plenty of other varieties up our sleeves in case we try "Plan A" and it's obvious that opponents are prepared.

This seems very fanboyish of our coaching staff but hey, I think they've probably earned it

 

[itsinyerblood]

Plus if Knill / others are good enough to come up with and implement these routines in the first place, they'll be good enough to flip to something else when it becomes apparent that opponents are wise to it. It's really interesting that the article highlights that in the QPR game we tried the same routine twice in the same half, because it was so successful first time in terms of creating a clear chance. It may even be that we already have plenty of other varieties up our sleeves in case we try "Plan A" and it's obvious that opponents are prepared.

This seems very fanboyish of our coaching staff but hey, I think they've probably earned it

I think because we're used to good old 'industrial' Sheff U, we don't easily embrace words like flamboyant, especially when it seems we might have the beginnings of what you or I would call a football team. Despite what some might think, at times we play superb football, and if others can't see this then their loss.

 

[Robby Blade]

I knew this already. For years the commentators have said we are good at set pieces and corners, even when we weren't.

 

[Northyorksblade]

My brain is hurting! What a great article, hope we don't suffer too much from the lack of Couttsy's free kicks.

 

[Damski]

Brilliant bit of writing. I was gonna do a thread about Wilder and Knill's free kick banter, (that one at The Sty was off the scale) but this lad's done it better than I ever could.

 

[YorkBlade]

Nice of him to do the scouting reports for our oppo

I thought the exact same thing. Good article though and very interesting.

 

[I should coco]

Bright lad but he needs to learn to keep his trap shut.

Sadly there is no comedy Warnock/Blackwell-esque-lads-bumping-into-each-other free kick routine. If only we had that and a lad from the Manor called Roberto Carlos. We'd be the complete team.

Sadly we will just have to keep slumming it with drunkard Wilder and that idiot Knill.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

https://wherethesmokegoes.wordpress...a-look-at-sheffield-uniteds-17-18-set-pieces/

I'll not copy and paste the whole thing because I think the author deserves people to visit his site...

Superb piece.

 

[Kenilworth]

Absolutely brilliant insight, can't believe I've watched most of these games & had no idea just how intricate our set piece routines are.
I always knew Knill liked to come up with a few clever plays, but it's amazing to see them properly broken down & analysed.

The O'Connell one at QPR especially, watching it at the time you simply assume he's lost his marker. Everyone's busy watching the ball while Leon is giving their CB a friendly hug

Now if someone could kindly remove this page before another team sees it...

I did
Knill is a fucking genius

CBA to write it down though.

Two things for Oki- the author

"Brammall"

And JO'C ain't notched from one of these, this season.


... Yet

 

[Punk Blade]

I think my favourite part of these corner routines is the simple little movements from the likes of CCV and Wright to step in front of the target’s marker allowing them to run into space. Simple idea, just needs good timing.

I wonder if plans B or C are already there, for instance the move where those in the middle run near post and those near post go short to create loads of space at the back post, perhaps the taker will watch how the defenders react to the movement. Maybe if those coming short aren’t followed by their markers he’ll pass to one and accept the return and then there’s a second phase of the routine where someone is available to shoot from the edge of the box, or then the defence moves out towards the ball and leaves space back post like the original plan.

Also why don’t we try getting Leon on the end of these moves instead of JOC? He could’ve been pushing 20 goals already

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

So in summary, let's get some crafty little free kick routines on the go again and we'll be reyt.

 

[BushBlade]

I think my favourite part of these corner routines is the simple little movements from the likes of CCV and Wright to step in front of the target’s marker allowing them to run into space. Simple idea, just needs good timing.

I wonder if plans B or C are already there, for instance the move where those in the middle run near post and those near post go short to create loads of space at the back post, perhaps the taker will watch how the defenders react to the movement. Maybe if those coming short aren’t followed by their markers he’ll pass to one and accept the return and then there’s a second phase of the routine where someone is available to shoot from the edge of the box, or then the defence moves out towards the ball and leaves space back post like the original plan.

Also why don’t we try getting Leon on the end of these moves instead of JOC? He could’ve been pushing 20 goals already

Bassett was using players as blockers on set pieces thirty years ago. I believe he'd studied NFL set plays (or that's what was said at the time).

 

[DazBlade88]

So in summary, let's get some crafty little free kick routines on the go again and we'll be reyt.

Funnily enough, we set up to play one on Saturday at Millwall but they realised what we were going to do so we had to abandon it.

Damn that bloody article!