Direct free kicks

[Jan Age]

We are appalling at any set piece play …. I actually get up for toilet deals etc. When we have one now

 

[Sithblade]

Did Mark Dempsey score a few? His stats shows he scored eight times in his couple of seasons here, I have a vague recollection of him taking set pieces near the box.

 

[bonobo]

I don't understand why MGW is not behind them, when there is a chance for a shot

 

[Silent Blade]

Did Mark Dempsey score a few? His stats shows he scored eight times in his couple of seasons here, I have a vague recollection of him taking set pieces near the box.

In the 3-3 draw against Reading. Direct from a corner at Oldham in Sept 1987

 

[sufc323]

Didn't MGW hit the bar from a free kick against Reading in Slav's last match?

Edit - Yes he did

 

[Ned the Donkey]

Howdy all. I may have let one completely slip the net but when was the last time we scored a direct free kick? The last one I can personally remember was Fleck vs the fowls but even that one was rolled a bit before it was struck!

And when was the last time we conceded one?

Harry Wilson? Can't remember one since.

Free kicks are nowhere near as dangerous as we all think. Corners are even worse. Wasn't this one of the first things that came to light when the Stattos started analysing the game.

Like it or not, tippy-tappying abaht is the percentage play.

If QPR score a belter tonight don't blame me.

 

[Beans]

Didn't MGW hit the bar from a free kick against Reading in Slav's last match?

Edit - Yes he did

Agree with everyone saying it’s extremely rare to score from a direct freekick but I also have no idea why Gibbs-White hasn’t taken many/any since that one. Based on a sample size of 1, he looks like he actually has an idea of how one might try and score from such a situation.

 

[Revolution]

Agree with everyone saying it’s extremely rare to score from a direct freekick but I also have no idea why Gibbs-White hasn’t taken many/any since that one. Based on a sample size of 1, he looks like he actually has an idea of how one might try and score from such a situation.

Of all the weird stuff that’s happened at the Lane this season, one of the weirdest is letting Norwood and Hourihane, who have not scored a goal between them, do all the long range and set piece shooting. It’s bizarre.

Letting Hourihane take that indirect free kick at Coventry when Sharp and MGW were both on the field was the dumbest tactical decision we’ve made this season, and that’s saying something.

 

[Bladebri]

Tony McMahon, twice in one game. Once

I’m confused, was it once or twice

 

[robbiez666]

We are appalling at any set piece play …. I actually get up for toilet deals etc. When we have one now

That's a bit silly, you might miss a goal. Obviously, not for us, but still..

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Noticed we 'try stuff' again now after weirdly scraping it when we had some successful set plays under wilder and knill at first. As is pointed out direct free kicks are rare ( as are corners) so using them to try stuff makes more sense to me...

 

[mancunianblade]

In the 3-3 draw against Reading. Direct from a corner at Oldham in Sept 1987

Surely this has to come at the expense of something else, this level of memory/knowledge Must take up so much bandwidth, if I could remember stuff like this I’d properly forget to breath or put trousers on something as equally mundane

 

[Jan Age]

That's a bit silly, you might miss a goal. Obviously, not for us, but still..

I would have tonight …

 

[Brother-Leech]

Tony McMahon, twice in one game. Once

Didn’t Bob Harris score a couple too?

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Noticed we 'try stuff' again now after weirdly scraping it when we had some successful set plays under wilder and knill at first. As is pointed out direct free kicks are rare ( as are corners) so using them to try stuff makes more sense to me...

Trying stuff works

 

[Stu_Blade]

Although not a free kick, the corner kick routine yesterday was definitely thought through, if that had gone wrong we would have been struggling on the counter. I don't know if its the defenders that are getting bigger but a direct free kick needs to be a fair way out to be able to get it over and back down unless you get a lucky deflection