What do we do in training?

[Fiery Blade]

Certainly we don't practice set pieces:
Last Monday they were abysmal withthe poorest corners and free kicks I have seen for a long time!
On corners we either fail to clear the first man or punt it straight to the keeper and free kicks are just a joke
The team don't appear as fit as they used to be and there is a general sense that the guys haven't a clue what to do!
The running off the ball was non existant and very rarely do we anticipate the second ball!
Its just a shambles

 

[Linz]

Personally, whenever I go to training... I sit and eat the free biscuits.

I can only assume that United are taking the same approach

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

In training we practice getting rid of the ball as though it's red-hot, it's so hot we kick it without looking hopefully kicking it to a team-mate.
We also in training perfect the art of totally giving away advantage of having corners by doing the "wank short corner". We are so good at the short corner that we have normally given up the ball within two passes or two seconds (game after game we do this) Also in training we practice passing back to the keeper more than any other team in history from about the half way line. We don't want the keeper to get lonely and need to involve him a bit more. Also we practice in training the art of not throwing the ball to a team-mate from a throw in until he has 4 opponents around him, would be too easy to throw the ball to said player in space or unmarked.

 

[madeinsheffield]

I know what you mean, complete lack of movement from throw ins everybody just stood static, rushed and wasted free kicks, crap corners

 

[Foxy]

I think the problem is more translating what we do on the training pitch to a competitive match. Not really what they work on.

It doesn't help that we can never have a settled side and that we are so nervous at the moment.

 

[shorehamview]

It's a cast-iron certainty they don't practice hitting a cow's arse with a banjo.

 

[Bladesman]

It's a cast-iron certainty they don't practice hitting a cow's arse with a banjo.

Well its not as easy as it sounds.

 

[shorehamview]

Well its not as easy as it sounds.

That's a fair point. All the cows in the Shirecliffe area have long since been taken and ridden to exhaustion. Then burnt out.

 

[ken shabby]

Personally i find a banjo totally unsuitable for such a job, a table leg or indeed a dwarf is the required implement of choice for this task. Indeed being seen with a banjo, could get you tarnished as a cloth eared country & western woofter.

Hope this is of some help.

 

[DazBlade88]

They always work against them fake walls in training, I can't believe it doesn't work against real men

On a serious note, I really wish we'd just shoot from a dead ball a bit more. Why we persist on moving it about 5 inches, letting the opposition close us down, I'll never know.

 

[Mousey]

They always work against them fake walls in training, I can't believe it doesn't work against real men

On a serious note, I really wish we'd just shoot from a dead ball a bit more. Why we persist on moving it about 5 inches, letting the opposition close us down, I'll never know.

It worked against Scunny

 

[Kev Gee]

Can someone drag up some stats of goals scored from Free Kicks & Corners in the CCC? I bet we are quite low down in the standings.

 

[User Name:]

On a serious note, I really wish we'd just shoot from a dead ball a bit more. Why we persist on moving it about 5 inches, letting the opposition close us down, I'll never know.

I thought that myself Daz, the only thing I can think of is they hope the opposition come running in and sort of jump over a low shot,

 

[Ollessendro]

By the Monday's (shooting) standards I think that we have been doing joint practice with the Eagles!?

 

[mattco2001]

this is one area that really pisses me off. how often do we clearly see things done on the pitch that have come directly from the training ground? NEVER!!
we have quite possibly the longest thrower i have ever seen (walker) and yes id say he chucks it further than halford! and yet we do absolutely fuck all from long throws into the box. we did when kozzy threw them in, we did when bromby did, we did when halford did and we do when walker does. look at stoke. 1st season, rory delap. how many goals did they score becasue they obviously worked on them in training. shit loads, thats how many.
and throwins are just the tip of the f**king iceberg!!

UTB

 

[Bakewell Blade]

Cross-bar challenge ?

 

[Muttley]

A game of 3 n' in.....as everybody else is laid out on the treatment table.

When fit, it's boot it as far as you can and hope Henderson is somewhere around to head it on to nobody.