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Set pieces

I'm going back to the 70's here with our 'On the buses' routine when the players pretended to have a big argument over a free kick.

The plan was that the opposition then relaxed as we had this massive row, over tactics, pushing and shouting at each other, while our striker behind them took the kick, hopefully distracting the makeshift wall and bending the shot beyond the confused keeper. The eventual result was the ball ending up somewhere near the Potters Arms. And the crowd fecked off.

Crap as it was, and in fact, it actually did work once- have you ever known a club more predictable and useless at set plays than Brentford?

It seems the limit of our creativity is putting your hands to the sky on corners and hitting the first defender you can find.

It was just the clever way Muff tried and the Arse tonight, I wonder why we've always been sh*te?
 

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Davee said:
Crap as it was, and in fact, it actually did work once- have you ever known a club more predictable and useless at set plays than Brentford?



It was just the clever way Muff tried and the Arse tonight, I wonder why we've always been sh*te?
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1) Yes funnily enough I spoke to one fan of each other club in the country after their latest defeat and they all said they were the sh*ttest club ever at set pieces ever.

2) I think we've been ok this season, scored a few free kicks (Simpson, Woodman etc) and scored a few from corners.
 

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Cheers! Why not ignore my small historical post about set plays and indulge yourself in an off the subject conversation with yourself?
 

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Tranmeres goal against us last season at Prenton was clever , Player runs over ball continues run into space and then simple passthrough to him on the other side of the Penalty area to the wall and simple one on one .

Anyone remember it ?
 

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Northwalesbee said:
Tranmeres goal against us last season at Prenton was clever , Player runs over ball continues run into space and then simple passthrough to him on the other side of the Penalty area to the wall and simple one on one .

Anyone remember it ?
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........yep...........I could see what was about to happen,shame our defence didn't.................
 

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hhhmmm Bournemouth done a few corners with a step over routine that nearly worked,,,,but i get more pissed off with our THROW INS, omg we take a age to throw them, and no fecker moves :(
 

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fencer/bee said:
hhhmmm Bournemouth done a few corners with a step over routine that nearly worked,,,,but i get more pissed off with our THROW INS, omg we take a age to throw them, and no fecker moves :(
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Agree with that. A long throw like Hunt's is a bonus, but we just need players who can find space to take the ball, and can control it when it gets to them
 

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Brain-dead Bee said:
Agree with that. A long throw like Hunt's is a bonus, but we just need players who can find space to take the ball, and can control it when it gets to them
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Yes the long throw was fine but except for 1 or maybe 2 instances nothing came from it.
 

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Davee said:
I'm going back to the 70's here with our 'On the buses' routine when the players pretended to have a big argument over a free kick.

The plan was that the opposition then relaxed as we had this massive row, over tactics, pushing and shouting at each other, while our striker behind them took the kick, hopefully distracting the makeshift wall and bending the shot beyond the confused keeper. The eventual result was the ball ending up somewhere near the Potters Arms. And the crowd fecked off.

Crap as it was, and in fact, it actually did work once- have you ever known a club more predictable and useless at set plays than Brentford?

It seems the limit of our creativity is putting your hands to the sky on corners and hitting the first defender you can find.

It was just the clever way Muff tried and the Arse tonight, I wonder why we've always been sh*te?
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i love set piece routines like that. quality stuff. bring back Coppell or Perryman just for the superb freekick routines please.

:zzzzz:
 

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Bring back Jim McNichol!
 

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Funny that, was only talking about the "lets pretend were having a row" free kick routine the other day. I was at G.P. for what sounds like the only time it worked. I'm sure it was the ER end, but who the f*** were the mugs that fell for it?:confused:
 

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Remember one where the ball was swung over to the far post, everybody had set off a fraction early and Mike Allen (I think) was about 10 yards behind, unmarked and ran onto it and scored. Only worked once as well as far as I can recall.
Again no idea who it was against.
 

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We used to a variation of that in the early 90s, with Blissett, Evans et al making a run, then getting "angry" with the taker cos it wasn't put in didn't we? Then quickly swung over and often worked. I think that was more to do with having Blissett, Evans, Holdsworth, Millen, Gayle etc. in the box than it was the routine though...
 

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Gary Roberts or David Crown.........:cool:...........both arms in the air before they cross the ball for every corner they ever took :rolleyes: Nobody in the box knew what it meant though :shrug:

:D
 

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Paul Evans was good at set pieces...
 
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fencer/bee said:
He only had one routine, run up and smash it in the back of the net. :)
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spooky I was thinking about Jim McNichol yesterday, my memory says that every time he took a free kick it went in - I wonder what his strike rate really was!
 

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fencer/bee said:
hhhmmm Bournemouth done a few corners with a step over routine that nearly worked,,,,but i get more pissed off with our THROW INS, omg we take a age to throw them, and no fecker moves :(
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100% agree with that, our throw-ins!

If you look at other teams attacking throw-ins they always retain the ball, or at least have players wanting the ball.
our issue is the movement is there, but we don't throw the ball quick enough, we hesistate, then everyone is under pressure and that's it, chance gone.
It's such a simple way to get higher up the pitch but we don't keep the ball from throw-ons.
 

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Does anyone else remember a routine I think it was Blackpool and Alan Ball was manager.
They had a free kick about the Halfway line we went to defend but all the Pool players stayed behind the ball, the ball was kicked forward and the Pool players chased after like schoolboys, the crowd roared with laughter as it was so pathetic
 

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sussexb said:
We used to a variation of that in the early 90s, with Blissett, Evans et al making a run, then getting "angry" with the taker cos it wasn't put in didn't we? Then quickly swung over and often worked. I think that was more to do with having Blissett, Evans, Holdsworth, Millen, Gayle etc. in the box than it was the routine though...
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Yep, worked a treat. The funny thing was that our own supporters used to fall for it as well. Everytime Millen or Evans had a mock falling out with the taker, the crowd would join in with the moaning, telling him to get on with it. Very successful routine.
 

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wanderer paul said:
Gary Roberts or David Crown.........:cool:...........both arms in the air before they cross the ball for every corner they ever took :rolleyes: Nobody in the box knew what it meant though :shrug:

:D
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I think that was the time when our shirts were sponsored by Sure, so we had to prove it worked
 

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I miss * the days when from the kick off we used to kick it into touch 99 times out of a hundred. :eek:

* i don't
 

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Wally Downes' team had a really good corner routine, the taker played it short, the receiver would run with it but then sort of roll the ball back with the underside of his foot and the taker would run onto it in a free run into the box, it worked nearly everytime
 

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nick logan said:
I miss * the days when from the kick off we used to kick it into touch 99 times out of a hundred. :eek:

* i don't
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To the right wing, about two foot over Marcus Gayle's head, must of happened a few thousand times!
 

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Shaun Smith of Crewe scored with a free kick from the half way line. Everyone thought it was going to be directed, shall we say, downfield for it to be competed for, but he saw Dearden, I think it was, off his line, took it quickly, and scored directly. Very annoying at the time, but good quick thinking.
 
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