You are welcome! I agree wholeheartedly with this. What is so depressing is that we cannot even do well the one thing we try to do every time. Trying something different occasionally and messing up is one thing (a red face, a bit of laughter, but hey), but not being able to do the most basic things is just depressing."Snake" wrote:Thank you Dr Bob for translating that for me. And yes, Elliott was the master of the backwards header. In essence it just created chaos as no one knew where the ball would end up about a quarter of a second later other than somewhere in the six yard box and the fastest player to react (from either team) would have to deal with it."Dr Bob" wrote:Maybe I am reading this all wrong, but it sounds to me like a poorly worded way of saying a short corner is driven into the near post, someone (Matt Elliott did this a lot) flicked it up into the middle of the six-yard box, to whomsoever was waiting there. Simples.
Speaking of which, does anyone else think that our set piece plays have been a little bit on the predictable side in recent years? e.g. direct free kicks just outside the penalty area either get blasted into the defensive wall (presumably hoping for a wicked deflection to deceive the keeper), go over the bar and just occasionally (like the goal that Josh scored recently) go straight in? I know we're not on Match of the Day every Saturday night any more but they still seem a bit un-inventive.
Corners are a typical example. They always seem to raise huge chants of expectation ("Come on you Yellows" followed by "Yellows, Yellows, Yellows") but I think that harks back to the days when we scored a lot more goals via corners that we do now.
And don't get me started with the kick off routine as since the days of Ian Atkins we always seem to kick/hoof for touch in the opponents' half like it was a game of Wugby.
Ditto for when Clarke has the ball in his hands. He so rarely rolls it out to the left or right full back and nearly always launches it 70 yards or so to Beano with the opposition's version of The Beast on his back.
I know it's still Division IV but a bit of a change/variety would be nice now and again.
Oh, and for what it is worth, I too think the standard in this division is higher than previously. I wonder if one factor might be a combination of more imported players coming in at the top, resulting in decent displaced British (mainly but not exclusively English) players looking further down the leagues for a team. I seem to recall discussions on here in the not so distant past about more and more out of contract players looking for teams, which I suspect might be a symptom if this.
