SleepyGinger
Well-Known Member
We scored a couple from McCallum long throws didn’t we? Seem to remember Biamou against Stoke
If I recall, we scored as a result of some long throws by McCallum during the first season back in the Championship. I don't see any harm in using it as a weapon if it means we can nick a goal. Doesn't always have to be beautiful does it?
Nar some would rather we throw it back to our goalkeeper, just incase a defender heads it out.It's new to our game, so it's going to take time to organise position ect.
If we need a goal and it's the last kick of the game and we get a throw in near the penalty area we would be silly not to use it.
There was a time in that season when it seemed like McCallum’s long throws were the only way we looked able to create chances.If I recall, we scored as a result of some long throws by McCallum during the first season back in the Championship.
As another long thrower in my distant pass we utilized it occasionally from half way to beat a pushed up defenceIn my personal opinion, a long throw can be more effective than a corner.
Being a long thrower myself, you always know there’s such an accuracy with a long throw and can often take an opposition by surprise if your team know you have that weapon behind you and can ‘sometimes’ take a team off guard by under estimating it.
Plus with a corner your accuracy might not be as good or you overhit/underhit it like Eccles poor corners the other week. Plus you have everyone in the box with a corner so more chance of it being cleared.
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Another angle is just having it as a weapon could make some defenders think twice of playing the ball out for safety if they know its basically the same as giving a corner. Could mean they take more risk.
As another long thrower in my distant pass we utilized it occasionally from half way to beat a pushed up defence
Interesting to hear what Oggy said. He basically said throws were harder to defend against than corners.
The reason he gave was that corners were on a lower trajectory and greater pace,therefore easier to head clear of the penalty area.
Only in Oggy’s opinion.Does this mean my hatred of floated corners is actually completely wrong?
My main issue with it is that it just takes fucking ages to set up for them.
My main issue with it is that it just takes fucking ages to set up for them.
In a similar way to free kicks in and around the box and corners can take an eternity.My main issue with it is that it just takes fucking ages to set up for them.
So you do it against teams where you have a height advantage and the set up time becomes less important.My main issue with it is that it just takes fucking ages to set up for them.
Not throw related but MvE related. Saw him and Eccles were the only players to have more than one successful tackle for us yesterday with 4 and 7 respectively.
McFadz had multiple.
It’s more that I’d generally prefer to watch 30 seconds of us actually playing football, rather than 30 seconds of Bobby Thomas wiping down the ball with a towel.So you do it against teams where you have a height advantage and the set up time becomes less important.
I can't remember if it's in Inverting the Pyramid or another book, I will try and dig the stat out, but someone did an analysis across Europe's top 5 leagues over a few seasons and you are more likely to score from a goal kick than a corner. Getting really excited about corners tends to be a British football thing.One Reddit user analysed 115,199 corners taken in 11,234 matches to see how much use they were. From those, 1,459 goals were from a corner. This meant an average of 4.74 per cent of goals were scored in some way or another from corners, but just 1.27% of corners led directly to a goal.
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