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Maringer
October 18, 2014, 10:29am
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If we start trying the quick short corner route, I anticipate we will end up being flagged offside much more often!  
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October 18, 2014, 10:30am

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Dave Boylen was the best corner  taker I have ever seen at town all ways changing the hight,length never the same mind he play with one of the greatest header of a ball I have ever seen playing for Grimsby Matt Tees and the worst Joe Coulbeck any pro  football player that can't take a free kick ,corner or penalty  in the right way I belive should have his wages docked


Thinking about it, if Dave Boylen was hoisted up into the air by one of our big center backs to head the ball in way above the others as in a line out throw in in Rugby would that be considered as an infringement?
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October 18, 2014, 10:34am
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Probably classed as "Unsporting conduct".
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October 18, 2014, 11:07am

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I have heard it said (in hushed whispers in the No.2 at Cleethorpes station) that in the Autumn of '63, the CIA marksmen used the goal mouth for practice as topographically it was the perfect stand-in a certain grassy knoll in Dallas. This explains the mysterious holes in the back of the Osmond.


Where they there BEFORE we signed LJL ?  


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October 18, 2014, 11:23am
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In years past, taking corners was the responsibility of the winger and every team had two of them. So they were almost always out-swingers. If you couldn't take a corner you were not thought to be  much cop as a winger. The best I remember were Jimmy Fell and Johnny Scott. Scott used to occasionally do an in-swinger with the outside of his right foot that would bend back in to the far post. The best forward I saw for heading corners was Tommy Briggs and also Ralph Hunt who seemed to be able to make his runs with uncanny timing. Ron Raff, Rod Green and Matt Tees were good at that as well of course but relied more on their ability to out jump defenders.

The main reason Boylen and Gilbert took corners wasn't because they were better at them, though both were good, it was that they were no use in the box without a stepladder.


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Perhaps we just need to rethink the corner routines. lets have Pearson or Toto running into the area at the last moment instead of joining the scrum while waiting for corners where they can be held or blocked when the ball finally comes in. Loads get well over hit, why not leave someone right at the back of the opposite side of the area to head them back in the mix instead of just 3 people surrounding the keeper and the others all running in the scrum from the edge of the area to the 6 yard box.
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October 18, 2014, 12:12pm
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Wasn't laughing at you fleabag, who knows perhaps yours is a reasonable point. (+1).
Just there aint no excuses, practice at BP if necessary...


Absolutely.


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I think that these days, players seem to take the whole wrestling/obstructing thing as given and know that they can get away with blatant obstruction and fouling, so they end up just trying to pack the six yard box and hope for a bit of luck instead of anything more creative. I'd like to see one or two the big defenders starting their runs at the edge of the box (or even from a few yards further out) to hopefully make the situation in the box a bit more chaotic!

You're quite right about the number of corners which are either overhit or just take a small touch moving the ball across to the other wing. I don't know why we never seem to position a player nearer that side to have a chance to pick up this sort of thing.

That said, I'm still baffled as to why we never have a player standing at the edge of the box when defending corners as it seems the ball falls to this area as often as not!
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