Just back from the pub...

Quoted from Bigboy

Exactly time and again Clarke gets pulled out of position and easily beaten. This time he went wide into full back territory, was beaten so easily and of course wasn't in the middle to defend the cross which was put away with ease. That's what Collins was upset about. Clarke does not set a good example as captain.
And this thing having all players back for corners? Too many is bad - the penalty area is a sea of bodies which unsights the keeper and a shot from outside the area is almost certain to be deflected - exactly what happened for the first goal.

Watch Clarke as he initially goes over to the right hand side though. He does something I've seen him do before a few times at BP that's quite strange.

He runs to a point in the line of where the ball is travelling to, as if to wait for the ball so he can be forward-facing to get a better clearance. But what I've seen him do a few times now is go so far back (ahead of where the ball actually is) whilst the ball isn't travelling very fast. And an opposition attacker just nips in and takes it.

I reckon that's what Collins is initially telling him. You can see his hand gesture is as if to say "just get across to the ball and deal with it." Just guessing obviously and probably way off.

Quoted from Bigboy

Exactly time and again Clarke gets pulled out of position and easily beaten. This time he went wide into full back territory, was beaten so easily and of course wasn't in the middle to defend the cross which was put away with ease. That's what Collins was upset about. Clarke does not set a good example as captain.
And this thing having all players back for corners? Too many is bad - the penalty area is a sea of bodies which unsights the keeper and a shot from outside the area is almost certain to be deflected - exactly what happened for the first goal.

The corner thing ..my pal is manager of a local side (semi pro ) he reckons percentage wise its safer to do it the way we are doing it simply cos most teams leave 2 back anyway so therefore we should crowd out the attack with superior numbers . Regarding Clarke he's shi t really shi t at that nothing more to say on him really

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

The corner thing ..my pal is manager of a local side (semi pro ) he reckons percentage wise its safer to do it the way we are doing it simply cos most teams leave 2 back anyway so therefore we should crowd out the attack with superior numbers . Regarding Clarke he's shi t really shi t at that nothing more to say on him really

Considering we conceded from 2 corners was it 50%?

Whilst we conceded from the corners, they were both second phase, which has been one of our biggest problems all season.

Clarke has been pretty poor all Season albeit an handful of games he has done ok. He should be the first player dropped and what has happened to Summerfield?

Quoted from Grantley

Whilst we conceded from the corners, they were both second phase, which has been one of our biggest problems all season.

Solely down to not having an outlet,either a linking midfield who can bring the ball out,or the lack of any player outside our penalty area to pass to.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I had a really good look at Matt (the lad up front you mention) yesterday, when all hope of a positive result had gone. It was quite comical in a bizarre sort of way just how bad he is. He cannot seem to run properly, almost like he is running on tip toes, and doesn't seem to have any balance.

His touch is practically non existent and never seems to be anywhere near the goal. Something badly amiss there, he cannot have been this bad all his career, surely?  

Funnily enough when we played Carlisle, whoever the commentators were that day were banging on about what a good player he'd always been and that Carlisle would need to keep an eye on him  

I think the longer the game went on they realised that whatever threat he might have had when they'd seen him previously has now long since gone...

I'm not sure if it was the Carlisle game ( or maybe Cambridge?) when he had a chance in the six yard box but somehow managed to stumble over / tread on the ball instead of it ending up in the opposition net

You could argue he lacks confidence but it's also about ability.... the open goal he missed at the death against Cheltenham at home being a case in point

If he'd scored from either of those chances, we'd probably be better off points wise and not panicking so much about our current plight

He reminds me of Damian Spencer except that he's not as strong and always in the team.