| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... 20:43 - May 30 with 3257 views | bluesym |
According to some of their fans on twitter. |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:15 - May 30 with 3038 views | Oldsmoker |
I didn't know we had one - it wasn't obvious.
Was he responsible for coaching our defenders to repel set-pieces?
We didn't do very well defending corners did we?
I guess it's an opportunity to get someone else in. |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:15 - May 30 with 3038 views | cbower |
Well our attacking set pieces were poor all season and defensively, 2nd half of the season was abysmal. So, hey-ho. |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:23 - May 30 with 2957 views | SE1blue |
To collect the balls from our set pieces? |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:25 - May 30 with 2950 views | SheffordBlue |
In his first press conference he said that none of his staff would be announced until he was ready to announce all of them. So it could be a day or two yet until any announcements are made. |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:35 - May 30 with 2868 views | Bigalhunter |
This really is a decent opportunity to get some fresh faces in with a different ideas for KM.
A set piece coach who can organise us at set pieces in both boxes and is happy committing to a full season rather than logging off once Big Ben chimes in the new year, would be a very good start point. [Post edited 30 May 21:40]
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:38 - May 30 with 2831 views | Illinoisblue |
Insert shrug meme |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:47 - May 30 with 2713 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:35 - May 30 by Bigalhunter |
This really is a decent opportunity to get some fresh faces in with a different ideas for KM.
A set piece coach who can organise us at set pieces in both boxes and is happy committing to a full season rather than logging off once Big Ben chimes in the new year, would be a very good start point. [Post edited 30 May 21:40]
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It’s going to be Allan Russell. | | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:57 - May 30 with 2589 views | bluesym |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:47 - May 30 by tractorboy1978 |
It’s going to be Allan Russell. |
Ex Norwich isn't he? Interesting... | |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 22:03 - May 30 with 2538 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 21:15 - May 30 by Oldsmoker |
I didn't know we had one - it wasn't obvious.
Was he responsible for coaching our defenders to repel set-pieces?
We didn't do very well defending corners did we?
I guess it's an opportunity to get someone else in. |
You’d be surprised.
For example, were the second most successful team for getting a shot off immediately after a corner, after Forest (in percentage terms) https://theanalyst.com/articles/premier-league-teams-most-dangerous-set-pieces.
We don’t do so well at defending them. Our total numbers have us in the bottom four, but we’re well out of there when you look at percentages https://theanalyst.com/articles/premier-league-defending-set-pieces-stats.
In short, we performed better in our set pieces than our league position. [Post edited 30 May 22:03]
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 22:46 - May 30 with 2308 views | DavoIPB |
We actually created some clear headers and clear cut chances from corners but our defenders didn't seem to be able to hit the target. We gave away so many corners that one had to go in eventually in a game. | | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 08:53 - May 31 with 1483 views | DJR |
A few observations.
1. Some defenders are better at attacking corners than others. Our current crop do not seem to be very good. Putting it another way, players like Greaves and Burgess are very good defensively at corners but lack a killer instinct at the other end.
2. We tend to congregate in the middle at attacking corners. To my mind it is better to attack from a little deeper because this enables more momentum, as well as the opportunity to adjust to the flight of the ball. I also think it makes it more difficult to defend.
3. There was one game where I remember one of our defenders (Burgess?) trying to block the keeper. That just struck me as being a complete waste of time because it reduced our attacking options, and the role could have been performed by one of out shorter players. [Post edited 31 May 8:54]
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:09 - May 31 with 1417 views | BlueBoots |
Did a season split on a keepers' thread recently about our ability to defend set pieces; we conceded 3 goals from them in our first 26 matches, and 11 goals from our last 12 matches.
I know a lot of our fans have a downer on Muric, but one thing he was good at was taking pressure off our defence at set pieces by claiming high balls into our box. |  |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:14 - May 31 with 1373 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:09 - May 31 by BlueBoots |
Did a season split on a keepers' thread recently about our ability to defend set pieces; we conceded 3 goals from them in our first 26 matches, and 11 goals from our last 12 matches.
I know a lot of our fans have a downer on Muric, but one thing he was good at was taking pressure off our defence at set pieces by claiming high balls into our box. |
Agreed, he’s very solid at commanding his box. Telling stats those. | |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:18 - May 31 with 1361 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:09 - May 31 by BlueBoots |
Did a season split on a keepers' thread recently about our ability to defend set pieces; we conceded 3 goals from them in our first 26 matches, and 11 goals from our last 12 matches.
I know a lot of our fans have a downer on Muric, but one thing he was good at was taking pressure off our defence at set pieces by claiming high balls into our box. |
Useful facts in this discussion, thanks! | | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 10:03 - May 31 with 1241 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 09:09 - May 31 by BlueBoots |
Did a season split on a keepers' thread recently about our ability to defend set pieces; we conceded 3 goals from them in our first 26 matches, and 11 goals from our last 12 matches.
I know a lot of our fans have a downer on Muric, but one thing he was good at was taking pressure off our defence at set pieces by claiming high balls into our box. |
Absolutely right, for all his faults he is a monster on aerial balls. It was so valuable, and a stark difference to Hladky. Shame he was prone to the brain farts, get his decision making and confidence up and I still think there’s a very good keeper there. Won’t be with us though. |  | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 10:07 - May 31 with 1196 views | Meadowlark |
No more draught excluders hopefully |  | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 12:16 - May 31 with 1013 views | Oldsmoker |
i am surprised - genuinely shocked. | |
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| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 12:27 - May 31 with 967 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 12:16 - May 31 by Oldsmoker |
i am surprised - genuinely shocked. |
I think this is the problem when things aren't going well - we highlight and home in on the 'poor' aspects of our play, and overlook the good parts. So if we have 10 good set-pieces, but one truly shocking one, it's only the poor one we remember. | | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 12:31 - May 31 with 956 views | Parky |
Does this account for the short corners against us? I specifically remember Chelsea away where they had 2 players go short and nearly scored from every single one, and then they did score from one. Arsenal done the same thing against us, and we just didn’t learn. | | | |
| Mark Hudson - our wonderful set piece coach.... off to Huddersfield... on 17:03 - May 31 with 643 views | monty_radio |
Muric seems to be getting better month by absent month. [Post edited 31 May 18:31]
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