The art of corner taking ......

[There's only 1 city!!]

where's it gone??

so many time's the corner taker doesn't beat the first defender, does my head in!!!!

its not just a city thing, although kolarov did it in the last min tonight, you see it so many time's in the premier league,

just wondering if it gets on other people's tits like it get's on mine!!

rant over, feel better now!!!!

[lovecity8utd]

I know what you mean and share the frustration. I think we are particuarly wasteful with corners - sorry if covered in Doug's traning reports, but do they ever practice attacking corners and set pieces? If they do, it doesn't seem to get on to the ptich very often.

[s1ty m]

we concede very, very few goals from open play. from set pieces, though, we look awful. on our own set pieces, we are just as bad. it's crap and must change.

[blues2win]

I'd love to fine corner takers a week's wages for not clearing the first man but then they'd all blaze it way past the far post! In fairness Kolarov did hit a couple of decent corners and Micah really should have scored off one of them. There again he hit some crap corners as well.

[There's only 1 city!!]

I'm just getting at kolarov, I'm on about everyone,
you even see it at international level,
If I do that for my local team our gaffer let's rip at me!!

[leewonpen]

Blackpools Charlie Adams Takes a Class Corner

[Wonderwall]

Get andy hinchcliffe on the training ground. He was top banana

[halnone]

Blackpools Charlie Adams Takes a Class Corner

I remember he hit a terrible corner a few weeks ago and somehow he scored directly off of it. Great corner taker.

[Ted Hughes]

It does my head in. Even Thierry Henry used to regularly hit the 1st man with corners. Any player who does that should donate half his wages to charity, there's no excuse for it. Musicians don't pick up a guitar & miss the fucking strings or blow down the wrong end of a fucking trumpet. Surgeons don't drop their knives inside their patients. If cricketers made the same basic mistakes as footballers, none of them would score any runs or catch anything, or take any wickets. You just can't be that sloppy at the basics in a cricket match & get away with it.

These people are suppposed to be experts at their job.

[The Original Special One]

Funnily enough I was saying to a Newcastle United fan buddy of mine that Joey Barton used to be The Worst Corner Taker in the World when he played for us, and demanded he take all the corners; now he looks like a World-beater!

[Curlie]

Does my head in, not beating the first defender.
Blood simmering as I write this, so I'll leave it there.
Oh and yes we could defend all set pieces better.
Aagggggghhhhh!

[dazby]

I think it's just generally the art of crossing that seems to have faded a bit. There's definitely less emphasis on it these days.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

We concede so many from set pieces because for some reason we bring every player back to defend them!
That means the opposition can put more players forward which increases the number of bodies in the box, making it harder for the keeper.

Surely we need to leave 3/4 players upfield !!!!!!

[Rag_hater]

I think its wrong to assume that corners should lead to an attemt on goal.
It strikes me as the same as a free kick and how often does that lead to the ball ending up in row Z or hitting the wall,going wide etc...
I'm sure that most of these guys could float it in the middle like Joey did but they are trying to be a bit more adventourous than that.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

I think its wrong to assume that corners should lead to an attemt on goal.
It strikes me as the same as a free kick and how often does that lead to the ball ending up in row Z or hitting the wall,going wide etc...
I'm sure that most of these guys could float it in the middle like Joey did but they are trying to be a bit more adventourous than that.

Yeah hitting the first man is really adventurous.

[Rag_hater]

I think its wrong to assume that corners should lead to an attemt on goal.
It strikes me as the same as a free kick and how often does that lead to the ball ending up in row Z or hitting the wall,going wide etc...
I'm sure that most of these guys could float it in the middle like Joey did but they are trying to be a bit more adventourous than that.

Yeah hitting the first man is really adventurous.

So if plopping the ball in the middle of the box is all that was needed why are players who train all week not sticking it in everytime there is a corner.Its not a pen its a ball thats quite a few yards away with about normally 10 or 11 people trying to get away from the goal.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

I think its wrong to assume that corners should lead to an attemt on goal.
It strikes me as the same as a free kick and how often does that lead to the ball ending up in row Z or hitting the wall,going wide etc...
I'm sure that most of these guys could float it in the middle like Joey did but they are trying to be a bit more adventourous than that.

Yeah hitting the first man is really adventurous.

So if plopping the ball in the middle of the box is all that was needed why are players who train all week not sticking it in everytime there is a corner.Its not a pen its a ball thats quite a few yards away with about normally 10 or 11 people trying to get away from the goal.

Not too sure what you are on about. If you get decent delivery into a good area with 5/6 players attacking the ball we'd score a lot more.

[steve isle of man]

Anyone remember any good city corner takers apart from Hinchy?
Was it Paul Power who used to swing them in for flick ons from near post in John Bond days?

[Mase]

Anyone remember any good city corner takers apart from Hinchy?
Was it Paul Power who used to swing them in for flick ons from near post in John Bond days?

Nic Jensen wasn't bad from what I remember. Horlock??

[nick (duki blues)]

Anyone remember any good city corner takers apart from Hinchy?
Was it Paul Power who used to swing them in for flick ons from near post in John Bond days?

i was thinking the exact same thing but think it was tommy hutchinson who used to take them but you might be right and little bobby macdonald used to score a good few goals from these knock ons
maybe its something that could be looked at by putting dzeko on the near post and im sure silva could deliver perfectly for him