nottsblue wrote:Just a quick aside. Why does Kolorov not take free kicks. I thought that part of his game was one of the reasons we signed him. Also, we seem to give a lot of free kicks away just outside the box & as we spend half our time passing the ball around in this area, why don't our lads draw more fouls. We have some superb free kick takers yet we rarely seem to get a chance at them
Hutch's Shoulder wrote:nottsblue wrote:Just a quick aside. Why does Kolorov not take free kicks. I thought that part of his game was one of the reasons we signed him. Also, we seem to give a lot of free kicks away just outside the box & as we spend half our time passing the ball around in this area, why don't our lads draw more fouls. We have some superb free kick takers yet we rarely seem to get a chance at them
Someone in the row behind me made the point about drawing free kicks at the last game; instead of just passing backwards and forwards across the edge of the area all the time, draw the opposition into giving away a free kick now and then and keep them guessing. Even if it doesn't work all the time must be worth a go after 30 mins or so of passing to-and-fro.
Ted Hughes wrote:We get fouled more in that area than the oppo, but only about 20% given as free kicks, as opposed to 150% at the other end.
london blue 2 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:We get fouled more in that area than the oppo, but only about 20% given as free kicks, as opposed to 150% at the other end.
That one today on jovetic was mind boggling. Wiped out at the waist and he waves play on!
Wonderwall wrote:Kolarov has been linked with Juve in every transfer window. We should let him go this time in a straight swap for pogba. ;-)
nottsblue wrote:Just a quick aside. Why does Kolorov not take free kicks. I thought that part of his game was one of the reasons we signed him. Also, we seem to give a lot of free kicks away just outside the box & as we spend half our time passing the ball around in this area, why don't our lads draw more fouls. We have some superb free kick takers yet we rarely seem to get a chance at them
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:nottsblue wrote:Just a quick aside. Why does Kolorov not take free kicks. I thought that part of his game was one of the reasons we signed him. Also, we seem to give a lot of free kicks away just outside the box & as we spend half our time passing the ball around in this area, why don't our lads draw more fouls. We have some superb free kick takers yet we rarely seem to get a chance at them
Last season, especially in the earlier part of the campaign, Yaya seemed to take all, or most, of the free kicks in this area and scored a fair number of exceptional goals from them.
I wonder if Kolorov is simply being overlooked, or that it's now reckoned that more subtlety is required, rather than just raw power ??
blues2win wrote:I still don't think it's acceptable to shout unpleasant abuse at someone on the pitch, some of it 'pretty vile' according to 'Citywatch'. There again he shouldn't be shouting abuse back.
Ted Hughes wrote:blues2win wrote:I still don't think it's acceptable to shout unpleasant abuse at someone on the pitch, some of it 'pretty vile' according to 'Citywatch'. There again he shouldn't be shouting abuse back.
If that was happening, it's totally out of order & the people involved are selfish cunts, because it never helps the player or the team, just purely gives the whinger personal satisfaction & almost always makes the team play worse.
We should get together & hound cunts like that out of the ground imo. They bring nothing but extra pressure & potential failure to the club. I sat through fucking years of listening to big mouthed cunts doing shit like that & driving team morale into the gutter. I don't want it around me.
If you hand out abuse to a player on the pitch, you are hurting the team.
Im_Spartacus wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:blues2win wrote:I still don't think it's acceptable to shout unpleasant abuse at someone on the pitch, some of it 'pretty vile' according to 'Citywatch'. There again he shouldn't be shouting abuse back.
If that was happening, it's totally out of order & the people involved are selfish cunts, because it never helps the player or the team, just purely gives the whinger personal satisfaction & almost always makes the team play worse.
We should get together & hound cunts like that out of the ground imo. They bring nothing but extra pressure & potential failure to the club. I sat through fucking years of listening to big mouthed cunts doing shit like that & driving team morale into the gutter. I don't want it around me.
If you hand out abuse to a player on the pitch, you are hurting the team.
On the other hand, how many other players are so far up their own arse that they start hurling abuse at the fans when they are having a stinker of a game?
If a player is constantly misplacing passes and fucking up, topping all that with defending like a bag of shite, that player will (rightly or wrongly) get grief off fans the world over until such time as he bucks up, that's human nature, that's football fans.........what's not normal is that said shit player abuses the fans back as though he is in the form of his life.
His attitude stinks as bad as his football. He is just not a very good footballer, in fact one of the worst defenders I think I've seen In a city shirt punctuated by the odd good performance,
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