Pre season 23/24

[KentExile]

13 minutes ago, arbitro said:

I really hope Tomasson changes his mind on these short corners. In every friendly so far we have taken short corners with a couple of exceptions at Fleetwood. In nearly every one we have sent the centre halves up and the ball hasn't even got into the penalty area. Yesterday on two occasions we have handed over cheap possession to Girona who countered and created chances as our centre halves were marooned at the other end. Similarly the two free-kicks in the second half were poorly thought out and executed. Surely given our striker constraints getting the ball into the penalty area, even for a preferable would be a better option.

And whatever happened to the set piece coach we were looking to appoint.

A lot of that may be due to a lack of height in our own team, especially yesterday.  Not much point swinging a high ball in when we only have 2 players over 6 foot

[rigger]

3 minutes ago, KentExile said:

A lot of that may be due to a lack of height in our own team, especially yesterday.  Not much point swinging a high ball in when we only have 2 players over 6 foot

In that case we have to get better at short corners. Ours usually seem to be wasted.

[arbitro]

4 minutes ago, KentExile said:

A lot of that may be due to a lack of height in our own team, especially yesterday.  Not much point swinging a high ball in when we only have 2 players over 6 foot

The same players are expected to defend set pieces into our box though. And in several of the earlier games Gallagher and Hedges were playing. I think it's a new tactic that Tomasson is looking at and hopefully the data tells him it's not working.