I've just read this about Neil Harris' tactics for defending our set pieces

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  1. Archey

    Archey Well-Known Member

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    "Harris said afterwards that he had given his players responsibility to decide who to pick up when Barnsley won a free kick or corner"

    Now I'm no football manager, but even I can see that this is a rather random half arsed approach to management.

    I mean, we scored the best part of 20 goals or more from set pieces last season and he deploys a tactic like this in a game. No wonder we scored 3 goals from balls played into the box.

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    MarioKempes Well-Known Member

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    It does sound a bit incompetent. It reminds me a bit of zonal marking which I always found bizarre. Somebody said, zones don't score goals - players do.
     
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    That might explain why they conceded 7 goals at home in 4 days.
     
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    I'd tell em to mark the goalscorer.

    Easy this management lark.
     
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    When I played for the hospital team in Liverpool 25 years ago we were defending a set piece and one of our players, a bloke in his 40s was stood on his own. When I questioned who he was picking up he answered "I'm marking space". That continues to puzzle me to this day!
     
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    If you have a few good headers of the ball in the key zones zonal marking can be very effective. Hence why Barcelona concede very few from set pieces,
     
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    Is he a relation of Rolf?
     
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