message to all our players who get near the oppositions penalty area in future

FECKIN SHOOT

 

thats a bit radical isnt it

will need to change a lot in training then

 

how frustrating is it watching them try to walk it in! nt

 

Spot on

Totally agree.

 

Or.........

heading towards goal with the ball and turning around and going backwards. Then there's trying to take someone on, but trying to take it around the wrong side of them.

 

IMHO, the crowd usually wants the ball "played wide"

They usually clap too when someone does that (even if they have a shooting chance). It's "good football" apparently...

 

to be fair..

It's usually when we're breaking from the half way line and we have players overlapping on the flanks. What really pisses me off though is that almost 100% of the time one of the players offering down the line is either Mifsud or Macken, who should be breaking their necks to get in the box, not looking to play the ball in. And how often do we actually get wide and play the ball into the box early for someone to attack it? It never happens.

Is it just me or when a striker gets down the line to cross, does that mean we have half the number of strikers in the penalty area to get on the end of the said cross? Chuffing hell we're **** up front.

The other thing that winds me up is that there appears to be very little communication between the strikers - they always attack the same post, you never see one run early and one run late, or one front post and the other back post. They don't play off each other in the box at all.

And how about a midfielder arriving on the edge of the box to follow up on anything that drops loose? We don't do that either.

As for pulling the bloody trigger in and around the area, it's enough to make you want to tear your hair out.

 

i'd like to see some more work done in training on set pieces. more intelligent moves, flick ons and the like.

 

I agree with that. 3/4 times yesterday free kicks were taken and just floated into the box with no pace on at all. Easy pickings for the opposition keeper.