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Throw in despair.....

Throw in despair.....

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europne

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How we struggle to gain possession from a throw in....... we don’t seem to have a clue.

The big plan is that whatever the situation the wing back must take the throw in, yesterday it was Pottsy and Fernandez, but that’s where the planning ends.

We seem to lose possession every time, never have a spare man, struggle with tap backs to the thrower.....

Or is it just me imagining it?
 
Nope, my lot have been saying it all season. We might as well just throw the ball back to their goalkeeper whenever we get a throw in.

Similar for any throw ins against. It should be a good opportunity to box a team in and steal the ball high up the pitch, but we let teams out so easily.
 
europne said:
How we struggle to gain possession from a throw in....... we don’t seem to have a clue.

The big plan is that whatever the situation the wing back must take the throw in, yesterday it was Pottsy and Fernandez, but that’s where the planning ends.

We seem to lose possession every time, never have a spare man, struggle with tap backs to the thrower.....

Or is it just me imagining it?
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No, the last few weeks has grown steadily worse.
We are kicking it straight out from the throw.
This isn't all Lowes doing. What are the coaches doing in training?
 
Thought it was just me who noticed it, lack of movement and poor first touch / control exposes how poor the squad is. A quick throw to feet or a set drop and play. Instead we slow the game down drop it down the line and hope we get the second ball.
 
When we played Dirty Leeds a couple of years ago they would have 3 or 4 players making runs at every throw in to try and create space. As a result their throws were generally productive.

Our lads just seem to stand around until one makes a half-arsed jog towards the throw in taker, and we almost always concede the ball or the next throw in.

This isn’t just a criticism of the current coaching, the previous 2 were just as bad. It’s an easy thing to improve, so why don’t we do it.

And also, don’t do foul throws…
 
europne said:
Or is it just me imagining it?
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I think they throw it at the player just in the hope it bounces off them again for another throw in, that's what they seemed to do yesterday.

There's a lot they are miles behind in quality compared to a lot of the teams that rock up to Deepdale. It's a bit embarrassing really, especially when a pass gets wopped across to a wing back who then watches it fly straight out of play.
 
The coaching seems to be lacking in very many respects. Perhaps it's time for a clear out, not just the manager. Gally is up there with Grezza as one of my all time favourite PNE players - but is he good enough as a coach? I don't know but clearly something is going wrong and sentimentality will get us nowhere. The next manager, when we get one, needs to bring in his own staff. It won't happen of course as it would cost more.
 
I've said this for months and months. Why not go down the line as the chances are you get another throw. When in range, I can't belive someone like Bambo doesn't have a long throw. OK it isn't pretty but neither is consistently overturning possession, often in dangerous areas. In my book 2nd only to getting caught 2 on 1 at short corners too often, while we mark space. Along with leaving nobody up while we defend corners, its just rank bad coaching.
 
europne said:
How we struggle to gain possession from a throw in....... we don’t seem to have a clue.

The big plan is that whatever the situation the wing back must take the throw in, yesterday it was Pottsy and Fernandez, but that’s where the planning ends.

We seem to lose possession every time, never have a spare man, struggle with tap backs to the thrower.....

Or is it just me imagining it?
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I think our biggest weakness is and has been for a long time..... Making space off the ball.... We are exceptional at " hiding " though....
 
Liberation said:
I think our biggest weakness is and has been for a long time..... Making space off the ball.... We are exceptional at " hiding " though....
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Give Ledson a medal for this, above.
---oOo--- Free kicks in the oppo's half. Especially from our right wing side. All floated-over from the right foot but mainly over too far and very often too high. Never any variations, eg. to feet; prodded-on to ping-on with a quick give&go, no putting someone literally over on the right to split the oppo's concentration focus, - nah, always the outswinger/floater

What you you mean, 'imagination' ?
Don't the coaches watch any other games to glean ideas ?
Dull as ditchwater.
 
Flaxby White said:
Our movement in every aspect of the game is very poor/non exsistant.
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Yep. Alvarez and Cannon showed sporadic glimpses of what decent movement can give to a team. But, of course, it helps when all eleven players are on the same page. Our lads aren't.

No movement = Nothing positive
 
Potts particularly struggled in the first half yesterday. Foul throw early on and seemed to take longer each time as he had no options - Potts is perhaps our one player who thrives on confidence more than anyone else but his looks shot.

Also noticed in the first half that Johnson was asking for the ball not to be thrown to him - at one stage he pointed to four other "options" Potts had despite him being in the best position. As the half went on Johnson went further and further away from the touchline so even Rory Delap wouldn't have been able to reach him.

Yes, better coaching would see the players have a "plan" and try different ideas but we have no one with the skill to beat two/three players and create something so we could have a tactical genius in the dugout but we don't have the players to implement the tactics.
 
Ando60 said:
Which takes me back to my previously mentioned point, what do Marsh and Gallagher teach the players in training during the week ??
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I don't think forvone minute Gally is behind any of these tactics. If you look at how he played in his career this is nothing like, I suspect he's just doing what he's told. The surprise for mevisxthat Mike Marsh is supposed to be a very good coach .......is this crap anything like the way Swansea played while he was there?
 
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