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Throw Ins

Our "tactics" and the way we set up from throw ins is rapidly becoming me biggest annoyance, amongst many, with the football we play under Frankie. It could be the one thing that turns me away from watching PNE despite having a season ticket. It is a throwback to the 70's & 80's, basic, unimaginitive , lazy dross. That is the sum total of poor coaching from someone out of their depth. I've NEVER seen us have any form of success from these chucks in to the box from both Riis & Barky. You can tell from the body language of the players that they have no belief that anything good will ever come of it. The fact that we persist with it & the collective groans from the crowd are ignored is quite staggering. It's embarrassing. I dont want to jump on to the loud bandwagon calling for Frankies head but the fact he persists with this offence to football does him no favours.

I dont pay £30 to watch Sunday League standard football
 
I play a game sometimes when we have a throw in and I count to 5 and see who has possession when the 5 is up. Invariably it's the opposition unless it's gone back to the keeper and then we tend to lose the ball after Iverson has launched it.

Genuinely baffling that our throw ins from any area are so poor....not just a Frankie thing it was very poor under Neil as well although we didn't have to suffer the absurd long throw ins
 
We must be the easiest team to prepare for in the days leading up to a game.
5-3-2 nailed on.
Long throws in final third, every punt from the goalie aimed towards Earl, everyone back for corners and don’t make subs until the last 15 minutes.
Just for balance our only shot on goal came from a training ground set piece, Cunningham blocked off Evans man who unfortunately scuffed his shot on goal…but that’s as good as it gets.
 
Oh HughieHughie said:
I play a game sometimes when we have a throw in and I count to 5 and see who has possession when the 5 is up. Invariably it's the opposition unless it's gone back to the keeper and then we tend to lose the ball after Iverson has launched it.

Genuinely baffling that our throw ins from any area are so poor....not just a Frankie thing it was very poor under Neil as well although we didn't have to suffer the absurd long throw ins
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It would be good fun if the crowd did the same thing and started shouting out a count to 5 and see their defenders running away with it on almost every occasion
 
I thought that when we first started using the long throw tactic via Barky it actually brought a little bit of excitement as it was for us (then) an unpredictable tactic however that ship has long since sailed, c'mon Frankie vary things!!
 
Not sure if mentioned but the Ewood pitch has a slope going up to it so it was impossible to get a run up. My 12 year old lad noticed that after 5 minutes……….
 
That Ewood's been like this since before they had Malcolm Darling scoring for 'em
V. the Whites. ( not the reds,ffs....)
That surrounding slope works against all 20 players..... stupid.
Of greater concern to me is the danger, the obvious clear-and-present-danger to me, is how often the players get clattered and slip down into the metal hoardings . I'm amazed
there's been no career-threatening injuries ever.
No I don't work in H&S.....
 
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