R2 vs Perth Glory | 9pm Sun 18th Oct | Prestigious Distance Derby

Corners are so hard. Let's not do them.

Pick out Lia. 

If you consider that a considerable proportion of our very rare goals from corner play were scored from a header by that giant man-mountain, Ben Sigmund, just imagine how good will it be to have Boxall back one day, after he spends some time with a team that actually scores from corner set-pieces.

Either that, or we make it compulsory for Lia to stick his foot out every time there is a ball coming at him. The stats are all there.

Dreary pack of can'ts.  We just fudging scored from a corner.  Celebrate you pillocks!

That's a corner every two games this season.  Woohoo, we're going to win the league!

So has anyone asked Ernie why we were only sending 3 into the box and Roly was chipping it direct to the keeper? Perhaps it was a secret plan and he can't tell u because one day he swears to God it'll work.

Ex - Ajax youth player.  Never learned how to play high balls.

I want my

I want my Vinnie tee

I want my

I want my Vinnie tee

Now Perth may be yo-yos but that's the way you do it

When you play for Phoenix, the A-League team

Lia ain't a striker but that's the way you do it

Make a shot from nothing, poke a goal for free

Now don't mention corners but that's the way you do it

Lemme tell you them guys ain't dumb

They may have missed more than you can count on every finger

They may have fudged up nearly every one

We gotta practice taking our corners

Practice taking set-piece kicks

But we'd rather score from weaving some magic

let's face it, it impresses the chicks

I want my

I want my Vinnie tee

I want my

I want my Vinnie tee

(music courtesy Dire Straits)

Vinnie Vinnie Vinnie

Was quite tinny

When he scored that goal

(music courtesy of Agnetha Faltskog and the other three in the band)

:)

duplicate

Since a lot of our rare corner action goals were scored from a header by that giant of a man, Ben Sigmund, imagine how good it would be to have Boxall back (after he spent some time in a team that actually scores from corner set-pieces).

Either that, or we make it compulsory for Lia to stick his foot out every time there is a ball coming at him. The results are all there.

Pretty easy now.  We just send up Lia.  He'll be marked by 4 players.

Pretty sure I've said this before, but we've never had a renowned headerer of the ball. At least in an attacking sense. Durante never scored for NEwcastle before he came. Sigmund only scored a small handful in the ASBP. Even our strikers don't have a reputation for it. Ifill, Greenacre, Brockie, Huysegems. 

At a guess I'd say Tim Brown has probably scored the most headed goals in Phoenix goals and even then probably all of them were from crossed.

For me we are far better to play it short and go from there.

Tim Brown for sure.

Smeltz

Dadi, Macallister

I agree, but our corners look like we spend 5 minutes at the end of training on it.  We usually have 3 or 4 different corner takers a game and really all we do is just "put it in the mixer" without any aggressive runs or any attempts at blocking or isolating our better headers.  I think we'd been so bad that we just assumed we would never score, I bet we have a completely different approach to corners now we've scored one and we'll end up with one or two more this season

Corners are also an opportunity to put a keeper under real pressure, just look at the number of times a keeper might duff a cross or similar. I think it is good to put them under pressure because they can gain confidence through making a few spectacula takes [a la aussie rules] - make them work for it.