This week at training lads, we are going to...
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..Practice getting everyone into the box to shot bar Tim Brown. (And Ferante)
All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!
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Practice headers and practice shooting from distances ranging from 2 feet to 25 yards.
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet
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Practice clearing the f*cking ball from the penalty area, the number of times they played touchy feeley and ended up giving it back to unmarked Adelaide players was immensely frustrating. 
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What does interest me is at practices they usually spend most of the time playing the ball on the ground, yet as soon as they take to the pitch in a game, the rules go out of the window.
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practice in a 442. no 451 or 433 bullsh*t anymore
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4-4-2 diamond formation?
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Practice crosses, headers, and shots from outside the box.
These seem to be the areas we are lacking in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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4-4-2 diamond formation?
Who would you have up front and in the middle of the park?You know we belong together...
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
ThisYou know we belong together...
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..Practice getting everyone into the box to shot bar Tim Brown. (And Ferante)
Tim is about the only Phoenix player who reliably wins headers. He's not that accurate, but counting on the likes of Vince Lia to jump highest sounds like a recipe for even more frustration.
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
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rojas, so special
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
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no. Costa will be dropped next week because Greenacre is coming back in. No point.
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Greenacre isn't confirmed to be coming in and they're hoping the 9th he'll be back.. it would be nice to have him at new years though
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Greenacre too would benefit from diagonal along the ground passes.
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Don't let McKain long ball it ever again
Great defender but his distribution makes me cringe sometimes. He is great on the ball though.
Great defender but his distribution makes me cringe sometimes. He is great on the ball though.
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
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no. Costa will be dropped next week because Greenacre is coming back in. No point.
rojas, so special
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Dash it all! I am somewhat miffed that we do seem to resort to long balls up the field, mostly from. within our own half. Just trying to recall those luvvly 6-0 and 3-0 games a while back and if there was more on the ground, short passing going on there.
Don't get me wrong there have been some very good cross field passes into space on the opposite wing when we have been up in attack but the long pass up field seems to be a standard procedure at the moment.OK my rant over.
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practice playing low diagonal balls forward for Costa, instead of high balls
Why not go the whole hog and teach Tony Lochhead how to cross a ball as well
Besides, Greenacre gets 90% of the balls pumped up to him at head height and above so why can't Costa??
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Some anorak stats on headers this season, obviously not 100% accurate since they are compiled from my hastily scribbled 'incident reports' during each game (yeah, pathetic I know
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Headed goals: 5 (Greenacre 2, Brown 2, Sigmund 1). Only Sigmund's was from a setpiece.
Unsuccessful headers: 30. Of these, 22 were off target, 8 on target. 17 misses were from open play, 13 from setpieces.
Chief offenders have been Greenacre and Brown, 6 misses each, and Lia, Sigmund and Durante, 3 misses each.
Draw your own conclusions, but for me I would say it's obvious that the conversion rate is pretty average overall, and extremely poor from setpieces.
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I have yet to see them practice set pieces at the practices I've attended. Wonder why not to be honest. I must ask Ricki that one.
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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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