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portugull wrote: ↑31 Oct 2021, 10:50 After 13 games we have 15 points just 38% of the points available.

We are showing some improvement and we now have 2 weeks to work hard on our weaknesses.

Yet again this season we are truly shocking taking free kicks and corners. The biggest culprit is Armani Little which is a real puzzle. He works so hard for the team but I have rarely seen a Professional Footballer at this level take so many free kicks and corners which rank as 0 out of 10.

Set pieces are scoring opportunities. Why don't we have a Competition on the training ground to find out who scores the most goals from 20 yards with just the keeper to beat? Then the same with a 10 yard defensive wall. Day after day Gary will find out who is best with a dead ball kick and on current form it will not be Armani unless he produces on the training ground but not when it matters.

Dean Moxey has a long throw so why don't we train a right sided player in the technique to throw long like Dean?

Corners. We are so predictable I mean predictably bad at corners. We waste them 8 times out of 10. Why not find the team in the Football League with the best conversion rate on corners and see why they are so good.Then copy them.

I used to be a poor putter at golf. I watched scores of golf videos on putting and now I am a good putter.

Why are my team not thinking outside the box. I do not mean the 18 yard box I mean thinking why are we bad at a part of the game when with a bit of imagination we could be better much better.

I can hear you say what does he know. Well I say even Gary Johnson can be better but is he too stubborn to try something different.

Time will tell but starting with Dover I shall be recording every corner and every free kick within 30 yards of goal and seeing how many lead to a goal.

This post comes from my utter frustration at what I see as missed opportunities every game.

Wolborough wrote: ↑31 Oct 2021, 16:19 Ah yes, Mickey Cave long throw in, Jimmy Dunne deft back header on edge of box, Alan Welsh stonker into the net. We could try a combination of Moxey, Lewis and Armstrong !

Whydoibother wrote: ↑31 Oct 2021, 17:55 last season we had Hall, Cameron scoring often with headers from corners .

happytorq wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 19:20 Who was taking the corners last season? Was it not also Armani Little (when fit)?

culmstockgull wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 14:36 I cannot agree that it would be best for armani to be dropped, in a team crying out if not begging for talent at least he has that ingrained, we ask too much of him , certainly this season I am not his biggest fan becuase he is not the armani we know. if Johnson persists with him as our playmaker then let him do that and that alone and lapslie and hall when he is fit can do the donkey work, look at the playmakers in other teams, I remember Hoddle could win a game with one pass but he never broke sweat in his whole career, Pogba, another rare talent could cut teams apart with his passes but wanders in his own little world for minutes on end, neither of which knew how to defend let alone where their own penalty box was. I realise these are not direct comparisons but their managers and fellow players tolerate them for the one pice of magic, if Johnson wants a team that runs for the full ninety minutes with attackers playing defenders then armani doesnt make the eleven, to my mind its horses for courses, if he didnt have to defend so much he could spend a lot more creative time planning the downfall of the opposition, I agree that he shouldnt take so many free kicks or corners, we are far too predictable in that manner.

Younonothing wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 20:59 he runs the most in ever game, what are you on about !!

North Curry House wrote: ↑05 Nov 2021, 10:31 No earthly good just running aimlessly,. Keating ran and ran but with little or no end result. Little "may" be our best player and playmaker but he needs to show it more often. I agree his set pieces are poor.