Can we stop this? Don't know how many times we had a chance to shoot from 25 yards last night and decided to pass it on which eventually led to a move breaking down, it's been like this all season and it's starting to get irritating
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14-12-2017 11:40 AM #1
Trying to walk the ball into the net
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14-12-2017 11:42 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-12-2017 12:02 PM #3
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I think for the most part the players made the right choices in shuffling the ball around to probe and try to make space behind the Rangers defence. The problem was a lack of killer instinct in the box, whether that be the wide men (who were outstanding in all other aspects) or the centre forwards.
It's frustrating when things break down but I actually love the way we play at the moment, it's a really exciting combination of speed and composure in moving the ball through defence and midfield into attack. I genuinely feel it was just a combination of bad luck and lack of an out and out goalscorer that stopped us turning that game around last night.
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14-12-2017 12:06 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-12-2017 12:10 PM #5
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14-12-2017 12:30 PM #7
It was an observation a neutral observer who was with me last night made during the game ... this by the way is a guy who has watched football all his life and watched the Busby babes play and the double winning Spurs team too.
Its something I've been frustrated by all season .... I get that with two wingers we are looking to get behind teams and play the ball across the box, but when opportunities to shoot do materialise at the edge of the box we don't take the shot on enough. Watch the highlights from any league in the country this weekend and I guarantee you at least a quarter of the goals will be scored from 18 yards of more.
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15-12-2017 07:56 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://www.premierleague.com/stats/.../att_obox_goal
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15-12-2017 08:16 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Great to watch but need an end product like putting he ball in the back of the net. Had the chances but didn't take them.
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15-12-2017 08:34 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Think you're wrong there ... seems to me that shooting from 25 yards out is mostly a sign of a team's frustration and inability to work the ball and team further forward into better goal-scoaring positions - and as has been said elsewhere many of the shots from beyond the box end up beyond the field of play ... BTW - irritating is part of the joy of being a HIbs fan
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15-12-2017 08:51 AM #11
I think people like all these 25 yard goals because they are memorable, but often it is because they are fairly rare. I am sure there will stats somewhere about how many goals are scored from outside the box and it is nowhere near a quarter, but I am sure I remember it being quoted as 1 in 30, goals to shots.
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15-12-2017 09:06 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-12-2017 10:16 AM #13
If you watch the shooting drills pre match you'll understand why we don't take more shots.
It's one thing that really frustrated me about some of our players, they never the the shot on when it's there, instead it's an extra touch and then chance is gone.
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15-12-2017 02:27 PM #15
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15-12-2017 02:35 PM #16
I think people are getting confused by "we should have a pop from outside of the box now and then." and "all our shots should come from outside the box." Some may say Barker did have a couple of shots, but they both came from wide positions, it's when the ball falls to Mcgeouch and McGinn on the edge central and they play it back out wide when they should be having an effort.
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15-12-2017 02:58 PM #17
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Leaving the ground on Wednesday, we were speculating about how many goals Jason Cummings playing for us as a penalty box striker would have scored in that game. Pure fantasy, of course, but none of our 'strikers' were employed in that role.
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15-12-2017 03:13 PM #18
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It's maybe not so much from 25 yards but the opportunity from 16-20 yards that's most frustrating. We do hesitate as a team at that range. On the flip side of that was the balls fired around the 6 yard area with seemingly no one near it. This should be MUrrays bread and butter and was at the start of the season. What's changed? Is he being told to play a different way? With 3 strikers on the pitch surely one of them was told to be the guy always to be around the middle of the goal when attacking?
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16-12-2017 07:59 AM #19
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Too many players are shot shy around and in the box ..in every game its noticeable players make half a yard of space and dont pull the trigger, why ? Usually a forward is desperate to shoot on sight, and as a midfielder I always wanted.to have a pop at goal, in doing that ypu just never.know how its.going to go , a save, a parry, a miss, a goal, a deflection, ..if you dont try it its definitely not.going to happen. ...we need more goals😲
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16-12-2017 08:17 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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16-12-2017 08:53 AM #23
I'm not saying shoot every time we get within 30 yards of the opponents goal but try it more often, there is times when players have time to shoot but the opt to pass instead and it leads to nothing, if you don't shoot, you don't score
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