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Offline Risso

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #120 on: September 28, 2021, 09:28:27 AM »
A small observation but before Smith and during the preceding 5-10 years appointing a set piece coach such as MacPhee would’ve made minimal difference.  Marginal gains such as this can only really work once the team already has a structure and organised base to build from.
I'm not sure about that.  I would have thought improving set pieces (both attacking and defending) with a potenial 5-10 goal swing in a season would improve any team, whatever lever they're playing at.   

I'm not sure either. Our set pieces have been absolutely dire for years. Corners failing to beat the first man more often than not, free kicks into the stratosphere, no movement at throw ins etc. McPhee hasn't fine tuned these, he's gone straight past making them competent and actually made us a threat and dangerous.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #121 on: September 28, 2021, 10:10:58 AM »
A small observation but before Smith and during the preceding 5-10 years appointing a set piece coach such as MacPhee would’ve made minimal difference.  Marginal gains such as this can only really work once the team already has a structure and organised base to build from.
I'm not sure about that.  I would have thought improving set pieces (both attacking and defending) with a potenial 5-10 goal swing in a season would improve any team, whatever lever they're playing at.   

I'm not sure either. Our set pieces have been absolutely dire for years. Corners failing to beat the first man more often than not, free kicks into the stratosphere, no movement at throw ins etc. McPhee hasn't fine tuned these, he's gone straight past making them competent and actually made us a threat and dangerous.
Have a few Cardiff-supporting mates.  They'd said they got 5-8 goals a season as a direct result of Andy Legg's throw ins.  Said for them, a throw in level with the penalty area was better than a corner.  Their corners at the time were atrocious, but Legg could pretty much throw the ball to the head of any player he chose in the penalty area, such was his range & accuracy with them.

Thought at the time it was odd that teams higher up the league didn't try to coach that type of thing in to their throw-in takers.  You'd think, if something gets you half a dozen goals a season, it's worth getting pretty good at it.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #122 on: September 28, 2021, 11:03:19 AM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #123 on: September 28, 2021, 11:14:29 AM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future? 

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #124 on: September 28, 2021, 11:31:15 AM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?

Danny Murphy says no.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #125 on: September 28, 2021, 11:37:02 AM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?

Danny Murphy says no.


Yes, then?

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #126 on: September 28, 2021, 11:39:55 AM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?

Danny Murphy says no.


Yes, then?

Specialist coaches have been all the rage in most sports for years. This is just another type. It really isn't rocket science. Look how well England used set pieces in 2018 World Cup

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #127 on: September 28, 2021, 01:11:17 PM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?
I’m sure Liverpool employ a throw in expert. No comment by D Murphy on that I expect.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #128 on: September 28, 2021, 02:44:39 PM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?
I’m sure Liverpool employ a throw in expert. No comment by D Murphy on that I expect.
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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #129 on: September 28, 2021, 03:09:03 PM »
do you know what else has made a big difference?

grealish not taking set pieces. he was shite at it.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #130 on: September 28, 2021, 04:11:51 PM »
do you know what else has made a big difference?

grealish not taking set pieces. he was shite at it.

So true, remember his interview at the Euros saying something like Villa aren't too good at set pieces? No fault of his of course!

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #131 on: September 28, 2021, 04:59:02 PM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?

Danny Murphy says no.

Who the fuck is Danny Murphy  ? Is he a national hunt jockey?

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #132 on: September 28, 2021, 06:16:08 PM »
Totally impressed by the addition of MacPhee to the team. He's made a big, big difference already.

You have to wonder if other teams have noticed? Not the specifics of the set-pieces themselves, but that having a specialist set-piece coach has demonstrably improved us so much in such a short space of time.

Should we expect to see other teams employing set-piece specialists in the very near future?

Danny Murphy says no.

Who the fuck is Danny Murphy  ? Is he a national hunt jockey?


One of those words rhymes with what he is.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #133 on: September 28, 2021, 06:19:55 PM »
Danny Murphy is a miserable prick

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #134 on: September 28, 2021, 10:03:21 PM »
A small observation but before Smith and during the preceding 5-10 years appointing a set piece coach such as MacPhee would’ve made minimal difference.  Marginal gains such as this can only really work once the team already has a structure and organised base to build from.
I'm not sure about that.  I would have thought improving set pieces (both attacking and defending) with a potenial 5-10 goal swing in a season would improve any team, whatever lever they're playing at.   

I'm not sure either. Our set pieces have been absolutely dire for years. Corners failing to beat the first man more often than not, free kicks into the stratosphere, no movement at throw ins etc. McPhee hasn't fine tuned these, he's gone straight past making them competent and actually made us a threat and dangerous.

Okay, I may be wrong.  My point was more along the lines of ‘paralysis of analysis’ where the day to day clusterfuck of changing systems and individuals means the player’s brains are too full to absorb new (arguably peripheral) information.   I think a certain amount of stability give you the time on the training pitch and the players have the head-room to absorb it.

 


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