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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #165 on: October 24, 2021, 10:57:11 PM »
It's playing the percentages. It causes panic, it did on Friday after we'd scored. We can't take a decent throw in anyway.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #166 on: October 24, 2021, 11:34:38 PM »
I'm all for inventive set-pieces but for me there's nothing that screams shit tactics more than the long throw. I appreciate it can occasionally be a useful weapon.

I might be football snob but it's not something I've ever associated with Aston Villa.


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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #167 on: October 24, 2021, 11:45:05 PM »
I'm all for inventive set-pieces but for me there's nothing that screams shit tactics more than the long throw. I appreciate it can occasionally be a useful weapon.

I might be football snob but it's not something I've ever associated with Aston Villa.

I agree and it's not as if Cash is our Rory Delap. His throws are far too lofted to really pose a threat.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #168 on: October 25, 2021, 08:22:15 AM »
No point saying your one of the best set piece coaches around if your good for 2-3 games then utter turd in the following three

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #169 on: October 25, 2021, 09:50:04 AM »
A long throw into the box is similar to having a corner. It gets the ball into a danger area quickly.

There was one that slipped out of his hands, yes, much like a scuffed corner not passing the first man. Annoying but it happens.

Anyway, just because we've lost a couple doesn't mean everything has gone to shit.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #170 on: October 25, 2021, 09:59:59 AM »
No point saying your one of the best set piece coaches around if your good for 2-3 games then utter turd in the following three

A coach is just what it says on the tin, it’s down to the players to implement it. In any case it’s a bit fanciful to think that even with a specialist in place everything is going to automatically come off. It just means that the players have a plan for each dead ball situation.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #171 on: October 25, 2021, 11:12:40 AM »
With a set-piece coach, you would think we would be better at defending them as well as creating chances. I think i'm right in saying that we've got some of the worst stats for goals conceded from set-pieces so far this season. West Ham have got one of the best records from scoring from set-pieces and are a very physically strong side so it already doesn't look good.

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #172 on: October 27, 2021, 07:46:59 AM »
Not sure if this point has been made but are we not accommodating the wrong players but actually playing players/formation to accommodate the set piece coach?

I'm all for adopting different styles at times but our football has gone to absolute shit and for all the good McPhee has done it appears to have been outshone with rubbish in the last few weeks.

Perhaps we are looking at the wrong person on the bench.....

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #173 on: October 27, 2021, 07:52:56 AM »
Great point Nev, there is far too much emphasis on this new coach in our play. We’ve suddenly lost the identity we have been trying to bring to the club, up through the ranks.

What’s happened to the high press and fast flowing attacking football?

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #174 on: October 27, 2021, 06:00:33 PM »
But in the movie and books Nanny McPhee discipline and a little magic transformed the family's lives!
This is what we're after with magical set pieces!

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #175 on: October 28, 2021, 09:51:25 AM »
But in the movie and books Nanny McPhee discipline and a little magic transformed the family's lives!
This is what we're after with magical set pieces!

He needs a cane that he can bang on the floor when things are going wrong

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #176 on: October 28, 2021, 01:00:18 PM »
But in the movie and books Nanny McPhee discipline and a little magic transformed the family's lives!
This is what we're after with magical set pieces!

He needs a cane that he can bang on the floor when things are going wrong

And teeth like a row of condemned houses.

Offline markeeeebeeee2005

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #177 on: October 28, 2021, 01:10:39 PM »
Not sure if this point has been made but are we not accommodating the wrong players but actually playing players/formation to accommodate the set piece coach?

I'm all for adopting different styles at times but our football has gone to absolute shit and for all the good McPhee has done it appears to have been outshone with rubbish in the last few weeks.

Perhaps we are looking at the wrong person on the bench.....

That’s an interesting point, and one I hadn’t considered.

Do you think our recent tactics/ formations are heavily influenced by McPhee and what he wants/ needs for set pieces?

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #178 on: October 28, 2021, 07:08:02 PM »
I'm looking for the reason Smith has appeared to abandon his ideology that has served him so well for most of his managerial career. The odd game I can understand but to persist with something that clearly isn't working is baffling. We now play alehouse football, reliant on set pieces rather than good football complimented by set pieces.

There has to be some reason...

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Re: Austin MacPhee
« Reply #179 on: October 28, 2021, 07:21:34 PM »
But in the movie and books Nanny McPhee discipline and a little magic transformed the family's lives!
This is what we're after with magical set pieces!

He needs a cane that he can bang on the floor when things are going wrong

And teeth like a row of condemned houses.

Very good!

 


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