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Our defending in open play was once again fine in that first half. We limited County to basically nothing whilst creating decent chances of our own.

Our defending of set plays is fucking pitiful though. As it is one aspect we definitely can work on in training it is unacceptable that we haven’t fixed this glaring issue.


Absolutely it’s unbelievable how poor we are at that. And I have to say we don’t seem able to sign a keeper with an aptitude for catching crosses
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1 hour ago, palmy_cammy said:


Our defending in open play was once again fine in that first half. We limited County to basically nothing whilst creating decent chances of our own.

Our defending of set plays is fucking pitiful though. As it is one aspect we definitely can work on in training it is unacceptable that we haven’t fixed this glaring issue.

Not sure that holds up to much scrutiny. There's a finite amount of preparation time each week. If you spend it all working on defensive shape from open play (and Queens clearly do) you can't also spend it on defending set pieces. If it were as simple as saying "just practice defending set pieces" then everyone would do it.

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13 minutes ago, DUMFRIES_CREW said:

Bye Bye Naysmith

I hear Danny Granger from Carlisle is looking to move into management.

Worth a punt !!

Or you could pick a random guy who works on the bins.

Is there any reason to think that Grainger would make a decent coach, aside from being a borderline decent player?

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9 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:

 

Is there any reason to think that Grainger would make a decent coach, aside from being a borderline decent player?

Well he's not yet established that he's hopeless.  He's therefore ahead of someone.

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The best we can hope for now is the play-off spot. We seemed utterly lacking in spirit in the second half tonight. Naysmith has to go whether we somehow manage to stay up or not.  

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Not sure that holds up to much scrutiny. There's a finite amount of preparation time each week. If you spend it all working on defensive shape from open play (and Queens clearly do) you can't also spend it on defending set pieces. If it were as simple as saying "just practice defending set pieces" then everyone would do it.

Yes we should definitely continue making the same mistakes without making any attempt at rectifying them. It’s served us so well after all.
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1 hour ago, Pull My Strings said:

Not sure that holds up to much scrutiny. There's a finite amount of preparation time each week. If you spend it all working on defensive shape from open play (and Queens clearly do) you can't also spend it on defending set pieces. If it were as simple as saying "just practice defending set pieces" then everyone would do it.

 

Quite, it's always a bizarre argument. Especially as for all the practicing of defensive set-pieces you are doing, your opponents are practicing their attacking ones at the same rate, so you are effectively practicing just to maintain your current (in Queens' case, very low) level. Which is why presumably there has been no relative improvement. As you say, to make improvements to the point where it was no longer an issue would either mean working on it to the point of neglecting other key aspects, or more realistically, getting better defenders in.

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Not sure that holds up to much scrutiny. There's a finite amount of preparation time each week. If you spend it all working on defensive shape from open play (and Queens clearly do) you can't also spend it on defending set pieces. If it were as simple as saying "just practice defending set pieces" then everyone would do it.
 
Quite, it's always a bizarre argument. Especially as for all the practicing of defensive set-pieces you are doing, your opponents are practicing their attacking ones at the same rate, so you are effectively practicing just to maintain your current (in Queens' case, very low) level. Which is why presumably there has been no relative improvement. As you say, to make improvements to the point where it was no longer an issue would either mean working on it to the point of neglecting other key aspects, or more realistically, getting better defenders in.
Eh? We're pretty good at defending from open play. I reckon we could take time away from that aspect for a few hours a week to concentrate on the area we're utterly shite in. I don't think the players would forget everything they've worked on.

It's not a wee problem. It's been the biggest issue for us all season. Why on earth shouldn't they be spending extra time trying to improve? That's like saying a team who can't take chances but create loads should continue to work on their creative side but not bother improving their finishing.

It won't get better if they don't work on it.
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We talk about defending set plays, look at the quality of our own set plays awful the one before half time when we passed to there defender we either overhit or underhit them. No wonder our defence can't defend them if that is the quality they face in training. 

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We talk about defending set plays, look at the quality of our own set plays awful the one before half time when we passed to there defender we either overhit or underhit them. No wonder our defence can't defend them if that is the quality they face in training. 
We are indeed shite at them. But it's marking we're we fail most. You could argue that that could be worked on even without a ball.
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1 hour ago, 19QOS19 said:
2 hours ago, Dobbie11 said:
We talk about defending set plays, look at the quality of our own set plays awful the one before half time when we passed to there defender we either overhit or underhit them. No wonder our defence can't defend them if that is the quality they face in training. 

We are indeed shite at them. But it's marking we're we fail most. You could argue that that could be worked on even without a ball.

We might be better playing matches without a ball.

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