Should we (copy Liverpool) and get a throw-in coach?

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It is still a small part of the game. Having moves to gain space is no different from regular play really apart from the fact the guy with the ball can't move.
It is not the reason why they beat City or anything like that.
Just gaining possesion is also a very defensive move from it. Other sides might try to create from set pieces like that.
Disagree. Very important part of the game. If you guarantee possession rentention from your own throw ins you will prosper both offensively and defensively. If you dont like us it breaks down attacking pressure and also gives the opposition sometimes amazing attacking positions.

I say this because honestly I feel we look very bad at this and also defending the opponents throw ins. Amateurish actually.
 

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Nobody has come close to the number of PL wins that we have, nobody knows how to win it better than we do.

Pool win it once and people think we should look to them?

Last year was similar to the year Leicester won it, nobody else put a run together.

Next year will be different, a lot more teams especially ourselves and Chelsea will be stronger Pool and City arguably weaker.

A throw in coach won't take us from 70pts to 90pts.
 

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Disagree. Very important part of the game. If you guarantee possession rentention from your own throw ins you will prosper both offensively and defensively. If you dont like us it breaks down attacking pressure and also gives the opposition sometimes amazing attacking positions.

I say this because honestly I feel we look very bad at this and also defending the opponents throw ins. Amateurish actually.
Agreed. Throw-ins are tricky situations; especially into the opposition's half it's hard to make them useful, or at least simply retain attention and get back into your usual attacking patterns. It's worth having someone to work out patterns of play around throw-ins to make them work for your style of play. (It's a tactics coach, it's not about throwing techniques.) Given how filthy rich EPL clubs are (in comparison to daily life salaries), paying someone to work on this (likely part-time even) is a drop in the bucket. Definitely worth whatever advantage you can get out of it.
 

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Don't you think we should get someone to get us to take better free kicks and corners first? Yes I do agree that we seem to do stupid things on the pitch a lot. If only someone could teach them how to use their brains a bit more?
 

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The thing is football is a game like chess and these little tactics do work.

A throw in specialist isnt there to make your throw ins grow in length and speed - it's there to value your position, your enemies position and then dictate where the best throw in area is to make.
 

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The thing is football is a game like chess and these little tactics do work.

A throw in specialist isnt there to make your throw ins grow in length and speed - it's there to value your position, your enemies position and then dictate where the best throw in area is to make.
It is though that you rarely gain much ground by throw ins. It is mainly to keep possesion and maybe switch play to the other side.
Although the other side will be organized and could press you back without risking too much.
In the final third you could attack like a normal set piece, but it rarely gives you goals.
 

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It is though that you rarely gain much ground by throw ins. It is mainly to keep possesion and maybe switch play to the other side.
Although the other side will be organized and could press you back without risking too much.
In the final third you could attack like a normal set piece, but it rarely gives you goals.
Yeah and if keeping possession is the best tactic that needs to be done then that needs to be taught by seeing the best spaces to keep that possession during a throw in - the area your players are and the enemies.
 

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Yeah and if keeping possession is the best tactic that needs to be done then that needs to be taught by seeing the best spaces to keep that possession during a throw in - the area your players are and the enemies.
It could be improved by coaching, but I don't think it is very important to work on. Unlike other set pieces that I think we should put effort into improving.
I guess you could do both as set piece training and work on similar movement patterns to beat markers etc.
 

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The thing is football is a game like chess and these little tactics do work.

A throw in specialist isnt there to make your throw ins grow in length and speed - it's there to value your position, your enemies position and then dictate where the best throw in area is to make.
"I saw Joe Gomez take some really good throws for Liverpool that I had not seen him do before, he was fizzing it in there," said former Arsenal striker Ian Wright on Radio 5 live's Monday Night Club.
"It looks like he [Gronnemark] has taught him something. You have to say Liverpool will benefit from that."


Aside from his freelance work with Liverpool, Gronnemark also coaches at Danish top-flights clubs FC Midtjylland and AC Horsens, and in the German Bundesliga.

Midtjylland, who won the Danish title last year, and Horsen scored 10 goals each last season from long throw-ins.

Danish left-back Andreas Poulsen, who joined Borussia Monchengladbach from Midtjylland, improved his long throw from 25m to 37.9m under Gronnemark's coaching.

Gronnemark says there are 25-30 technical aspects to a long throw and he uses video analysis to make improvements, which can see players improve their distance by four to eight metres on average and double the throwing area. Flexible, rather than strong players, are best at throw-ins and it is an essential skill for a full-back.
From this BBC article.
 

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Love this idea. It may seem trendy but hiring someone even for just a season can bring in some new ideas. There have been times late in a game I wish the other team got the ball on throw ins because we are so out of position for our own that it leaves us open.
 

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Our lads do need help with throw ins. My guess is being young they are so focused on developing their basic skills they have no time to practice this. If they’re working on it, they need a better coach.
 

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I think we need a set piece coach as top priority. Sort it out, defensively and offensively. Then consider giving special coaching to our fullbacks on how to make run and cross, crossing in particular.
 

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The article made it sounds pretty helpful, I think we'd be naive not to look into it. The guy does hold the world record for long throwing, and they created quite a few goals right after their ins.
 

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When you consider the amount of times the ball goes out of play, why wouldn’t you take advantage of a employing throw in coach if you’re a club the size of Manchester United.
 

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Yeah that would help a lot. Set piece coach for freekicks too. We are far too predictable.
I would assume like any top club we already have this, but maybe I'm wrong. I do agree with you, we are very predictable in some games.
 

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Throw-ins do my head in and have done for years.

It's not just United, so many teams fire them long aimlessly, giving possession away or throw it to a player who's surrounded and then gets instantly pressed to bejaysus.

To answer the OP, it's probably not our primary concern at the minute but it is something we should look into.They are champions and also had the most goals from set pieces for the past two years so are obviously looking for every little advantage.
 

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Genuinely think we need a coach for this. Our throw-ins are consistently awful and we lose possession more-often than not.