05-13-2019, 01:09 AM
(05-13-2019, 01:00 AM)LP link Wrote:We are just not putting sides away when we play well, we're still lacking the finishing we need to top off our periods of dominance. We keep scrapping up a goal or two lead when we should be 5 or 7 goals ahead!
As for the frees, it can only be explained by a bias, but is it a conscious or subconscious bias? I'd say it's subconscious, the umpires favor the name players, they always have and they always will! So if that assertion is true it suggests the free kick count will be yet another unwanted by-product of our scorched earth list policy!
Every other team screams for free kicks when they think they should get them, we don't. They do it to get the umpires thinking they might have made a mistake.
Every other team give away a few free's in the forward half, knowing only a certain number of free's will get called. Better away from the oppositions goals.
Every other team smashes our defenders, providing a massive path for their team mate, knowing the free is rarely given. We don't do this enough.
It is coaching 101. Clarkson is all over it, so is Hardwick.
A few goals difference in a game and all of a sudden you have W not an L