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zonal

  1. Zonal marking ...

    Zonal marking backfires so often I really can't see why anyone entertains the idea. With zonal marking, rather than stick to a player, you guard a certain zone. The six-yard box, when defending a corner, comprises of three or four zones in which defenders will position themselves. If the ball...
    • Mick
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    • blues english football english soccer enters essex football football football league fossets farm fourth division league two marking npower football league rate real football roots hall shrimpers soccer southend southend united southend-on-sea sufc the home of football zonal zones
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat
  2. Silencer

    Tonight, I have finally given up on the gaffer.

    Ok here goes, it will be based purely on emotion and how I feel right now - I often try and wait '24 hours' for the dust to settle and allow myself to calm down but tonight I am ashamed to see me team conceed 5 goals at home to Dagenham and Redbridge who effectively are a non league club. We...
    • Silencer
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    • blues emotion english football english soccer essex football following football football league fossets farm fourth division jpt league two marking money npower football league rate real football ron martin roots hall shrimpers soccer southend southend united southend-on-sea sufc the home of football zonal
    • Replies: 121
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat
  3. Tangled up in Blue

    Why can't we defend set pieces?

    We've now conceeded four goals this season -two each in our last two away matches-all from set pieces and not one goal from open play. So why can't we defend from set plays? According to PB on the OS:- “It’s very disappointing because we’ve given them all the instructions...
    • Tangled up in Blue
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    • blues english football english soccer essex football faul football football league fossets farm fourth division http league two marking npower football league prosser rate real football roots hall shrimpers soccer southend southend united southend-on-sea southendunited sufc the home of football zonal
    • Replies: 65
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat
  4. Slipperduke

    Damn You, Bullard!

    Rest assured, Jimmy Bullard's goalscoring celebrations will be the water-cooler topic of conversation this morning. Bright, funny and naughty. It was physical comedy at its best. But did the tousled cockney give a moment's thought to the floodgates that his finger-pointing may have poked open? I...
  5. Slipperduke

    Wenger's Bar

    I'm afraid I won't be writing a column this week, or indeed ever again. Yep, I'm hanging up my presspass and shutting my laptop for the final time. I'm off to France, you see. Arsene Wenger's assertion that he learned everything he needed to know about football in a pub gave me food for thought...
  6. Slipperduke

    Blimey. Didn't See That Coming

    Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea Torres, 6 Ivanovich, 39, 62 Drogba, 67 That wasn't in the script. Unbeaten all season at Anfield, Liverpool chose the worst possible moment to lose their focus, lose the match and, unless something truly extraordinary happens at Stamford Bridge next week...
    • Slipperduke
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    • afterwards anfield bra champions claimed deficit fernando florent fro itself liverpool lose luxury marking mistakes money mullins nicolas radiator script support wasn zonal
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Big Dady's General Football Forum
  7. Slipperduke

    Brazil Are Crap

    Ecuador 1-1 Brazil Noboa, 89 Baptista, 73 One of the eternal joys of watching South American football is the sight of those famous yellow shirts buzzing around the pitch, flicking the ball to one another as if 30 yard first time passes were the easiest thing in the world. They play as...
    • Slipperduke
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    • blur cas ched commercials cruise customary deed homer marking melo money poorly powers presley ran ratings san santos sneak starters struggles substitute wilder zonal
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: The Big Dady's General Football Forum
  8. Slipperduke

    Wilkins Worried By Wobbles

    After a hard night at Roots Hall, Luis Felipe Scolari was in no mood to face the media. Perhaps he was locked in the dressing room with a blackboard, some chalk and a squad still struggling to understand the concept of zonal marking. Whatever the reason, it was Ray Wilkins who squeezed into the...
    • Slipperduke
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    • amused amusement barnard caused champions claimed dribble ead hadn hall headed league one lesser marking roots runners san shirt sticking stopped swallow wasn wouldn zonal
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat

  9. All the Chelsea Positives

    OK, a bit disappointing we lost after such a brave couple of performances, but what do we expect playing one of the richest clubs in the world? Let's list all of the positives on this thread, because I think there are so many. To start us off: 1 Tilly & Brush have proved that they can play...
    • ElstreeBlue
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    • develop faul generated hall incredible league one marking money mot riches tilly unprofessional zonal
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat
  10. Slipperduke

    Post-Match Thread and Ratings Southend United 1-4 Chelsea

    Scolari Safe... For Now Luiz Felipe Scolari may not be in the mood to be pleasant to any of his players after a week of backbiting and under-achievement, but if he has any sense, he'll give Petr Cech a very firm pat on the back. The word 'crisis' may be overused in football, but had it not been...
    • Slipperduke
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    • appalling barnard barrel brough caused controlled cos elite emphatic fur hall headed league one marking minnows nicolas reversed roots spartans tunnel wished zonal
    • Replies: 68
    • Forum: Shrimpers Chit-Chat
  11. Irish_Shrimper

    Set Pieces

    After watching yet another sloppy goal conceded from a set piece against Crewe at the weekend, I have a horrible gut feeling this will be the cause of our undoing in the playoffs if we make it. When the free kick was taken, nobody was marking the goalscorer, but there were 3 Southend players...
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